Brazil - AE-led Interim Evaluation - Marajó Resiliente Project

AE-led Interim Evaluation
Marajó Resiliente Project - Fundación Avina - Brazil

Fundación Avina is seeking an independent evaluator or evaluation team to design, plan and conduct the interim evaluation of the Marajó Resiliente Project in Brazil, funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

About Fundación Avina

Fundación Avina is a Latin American foundation that aspires to a sustainable, prosperous, democratic and just world that embraces diversity. By partnering with leaders from grassroots organizations, academia, non-governmental organizations, governments and the private sector, Fundación Avina promotes collaborative processes that generate large-scale positive impacts and contribute to systemic changes in favor of human dignity and care for the planet.

Its work is grounded in a Global South perspective and focuses on climate action, fair and regenerative economy, and democratic innovation.

About the Marajó Resiliente Project

The Marajó Archipelago harbors some of the most vulnerable populations in the Amazon Delta and the estuary of other coastal regions of Brazil. These populations face increasing exposure to hydroclimatic disturbances associated with rising sea levels, climate anomalies, extreme tidal flooding, erosion, saltwater intrusion and high temperatures. These dynamics affect the livelihoods of family farmers, Indigenous peoples and traditional communities in the municipalities of Soure, Cachoeira do Arari and Salvaterra.

To address these challenges, locally developed and climate-adapted Diversified Agroforestry Systems, known as SAFs in Portuguese, are being implemented as a solution to strengthen human and institutional adaptive capacities, improve food security, diversify livelihoods and reduce vulnerability in the territory.

The Marajó Resiliente Project aims to increase the resilience of smallholders, Indigenous peoples and ecosystems to the impacts of climate change through the implementation of diversified agroforestry systems in the Marajó Archipelago, Brazil, with a focus on the municipalities of Soure, Salvaterra and Cachoeira do Arari.

The project is designed to achieve three main outcomes:

Outcome 1: Improved land management and food security through the implementation of diversified agroforestry systems across 800 hectares in the three target municipalities, using a results-based payment scheme that supports effective selection and participation of beneficiaries.

Outcome 2: A local enabling environment for implementing and scaling diversified agroforestry systems as a climate adaptation solution, with emphasis on policy instruments, participatory governance, information sharing, and alignment with local, state and federal policies.

Outcome 3: Diversified income for smallholders through the implementation of diversified agroforestry systems, strengthening associations to access markets for agroforestry products and facilitating access to credit.

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Objective of the consultancy

Fundación Avina seeks to procure the services of an independent evaluator or evaluation team to design, plan and conduct an interim evaluation of the Marajó Resiliente Project, funded by the Green Climate Fund.

The evaluator will provide an independent, rigorous and useful evaluation function, designing and implementing a framework to assess the project against the GCF evaluation criteria and in accordance with the GCF Evaluation Policy and applicable guidelines.

The evaluation will identify findings, lessons learned and actionable recommendations to support adaptive management, accountability, learning and sustainability.

The findings of the evaluation will be used to:

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• Inform improvements in project implementation by the project management team, delivery partners and relevant stakeholders.
  
• Support the ongoing development and implementation of the project sustainability strategy.
  
• Demonstrate accountability for the funding received from the Green Climate Fund.
  
• Enable partners, stakeholders and government actors to learn from the project, replicate what works and/or scale up approaches and activities proven to be effective.
  
• Strengthen Fundación Avina’s institutional learning on climate adaptation, collaborative implementation, territorial resilience and inclusive results management.
  

Scope and focus of the evaluation

The interim evaluation will assess project implementation, progress, overall management, credibility of results and reporting, achievement of results and/or contributions towards expected results, including behavioral, organizational and institutional changes necessary to achieve the expected results.