Background

The Malawi Human Support Project is being implemented within the context of operationalising the Democratic Governance sector strategy.  It is supporting national efforts to strengthen mechanisms and institutions to promote norms and good practices and foster stronger democratic accountability in keeping with the objectives of the MGDS II.  It represents a concrete response by the UN System to Malawi to embed democratic governance through respect for the principles and practices of Human Rights as entrenched in the Constitution of Malawi and in international and regional Rights instruments.  It is an integral cross-cutting aspect in the promotion of gender equality, and strengthening of the capacity of key State and Non-State Actors (government departments, CSOs, NGOs and CBOs) in Human Rights and are enhancing their engagement with the state party reporting and Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. 

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Assess whether, and to what extent, the project’s outcome and outputs have been achieved;
  •  Determine the impact, both positive and negative, as well as intended and non-intended from contribution of the project to the achievement of the outcome;
  • Examine and analyse factors which have positively and negatively impacted on achievement of programme outputs and outcome;
  • Assess the effectiveness and appropriateness of institutional arrangements and partnership strategies;
  • Assess the work with Malawi Institute of Education as civic education alongside broader Civic education contribution of the project;
  • Assess the extent to which UNDP’s outputs and assistance contributed to the outcome of the project;
  • Examine the extent to which gender equality and women empowerment and human rights targets as cross-cutting issues were integrated and achieved;
  • Document lessons learnt and best practices during the course of implementation to inform future decisions in project design, implementation and management of similar interventions.

Deliverables:

  • Inception report – within 5 days of the start of the assignment.  The report will include a detailed approach and methodology, schedule, draft data collection protocols and an evaluation matrix.  Annex 5 gives a template of the evaluation matrix.  The work plan should also include an outline of the evaluation report as set out in Annex 2 of the TORs. The evaluator will also propose a rating scale in order that Performance rating will be carried out for the four evaluation criteria: relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability.
  • Key emerging issues paper – a presentation of preliminary findings to key stakeholders orally and in writing will be made after the data collection and analysis exercise, i.e. within 4 weeks after presentation of the inception report.  The purpose of this session is to provide opportunity for initial validation and elaboration of the evaluator’s observations and analysis. 
  • Draft evaluation report – The Evaluator will present a Draft Report within 5 weeks after presentation of the inception report.
  • Lessons Learned report
  • Final Evaluation Report. The evaluators will present a Final Evaluation Report 5 days after receiving feedback and comments on the draft report from key stake holders.

Competencies

Corporate Competencies:

  • Display cultural, gender, race, and age sensitivity;
  • Demonstrate integrity by modeling the United Nations values and ethical standards;
  • Display comfort working in politically sensitive situations.

Functional Competencies:

  • Knowledge of Organizational Development and Management;
  • Knowledge of team dynamics and team leadership;
  • Result oriented;
  • Excellent communication skills. 

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

  • Minimum of a Master’s degree in political science, public administration, Human Rights, Law or other related social sciences.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in the area of governance, human rights and gender;
  • Experience in conducting evaluations for UN agency, government or international aid agency projects on governance, gender and human rights will be an added advantage; 

Language:

  • Fluency in English.

Availability between:

  • 1 June and 20 July, 2016.

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