​A Survey of Beneficiaries of an Agriculture and Biodiversity Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean in Ecuador

Job Description

Objective of the contract

With the aim of closing the existing financing gap to achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), donor countries are encouraged to make greater use of
innovative financing mechanisms and instruments in development financing,
which, in addition to public funds, increasingly includes the mobilization of
private resources. For this reason, the BMZ is continuing its efforts to
develop and implement innovative solutions for mobilizing private capital. An
DEval evaluation provides input on how scarce resources should be allocated
through these funds. The survey is part of this evaluation.

The main objective of the contract is to conduct a survey. The survey will collect data
from companies that are target companies of one fund. The fund provides loans
to local finance institutions which in turn grant loans to local companies
which operate in the sectors of sustainable agriculture, forestry, fishing or
tourism. Interviewees will be potential target companies regardless of whether
they have (already) benefited from the fund. In total ideally about 300
interviews are expected. However, successfully conducted interviews should not
be less than 250.

The surveywill take place between October and December 2025 in Ecuador and will be
conducted online or via telephone.

Required qualifications

Thefollowing requirements need to be met:

• Consultancy:
• Provision
  of personnel for execution of survey in Ecuador (consisting of
  coordinator and enumerators) between October – November 2025.
• Financial
  and technical capacity of providing logistic support (including provision
  of suitable hardware and software for data collection for all deployed
  enumerators) for the duration of the Survey from October – November 2025.
  
• Team leader:
• University degree in the field of development cooperation, international financing,
  sustainable/ transition economics or similar
• At least 3 years of work experience in coordination and/ or
  project-management, the field of quality assurance of projects and large-scale
  data-collection.
• Excellent knowledge of English and Spanish (written and oral).
  
• Deployed enumerators
• Each deployed enumerator has got at least a high school degree or equivalents
  and got previous documented work knowledge with data collection (minimum
  of 3 months).
• At least 1 person of each team of enumerators is in good command of English
  (written and oral).
  
• Submission of short exposé for the survey (see details in Terms of References).

If you are interested in submitting an offer, please send an email to: hamide.bayramoglu-fatoum@deval.org
and we will provide you with further information on the procedure.

About the Organization

About DEval

The German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) was founded in 2012 and is based in Bonn.

The institute is organized as a German non-profit institution with limited liability (German Limited

Liability Companies Act, GmbH). Its sole shareholder is the German Federal Government, represented

by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

The main task of DEval is the independent analysis and assessment (evaluation) of German

development cooperation interventions. Additional tasks include the development of appropriate

methods and standards, providing qualification measures, as well as supporting evaluation capacity

building in the partner countries for German development cooperation. The institute thereby engages

in various national and international forms of cooperation.

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