Evaluación de Impacto Lf Madre Tierra - Ciudad de México - TechnoServe

TechnoServe

Empresa verificada

Ciudad de México

hace 2 semanas

Publicado por:

Rodrigo Fernández

Reclutador de talento para beBee

Descripción

IMPACT EVALUATION STUDY OF THE MADRE TIERRA PROGRAM

Consulting starts and ends on:
August 21, 2023 to October 13, 2023

Last date that questions will be accepted: July 17, 2023

Note that questions and answers will be distributed to all interested parties so questions should not disclose trade secrets, confidential information, or information that might give another vendor a competitive advantage.

Date that answers to questions will be distributed to all:July 24, 2023

Last date that proposals will be accepted by TechnoServe:July 28, 2023

Background

TechnoServe is an international nonprofit organization that helps people lift themselves out of poverty by harnessing the power of the private sector.

Operating in almost 30 countries, we work with hardworking women and men in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries.

By linking people to information, capital, and markets we have helped millions to create lasting prosperity for their families and communities.

Madre Tierra Program

The ambition of the Madre Tierra Program is to develop a model of regenerative agriculture with market orientation through the endowment to 140 small strawberry producers with technical and technological resources to connect them to the value chain of formal buyers.

All this, while they are trained in agricultural practices respectful of the environment, including sustainable soil and water management, biodiversity preservation and optimized fertilization.

The Madre Tierra project was co-constructed by Danone, the Walmart Foundation of Mexico, Grupo Altex, TechnoServe, Nuup and the German Development Agency GIZ, and seeks to positively and sustainably transform the agricultural value chain of the production of strawberries in Mexico.

Summary of the Program ́s activities

Since 2018 the Program operates on the theory of change that building agronomic, regenerative agriculture, technological, business, and food safety skills among smallholder farmers will result in increased productivity and revenues.

TechnoServe ́s agronomists implement baseline and endline surveys to treatment and control groups based on samples previously estimated.

When TechnoServe arrives to a community, all farmers are invited to trainings so the treatment group is not randomly selected as the Program should be available for everyone that is interested.

Baseline surveys were conducted in farmers attending their first agronomic training to decrease the attrition rate.

Farmers didn't join the Program at the same time, so the surveys were conducted within a period of time of several months.

For the control group, baseline surveys were conducted in farmers from the same region as the treatment group, but that are not part of the Program.

A midline survey was conducted in 2021 to 66 smallholder farmers (42 farmers from treatment group and 24 from control group).

Endline surveys are conducted in the same farmers interviewed in the baseline surveys approximately 4 years after the Program started and 2 years after the midline evaluation data was conducted.

Objectives of the services

Undertake an ex-post evaluation that will inform TechnoServe, Danone, Altex and partners on the Program ́s results and impact. Usually, past evaluations have used the diff-in-diff method, but TechnoServe is open to improvements.

The consultant should use rigorous statistical methods (quantitative and qualitative) that take into account endline, midline and baseline surveys of treatment and control groups already implemented by TechnoServe.

This impact evaluation would include approximately 25 control and 45 treatment surveys.

Specific evaluation questions include:

What are the socioeconomic characteristics of an average farmer of the Program? How did they change after the intervention?
Did participation in the Program lead to improved productivity? And revenue? By how much?
How did the percentage of people below the poverty line (according to the CONEVAL methodology) changed after the Program? What about smallholder farmers' social rights and quality of life?
Are there any differences by gender? By farmers selling to formal markets (vs those not selling and that only received agronomic trainings)?
How did the percentage of farmers that have implemented regenerative agriculture practices changed after the Program? What about practices that mitigate climate change? And those related to water?
How did market dynamics change after the Program: main buyers, sales abroad, product requirements, etc.?
What can be said about gender, youth, financial inclusion, migration, among others?
How these results compare with the midline survey and its impact evaluation?

Tasks expected by the consultant

To achieve the objectives, the consultant will perform the following tasks among others**:
Kick-off meeting with TechnoServe's team.
Elaborate a work plan that considers the context of the Program and the duration of th