16 September 2025

Terms of Reference: Endline Evaluation for the East Africa Living Income Program

Introduction

Background

Living Income is a key theme in the IDH Global Coffee Program strategy for 2021-2025. IDH has been working on living income since 2019 in Colombia when it published the Task Force for Coffee Living Income report. In East Africa, IDH is collaborating with multi-stakeholders to integrate aspects of living and prosperous income into the coffee supply chain in Uganda and Kenya. This effort is guided by IDH’s Roadmap on Living Income, a framework which helps supply chain actors to take ambitious and aligned actions to close living income gaps for farming households.

IDH is implementing the East Africa Living Income Coffee Program (2022-2025) in Kenya and Uganda with the following objectives:

Sector governance: convene the local coffee sectors through IDH collaboration with the respective country coffee platforms to create alignment/synergy with existing global efforts around farmer income/living and prosperous income, and efficient dissemination of learnings from IDH interventions (including field level projects with companies).
Business practice change: engage companies to act on aspects such as value chain structure, value/risk redistribution, and business/sourcing practices to progressively close living income gaps and to report progress.
Field-level sustainability: create service delivery and sourcing models which combine aspects of the IDH’s Roadmap on Living Income to contribute to increased and more stable incomes for farming households.

Role

The endline evaluation aims to assess the Program’s contribution to improving the incomes of the target population in Uganda and its convening efforts around living and prosperous income in both, Kenya and Uganda. It will examine current household income levels from coffee and diversified sources, Living Income Gap reduction, and progress on the five key income drivers: yield, price, cost of production, land size, and diversified income. The study will also evaluate sector convening activities related to living income and prosperous income, particularly in the context of EUDR and CSDDD awareness and compliance. A strong focus will be placed on the involvement of youth and women, assessing the impact and scalability of empowerment activities targeting these groups.

The ToR details the full scope of the assessment, including the objectives and proposed evaluation questions, key deliverables, timelines, and guidance on utilising the accompanying annexes.

Deadline for the submission of proposals is 15 October 2025, 17:00 CEST, by email to Andrew Gita and Carla Wefers at gita@idhtrade.org and wefers@idhtrade.org