Beschreibung der Beschaffung
The initiative "Green People"s Energy" (GBE) is interested to learn and publicly state the impact of the programme"s on-going skills development, electrification and especially productive use of energy (PUE) measures on the beneficiary"s economic situation since the start of intervention (based on incomes, employment, productivity, service delivery and turnover). For training measures, GBE plans to survey participants to see in how far they are using the newly acquired skills and if the training has had an impact on their employment situation.
In order to assess which approaches work best and why, GBE plans to collect additional data, analyse quantitative and qualitative impacts and develop knowledge products to feed into the sector discussion and support the design and up-scaling of approaches by political partners or other programmes. This data collection, analysis and the design of knowledge products is subject of this tender.
The objective will be to develop these products:
- 5 thematic knowledge products (in English language), each based on a group of case studies looking into the impact and learnings of selected interventions. By comparing the results of similar measures within and outside GBE, key success factors are to be identified on why and how which technologies and funding approaches work. Where possible, the knowledge products shall make aggregated impact statements in the respective thematic area.
- 37 case studies including impact assessments. These individual case studies will also be used for dissemination at country level with political partners and key stakeholders to feed into national sector dialogues and enable up-scaling.
- a synthesis report of the projects supported by the Small Projects Fund.
- a final brochure summarising GBE"s impact and learnings to be developed for communications purposes, as an aggregated summary of all knowledge products and additional GBE outputs.
The scope of the consultancy services is:
Work package 1: Advice on and finalisation of research design and questions
The contractor is expected to prepare the research design and questions in line with the objective. This will also require reviewing documents provided by GBE as well as a literature review to bring the study in the context of the current sector discussion and research and to ensure that it provides new insights and brings the discussion forward.
In addition, the contractor shall conduct interviews with key stakeholders within GBE and GIZ to gain a better understanding of the tasks, understand expectations towards the study, collect further inputs/ideas regarding design and research questions, confirm selected projects to be assessed and discuss the potential timeline for data collection.
Work package 2: Prepare 37 case studies incl. impact assessments based on data collection and analysis
The aim of the case study analysis is to assess the project"s impacts and contribute to knowledge generation in the specific thematic area. Data collection and analysis for the case studies will be done using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, i.e. intermediate impact surveys as well as semi-structured interviews. Case studies should answer the research questions based on an analysis and interpretation of data collected. The studies shall be max. 4 pages long and can be used as stand-alone products, e.g. for local dissemination to political partners. They will also each contribute to the thematic knowledge products mentioned below.
Work package 3: Design and preparation of up to 5 thematic knowledge products
Based on the evidence from the case studies as well as relevant research and knowledge products, the consultant shall develop knowledge products for 5 thematic research areas:
- Community-based approaches in energy projects: Here the focus is on approaches to involve and strengthen communities in the management of mini-grids, energy infrastructure or communal/cooperative productive use of energy plants.
- PUE in the agricultural sector: Focus solar irrigation, solar cooling and pilots for solar drying.
- PuE in mini-grids: Measures to support the productive use of energy provided by mini-grids are being increasingly integrated into electrification projects to enable socio-economic impacts for the target group and economic viability of the mini-grid investment to be realised.
- Innovative pilots of PuE technologies and financing approaches: Innovative as well as promising financing approaches will be selected and analysed through case studies (e.g. E-mobility with motorcycle taxis (Uganda), Revolving funds (Namibia, Senegal), Fee for service to electrify social infrastructure (Benin)).
- Impact and sustainability of skills development initiatives for RE: GBE is interested in learning which impact selected GBE measures had a) on training participants and b) on the partnering institutes and their ability to provide more/better training offers in the long-term.
Work package 4: Synthesis of the projects supported by the Small Projects Fund
Here the objective is to compile two interrelated products: i) A factsheet bundle that serves as an overview of the funded projects and ii) an analytical synthesis report (desk study) based on the project documentation. For this report the available project information will be analysed for elements worthy to be communicated to the wider sector such as methodological approaches, success factors or innovation potential. The synthesis shall showcase the results and learnings of the Small Projects Fund for public communications purposes.
Work package 5: GBE final brochure
For communication purposes, a final brochure summarising GBE"s impact and learnings shall be developed, as a summary of the knowledge products, an additional knowledge product being developed as well as other and additional GBE outputs. Contract duration: 07/2022 - 09/2023
Expected timeline for key milestones: data collection until 03/2023, knowledge products until07/2023