International Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant

Consultant Human Rights

Overview

Monitor and evaluate women's economic empowerment programs

You have:

• Master’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Political or Social Science, Economics, International Development Studies, Gender/Women’s Studies is required
• At least 2 years of progressively responsible experience at national or international level in monitoring and evaluation of development projects/programmes
• Experience working in the Asia Pacific region is a major advantage
• Previous experience with UN Women and other UN agencies is an advantage
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation in donor-funded programmes with EU is an asset
• Field experience is an asset
• Proficiency in English. Other UN languages are an asset
• Excellent writing skills. Experience in writing analytic papers and reports (to be assessed through writing sample)

Contract

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Background

Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, the UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

A key area of concern for UN Women is women’s economic empowerment as expressed in UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2018-2021 as well as in the targets and indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 for gender equality and women’s empowerment and of several other SDGs relating to inclusive growth, decent work, ending poverty, and reducing inequality, and revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development.

The WeEmpowerAsia programme

The WeEmpowerAsia (WEA) programme is a collaborative effort between the Regional Office of UN Women for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) and the European Union (EU), which is funding the action under its Partnership Instrument. With this programme the two entities will leverage their joint commitment to enhance women’s economic empowerment globally. They each have longstanding experience and partnerships in the Asian region. UN Women will apply its triple mandate of normative, operational and coordination actions and use its convening power to bring multiple stakeholders together for effective collaboration. EU brings valuable private and public sector partnerships across sectors as well as its solid expertise in trade and economic development.

The overall objective of the WEA programme is that more women lead, participate and have access to enhanced business opportunities and leadership within the private sector to advance sustainable and inclusive growth. The programme will achieve this through three complementary outcome areas to be implemented in seven selected middle-income countries (China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) in Asia:

• ADVOCACY: Women’s networks, public institutions, and the private sector will collaborate and share expertise and knowledge to build an enabling business environment for women’s economic empowerment in the workplace and in the marketplace,
• ENTREPRENEURSHIP: The capacity of women-owned businesses and women entrepreneurs will be developed to enable them to engage with government and private sector corporations in policy development and dialogues for advancing women’s economic empowerment, and
• BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT: The private sector will be supported to implement gender-sensitive practices and culture within their businesses through the take-up of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (the WEPs – a set of guiding principles to achieve gender equality within companies).

Ultimately, the programme will contribute to the achievement of gender equality through enabling women’s increased participation in the labour force and in the marketplace, improved opportunities for women entrepreneurship and business start-ups, and through strengthening of corporate sector’s commitment and action to ensure gender equality in business culture and practices.

The guiding platform for the programme is the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), a set of seven principles for businesses offering guidance on how to strengthen gender equality in the workplace, in the marketplace and in the community. The WEPs are jointly developed by UN Women and UN Global Compact and seeking the commitments and concrete implementation by private corporations around the globe.

Duties and Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision and guidance of the Regional Programme Manager, the Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant will undertake the following tasks:

Monitoring and tracking of results against both regional and country level targets

• Coordinate with teams at regional and country levels to ensure that data collection and analysis from implementation activities are coordinated and standardized
• Monitor, consolidate and analyse data from WEA regional and country offices and partners on a quarterly basis and provide substantive inputs to regular management briefs to inform decision making
• Conduct surveys to measure the progress and achievement of WEA activities at regional and country level

Manage internal and donor reporting

• Ensure the completion and quality of results-based monitoring, reporting and planning in compliance with the UN Women’s result monitoring system (RMS) including the quarterly report, annual report of results and annual workplan
• Ensure full compliance with operational reporting rules and regulations of UN Women and the donor
• Draft and finalize the donor reports (both narrative and financial), including end of programme report, with inputs from regional and country programme team and implementing partners
• Identify and input relevant findings, conclusions and recommendations from the programme reviews, studies or research into programme reporting
• Review progress reports submitted by partners and provide feedback to ensure results-based reports and analysis and capturing of data. Validate reports of the implementing partners before submission
• Collecting and maintaining) of data for country, regional and global corporate reports, mid-term reviews, and final evaluations.

