National Consultant to Conduct a Mid-term Evaluation for the Project - Mitigating the Impact of Syrian Refugee Crisis through Support to Host Communities

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Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, P-3, Bangui, CAR

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Haiti: Consultancy Services for an External Evaluation of the ECHO-Funded Project: "Support to Nationwide Cholera Support Activities" (via Reliefweb)

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Kenya: UNICEF ESARO REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FROM INDIVIDUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTRACTORS FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION (via Reliefweb)

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Expert National en Suivi Evaluation, Projet de la Résilience aux Changements Climatiques ( Uniquement pour les Candidats de Nationalité Malienne) - Bamako

Le Mali subit les effets néfastes des changements  climatiques qui perturbent les activités  de développement  dans ces régions. Le caractère  aléatoire de la pluviométrie  se manifeste dans le début de l’installation de la période d’hivernage, dans   la durée de celle-ci ainsi que dans sa répartition spatiale et temporelle.  En plus, le pays connait une augmentation  de la fréquence et des intensités des inondations ainsi qu’un accroissement de l’évaporation et de l’assèchement des zones humides et autres plans d’eau en raison des fortes températures et de forts vents. Enfin, la dégradation des sols et l’érosion hydrique sont permanentes, et les terres arables se réduisent progressivement à cause de la déforestation et de la désertification. Face à tous ces défis, les  groupements de producteurs féminins constituent l’une des franges le plus vulnérables.
Pour renforcer la résilience  aux changements climatiques de ces groupes et d’autres populations vulnérables, le Mali a bénéficié de la part du Fonds pour l’Environnement Mondial (FEM) un  fonds d’un montant  d’environ 8,5 millions de $US à travers le guichet des Pays les Moins Avancés (LDCF en anglais) en vue de la mise en œuvre d’un projet.
Pour mobiliser ce financement en vue de la mise en œuvre dudit projet, le Gouvernement a sollicité l’accompagnement du PNUD. Ainsi,  des documents d’avant-projet (appelés PIF et PPG en anglais) ont  été préparés et soumis au FEM à travers le PNUD  pour permettre  la préparation d’un document de projet.
Le document de projet  préparé a été soumis au FEM qui l’a approuvé.
Le  projet est destiné  à renforcer les moyens d’existence des groupements féminins et des  autres groupes vulnérables  dans dix communes  des régions de Kayes, Koulikoro et Sikasso.
Il comprend  deux principales composantes: i) améliorer l’accès à des systèmes  d’approvisionnement et de gestion de l’eau qui résistent aux changements climatiques pour les communautés vulnérables, y compris les paysannes, pour appuyer leurs activités de subsistance ; et ii) investir dans des approches et technologies innovantes résilientes aux changements climatiques en faveur des paysannes et autres paysans pour renforcer et sécuriser la production de systèmes locaux de moyens d’existence face aux impacts des changements climatiques.
Le Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement (PNUD) exécutera le projet dans le cadre de ses Modalités de Mise œuvre Nationale (NIM), sur une période de cinq ans à compter de la date de signature du Document de Projet.
Le partenaire de mise en œuvre au Mali est  l’Agence de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable (AEDD), qui coordonnera étroitement la conduite du projet avec les Ministères chargés de l’Agriculture, de l’Elevage, de l’Hydrologie/Environnement, de la Promotion de la Femme et de l’Enfant, ainsi qu’avec les autorités communales et régionales pour les activités au niveau local.
Le présent appel à candidature rentre dans le cadre du  recrutement du personnel de l’unité de coordination national du projet.

