Monitoring and Reporting Specialist - International - National

Consultant Human Rights

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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 center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

Since 2014, UN Women in the Arab States region has been implementing the Leadership, Empowerment, Access & Protection (LEAP) programme in Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon. The programme’s approach has been shaped by pairing protection support with economic, opportunities for displaced and vulnerable women (including refugees). As the Syria crisis in the region has become protracted, there is a recognition of the need to focus on sustainable economic opportunities and solutions for refugee, displaced, and host communities while working with regional bodies to support an end to conflict and instability. To respond to growing demands for improved programme monitoring, evidence generation, and evaluation, the UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States (ROAS) with the support of its country offices has taken concrete steps towards a more integrated and holistic way of monitoring resilience programmes and tracking changes in the resilience of beneficiaries lives overtime. This is captured under a conceptualized framework of a gender-sensitive resilience measurement analysis. The approach to resilience monitoring will continue to be rolled out within UN Women's country offices and to provide technical support to humanitarian and development actors to ensure that women are able to meet their needs within the available resources by generating evidence.

In response to the growing demands for similar approaches to monitoring within other thematic areas, further support will be provided to Women ‘s Economic Empowerment (WEE), Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), Violence Against Women (VAW) sections in UN Women ROAS.

A consultant will be recruited to improve programme monitoring, evidence generation, and evaluation. The consultant will be supervised by the UN Women’s Programme Coordinator.

The objective of the service

The regional humanitarian programmes operate at the regional level while being implemented in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Yemen. This assignment is a home-based consultancy with the possibility for a field mission to the project sites as per the programme needs.

The objectives of this assignment are:

• To expand the evidence base on resilience monitoring and reporting;
• To build monitoring and reporting capacity and foster a data and evidence-driven results-based reporting culture for the LEAP and other resilience-focused programmes.

Duties and Responsibilities

In accordance with UN Women monitoring and reporting guidelines, the consultant will work to:

• Provide overall support to the monitoring and reporting of the programme by leading in the development and/or finalization of the programme work plans and ensuring the work plans are updated in accordance with programme activities and timeframes as relevant; monitoring frameworks and data analysis and reporting against the programme results (at output and outcome levels) corresponding to the overall programme logical framework, and collect and analyse data for the indicators established in the programme;
• Strengthen monitoring of regional thematic areas (WPS, WEE, VAW) by identifying opportunities for promoting results-based monitoring and reporting.
• Work with the Regional Programme Coordinator and country programme managers to maintain a data collection system for tracking and collecting core sex-disaggregated data (SADD) elements on the programme design, in line with the donor reporting requirements; follow the programme Performance Monitoring Framework with relevant data collection systems;
• Maintain and update the online data collection on results framework and work with the programme teams to follow up and prepare the donors’ quarterly reports;
• Provide technical support and contribute to discussions related to refugee resilience monitoring under the Refugee Resilience Response structures (3RP);
• Review the existing monitoring systems at the regional thematic and country levels, identify gaps and new opportunities to promoting a strong culture of results-based monitoring and reporting aiming at the programme goals;
• Provide inputs and manage the preparation of the programme baseline and related online database to track the progress against each indicator of the programme;
• Provide timely and quality submission of data, analyse reports, learnings, and best practices and identify any field trends emerging through programme action in different countries;
• Provide substantive technical inputs to the planning and implementation of annual work plans to ensure clear deliverables, annual targets with indicators and milestones, and documentation of evidence-based good practices;
• Provide inputs to the UN Women and donors’ bi-annual and annual reports;
• Liaise with the media and communications expert to translate the reports and monitoring documents into communication and visibility materials and regularly contribute to maintaining programme’s web-presence;
• Work with the country programme managers to build partners’ monitoring and reporting systems;
• Work with the country programme managers to build partners’ capacity on gender-sensitive monitoring and reporting systems;

• Build programme implementing partners’ M&E capacities.

  Deliverable

Deliverable completion timeframe

1

Bi-annual and final narrative update reports prepared.

February 2022

2

Performance Management Framework reviewed and updated on regular basis.

Ongoing

3

Development of knowledge products on findings from the monitoring and reporting exercises, including lessons learned and good practices for the internal and external stakeholders, and provide inputs and materials to convert the knowledge products into visibility materials.

Ongoing

4

Contribution to the regional team meetings at the level of

monitoring and evaluation (documents, power-point presentations,

briefings, etcetera).