Provide programmatic support and analysis to the sign on process of WEPs companies and Gender Gap Analysis Tool (GAT)

• Support the management and maintenance of the WEPs database of companies, including the sign-on process, verification of companies and logo/media enquiries
• Act as focal point in the team’s customer service and communication with stakeholders, including WEA country teams, implementing partners, companies and WEPs signatories.
• Support the companies and WEPs Signatories on the GAT assessment process, maintain the GAT database and provide GAT research and analysis as required

Private Sector Impact Report in Asia-Pacific

• Conduct an analysis of the data on Gender Gap Analysis Tool (GAT) questionnaires for WEA countries, the WEPs Data Base and a company survey
• Write an external report inclusive of best practices and liaise with designer to finalize for external publication

Supporting ROAP in the process of developing the new Strategic Note for ‘Women’s Economic Empowerment’ thematic area

• Drafting the Results Framework for WEE for UN Women ROAP Strategic Note 2022-2025
• Coordination with ROAP Monitoring and Reporting team to ensure compliance with standards and timelines

Expected Deliverables

No.

Tasks & Deliverables

Target dates

1.

Task: Lead all programme regional level ‘s reporting to UN Women Results Management System (RMS), i.e. UN Women RMS Quarterly Reporting; Annual Report (AR) 2021 and Annual Work Plan (AWP) 2022

Deliverables:

• Complete the WEA Regional RMS Reporting Q1 2021

23 April 2021

• Complete the WEA Regional RMS Reporting Q2 2021

15 July 2021

• Complete the WEA Regional RMS Reporting Q3 2021

15 October 2021

• Complete the WEA Regional RMS Reporting Q4 2021

15 January 2022

• Complete the WEA Regional Annual Report 2021

15 January 2022

• Complete the WEA Regional Annual Work Plan 2022

15 November 2021

• Final WEA Regional RMS Reporting Q1 2022

31 March 2022

2.

Task: Finalize the programme second year donor report (Narrative) with input from regional and country levels.

Deliverables:

• WEA Second Annual Report to the European Union Partnership Instrument (EUFPI) with narrative and financial updates covering the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021

29 May 2021

3.

Task: Draft and finalize the End of Programme Report (both narrative and financial) with input from regional and country levels.

Deliverables:

• Draft Narrative Report

28 February 2022

• WEA End of Programme Report to the European Union Partnership Instrument (EUFPI) with narrative and financial updates covering the period from 1 April 2019 to March 2022

31 March 2022

4.

Task: Conduct existing survey to measure WEA outcome 1 indicator’s “percentage of key stakeholders/ WEA events participants that have taken further action in women economic empowerment and gender equality after their exposure to WEA events and activities”

Deliverables:

• Regional Report on the result of survey with wider WEA events’ participants: Survey 1 Results

May 2021

Survey 2 Results

January 2022

• Consolidated Report on events from all WEA countries

February 2022

5.

Task: Maintain and manage the WEPs and GAT Platform as well as conduct the research and data analysis of WEPs and GAT

Deliverables

• Monthly update report on the results of WEPs and GAT platform to WEA team at regional and country level
• Maintain regular coordination with concerned stakeholders (UNW, UNGC, partners, companies and WEPs Signatories) and provide summary support Report as requested

Update to be provided on a monthly basis [April 2021 – March 2022]

6.

Private Sector Impact Report

• Draft Company Survey

September 2021

• Draft WEPs / GAT Data/ Survey Analysis

December 2021

• Draft Impact Report

January 2022

• Final Designed Evaluation Report

February 2022

7.

Task: Drafting Results- Framework for WEE for UN Women ROAP Strategic Note 2022-2025

Deliverables:

• Results- Framework for Women’s Economic Empowerment UN Women Strategic Note

August 2021

****Payment will be made upon submission of deliverables with an approval of the Regional Programme Manage*

Contract period and work location

The consultant will be based in Bangkok, Thailand or home-based and working at UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific as required.