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International Consultant for Independent Evaluation (Mid Term Evaluation for four years agreement)

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Duty Station: Home-based with Two Missions to Geneva office and Two Country Missions within the Region (Asia-Pacif
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Algeria: Deputy Chief of Party/Evaluation Specialist, USAID Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning Activity, Nepal

Organization: Management Systems International
Country: Algeria, Costa Rica, Nepal
Closing date: 10 Jan 2015

Deputy Chief of Party/Evaluation Specialist, USAID Monitoring and Evaluation and**Learning Activity, Nepal**

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Vanuatu: External Final Evaluation of an OFDA-funded project (access to water and hygiene promotion)

Organization: Croix-Rouge Française
Country: Vanuatu
Closing date: 09 Jan 2015

The French Red Cross is looking for a consultant for the Final Evaluation of an OFDA-funded project (access to water and hygiene promotion), implemented by the FRC in Vanuatu. Project of 579 967 USD, targeting 2750 people.

Location: Vanuatu, Torba Province

Time Dedicated to the evaluation: 21 working days

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Monitoring & Evaluation Analyst (Reporting)

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Duty Station: Khartoum with frequent travel to Darfur, SUDAN
Level: P-2 Contract type: - (More info about Levels and Contracts)

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Expert to Establish Electronic Information Database for Learning Disabilities - Awareness, Diagnosis and Remedy for the Center for Child Evaluation and Teaching - Kuwait

UNDP and the Center for Child Evaluation and Teaching are soliciting expert advice in the following:

Data Collection Duties:

Correspond with universities, research centres and special needs centres to collect and record the most out of existing resources on learning disabilities in Kuwait and at the global level. This step will include the following:

Scientific papers published in world periodicals;Scientific papers published in regional and local periodicals;Doctorate and Master Studies presented in the world and Arabic Universities;Judged books issued by world and Arabic publishing houses.

Collect all paper and electronic diagnosis tools relevant to learning disabilities.

Collect scientific material on description of each disabilities diagnostic test, their method of application, its existing diagnostic data and the place where it was found.

Record the foreign data of studies and researches.

Website Implementation Support Duties Sector:

Supply the programmer with a proposal on the design of the scientific database webpage, sufficient proposal on the shape of the webpage for defining and diagnosis of learning disabilities contents..

Implementation and design of the awareness webpage and its contents.

Upload all paper and electronic diagnosis tools relevant to learning disabilities;Upload scientific material on description of each test, its method of application, its diagnostic data and the place where it was found;Supply the programmer with a sufficient proposal on the shape of the webpage for defining and diagnosis of learning disabilities contents.

Implementation and design of the webpage of remedy and rehabilitation services and revision of its contents.

Provide a proposal on the support pages to the website and its contents such as: Contact Us, latest comments, important consultations, number of visitors, etc.;Write an introductory booklet for the website including the method of use, contents, objectives and complete information on the executing body;Gather all the Web pages in the form of one webpage and review its contents;Extract the number of intellectual property rights of the webpage;Design and provide programmer with content information for the website.

Expected Output

To provide a research database that is the first of its kind in the Arab World to provide awareness and offers services on disabilities.

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Functional Competencies:

Advocacy/Advancing A Policy-Oriented Agenda:
Preparing information for advocacy

Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating UNDP’s mandate;Maintains a functioning network of contacts with a variety of stakeholders to promote a better understanding of UNDP’s mandate and to support advocacy efforts.

Results-Based Programme Development and Management:
Contributes into results through primary research and analysis

Assesses project performance to identify success factors and incorporates best practices into project work;Researches linkages across programme activities to identify critical points of integration;Monitors specific stages of projects/programme implementation;Participates in the formulation of project proposals and ensures substantive rigor in the design and application of proven successful approaches and drafts proposals accordingly.

Building Strategic Partnerships:

Maintaining a network of contacts

Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date on partnership related issues.

Innovation and Marketing New Approaches:
Enhancing processes or products

Generates new ideas and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things;Documents and analyses innovative strategies/best practices/new approaches;Documents bottlenecks, problems and issues, and proposes effective solutions;Embraces new approaches.

Resource Mobilization (Field Duty Stations):
Providing inputs to resource mobilization strategies

Analyzes information/databases on potential and actual donors.

Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing:
Basic research and analysis

Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things;Documents and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches.

Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise:
Fundamental knowledge of own discipline

Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position;Possesses basic knowledge of organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks;Analyzes the requirements and synthesizes proposals;Strives to keep job knowledge up-to-date through self-directed study and other means of learning;Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments.

Global Leadership and Advocacy for UNDP’s Goals:
Preparing information for global advocacy

Identifies and communicates relevant information for advocacy for UNDP’s goals for a variety of audiences.

Client Orientation:
Establishing effective client relationships

Researches potential solutions to internal and external client needs and reports back in a timely, succinct and appropriate fashion;Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines;Establishes, builds and sustains effective relationships within the work unit and with internal and external clients.

Core Competencies:

Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity;Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;Self-development, initiative-taking;Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively;Creating synergies through self-control;Managing conflict;Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others. Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member;Informed and transparent decision making.

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Haiti: Consultant – Rural Resilience – Land Management Program Evaluation – Haiti (219401-927)

Organization: Mercy Corps
Country: Haiti
Closing date: 22 Dec 2014

Deadline to Apply:November, 14th 2014

Background:

The Vie, Te & Eneji Program (VTE phases I & II) have been designed to address the underlying factors that drive environmentally destructive practices while simultaneously introducing profitable activities that support land rehabilitation and stewardship. The overall goal of the program is to build resilience and improve the livelihoods of communities in rural Haiti.

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Terminal Evaluation International Consultant - Removal of Barriers to Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation in Buildings in Mauritius - Port Louis

In October 2007, the Ministry of Energy Public Utilities (MEPU) launched a US$ 912,411 technical assistance project, funded by the GEF and supported by UNDP, called ‘Removal of Barriers to Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation in Buildings’. The overall project goal was to reduce GHG emissions sustainably through a re-engineering of the building energy efficiency market for existing and new buildings.  In setting out to do so, the project activities were designed to ensure that energy is used cost-effectively and rationally throughout the island. The project tackled market barriers in all three areas of a building’s energy use: building fabric, equipment, and people (behaviour). The target was an accumulated total of 42,000 tonnes of CO2eq (direct emission reductions) and 245,000 tonnes CO2eq (indirect emission reductions) over 10 years. The project was intended to overcome barriers to energy efficiency in buildings in Mauritius and reinforce the development of a market approach to improving residential and non-residential building energy efficiency in both existing stock and future buildings.

The project had five broad outcomes (or components):

Building regulations and codes for energy saving are developed, enacted and sustainably enforced;Demand and supply for energy saving services and technology stimulated;Building engineers, architects, compliance officers, policy makers, financial sector, suppliers and public are convinced of the importance and market opportunities for building energy-saving;Monitoring, learning, adaptive feedback and evaluation;Project management.

 Further details are provided in the detailed Terminal Evaluation Terms of Reference. Please refer to the UNDP Mauritius Country Office website to download the relevant documents.

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Re-advertisement - Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst

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Duty Station: Gaborone, BOTSWANA
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Research Consultant, Professionalization of Evaluation - United Nations Evaluation Group - Home-based

Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of the assignment is to update the existing UNEG Competency Framework and to provide direction to the UNEG Executive Group on possible options to pursue for the professionalization of evaluation.

Working Group

The working group is composed of volunteer member participants of various UN agencies. The Convener (ICAO) and Co-Convener (UNFPA) facilitate the working group meetings and co-ordinate the activities. The Consultant will work closely with the Convener and occasionally with the Deputy-Convener and the Vice-Chair of the UNEG Strategic Objective 1. The Consultant will also be expected to participate at some of the virtual meetings of the working group.

Scope of the Assignment

Reviewing what has been done or what is developing in advancing the professionalization of evaluation:

Synthesize information on recent or ongoing developments in the professionalization of evaluation (competency frameworks, credentialing systems etc.) that includes the Canadian Evaluation Society, the Japanese Evaluation Society, the European Evaluation and the UK Evaluation Society, DFID, the World Bank/IFC etc.;Interview focal points on developments and summarize the developments.

