National consultant for End of Program Evaluation: Women's Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection (LEAP) in Uganda

Contract

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Background

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (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. UN Women provides support to Member States’ efforts and priorities in meeting their gender equality goals and for building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

UN Women operationalizes this through Flagship Programming Initiatives (FPIs) developed to achieve transformative results for gender equality and women empowerment. One such FPI is the Leadership, Empowerment, Access & Protection (LEAP) Program implemented in Adjumani, Yumbe and Terego Refugee hosting Districts in West Nile in Uganda.

The one-year LEAP Japan project whose implementation commenced in April 2021 will come to an end in March 2022. In line with the program requirements and the UN Women evaluation policy, an end of Programme evaluation is to be conducted to assess the performance of the Programme, provide accountability and enhance learning. The purpose of this independent end term evaluation is to assess the project’s achievements against the set objectives, identify and document lessons learnt (including design issues, lessons and best practices that can be up-scaled or replicated), and assess how the program contributed to gender equality and economic empowerment of South Sudanese refugee women and women from host communities in Terego, Yumbe and Adjumani districts.

It is a priority for UN Women that this end line program evaluation will be gender-responsive and will actively support the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment, with emphasis on UN Women key areas central to supporting women and girls’ empowerment in humanitarian action: Leadership and participation, Protection and safety, and Economic well-being.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Assess the relevance of LEAP intervention in addressing the needs of refugee and host community women in alignment with gender equality and women’s empowerment.
2. Assess the effectiveness and efficiency of UN Women’s approach for achievement of results, as defined in the logical framework, including the Program Theory of Change
3. Analyse how the human rights approach and gender equality principles were integrated in LEAP and humanitarian action programming
4. Identify and validate lessons learned, promising practices and innovations of work supported by LEAP Program within the context of the aid effectiveness agenda
5. Assess the added value of the LEAP strategy and related interventions to UN Women’s mandate and to the overall UN System presence in project locations.
6. Assess the inter-connectedness and sustainability of UN Women’s initiatives on increasing leadership, protection and economic opportunities for refugee women and analyse possible weaknesses in order to improve next steps for scale-up programming.
7. Provide actionable recommendations with respect to the strategy, and overall approach to UN Women’s programming in humanitarian settings.

Competencies

Functional Competencies

• High level data analysis skills in both quantitative and qualitative data;
• In-country or regional experience in programming in refugee setting;
• Flexibility and Ability to work with teams in multicultural settings
• Demonstrable ability to work under pressure to meet challenging deadlines

Required Skills and Experience

Education

• A Master’s degree related to any of the social sciences, political science, international relations, economics, gender studies and evaluation

Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of working experience in conducting evaluations including;
• proven practical professional experience in designing and conducting major evaluations within humanitarian settings;

• Over 5 years’ experience evaluating gender and/or aid effectiveness;

• Over 5 years’ experience in evaluating interventions in humanitarian settings and familiarity with Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) and the Comprehensive Refugees Response Framework (CRRF)

Language Requirements

• Fluency in written and spoken English is essential
• Working knowledge of another official UN language is an asset;
• Knowledge of Uganda and the Great Lakes region is an asset

Application Procedure

Interested qualified individual consultants must apply online by latest by 8th March 2022 . Candidates should submit one PDF File attachment containing:

• A letter of interest,
• A personal CV with contact details of 03 clients for whom you have rendered preferably similar services.
• UN Women P11 dully filled form with at least three (3) professional references (UN Women Personal History Form (P11), can be downloaded at: http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment;
• Technical proposal
• Financial proposal covering all anticipated activities including travel to West Nile for data collection.