Evaluation Consultant for a Corporate evaluation on UN
Women’s Support to Women’s Leadership In Peace Processes (Home-Based)
Organization: UN Women
Location : Home-based
Application Deadline : 15-Aug-23 (Midnight New York,
USA)
Type of Contract : Individual Contract
Post Level : International Consultant
Languages Required :
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms
of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups,
indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to
apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment,
including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will,
therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
Background
These terms of reference guide the services sought by the UN
Women Independent Evaluation Service (IES) for an Evaluator to develop and
execute a scoped independent strategic evaluation of UN Women’s contributions
and support to women’s leadership in peace processes at global, regional and
country levels.
UN Women undertakes evaluations to enhance accountability,
inform decision making, and contribute to learning. Corporate evaluations at UN
Women are conducted by UN Women’s Independent Evaluation Service (IES), part of
the Independent Evaluation and Audit Service (IEAS). In line with
the corporate evaluation plan for 2022, IES plans to conduct a corporate
thematic evaluation of UN Women’s support to women’s leadership in peace
processes.
Under strategic plan 2018-2021, UN Women’s work on women’s
leadership in peace processes is part of the overall thematic area of women,
peace and security and humanitarian action (outcome 5) and contributed
specifically to more gender equality advocates influence peace and security
processes (output 13).
Building on the prior strategic plan, UN Women’s
current strategic plan 2022-2025
continues to recognize women, peace and security and humanitarian action and
disaster risk reduction as one of the four impact area (impact area 4). Within
this impact area, UN Women work with key partners to support more women
mediators, negotiators and signatories influencing peace processes. To
support the implementation of the Strategic Plan, UN Women is developing
Signature Initiatives (or Gender Equality Accelerators), that are flexible
programming frameworks built on the experience of the Flagship Programme
Initiatives. These include an initiative/accelerator focussed on women’s peace
and security. UN Women is also a funding board member of the Women’s Peace and
Humanitarian Fund that includes a rapid response window on Women’s
Participation in Peace Processes and Peace Agreements.
The purpose of the independent corporate evaluation is to
contribute to strategic decision making, learning and accountability. With a
scope of January 2018 to December 2023, the evaluation will be a summative
assessment of results achieved during the previous strategic plan period, and
an exploration of insights to support implementation of the current strategic
plan. In order to complement the existing body of evidence and current
reporting systems, this evaluation aims to harness insights on the impact,
relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of UN Women’s support
to women’s leadership in peace processes.
This corporate evaluation will be presented to the UN Women
Executive Board in its First Session in 2025.
Duties and Responsibilities
The consultant reports directly to the evaluation team lead
(Evaluation Specialist, IES) and will also engage with the Chief, IES and
Director, Independent Evaluation and Audit Service (IEAS) to share and
brainstorms ideas, exchange feedback and updates on progress.
Under the supervision of the evaluation team lead, and in
close collaboration with other evaluation team members, the consultant will
develop and execute a scoped independent strategic evaluation of UN Women’s
contributions and support to women’s leadership in peace processes. The main
objectives of the evaluation are to evaluate the relevance, effectiveness,
efficiency, impact and sustainability of UN Women’s contribution and support to
women’s leadership in peace processes; and to make recommendations to
strengthen UN Women’s work in this key area of work.
To support the Consultant on this assignment, IES will make
available a Research Consultant, for approximately four weeks of scoping and
inception report development, six weeks of data collection and analysis and
four weeks of report writing and presentation of preliminary findings, and
three weeks for report finalization. These personnel will contribute to
background research, data collection, data analysis, report drafting, and other
tasks as required. The evaluation team lead will be responsible for assigning
responsibilities to the Consultant and other team members.
The evaluation must adhere to the revised UN Women
evaluation policy, the IEAS charter, the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG)
Norms and Standards for Evaluation, and it should apply and
incorporate the criteria of UN Women’s Global Evaluation Reports Assessment and
Analysis System (GERAAS) standards to the highest degree possible.