Benchmarking recruitment practices and job descriptions in the UN:

Conduct a benchmarking analysis of evaluator recruitment practices, including through summary analysis of the JIU study on the evaluation function;Conduct a benchmarking analysis of job descriptions for evaluators in the UN system.

Revising the UN Evaluation Competency Framework:

Update and revise the UNEG Evaluation Competency Framework in consideration of points 1 and 2 above.

Eliciting feedback from UNEG members via online questionnaire:

Elicit feedback from UNEG members regarding options to go forward in advancing the professionalization of evaluation;The feedback will be input to formulate a set of recommendations on the policy options to advance the professionalization of evaluation.

Deliverables, Timing and Payment Schedule

The workload is estimated to be 30 working days. The consultant will submit to the Vice-Chair and Convener the following deliverables by no later than 19 December, 2014. Deliverable (i) should be delivered by 1 December, 2014:

Deliverable (i): Draft report (analytic review of issues identified, including a synthesis of the feedback elicited from UNEG and other stakeholders);Deliverable (ii): Final report;Deliverable (iii): Revised UNEG Evaluation Competency Framework;Deliverable (iv): Recommended professionalization options.

Reporting

The Consultant will report directly to the Convener and in absence of the Convener, to the Co-Convener and/or the Vice-Chair. More broadly, the Consultant’s immediate client will be the UNEG working group. Once recruited, the Consultant should develop and deliver a clear time plan specifying the internal sub activities that will contribute to the expected deliverables. The Consultant is expected to engage with the working group through scheduled virtual meetings.

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Re-Advertisement: Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Project Assistant - Amman

*Previous applicants need not re-apply

In September 2013 with UN support, the Government established the Host Community Support Platform (HCSP). This national co-ordination mechanism is chaired by the Minister for Planning and International Co-operation (MOPIC) and involves the Heads of Mission, Heads of UN agencies and representatives from leading NGOs. It provides high level strategic guidance, direction and coordination on host community initiatives.
The HCSP has commissioned a comprehensive Needs Assessment Review, which was completed in November 2013, and the formulation of a National Resilience Plan, which was presented by the Minister to the High Level Pledging Conference in Kuwait on 15th January 2014. The NRP is now ready to be signed by the Government and start its implementation phase.

The HCSP is composed by Sectoral Task Forces, whose work is facilitated by a Secretariat led by a Senior Coordinator, who provides strategic advice to the Platform Chair and members as well as support for the management of the Task Forces and quality assurance to the elaboration, implementation and co-ordination of the NRP.

By the end of 2014, the Platform is expected to become the main tool for the Government of Jordan and the international community to support the country in its humanitarian and development response to the Syrian Crisis. In particular, the Platform will be expected to support national leadership in the planning, coordination and implementation of the whole humanitarian and development assistance. In order for this to happen, there is the need to further strengthen the Platform Secretariat by recruiting a M&E Specialist, who will be part of the Platform Secretariat and report to the Senior Coordinator of the Platform.

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Monitoring and Evaluation SME

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Research Assistant/Consultant - Utility of Evaluations for United Nations Evaluation Group

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Duty Station: Home-based
Level: International Consul Contract type: - (More info about Levels and Contracts)

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International Consultant - Team Leader for Mid-term Evaluation (CPD Outcome 2)

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Duty Station: Home-based with a travel to Dhaka, BANGLADESH
Level: International Consul Contract type: - (More info about Levels and Contracts)

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National Consultant ? Evaluation Expert for Mid-term Evaluation (CPD Outcome 1) - Dhaka

Objectives: 

Purpose: The purpose of this mid-term outcome evaluation is to take stock of achievements to date, document lessons learned and propose ways to correct the course of intervention for the next two years of the country programme cycle.

Timing: The mid-term evaluation is conducted in the second half of 2014 because it is the penultimate year to the MDG deadline, and the midway point of the 2012–2016 CPD/UNDAF. The timing is in line with the CPD/UNDAF Evaluation Plan 2012-2016, which foresees that UNDP Bangladesh undertakes a mid-term outcome evaluation on the CPD Outcome 1.1 and 1.2 in 2014. The timing of the evaluation also ensures that evaluation results will be key input into the UNDAF mid-term review scheduled for early 2015.

