Background
The Malawi United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2012-2014 has 14 priority development outcomes. As a Delivery As One volunteering country, the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) agreed that individual UN agencies would adopt appropriate UNDAF outcomes in their CP documents instead of developing agency specific outcome statements for their respective Country Programme Documents (CPDs).
Outcome 4.3, namely: National institutions advance gender equality and status of women by 2016.
Outcome 4.2 has four outputs as follows:
Output 4.3.1: Gender mainstreamed in 7 SWAps
Output 4.3.2: Ministry of Gender and selected sectors have the capacity to plan, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the National Gender Programme
Output 4.3.3: Women have the capacity and benefit from an enabling environment to claim and exercise their right to participate in decision making in public and private sectors
Output 4.3.4 Gender related laws revised and a functional implementation framework in place to address GBV
Outcome 4.3 is one of the 14 UNDAF Outcomes of the 2012-2016 UNDAF.
Four UN agencies namely: UN Women, UNICEF, UNFPA and UNDP are contributing financially and technically. The agencies has agreed to conduct a joint evaluation of the outcome.
Duties and Responsibilities
The consultant will be required to deliver the following:
- Inception report;
- Key emerging issues paper;
- Draft evaluation report;
- Final Evaluation Report.
Competencies
Corporate Competencies:
- Promotes the vision, mission and strategic goals of UNDP;
- Demonstrate integrity by modelling the UN's values and ethical standards;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race and age sensitivity and adaptability.
Functional Competencies:
- Proven track record of conducting outcome or country programme evaluations or complex programme evaluation.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- At least a Master’s degree with a bias towards gender, research and statistics.
Experience:
- At least 5 years’ experience working on gender equality and women empowerment issues.
Language:
- Fluent in English.
Note
Detailed Terms of Reference can be accessed from http://www.mw.undp.org/content/malawi/en/home/operations/procurement/
Documents to be included when submitting the proposals
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications by 10th December 2014, before 5 pm to the following email address: procurement.mw@undp.org.
Technical Proposal:
- Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work;
- Provide a brief methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work;
- Personal CV (P11 Form) including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references;
- Proposals must include all four documents. Proposals not meeting this requirement will be rejected.
Financial Proposal
- Contracts based on daily fee;
- The financial proposal will specify the daily fee, travel expenses and per diems quoted in separate line items, and payments are made to the Individual Contractor based on the number of days worked.
Travel:
- All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station in Lilongwe /repatriation travel.
Evaluation
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodologies:
Cumulative analysis
When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
Responsive/compliant/acceptable, and
Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.
Technical Criteria weight; 70
Financial Criteria weight; 30
Criteria A: Educational background - maximum points 10
Criteria B: At least 5 years’ experience working on gender equality and women empowerment issues – maximum points 20
Criteria C: Proven track record of conducting outcome or country programme evaluations or complex programme evaluation – maximum points 40
Financial maximum points 30
Combined score maximum points 100
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70 points in the Technical Evaluation would be considered for the Financial Evaluation
The financial score for the financial proposal will be calculated in the following manner:
Sf = 100 x Fm/F, in which Sf is the financial score, Fm is the lowest price and F the price of the proposal under consideration.
Total Financial Maximum points - 100 points
Total Score
The technical score attained at by each proposal will be used in determining the Total score as follows:
The weights given to the technical and financial proposals are: T= 0.7, F=0.3
The Total score will be calculated by formula: TS = St x 0.7 + Sf x 0.3
TS - Is the total score of the proposal under consideration?
St - is technical score of the proposal under consideration.
Sf - is financial score of the proposal under consideration.