Back UN Women Mornitoring and Evaluation National Consultant, Yangon Myanmar

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.

As part of the overall goal of contributing to a peaceful and gender equal society, UN Women Myanmar supports Women Led Organisations (WLO), Women’s Rights Organisations, NGOs and INGOs focused on the humanitarian and emergency response as well as the protection of the women and girls in conflict and humanitarian contexts.

Against this background, UN women plans to undertake monitoring and evaluation of a project.  This assignment is a home-based consultancy with possible field missions to project areas. There are two areas of work:

The consultant will work with UN Women Myanmar under the guidance of the Programme Specialist with the UN Women Myanmar team. The consultant will be reporting to the Programme Specialist and will be supported by the Project team, who will be the focal point of contact on the contract and payment issues.

Duties and responsibilities

The consultant will be expected to deliver on three deliverables in accordance with UN Women guidelines as follows:

Deliverable 1: Develop detailed inception report outlining the data collection methodology, data collection plan and timeline for evaluation of the old grantees and mid-term monitoring of the current grantees with the following tasks mentioned  below;

•     Conduct a desk review of existing documents and reports provided by grantees and the project team.
•     Design and develop data collection methods, identify the methodology and analysis tools in consultation with UN Women, ensuring a consultative and participatory approach.
•     Develop (a) the evaluation plan for completed projects of former partners, and (b) the monitoring plan for the ongoing partners. 
•     Share the draft inception report with UN Women for review and inputs, then revise and finalize the report.

Deliverable 2: Develop a draft comprehensive report with the following tasks mentioned below;  
•     Develop the KII/FGD questionnaire and identify participants in close collaboration with the project team and grantees, if needed.
•     Conduct data collection with identified lists of participants and activity which identified in the deliverable 1 Data Analysis and findings.
•     Conduct evaluations of former partners to measure project impact and monitor current partners to assess progress, using both in-person and remote methods.
•     Analyze data quantitatively and qualitatively to assess project results, impact, and key findings of each partner.
•     Draft a comprehensive report on project results, impact stories, and recommendations for future projects.

Deliverable 3: Finalize the report with key findings of the project and recommendations, and do a presentation to UN Women team with the following tasks mentioned below;
•     Conduct debriefing sessions to present draft report on results and key lessons learned.
•     Submit final M&E report, incorporating UN Women's recommendations.
•     Present key findings to UN Women and relevant stakeholders.

Based on the specific tasks, the consultant is expected to produce the following deliverables: 

Deliverable 1: Develop detailed inception report. 

Deliverable 2: Develop a draft comprehensive report. 

Deliverable 3: Finalize the report. 

Remark: Prior to final payment, the M&E consultant shall submit all data collected during the consultancy including raw data. These shall remain as UN Women property and the consultant is not allowed to share or use any information gathered during the consultancy without the permission of UN Women this includes raw data. 

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a Yangon based consultancy with potential travel to the project areas for monitoring and evaluation (M&E). The M&E will be conducted through both in-person and remote monitoring. The consultant will be paid against satisfactory completion of each deliverable after it has been reviewed and certified by the UN Women’s Programme specialist and in accordance with UN Women policies and regulations. The actual travel related costs will be covered by UN Women. 

Competencies :

Core Values:

Core Competencies:

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework: 

Functional Competencies:

Strong knowledge of humanitarian and emergency work in Myanmar

Required Qualifications

Education 

Experience

Excellent English communication and writing skills; (Samples of previous work will be required.)

How to Apply 

Statements :

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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