Payments

Payments for this consultancy will be based on the achievement of each deliverable and certification that each has been satisfactorily completed. Payments will not be based on the number of days worked but on the completion of each stated deliverable within the indicated timeframes.

Competencies

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

Functional Competencies:

• Strong understanding and knowledge of programme formulation and implementation and Results Based Management
• Strong understanding and knowledge of monitoring and evaluation, evaluation design, data collection and analysis, and reporting
• Strong experience managing multi-country reporting and evaluation
• Ability to synthesize program performance data and produce analytical reports
• Very good analytical and report writing skills
• Knowledge of UN programme management systems
• Women’s Economic Empowerment experience is an asset

Required Skills and Experience

Required qualification

• Master’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Political or Social Science, Economics, International Development Studies, Gender/ Women’s Studies is required
• At least 2 years of progressively responsible experience at national or international level in monitoring and evaluation of development projects/ programmes
• Experience working in the Asia Pacific region a major advantage.
• Previous experience with UN Women and other UN agencies an advantage.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation in the donor-funded programmes with EU is an asset
• Field experience is an asset
• Proficiency in English. Other UN languages an asset
• Excellent writing skills. Experience in writing analytic papers and reports (to be assessed through writing sample).

Submission of application

Interest candidates are encouraged to submit electronic application to somjai.noohuang@unwomen.org , not later than 29 March 2021, COB (Bangkok time).

Submission package includes:

• Updated CV
• Personal History Form (P11) which can be downloaded http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs;
• Financial proposal (please use the template below)
• Portfolio and writing sample (max 5 pieces) related to the assignment (e.g. research, policy briefs, or concept notes)
• All applications must include (as an attachment) the CV, P11, Portfolio/writing sample related to the assignment and the financial proposal. Applications without financial proposal will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

Items

Amount

(USD)

1. Lump Sum fee (equivalent to daily fee x no. of days)

Tasks & Deliverables

1. Task: Lead all programme regional level ‘s reporting in related to UN Women Results Management System (RMS), i.e. UN Women RMS Quarterly Reporting; Annual Report (AR) 2021 and Annual Work Plan (AWP) 2022

2. Task: Draft and finalize the programme second year donor report (both narrative and financial) with input from regional and country levels.

3. Task: Draft and finalize the End of Programme Report (both narrative and financial) with input from regional and country levels.

4. Task: Conduct survey to measure WEA outcome 1 indicator’s “percentage of key stakeholders/ WEA events participants that have taken further action in women economic empowerment and gender equality after their exposure to WEA events and activities.

5. Task: Maintain and manage the WEPs and GAT Platform as well as conduct the research and data analysis of WEPs and GAT

6. Task: Drafting Results- Framework for WEE UN Women Strategic Note

7. Task: Drafting Results- Framework for WEE for UN Women ROAP Strategic Note 2022-2025

2. Others (please provide details as applicable)

Total Financial Proposal

Evaluation

Applications will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis.

• Technical Qualification (100 points) weight; [70%]
• Financial Proposal (100 points) weight; [30%]

A two-stage procedure is utilized in evaluating the applications, with evaluation of the technical application being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.

Technical qualification evaluation criteria:

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria:

Technical Evaluation Criteria

Obtainable

Score

Education

• Master’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Political or Social Science, Economics, International Development Studies, Gender/ Women’s Studies

20 %

Knowledge and skills

• At least 2 years of progressively responsible experience at national or international level in monitoring and evaluation of development projects/ programmes
• Experience working in the Asia Pacific region a major advantage.
• Previous experience with UN Women and other UN agencies an advantage.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation in the donor-funded programmes with EU is an asset
• Field experience is an asset

60 %

Language and report writing skills

• Excellent command of written English, other UN languages an asset.
• Excellent writing skills. Experience in writing analytic papers and reports (to be assessed through writing sample).

20 %

Total Obtainable Score

100 %

Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as technically qualified candidates who may be contacted for validation interview.

Financial/Price Proposal evaluation:

• Only the financial proposal of candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be considered and evaluated.
• The total number of points allocated for the price component is 100.
• The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/ evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.

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