Baseline Study

Basic information:Project Name: “Building a life free of violence for women in Area C of Bethlehem and Jerusalem Governorates, oPt”
Location: Palestine – Bethlehem and Jerusalem Governorates
Project Funded by: Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo - AECID
Entity Responsible for Execution: Alianza por la Solidaridad (Alianza)
Partners: The Young Women´s Christian Association of Jerusalem (YWCA), The Palestinian
Working Woman Society for Development (PWWSD), Movimiento por la Paz (MPDL)
Duration: It is expected that the selected consultant will provide all the needed support in a span of 2 months.
Consultancy will be finalized upon approval of all deliverables.
1.2. Justification of the baseline:
Baseline is data collected at the outset of a project to establish the pre-project conditions against
which future changes amongst a target population can be measured.
The information gathered (and analyzed) in the baseline consists of data on indicators specifically
chosen to monitor project performance on a regular basis. It also considers the anticipated use of
these indicators at a later time to investigate project effects and impacts. Baseline should review
and include indicators and methods of data collection and analysis, which may be qualitative or
quantitative. The baseline will serve to establish a participatory methodology and the tools to
monitor and measure the progress of the project, in a participatory manner with the
implementation partners, the methodology and tools to count the different categories of
beneficiaries, ensuring the principle of non-discrimination and do no harm.

Objectives (purpose of the baseline)
The general objective of this consultancy is preparing the baseline of the project "Building a life free of
violence for women in Area C of Bethlehem and Jerusalem Governorates, oPt" – funded by
AECID to make possible to obtain the basic references for project evaluability and thus contribute
to better evidence-based decision making.

The specific objectives of this consultancy are as follows:
OE 1 - Validate the framework of objectives, results, indicators and means of verification, and to
raise, clarify key concepts and validate information on the initial situation from which the
intervention starts and which is intended to change, measuring initial values of the proposed
indicators. It will reflect the basis for measuring the achievement of the development objectives.
Where the definition of indicators implies 0 as a starting point, the consultancy will provide
contextual information and data to better situate the project's achievements in the trends of the
intervention communities and the usual work of the implementing partners.

o OE 2 – Develop and agree together with all stakeholders involved a participatory methodology to
monitor and measure the progress of the project, establishing sources of verification,
monitoring tools, feasible periodicity, and appropriate number of samples to be collected
during implementation, to allow the organization responsible for project implementation to
establish an adequate monitoring and evaluation system to measure the project's
achievements. Which in turn will allow pre-post comparison to identify and explain the effects of the
project in addressed dimensions and variables, which the evaluations (intermediate and final) of the
project.This will involve analysing current monitoring tools and systems, adapting/completing/improving
them where necessary, and ensuring their ownership by all partners. The consultancy will also
advise the partnership on the strategy to follow in order to involve women as much as possible
in the 3 axes of the project, and on the appropriate methodology for counting the total number
of beneficiaries avoiding double counting.

o OE3 - Disseminate findings obtained, validate the logical framework and monitoring tools and train
project partners in the use of the monitoring tools.

TOR link :

AECID22_Baseline Study ToR .pdf