UNDP Jobs - 54517- Consultant Services for the Joint Mid-Term Evaluat

Consultant Services for the Joint Mid-Term Evaluation of the UNDAF Outcome 4.1

Location :

LILONGWE, MALAWI

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

07-Apr-2015

Application Deadline :

18-Mar-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

35 WORKING DAYS

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

35 WORKING DAYS

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

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 4.1, namely: National institutions foster democratic governance and human rights to promote transparency, accountability, participation and access to justice for all especially women and children by 2016 is one of the six outcomes of the UNDAF to which UNDP is directly contributing financially and technically. The areas of intervention under the outcome are contributing to MGDS II, Theme 5: Improved Governance - Sub-theme 3: Democratic Governance which focuses on justice and rule of law, human rights, elections and peace and security.

Outcome 4.1 has three outputs as follows:

Output 4.1.1: Democratic Governance sector strategy operationalized;
Output 4.1.2: Capacity of national institutions strengthened for collaborative dialogue to support the establishment and operationalization of the national peace architecture;
Output 4.1.3: Local governance structures strengthened in participatory planning, budgeting and managing integrated rural development.

The UN has planned a mid-term evaluation of its assistance to assess the contribution made by the UNCT, collectively, and participating UN agencies, individually, to promote good democratic governance as envisaged under outcome 4.1 of the UNDAF including cross-cutting issues of human rights and gender equality.

Duties and Responsibilities

Determine the extent to which the planned outcome and related outputs have been achieved or are being achieved and the likelihood of being achieved by the end of 2016 in general and the extent of participating UN agencies’ contributions;
Determine the impact, both positive and negative, from achievement of the outcome and its related outputs;
Document lessons learnt from the implementation of the interventions;
Make recommendations for the UNCT and specifically for each participating UN agency in strategic areas for improving the achievement and sustainability of the outcome;
Partnership arrangements, mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues and resource mobilization strategies.

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

Institutional Strengthening;
Democratic governance;
Strategic thinking;
Strong analytical, reporting and communication skills;
Team work skills and knowledge in leading teams;
Result oriented.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Minimum of Master’s degree in in economics, political science, public administration, regional development/planning, or other social science;

Experience:

Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in the area public sector management or democratic governance or human rights promotion including gender;
Proven experience in leading consultancy teams:
Track record of conducting evaluation of governments and international aid agencies in any of the following areas: 1) public sector management; 2) democratic governance; 3) national elections management; 4) social cohesion; and 5) human rights promotion and protection;
Experience in conducting evaluations of UN agency project, outcome and Country Programme or UNDAF evaluations will be an added advantage;
Excellent communication skills for report writing and presentation of research and evaluation projects backed by extensive technical reports and publications.

Language:

Fluent in English.

The Evaluation Team Leader must satisfy the above qualifications.

For more details please see TORs and Procurement Notice on the link below:

http://www.mw.undp.org/content/malawi/en/home/operations/procurement/ or send an email to

procurement.mw@undp.org and clearly quote the title of the assignment.