Utilization: The evaluation results are to be utilized by not only UNDP Bangladesh but also by the government partners as well as other key development partners/donors. They will also become critical inputs to the UNDAF mid-term review scheduled in early 2015, where UNDP acts as lead agency in four UNDAF pillars and these outcomes contribute directly to UNDAF Pillar 1.  The mid-term outcome evaluation also aims to identify which UNDP approaches have worked well and which have faced challenges, use lessons learned to improve future initiatives and generate knowledge for wider use at all levels (corporate, regional and country) and serve as a means of quality assurance and hold UNDP accountable for the resources invested in its work as well as for its national partners and stakeholders. Notably, the evaluation will become critical inputs for the alignment of UNDP’s new Strategic Plan (SP) 2014-2017. Following the evaluation conclusions and recommendations pertinent to UNDP, UNDP Bangladesh will prepare a management response and implement follow-up actions through the UNDP Evaluation Resource Centre (ERC).

Scope of work:

Evaluation Objectives and Scope

Objectives: The mid-term outcome evaluation will primarily assist UNDP Bangladesh in assessing its effectiveness in progressing towards the outcomes – the causal linkage if and/or by which outputs contribute to the achievement of the outcomes and the extent to which the planned outcomes have been achieved and likely to be achieved by the end of 2016. It will assess both negative and positive factors that facilitate and/or hinder the progress in achieving the outcomes including the external environment, weaknesses in design, management and resources. In addition, the evaluation will assess the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness and potential sustainability of its interventions.

Scope: The mid-term outcome evaluation covers a time span from January 2012 - the beginning of the CPD cycle - up to the outset of the evaluation. It will focus on the geographic area covered by the projects in the outcome areas. While there have been 20 programmes/projects implemented under the outcome 1.1 and 1.2 during the CPD cycle, this evaluation focuses on key programmes and projects which contributed directly to achieving the outcomes. This includes projects and programmes that started prior to 2012 but continued into 2012 and beyond. The primary stakeholders for both outcomes include government institutes directly involved with project implementation: Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Election Commission, Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives, Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs. Other constituencies include the National Human Rights Commission, civil society organizations, academia and direct beneficiaries such as ethnic minorities.

Evaluation Questions

The following evaluation questions help define the information that the evaluation will generate. The evaluation questions are formulated and clustered to address the primary evaluation criteria and the effectiveness criteria will be weighted most from other criteria in this evaluation to demonstrate how UNDP initiatives have or have not contributed to the achievement of the outcome. The evaluation questions may be adjusted upon consultations and discussions with the programme during the inception phase.

Outcome 1.1.: Government institutions at the national and subnational levels are able to more effectively carry out their mandates, including delivery of public services, in a more accountable, transparent, and inclusive manner

Relevance of UNDP's involvement and approach:

To what extent are UNDP's key governance programmes and projects relevant to make government institutions more accountable, transparent, and inclusive?

Effectiveness in contributing to the achievement of the outcome):

To what extent are targeted government institutions in Bangladesh more effective in carrying out their mandate compared to before 2012?To what extent are targeted government institutions in Bangladesh more accountable, transparent, and inclusive compared to before 2012?To what extent are these changes due to UNDP's interventions?

Efficiency in delivering outputs:

To what extent were outputs of UNDP’s key governance programme or project delivered in time and in good quality?To what extent did UNDP ensure value for money?Has there been any duplication of efforts among UNDP’s own interventions and interventions delivered by other organizations or entities in contributing to the outcome?

Sustainability of the outcome:

What indications are there that the outcome will be sustained?

Outcome 1.2.: Justice and human rights institutions are strengthened to better serve and protect the rights of all citizens, including women and vulnerable groups (Outcome 1.2.)