From the commencement of the contract, the consultant will
be responsible for and support:
- Drafting
of an inception report (4 weeks) based on substantive inception
interviews, literature review and desk review of key UN Women documents.
The inception report will be reviewed and cleared by the Chief, IES and
the Director, IEAS and then presented to an internal and external
evaluation reference group for feedback. Relevant feedback will be
incorporated into a final inception report.
Deliverable: Written draft inception report (not
to exceed 35 pages plus Annexes 50 pages) containing the following minimum
major sections: Introduction, Background on UN Women’s work on women, peace and
security, Stakeholder mapping, Key emerging issues from the inception phase,
analytical framework and evaluation matrix, evaluation approach and
methodology, oversight and quality assurance, ethical standards, work plan, and
annexes, including data collection tools.
Expected timeframe: September-October 2023
2. Data collection and initial discussions on emerging
findings (6 weeks)
Deliverables: Qualitative transcripts, clean
quantitative datasets, initial results PowerPoint presentation
Expected Timeframe: November 2023 to January 2024
3. Analysis and drafting of the evaluation report (4
weeks) reviewed and cleared by the Chief, IES and the Director, IEAS
and then presented to an internal and external evaluation reference group for
feedback.
Deliverable: Draft evaluation report (not to
exceed 50 pages and Annexes 50 pages) containing the following minimum major
sections: Executive Summary, Background, Evaluation Context, Description of
Evaluand, Findings, Lessons Learned and Promising Practices, Conclusions,
Recommendations, Annexes
Expected timeframe: January- February 2024
4. Finalization of an evaluation report (3
weeks) taking into account relevant comments of reference group and final
review of Chief IES and Director, IEAS.
- :
Final evaluation report, including all annexes and data
Expected timeframe: March 2024
Competencies
- Demonstrated
ability to conceive, lead and report on independent strategic
gender-responsive evaluations in a UN or similar setting.
- Ability
to identify good practices and areas for improvement, in particular root
causes, in the areas of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and
sustainability, and provide specific, feasible and helpful recommendations
and solutions.
- Ability
to produce timely, quality outputs.
- Ability
to multi-task and work independently with little supervision.
- Strong
interpersonal, negotiation, presentation and communication skills
including ability to listen actively and responds effectively.
- Strong
resourcefulness, logical thinking and report writing skills.
- Demonstrated
ability to use Microsoft office and qualitative and quantitative data
analysis software for evaluation.
Required Skills and Experience
Education
- Advanced
university degree in Social Sciences, Evaluation, Gender Studies,
International Development or related field, or a first-level university
degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying work
experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
Experience
- At
least 10-12 years-experience in conducting independent strategic
evaluations of organizational programmes and thematic areas using a wide
range of approaches and methods including utilization focused, gender and
human rights responsive, and mixed methods required.
- Demonstrated
experience in evaluating interventions/thematic knowledge related to
women, peace and security preferred.
- Strong
understanding and experience in the areas of gender equality and women’s
empowerment, gender mainstreaming, gender analysis and the related
mandates within UN Women, particularly in relation to women, peace and
security interventions preferred.
- Strong
knowledge and understanding of the UN system, UN reform processes, and UN
programming at the country level preferred.
- Experience
and knowledge on human rights issues, the human rights-based approach to
programming and evaluation, human rights analysis, and related mandates
within the UN system.
- Excellent
analytical, facilitation and communications skills and the ability to engaged
and negotiate amongst a wide range of stakeholders.
Languages
- Fluency
in English is required.
- Working
level knowledge of French, Spanish, Russian or Arabic languages is an
asset.
Payment plan:
A lump sum consultancy fee based on UN Women standard consultancy
rates and the agreed days of effort will be paid in three tranches upon
satisfactory certification of the following deliverables:
- First
tranche to be paid upon completion and acceptance of the inception report
(30%)
- Second
tranche to be paid upon completion and acceptance of the draft report
(50%)
- Third
tranche to be paid upon completion and acceptance of the final report
(20%)
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