Request For Proposals
To Conduct
An End-Term Evaluation for the
Urban Community Resilience Building Project (UCRB) in Nairobi and Mombasa Counties.
Document Release Date: 3rd November 2026
Last Date for Receipt of Proposals: 24th November 2026
Time: 1700HRS
Tender Number: PRF33262
Submission Method: email to [email protected]
Tender Opening Venue and Time: Virtually via Microsoft Teams at 1200HRS on 25th November
Summary of the End-Term Evaluation
Purpose:
The primary purpose is to conduct the end-term evaluation for Urban Community Resilience Building Project (UCRB) in Nairobi and Mombasa Counties. The end-term evaluation seeks to provide relevant data and analysis against the Project indicators, project outcome level and theory of change achievements, determine what was working or not working well in the program, understand the impact of the project interventions and document lessons to inform future programming.
Partners
Danish Red Cross, Kenya Red Cross Society and County Government of Nairobi and Mombasa
Duration
30days
Estimated Dates
1st December to 31st December 2026
Geographical Location
Nairobi County-Mathare and Mukuru
Mombasa County-Tudor and Miritini
Target Population
Targeted community members, stakeholders (County Government Representatives & Partners), Project Staff and Volunteers.
Deliverables
Inception report and tools, Draft and final report including all data sets, 3 new case studies, dissemination of the report.
Methodology
Quantitative and Qualitative methods.
Evaluation Management Team
KRCS MEA&L team, KRCS Project representatives and Danish Red Cross Representatives.
Background Information
The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), with support from the Danish Red Cross Society (DRC) and funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has been implementing the Urban Community Resilience Building Project (UCRBP) over the five-year period (2022–2026). The project has been seeking to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable urban communities to multi-hazard risks through community-led disaster preparedness, early warning and early action, public health surveillance, and advocacy for sustainable risk reduction.
Through established community structures, including Community Disaster Management Committees (CDMCs), Community-Based Disaster Response Teams (CBDRTs) and Red Cross Action Teams (RCATs), the project has been supporting communities to strengthen their capacities to anticipate, prepare for and respond to emergencies in informal settlements. The importance of these structures was demonstrated during the October–December 2023 El Niño rains, when communities initiated evacuations before Red Cross Action Teams and other response agencies arrived, helping to save lives and minimize the impact of flooding. Community-led hazard management and disease surveillance have further demonstrated the value of locally driven preparedness and response mechanisms in addressing urban risks.
Building on four years of implementation and lessons from community engagement and urban resilience assessments, the 2026 phase is focusing on consolidating these gains and addressing gaps that could undermine the sustainability of previous investments. Key priorities include strengthening the independent functionality of community structures, enhancing their capacity to mobilize resources, and reinforcing linkages with government institutions, private sector actors, NGOs and other potential financing partners. The project is supporting community structures to access resources, introducing community scorecards to monitor progress against community workplans, and advocating for climate-resilient infrastructure and increased government investment in disaster risk reduction.
The project is also strengthening multi-hazard preparedness and response systems, particularly in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), public health emergencies and epidemic surveillance. Lessons from cholera and other emerging infectious disease outbreaks continue to highlight the importance of community risk awareness, early detection, timely reporting and coordinated response. In addition, the project is promoting youth resilience through the scaling up of Youth Mentorship and Resilience (YMR) models, healthy lifestyle promotion and access to mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). These interventions are complemented by strengthened protection, prevention of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and accountability mechanisms to ensure inclusive, responsive and community-centred programming.
The current phase is also concentrating on sustainability-oriented support in selected informal settlements in Nairobi and Mombasa counties. In Nairobi, the project is targeting Mathare and Mukuru. These areas face interconnected risks, including fires, flooding, insecurity, disease outbreaks, poor hygiene and sanitation, and gender-based violence. The project is building on previous investments under UCRBP, YLEP and CISU, as well as established relationships with local administration, community leadership and locally led organizations, including Mathare Emergency Community Response Network (MCERN), Grassroot Six Organization (GRO6) and Africa Fire Mission (AFM), to strengthen collaboration and sustainability.
In Mombasa, the project is focusing on Miritini in Jomvu and Tudor in Mvita, where communities continue to experience social and protection-related vulnerabilities, including SGBV, teenage pregnancies, crime and violence, particularly affecting young people. The project is building on existing community structures, including CDMCs, RCATs and community volunteers, as well as previous and ongoing KRCS interventions such as UCRBP, the Cholera and Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) interventions in Jomvu, YLEP and CISU.
Project Objectives
- To contribute to well-functioning multi-hazard preparedness and response systems, linked with the county disaster structures
- To empower young people and households with capacities to cope, recover and advocate for safer, healthier and more resilient communities.
- To strengthen multi-hazard preparedness and response systems, with particular attention to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), public health emergencies and epidemic surveillance
- To document lessons and developed knowledge of products to influence county and national policy on urban resilience.
Key Project Stakeholders
The project was implemented in close coordination with the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, Ministry of Planning and Devolution, Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, Nairobi and Mombasa County Government. KRCS is a member of the County Steering Group (CSG) to coordinate preparedness and response activities with other actors at county level.
At the community level, the Programme was implemented by KRCS volunteers’ and the community health volunteers (CHVs) supervised by the Community Health Assistants (CHAs) with links to the health facilities structures, Mathare Emergency Community Response Network (MCERN), Grassroot Six Organization (GRO6), and Africa Fire Mision (AFM), community disaster management committees (CDMC), The Programme staff worked closely the extension officers from the Ministry of Agriculture & Livestock as well as hygiene and sanitation officers. Community members: women, men, boys, and girls, including those with disabilities were also important stakeholders at the community level.
Evaluation Purpose & Scope
Purpose.
The end-term evaluation seeks to provide relevant data against the project indicators, to understand the impact of the project’s interventions. It will also bring out issues that were affecting the project implementation and things that aided the success of the project as well as looking into the impact of the project.
The specific objectives of the end-term evaluation will be:
- To measure project achievements against log frame indicators and compared to baseline findings.
- To determine the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability and coherence of the project results in consideration of its goal and objectives.
- To understand whether intended or unintended shifts in knowledge, attitudes and social norms around disaster preparedness occurred amongst the target community/population as a result of the project interventions.
- To identify and provide evidence for the project’s impact, sustainability measures in place, good practices, lessons learned and recommendations for scale up or cross programming. To review the proposed indicators within the log-frame and set targets based on the findings that will guide the next phase of the project implementation.
Key Questions
The following are the key questions to be addressed during the ETE. The evaluator may however suggest changes/additional questions at the inception stage:
Measuring against indicators and targets
What are the endline values for indicators?
Did the project achieve the targets?
Are they meaningfully different from baseline?
Service access and utilization
To what extent have target communities accessed and utilized information on prevalent local hazards, weather patterns, early warning messages and associated risks to inform their preparedness and decision-making?
To what extent have communities accessed and utilized strengthened multi-hazard emergency preparedness and response systems, including early warning mechanisms, contingency plans, emergency response structures and services?
To what extent have young men and women accessed and utilized skills, resources, support systems and opportunities to strengthen their capacity to cope with and recover from disaster risks and emergencies?
To what extent have communities and other relevant stakeholders benefited from and utilized i...