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 Georgia Country Office (CO) Provides technical support to the state and non-state partners towards the achievement of substantive gender equality in Georgia. In line with national and international commitments, UN Women works on the levels of policies and legislation, institutions and grassroots, to achieve transformative results for increased gender equality and greater protection of the rights of women and girls. UN Women puts special emphasis on the work towards gender mainstreaming in good governance reforms and enhancing women’s political participation, ending violence against women, promoting and supporting women’s economic empowerment, and Women, Peace and Security agenda.
In December 2023, UN Women and UNFPA, with the generous support of the European Union (EU), launched the “Gender Equality for Georgia” (GE4G) project.
This action has been developed on the basis of over a decade of complex interventions carried out by UN Women and UNFPA in the area of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) and ending violence against women and girls (EVAWG), including domestic violence (DV), addressing harmful practices, ensuring women’s reproductive health and rights and bodily autonomy, strengthening women’s decision-making power over their health and lives and their agency and participation at national and local levels.
The overall objective of the project is to advance Georgia’s efforts in addressing gender equality gaps. The work of UN Women and UNFPA contributes to two main outcomes:
Outcome 1: Legislation, policies, and capacities are in place for gender-responsive policymaking and budgeting to ensure greater gender equality and prevention of GBV
Outcome 2: Gender stereotypes, social norms, and attitudes transformed in support of women’s empowerment, greater participation in political and economic life, and combatting of GBV.
The action is fully aligned with the priorities set forth in the action document “Support to the Implementation of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement and Migration Management”, particularly objective 1 (to further strengthen capacity for legislative approximation and implementation of the Association Agreement - SO1; output 1.7). More broadly, it resonates with the priorities outlined in the EU's new Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in External Action 2021–2025 (GAP III), its indicators, and Country Level Implementation Plan (CLIP) which prioritise reducing gender gaps by gradually eliminating domestic violence and gender-based violence and by ensuring better rights protection and empowerment of women in social, economic, and political spheres of life. It further points out the need for transforming adverse social norms and discriminatory stereotypes that facilitate such violence as the cause and consequence of gender inequality.
Most importantly, the action is fully aligned with Georgia’s national and international commitments in the field of GEWE, EVAWG/DV, including those to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1981), Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention, 2014), the UN Declaration to End Violence against Women (1993) and CEDAW General Recommendation 19 (1992) and General Recommendation 35 (2017). The action corresponds to Georgia’s commitments in the frameworks of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) and its review processes; the Agreed Conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women, especially its 57th session (2013); and the recommendations received by Georgia State Party through the Universal Periodic Review procedure (2021),[1] from the CEDAW Committee (2023)[2] and GREVIO (2022),[3]the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the Nairobi Statement on ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise and Georgia’s commitments made at the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 (2019).[4] The action will further contribute to the achievement of the nationalized Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG5.[5]
The goals and objectives of this action are in line with the Law of Georgia on Gender Equality (2010); Law of Georgia on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (2014); Law of Georgia on the Elimination of Domestic Violence, Protection and Support of the Victims of Domestic Violence (2006); National Strategy on Human Rights (2022-2030); National Action Plan on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence and Measures to be Implemented for the Protection of Victims (Survivors) (2022-2024); and the State Concept of Gender Equality of Georgia (2022).[6]
The final beneficiaries of the project are women and girls, particularly living in rural areas, ethnic and religious minorities and victims/survivors of violence or those at high risk of violence, as well as men and boys with a particular focus on the inhabitants of Tbilisi, and the Samtskhe-Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli regions.
2. Purpose and Use of the Evaluation Exercise
UN Women and UNFPA are commissioning the final evaluation of the project to:
The main users of the findings and recommendations of the exercise include UN Women and UNFPA offices in Georgia as well as EU (project donor) and project stakeholders. Furthermore, national stakeholders will be also closely involved in the process to increase ownership of findings, draw lessons learned and make greater use of the findings.
The findings of the exercise are further expected to contribute to effective joint programming on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) in Georgia
3. Objectives, Criteria and Key Questions of the Evaluation
The overall objective of the exercise is to assess the progress made towards the achievement of the set targets under the outputs and objectives of the programme, analyze the results achieved and challenges encountered.
The specific objectives of the exercise are:
It is expected that these questions will guide the development of the methodology of the Final Evaluation exercise for GE4G
Relevance:
Effectiveness
Efficiency:
• Have resources (financial, human, technical support, etc.) been allocated and split amongst the different implementing entities strategically to progress towards the achievement of the project outputs and outcomes?
