Consultancy to Conduct Performance Assessment for Target Businesses in Kenya and Uganda

TechnoServe, Inc. is an international non-profit development organization founded in 1968. Its mission is to help entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural areas of the developing world to build businesses that create jobs, income and economic opportunity for their families, their communities and their countries.

TechnoServe is working with Heifer International and the International Livestock Research Institute to implement the East Africa Dairy Development Program (EADD) in targeted districts in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya.

TechnoServe is seeking an independent assessor to conduct performance assessment for target businesses in Kenya and Uganda. The consultant will use the internally developed performance evaluation tool for data collection.

The overall objectives of this assessment are; improve reliability of business performance evaluation results and enhance/improve effectiveness/reliability of the internally developed tool.

The consultant’s key activities will cover the following;

• Develop assessment plan
• Collect business hub data
• Enter, clean and analyze data
• Develop assessment report

Qualified consultant should have the following qualifications and skills;

• 5 years experience in consulting/ monitoring and evaluation/ research/business assessment
• Capacity to manage complex and large assignments
• Strong and available team with excellent analytical (both quantitative and qualitative), communication and information-gathering skills
• Strong writing/reporting and PowerPoint presentation skills
• Past experience in dairy/farmer organizations an advantage

Expected timeframe for this assignment is 4 weeks

Submit capability statement/statement of interest accompanied by a budget to:

Lydiah Njuguna: lnjuguna@tns.org

Due date for Submission: 12th March 2012

TechnoServe, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.