As and when needed

5

Substantive technical inputs to the planning and implementation of annual work plans to ensure clear deliverables, annual targets with indicators and milestones and documentation of evidence-based good practices;

By December 2021

6

Review the existing monitoring systems at the regional thematic and country levels, identify gaps and new opportunities to promoting a strong culture of results-based monitoring and reporting aiming at the programme goals;

By February 2022

7

Provide inputs and manage the preparation of the programme baseline and related online database to track the progress against each indicator of the programme

By February 2022

Development of knowledge management products such as weekly technical team meeting minutes, programmatic updates and monthly situation reports.

Ongoing

8

Contribution to the technical team regional meetings at the level of M&E

Ongoing

9

Capacity building for UN Women country offices (and partners) for monitoring aspects of resilience programming.

As and when needed.

10

Provide support and leading capacity for the development and contextualization for regional gender assessment tools, guidance, and analysis

Ongoing

11

Consolidation and production of at least 1 progress report and 1 annual report.

As and when needed.

12

Build technical capacities of internal staff and implementing partners within targeted countries (Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, and Yemen) to lead and conduct resilience analysis and monitoring across their programmes

Ongoing

13

Technical support for discussions related to refugee resilience monitoring under the Refugee Resilience Response structures (3RP

Ongoing

14

Support Country offices and implementing partners in the data collection process through establishment of questionnaires in KOBO platform

Throughout data collection process

15

Manage the process of data collection to ensure robust operationalization of the Gender-Sensitive Resilience Index (GSRI)

Baseline October 2021

Endline February 2022

16

Conduct analysis of Gender-Sensitive Resilience Index (GSRI) in collaboration with FAO

Baseline October 2021

Endline February 2022

17

Produce three-country resilience reports that include recommendations for improving resilience programming

Baseline October 2021

Endline February 2022

18

Work closely with the communications specialist for the production of knowledge management and communications materials

By end of February 2021

The consultant will be paid against the completion of each satisfactory deliverable after it has been reviewed and certified by the UN Women’s Regional Programme Coordinator and in accordance with UN Women's policies and regulations.

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.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies:https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf?la=en&vs=637

Required Skills and Experience

Education

• Bachelor's degree in economics, management, rural development, social sciences, or related field;
• Master's degree in economics, management, rural development, social sciences, or related field is preferred;
• Additional certification in monitoring and evaluation, MIS management, statistics will be an asset.

Experience

• Minimum 10 years of experience in the field of results-based monitoring and evaluation; Master level education preferred;
• Proven record of work on similar projects; track record of managing results-based monitoring and reporting of the complex programme with detailed reporting requirements; Experience of working on EU funded programme will be an asset;
• Experience in the management of gender equality and women’s empowerment programmes or analytic work in gender and development, and/ or human rights;
• Proven ability to work with diverse stakeholders and partners, including civil society and grassroots organizations to ensure harmonized reporting systems across diverse stakeholders.
• Good experience in converting the reporting materials into knowledge products for a wider audience.

Language Requirements

• Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

Evaluation Criteria

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology:

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 out of the 70 points in the technical evaluation would be considered for the Financial Evaluation.

Technical Criteria weight: 70%

• Criterion 1: Experience in the field of resilience and women’s rights related projects in the MENA region (20 points)
• Criterion 2: Experience working with a wide range of partners including national implementing partners, civil society organizations, and government counterparts (20 points).
• Criterion 3: Experience in monitoring and reporting, as well as the design of PMFs and relevant M&R tools (20 points)
• Criterion 4: Experience in programmes/ projects in the MENA region (10 points)

Financial: Lowest Financial Proposal: 30% (30 points)

The points for the Financial Proposal will be allocated as per the following formula:

• The contract will be awarded to the technically qualified consultant who obtains the highest combined score (financial and technical);
• The points for the Financial Proposal will be allocated as per the following formula: (Lowest Bid Offered*)/ (Bid of the Consultant) x 30;
• 'Lowest Bid Offered' refers to the lowest price offered by Offerors scoring at least 49 points in the technical evaluation.

Application

Interested Individual Consultants must submit the following documents/information in a package to demonstrate their qualifications:

1. Letter of Interest (cover letter) explaining the suitability of the candidate to the work as well as an indication of the applicant’s availability and start date
2. UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded at http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment;
3. A brief technical proposal with the proposed methodology for undertaking this assignment, along with a brief work plan with timelines.
4. Samples of similar work undertaken in the past (at least two) that demonstrate strong technical skills in gender, gender mainstreaming, gender analysis, and/or youth engagement for gender equality.
5. Financial proposal or price proposal that indicates a daily rate (in USD) to undertake the terms of reference, and other related costs -if applicable-. Applications submitted without a daily rate will not be considered.
6. The contact details of three referees.

The aforementioned documents should be merged in a single file since the online application submission does only permits uploading one file per application.

Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed and are ground for disqualification.

Note:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW, and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

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