UNDP Jobs

• Evaluating the results of the project implementation, measured against planned outputs set forth in the Project Document in accordance with budget allocation; and
• An assessment of the overall impact of the project to the country;
• Lessons learned and best practices which could be applied to future initiatives to be designed and implemented by the Country Programme Action Plan 2013-2015.

Scope:

The evaluation and review include four standard categories of analysis (i.e. assess contribution of outputs towards the outcomes, assess the factors affecting the outputs, assess key UNDP contributions to outputs, and assess the partnership strategy).  The scope of the evaluation and review is determined by the following questions:-

• Have the right things been done? (Were the activities relevant, appropriate and strategic to national goals and the UNDP mandate?)
• Have things been done right? (Were the outputs effective and efficient?)
• Are the results sustainable? (Will the outputs lead to benefits beyond the nature of the short term intervention?)
• What impact did and will the results have on current/future policy framework in the country?
• How might we do things better in the future? (Which findings may have relevance for future programming or for other similar initiatives elsewhere?)
• The scope of the evaluation will be within the period of the last 2 Country Programme periods (2003-2007 and 2008-2011). 

• Project design, i.e. whether the project design allowed for flexibility in responding to internal and external changes in the project environment;
• Implementation difficulties, i.e. whether difficulties and barriers, which were not expected at the start of the project, are identified and the approaches for the solutions are considered and implemented effectively;
• Project resources, i.e. whether the project components and activities were logically designed as to content and time frame commensurate with the human and financial resources that were made available.

• Whether the project is implemented in the right direction to achieve the outcomes;
• The significance of the outcomes so far;
• Whether the project activities are produced effectively, efficiently and in a timely manner according to the time schedule;
• The quality and credibility of the outputs, as stipulated in the Project Document;
• The project’s contributions to the targeted beneficiaries and their effectiveness.

• Capacity Development - The effects of the project activities on strengthening the capacities of related stakeholders;
• Sustainability - Efforts undertaken to ensure that the results of successful projects are sustained beyond the period of project financing will be evaluated;
  
• Lessons Learned and Best Practices - Lessons learned from the implementation of the project thus far will be identified and evaluated;
• Operational recommendations - Recommendations will be developed to help the executing agency and project partners improve its operational and support activities in implementing such projects. The recommendations would aim to: help the executing agency and partners improve the project implementation and to address operational lapses and gaps;
  and improve ways to draw, share and document lessons learned and best practices experience to the various stakeholders.

1. Title Page
2. List of acronyms and abbreviations
3. Table of contents, including list of annexes
4. Executive Summary (max 3 pages)
5. Introduction, Scope, and Purpose of the evaluation
6. Methodology including description of the work conducted and Key questions
7. Findings and Observation (at component level, at project level)
8. Recommendations/Lessons Learnt for future initiatives
9. Budget Utilization
10. Conclusion (max 3 pages)
11. Annexes

• Project Document
• Reports and documents produced under the activities

• Relevant officers from the executing agency
• Other project partners
• Project beneficiaries

The evaluator will conduct an opening meeting with the executing agency staff to be followed by an “exit” interview with UNDP CO to discuss the findings of the assessment prior to the submission of the final report.  

• Prior evaluation experience of similar UNDP projects and familiar with UNDP monitoring and evaluation requirements;
• Familiar with project management framework including output/outcome and impact anaysis;
• Have sound knowledge in policy and project financing;
• Have tertiary education in economics/development economics, public policy, political science, or other social sciences. Post-graduate or with relevant professional qualification is preferred;
• More than 10 years of working experience in the areas addressed with a good knowledge of the state-of-the-art approaches and international best practices;
• Fluency in spoken and written English.