International Mid Term Review (MTR) Consultant

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Background

The Cambodia Climate Change Alliance (CCCA) - Phase 3 (CCCA3) is an initiative led by the National council for Sustainable Development and supported by the European Union, Sweden and UNDP.

At impact level, the programme aims to contribute to a Cambodia development path that is increasingly climate-resilient and low carbon, measured by the level of GHG emissions reduced with programme support and the number of beneficiaries of adaptation measures supported by the programme.

More specifically, the programme contributes to a scaled-up response to climate change, with a focus on coordinating institutions (National Council for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Economy and Finance), and five strategic sector ministries (environment, public works and transport, rural development, mines and energy, and education, youth and sports).

The programme is structured around three outcomes:

Outcome 1: Relevant climate information is generated in a reliable and timely manner, suitable to sectors and targeting specific needs.

Outcome 2: Tools are developed and implemented for the effective mainstreaming of climate change into policies, regulatory frameworks, programmes and budgets of priority sectors.

Outcome 3: National capacities for the mobilization, coordination and tracking of public and private climate change resources are strengthened.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Mid-Term Review will be conducted in such a way to ensure that the key principles of UNDP Evaluation are fully respected. The Review shall be independent, impartial, transparent, ethical and credible.

This Mid-term Review will mainly focus to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, coherence/complementarity and partnerships of the project. The following are guiding questions within the framework of the Mid-Term Review criterions (to be reviewed/elaborated in the evaluation inception report):

• Relevance:

  • To what extent does the CCCA3 intervention meet the needs of Cambodia?
  • To what extent are the objectives of the CCCA3 still valid and aligned with national priorities for the Climate Change response?
  • Are the activities and outputs of the CCCA3 consistent with the overall objectives and goals of the CCCA3?
  • Related to activities and capacity level, is the CCCA3 timeframe reasonable to achieve the outputs and outcomes?

• Efficiency: to the extent possible, the Review Team will compare the benefits (social, economic and related to national capacities) from the CCCA3 with the budget to assess how efficient the programme is. The Review team will provide practical recommendations regarding how to improve the efficiency, as required.

• Effectiveness: assessment of how effective the CCCA3 is in achieving the objectives (outputs and outcomes), using the Result Framework as a basis.

  • To what extent were the CCCA3 governance structures, in particular the Programme Support Board, effective in facilitating smooth implementation of the CCCA3 particularly in the difficult circumstances of the COVID19 pandemic?
  • To what extent are the objectives likely to be achieved by the end of the CCCA3?
  • What were the major factors influencing the achievement or non-achievement of the objectives?

• Impacts: CCCA3 aims to strengthen national capacities for climate change action. As capacity development is a long term process and the project is only at mid-point in its implementation, the team should analyse both how capacity has been developed and how project achievements contribute to future strengthening of adaptive capacities.

  • What were the changes resulting from CCCA3 intervention in the way in which Cambodia is addressing climate change issues?
  • What were the impacts of the CCCA3 (including CCCA3 funded innovation projects) on capacities of target beneficiaries?
  • How many people have benefitted from the CCCA3 impacts to date, disaggregated by sex?

• Sustainability: The review will assess how the programme achievements contribute to sustainability by engaging appropriate Government, non-Government and community level stakeholders.

  • To what extent has the CCCA3 contributed to nurturing Government ownership and leadership in Climate Change action and sustaining the results of the CCCA3?
  • To what extent are the benefits of CCCA3 funded projects likely to continue after their completion?
  • What were the major factors which influenced these sustainability prospects?

• Coherence/Complementarity:

  • Does the CCCA3 intervention complement other CC initiatives implemented in Cambodia or are there any significant overlaps?
  • How did CCCA3 engage other partners on potential synergies?

• Partnerships

  • To what extent has the CCCA3 intervention forged new or strengthened partnerships among different stakeholders (Government institutions, Development Partners, civil society/academia, CC practitioners etc...)?

Interested offeror must read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=87820 for more detail information about term of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.

Competencies

• Excellent evaluation skills, including capacity to produce high quality and constructive reports
• Excellent English report writing skills
• Demonstrated analytical skills, ability to assess complex situations, to succinctly and clearly distill critical issues, and to draw practical conclusions
• Demonstrated ability to work with developing country government agencies and NGOs.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary, multi-national teams. Ability to meet short deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal, coordination and planning skills. Sense of diplomacy and tact.
• Ability and willingness to travel to provincial areas.
• Computer literate (MS Office package).

Required Skills and Experience

Education: Minimum of a master’s degree or equivalent on climate change, environment, development studies or related field demonstrably relevant to the position.

Experience:

• At least 10 years of relevant experience, including 5 years of experience in conducting monitoring and programme review or evaluation of development projects in the field of climate change adaptation and/or mitigation, or related field
• Good experience in data collection, analysis and evaluation report writing
• Good experience in project and programme management, as well as capacity development
• Demonstrated knowledge of climate change adaptation and mitigation approaches and related monitoring and evaluation tools. Knowledge of community-based approaches will be an asset.
• Prior experience in Cambodia or South-East Asia will be an asset
• Previous work experience with UNDP will be an asset.

Language Requirement: Fluent in English.

UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete.

Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email.

Interested individual offeror must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

1. Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work 2. Financial proposal 3. Personal CV including experience in similar projects, list of publication written by Candidate and at least 3 references.

Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on-line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e-mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

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