• How has the joint nature of the project affected efficiency of delivery, including reduced duplication and increased cost-sharing, reduced/transferred burdens and transaction costs? What factors have influenced this?
• Has there been effective leadership and management of the project including the structuring of management and administration roles to maximize results?
• To what extent are the programme’s individual entity and joint monitoring mechanisms in place effective for measuring and informing management of project performance and progress towards targets? To what extent was the monitoring data objectively used for management action and decision making?
Sustainability:
While all the above criteria are relevant, it is of utmost importance that the Final Evaluation exercise looks particularly at the sustainability aspects of the project results
Human Right and Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women:
The questions outlined above are preliminary and are expected to be revised and refined by the evaluation team during the inception phase of the evaluation.
The exercise will examine all the relevant documents of the GE4G, including logical framework of the project, its Monitoring and Evaluation Plan, annual work plans, annual reports to the donor, knowledge products produced in the frameworks of the project, etc. Data will be collected inter alia through interviews with key stakeholders as defined by the agreed evaluation workplan.
4. Design Process and Methods
The Final Evaluation of the project will be desk based and will also include interviews with key stakeholders in the implementation of the programme. A participatory workshop with implementing UN Entities will be considered. The methodology will be finalized as a part of the second deliverable – inception report in consultation with the management group:
The International Consultant/Evaluator will work in a team with National Consultant/Evaluator and will be responsible for inception, data collection and data analysis and synthesis phase.
The consultant must safeguard the rights and confidentiality of information providers, interviewees and stakeholders through measures to ensure compliance with legal and other relevant codes governing collection of data and reporting on data. The consultant must also ensure security of information collected before and after the exercise and protocols to ensure anonymity and confidentiality of sources of information where that is expected. The information knowledge and data gathered in the evaluation process must also be solely used for the evaluation and not for other uses with the express authorization of UN Women and UNFPA.
5. Stakeholders Participation and Management of the Evaluation
The Final Evaluation will be a consultative, inclusive and participatory process and will ensure the participation of project beneficiaries.
UN Women will appoint an officer who will serve as the Task Manager for the exercise. The Task Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the evaluation and ensure that the exercise is conducted in accordance with UNFPA’s Evaluation Policies, United Nations Evaluation Group Ethical Guidelines and Code of Conduct for Evaluation in the United Nations system and other key relevant guidance documents. The process will be supported by the UN Women Europe and Central Asia Regional Evaluation Specialist.
Moreover, a Management Group (MG) comprising relevant senior managers of the participating UN agencies and/or their delegated programme staff will be established to oversee the evaluation, make key decisions and quality assure the different deliverables. The MG will quality assure and approve all deliverables. Furthermore, it will make certain that factual errors or errors of omission or interpretation are identified in the deliverables produced. The MG will provide input and relevant information at key stages of the exercise: the terms of reference, inception report, draft and final reports and dissemination of the findings.
In light of the foregoing UN Women in close cooperation with UNFPA would like to hire an International Consultant/Evaluator who in a team with a National Consultant/Evaluator will be responsible for conducting the final Evaluation of the GE4G Project.
The contractor will report to and work under direct supervision of UN Women and UNFPA and in close collaboration with the Task Manager.
6. Evaluation Ethics
These evaluations will be conducted in accordance with the principles outlined in the UNEG ‘Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation’. The consultant must safeguard the rights and confidentiality of information providers, interviewees, and stakeholders through measures to ensure compliance with legal and other relevant codes governing collection of data and reporting on data. The consultant must also ensure security of collected information before and after the evaluations and protocols to ensure anonymity and confidentiality of sources of information where that is expected. The information knowledge and data gathered in the evaluation process must also be solely used for the evaluation and not for other uses with the express authorization of UN Women and UNFPA.
Description of Responsibilities /Scope of Work
The International Consultant will be responsible to:
Deliverables Deliverable Expected completion time (due day) Payment Schedule (optional) Desk review completed by 30 June, 2026 (5 working days)
15 September, 2026 (50%) Inception Report developed By 20 July, 2025 (5 working days) Interviews with key stakeholders conducted By 15 September, 2026 (8 working days) Power Point Presentation of preliminary findings developed, presented, and finalized By 30 September, 2026 (2 working days) 15 November 2026 (50%) Draft Evaluation Report submitted By 15 October, 2026 (10 working days) Final Evaluation Report and Evaluation brief developed and submitted By 10 November, 2026 (5 working days)
Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
Travel will be required. Travel costs will be covered separately as per the UN Women’s travel policy.
[1] https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G21/079/32/PDF/G2107932.pdf?OpenElement