Background

• OUTCOME 1: UN Resident/Humanitarian Coordinators (RCs) and heads of UN agencies understand their strategic role for disaster risk reduction with a gender perspective and have access to the necessary tools and support to help them execute their role;
• OUTCOME 2: Selected UN Country Teams (UNCTs) in high risk countries can effectively undertake their disaster roles, consistent with humanitarian coordination and disaster risk reduction and gender equality principles;
• OUTCOME 3: Selected countries have enhanced their capacity to make disaster risk reduction a national priority with a strong institutional basis for implementation, HFA priorities 1 and 5 in a gender sensitive manner;
• OUTCOME 4: Increased access to and availability of tools, knowledge products and materials on gender sensitive disaster risk reduction (DRR) for capacity enhancement of Resident Coordinators, UN system organizations, UN Humanitarian teams, governments and the broader ISDR system.

1. Advisory services: CADRI works with governments, national institutions and UN entities to develop new programmes and to ensure that existing programmes have incorporated capacity development for DRR. CADRI offers advice and guidance on technical aspects (the practical ‘how to’) of capacity development for DRR, throughout the programme cycle (initial analysis, formulation of response, implementation and evaluation);
2. Tools and materials: CADRI assists in mapping tools and materials available, facilitating access to them and developing new tools and materials when and where there is a need. CADRI offers 3 types of tools and resources relating to capacity development for DRR:
Learning packages: CADRI workshops and training programmes include: overviews of capacity development and DRR; mainstreaming DRR into development planning; operationalizing the HFA at the national level; climate risk management, etc. Capacity development methodologies: CADRI provides diverse capacity assessment and planning tools;  Information resources: CADRI’s material encompasses all aspects of capacity development. Where certain tools, resources or knowledge products relating to DRR are not available, CADRI develops new materials or can adapt those that exist to the specific needs of a country or region.
3. Facilitation services: CADRI seeks to enhance the capacity of national platforms and disaster management agencies for DRR, and to strengthen the coordination activities of UN Country Teams (UNCTs);
4. Information and networking: CADRI promotes the growth of a global community for capacity development for DRR and greater networking among current DRR practitioners. CADRI encourages individual countries, organizations and practitioners within the DRR community to generate and share experience, know-how and good practice.

1. Provide an assessment of CADRI’s contribution to development results (against the expected outcomes). This will be measured against the outcome indicators and output targets of the results framework developed for CADRI;
2. Evaluate CADRI’s role, relevance and niche in supporting the UN system to position itself to add value in response to capacity development needs in the national development context, particularly with regard to the implementation of the Hyogo Framework of Action. The evaluation should highlight emerging needs of countries, UNDP and UNISDR system partners for support in capacity development, the extent to which these needs are being met by CADRI’s available support mechanisms and the areas in which a future phase would contribute the greatest value-added;
3. Provide an analysis of CADRI’s contribution towards greater interagency synergies in capacity development for disaster risk reduction and its potential to leverage partnerships at national, regional and global levels in the execution of its mandate, including other UNDP supported capacity development initiatives;
4. Present key findings and provide a set of clear and forward-looking recommendations to inform management decisions regarding CADRI’s new implementation phase starting in 2012. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Effectiveness will be assessed by an appreciation of the extent to which specific objectives have been achieved, taking into account factors that could have affected implementation;
• Efficiency will be determined by examining the qualitative and quantitative results achieved as a result of inputs;
• Sustainability will be evaluated based on a considered assessment of whether CADRI has successfully supported the development of permanent structures, procedures and professional capacity that national institutions will need in order to continue performing expected services;
• Relevance and responsiveness will be assessed based on whether CADRI’s interventions responded to the needs and priorities identified by clients and partners and on how CADRI anticipated and responded to significant changes in the national, regional and global development context.

• Evaluators should be sensitive to beliefs, manners and customs and act with integrity and honesty in their relationships with all stakeholders;
• Evaluators should ensure that their contacts with individuals are characterized by respect;
• Evaluators should protect the anonymity and confidentiality of individual information;
• Evaluators are responsible for their performance and their product(s).

• Evaluation inception report. An inception report should be prepared by the evaluation consultant before going into the full-fledged evaluation exercise. It should detail the evaluator’s understanding of what is being evaluated and why, incluiding evaluation matrix with suggested evaluation questions for each evaluation criteria and 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 include a proposed schedule of tasks, activities and deliverables, designating a team member with the lead responsibility for each task or product;
• Draft evaluation report. The draft evaluation report should be reviewed by the CADRI Principals (UNDP, UNISDR, UNOCHA) and CADRI Senior Coordinator to ensure that the evaluation meets the required quality criteria;
• Final evaluation report. The evaluation report will include an executive summary that highlights findings, conclusions, recommendations and lessons learned, as well as a methodology brief to facilitate the learning of lessons from the evaluation process.
• Power Point presentations for senior management and other stakeholders to be used during stakeholder feedback sessions as necessary.
 

Competencies

• Leadership and strategic management skills with an excellent understanding of international development issues and knowledge of the UN system;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, in a multi-cultural setting; excellent interpersonal skills, objectivity and ability to analyze large multi-country data sets in short period;
• Experience working collaboratively in small teams with tight deadlines.

Required Skills and Experience

• Masters or PhD in a relevant field, and at least 15 years of international development experience or well established organization with at least 10 years of experience in project/programme evaluation;
• Sound knowledge and experience of working with capacity development, disaster risk reduction, disaster risk management and preparedness for response at national, regional, and global levels;
• Background in strategic planning and previous experience in drafting UN development documents;
• Sound methodological background, skills and knowledge of evaluation methods and techniques;
• Proven familiarity with the UN system and the international development landscape, as well as the UN architecture for disaster risk reduction;
• Familiarity with at least one of the three CADRI agencies (UNDP, UNISDR and UNOCHA); experience in working with UNDP Country Offices and/ or regional centres of UNDP, UNISDR or UNOCHA an asset.