# Illustrative output: TOR draft excerpt

**Draft status:** For commissioner and technical review. **Intake:** Uploaded fictional brief.

## 1. Background and context
Riverbend Cooperative delivered farmer training in three districts during 2024-2026. Available materials identified for this draft are attendance sheets and annual surveys. Survey methods and response rates were not supplied. [Evidence: `input.md#Program`; `input.md#Known sources`]

## 2. Evaluation purpose and intended use
Assess delivery and factors related to reported practice use to inform the board's decision about follow-up visits next season. [Evidence: `input.md#Purpose/use`]

## 3. Scope and boundaries
Program period 2024-2026; three districts. Specific villages, participant eligibility, and evaluation fieldwork period: **To be confirmed**.

## 4. Evaluation questions and criteria
1. Were planned training and visits delivered?
2. What factors affected participants' reported use of soil-cover practices?

The board should confirm whether additional criteria are needed. Questions do not establish causal effect.

## 5. Methodology expectations and evidence needs
Review attendance and visit records. Review survey data after confirming methods, response rates, comparability, and access. Any additional interviews are a proposal pending access, resources, and ethics review.

## 6. Team composition and expertise
To be specified after methods and scope are confirmed. Evaluator qualifications, local expertise, language needs, and independence requirements are decisions for procurement.

## 7. Deliverables, timeline, and review process
Deliverables, final date, and review cycles are to be confirmed. The board's planning meeting is the stated use point, but its date was not supplied.

## 8. Budget and logistics
No budget or logistics information was supplied. Set a ceiling only after scope, methods, timing, and access requirements are determined.

## 9. Ethics, safeguarding, and data protection
Before collection, confirm applicable ethics review, consent procedures, safeguarding needs, privacy safeguards, and data storage and retention requirements. The supplied brief does not identify the applicable review route.

## 10. Management, governance, and quality assurance
Commissioner, reporting lines, approval roles, and quality review process are to be assigned. The board is the intended user for the continuation decision.

## Decisions before procurement
Confirm detailed scope, survey access and quality, methods, evaluator qualifications, timing, budget, ethics review, and governance. All are unresolved rather than assumed.