Relevance of UNDP's involvement and approach:

To what extent are UNDP's key justice and human rights programmes and projects relevant to better serve and protect the rights of all citizens in Bangladesh?

Effectiveness in contributing to the achievement of the outcome):

Compared to 2011, do justice and human rights institutions now better serve and protect the rights of all citizens?To what extent are these changes due to UNDP's interventions?

Efficiency in delivering outputs:

To what extent were programme or project outputs delivered in time and in good quality?To what extent did UNDP ensure value for money?Has there been any duplication of efforts among UNDP’s own interventions and interventions delivered by other organizations or entities in contributing to the outcome?

Sustainability of the outcome:

What indications are there that the outcome will be sustained after external funding ends?

In addition, the evaluation should also consider if and how UNDP promoted gender equality, human rights and human development in the delivery of outputs.

Methodology

The suggested approach and method for conducting this evaluation is to use a multi-level, mixed-method approach. This includes collecting both quantitative and qualitative data sets on multiple levels that will need to be validated and triangulated. The overall guidance on evaluation methodologies is found in the UNDP Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results. It is for the evaluation team to examine and determine the specific design and methods for this mid-term outcome evaluation during the initial inception period in close consultation with the programme Cluster. During the inception phase, the evaluation team will elaborate a detailed methodology how to answer each evaluation question.

The following data collection methods and analysis should be applied, but not limited to:

Desk reviews of relevant documents (CPD, UNDAF, relevant project documents, reports of relevant flagship projects, project surveys, studies relating to the country context and situation, evaluation reports, etc.);Key informant interviews and/or focus group discussions with beneficiaries or representatives of beneficiaries, government partners both at the central and local levels; development partners/donors including bilateral and multilateral partners; other UN agencies, NGOs, and CSOs working to contribute to the same outcome; UNDP Country Office’s senior management, programme, and project staff, etc. The selection of interview partners should follow a deliberate purposive sampling strategy;Direct observations during visits to national implementingpartners and field visits;Gap analysis and review of national statistics as well as administrative and survey data collected by the programmes/projects and other stakeholders, including the CPD outcome indicators and the new corporate Strategic Plan[1] (SP) 2014-2017 indicators; data and information from the 4W Database, the DMIC Portal, Cyclone shelter DB, Union Fact sheets, Inundation Maps, CDMP Risk Management Information; review of the Profitability & Replication Study on HHK Demo Plants, UNDP 2013. The evaluation team is expected to review existing data sets from programmes/projects and the national statistics relevant to this outcome evaluation, and identify what/where the gaps exist for the CO in aggregating the data and monitoring the CPD and Strategic Plan indicators for the rest of the monitoring cycles (till 2016 for the CPD and 2017 for the Strategic Plan);Quantitative analysis of budgets and expenditure reports in ATLAS and project reports;Administration of surveys or questionnaires, as applicable.

The data collection methods should be participatory and inclusive of disadvantaged and marginalized populations. Major methodological limitations or limitations based on data collections should be noted in the final evaluation report.

Evaluation Team Composition and Required Competencies

The evaluation team will comprise 4 members: one team leader, two evaluation experts and one data analyst. The presence of an international consultant is deemed desirable given the complexity and sensitivity of some of the issues concerned, and therefore to safeguard independence and impartiality of the evaluation.

Expected outputs/deliverables:

The consultant, working closely with other evaluation team members, is responsible for submitting the following deliverables to UNDP Bangladesh at the agreed work plan:

