The impact evaluation of three infrastructure projects in rural areas of the Ishkashim district in Tajikistan, financed and implemented under the Tajik-Afghan Cross Border Programme of the PATRIP Foundation, is conducted primarily for learning and to provide recommendations for new projects/ programmes with a multi-sector approach in a defined target area.

A second purpose is, to hold accountable to the donor PATRIP Foundation and to contribute to the learning and development of the PATRIP Foundation programming as same as to inform PATRIPs back financing donor KfW on specific programme indicators of the PATRIP Programme Result Framework.

The projects have been implemented with local partners of the Civil Society and have a ratio of appr. 85% infrastructure and 15% soft components.

Projects to be evaluated:

• Efficient irrigation structure in Ishkashim border area (rehabilitation of exitisting but depilated irrigation infrastrcuture) (started in 2020, ongoing till 12/2025), 1,275,000 EUR budget
• Energizing Development in the Ishkashim border area (solar powered irrigation to turn barren land into arable land) (started in 2021, ends in 12/2024,) 1,098,000 EUR budget
• Safe drinking water supply in the Ishkashim border area (Construction of drinking water systems) (started in 2021, ends in 12/2024), 704,000 EUR budge

Required expertise

The evaluator team shall have min. 5 years of practical experience with evaluations and shall have conducted min. two evaluations on programme level or in a multi-project/ sector setting as lead evaluator.

Strong working knowledge of agriculture, productive renewable energy and WASH is required, preferably in the target region, minimum in Tajikistan, proven with a respective team composition

English, Russian/ Tajik is required on working proficiency, local languages of the target region an asset.

Proven experiences with gender-responsive / transformative planning, monitoring and evaluation in lead or as evaluation team member in min. 2 previous conducted evaluations are required.