Inception Report: An inception report should be prepared by the evaluators before going into the full-fledged data collection exercise. It should detail the evaluators’ understanding of what is being evaluated and why, showing how each evaluation question will be answered by way of: proposed methods, proposed sources of data and data collection procedures. The inception report should elaborate and finalize the two evaluation matrices and a proposed schedule of tasks, activities and deliverables, designating a team member with the lead responsibility for each task or product. The inception report provides the programme Cluster and the evaluators with an opportunity to verify that they share the same understanding about the evaluation and clarify any misunderstanding at the outset. The inception report should follow the structure proposed in the UNDP Outcome-Level Evaluation: A Companion Guide, Annex 1, p.31;Draft Evaluation Report: The evaluation report should follow the structure outlined in the UNDP Outcome-Level Evaluation: A Companion Guide, p. 29-30. The programme Cluster and key stakeholders in the evaluation should review the draft evaluation report to ensure that the evaluation answers in depth all evaluation questions and backs up the arguments with credible and sufficient quantitative and qualitative evidence. The draft evaluation report should not exceed 40 pages without annexes;Presentation: Debriefing with stakeholders to present key findings and recommendations and collect feedbacks; Final Evaluation Report: The final report will reflect the comments and feedback from stakeholders, including feedback provided during the presentation;Evaluation Brief: A concise summary of the evaluation findings in plain language that can be widely circulated. This can be in a form of a PowerPoint presentation or a two-page briefing document;Data Review Report:  The report is a supplementary document to the final evaluation report describing, but not limited to, 1) an analysis and findings on data gaps and availability of independently verifiable sources in monitoring the CPD and Strategic Plan indicators among existing national statistics, administrative and project data sets relevant to this CPD outcome  evaluation and 2) recommendations on how to maximize the use of existing project data and how to fill in the gaps of information between now and 2016/2017 (the CPD and the Strategic Plan respectively). The report should not exceed 10 pages without annexes.

Supervision and performance evaluation:

Implementation Arrangement 

This evaluation is commissioned by UNDP Bangladesh. The Democratic Governance Cluster and the Local Governance Cluster in the Country Office will be responsible for coordinating and managing the evaluation throughout the entire process and provide the evaluation team any logistics and administrative support as needed. The Results and Resource Management Cluster (RRMC) will serve as quality assurance to provide overall technical guidance and ensure the corporate compliance of outcome evaluations. The consultant will be under direct supervision of the head of the Governance Cluster in close consultation with the RRMC. In order to guide the evaluation process and assure quality, an evaluation reference group is planned to be formed from approximately five members from the Cluster, the Country Office, key stakeholders, the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific or the Independent Evaluation Office, where the members are asked to provide inputs on the ToR, selection of consultants, inception report, draft report and the final report.

Evaluation Ethics 

Evaluations in UNDP will be conducted in accordance with the principles outlined in the UNEG ‘Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation’. Evaluators should ensure to be in compliance with evaluation ethics and procedures to safeguard the rights and confidentiality of information providers during the designing, implementing and managing evaluation activities.

Period of the Assignment / Service:

This evaluation assignment is contracted for a total period of 30 days and should be completed by December 7, 2014. The following activities should commence within four weeks of signing the contract:

Comprehensive literature review and analysis of background data including project documents, project/Country Office/UNDAF progress reports, annual reviews, evaluation reports and other key documents (Home based -02 days);Briefing and kick-off meeting with UNDP staff from respective Cluster(s) and RRMC (Dhaka-01 day);Prepare and submit the inception report including the adjusted work plan, an evaluation matrix and other items as in the Companion Guide(Dhaka -02 days);Conduct data collection and analysis, interviews, site visits, stakeholder meetings, workshops, etc. in the country (Dhaka and outside of Dhaka -15 days);Prepare and submit the draft evaluation report to UNDP (Dhaka-05 Days);Debrief with key stakeholders and present key findings and recommendations; collect feedback from the debriefing workshop (Dhaka-01 Day);Incorporate comments from key stakeholders, respective Cluster(s) and the government partners (Dhaka -03 Days);Finalize and submit the final evaluation report and evaluation brief to UNDP (Dhaka-01 Days).

Inputs:

UNDP Bangladesh will provide office space and transport to field sites and will also arrange meetings and consultations to ensure access to key stakeholders. The Democratic Governance Cluster will provide key documents and data relevant to the evaluation. No laptop will be provided.

Tentative Payment Schedule:

50% upon submission of the draft evaluation report;50% upon submission of the final evaluation report;

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