Background

Duties and Responsibilities

1.    Assessment of results and achievements:Whether has sufficient progress been achieved vis-à-vis the outcome, "expanded national capacity for mine action including training" as measured by the outcome indicator, "Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) able to plan, manage, coordinate and monitor its own Mine Action Strategy and Programme and mobilize resources, as guided by NMAC?

• What are the main factors (positive and negative) that affected the achievement of the outcome?
• Are the outcome indicators feasible to measure the achievement of the intended outcome?
• Have the outputs been achieved as measured by the output indicator?
• What are the main factors (positive and negative) that affected the achievement of the intended outputs?
• Are the output indicators feasible to measure the achievement of the intended outcome?
• What are the unintended results (positive and negative) and what are the factors contributed to them happening?
• Have the planned activities been successfully implemented? What are the factors affected the successful or unsuccessful implementation of planned activities?
• What are the plans for monitoring and evaluation and are they done periodically as planned? Have the recommendations from monitoring and evaluations implemented? If not, what are the obstacles and what are the measures for improvements?
• Have the lessons learned from prior phases effectively made use of?
• Are the results sustainable? Will the outputs & outcomes lead to benefit beyond the life of the existing programme?

2.   Assessment of efficiency and adequacy:

• Review and assess the professional capacity and quality inputs and activities by the national execution and implementing agencies both at the central and branch level.
• Assess the efficiency and adequacy of the management structure.
• Assess the efficiency and adequacy of team structure and personnel distribution to effectively carry out the day-to-day activities in the field and in support of the activities.
• Weather these organizational arrangements were cost effective? How can they be improved?
• Has the Advisory Committee, an oversight advisory body, met as scheduled, and provided quality policy advice and recommendations to improve project implementation? What is the quality of their inputs to ensure that activities are on track and results are achieved in accordance with the project work plan?
• What kind and level of safety measures available in the field operation and to what degree are they followed? What is the level of awareness of the staff both in the field and at branches and at the central level on the safety issues?

 3.   Assessment in the aspect of beneficiaries:

• Assess what kind of partnership established with local authorities, community leaders and members. What is the level and area of their participation and contributions?
• What level of understanding local authorities, community members including men, women, and children have on the issue and the UNDP project.
• What are the gaps between needs of the beneficiaries (mine/UXO victims, mine affected community members) and the project? If there are any, what are the practical measures and activities can be done to close the gaps?

4.   Assessment on resource mobilization:

• Is the function of resource mobilization effectively incorporated in the organizational structure of national execution or implementation agency?
• What is the capacity regarding the national counterpart in resource mobilization? What are the effective measures to be taken to enhance the capacity?
• What level and kind of commitments are there from the national counterpart?

 5.  Gender aspect:

• Is gender issue adequately mainstreamed throughout the project? If not, what are the reasons, and what can be done?
• How does the project address gender aspect of the issue? If not, what are the reasons, what should be addressed, and how should they be done?
• How does the project contribute to the capacity building of women? If not, what are the reasons, and what can be done for capacity building of women? 

6.   Sustainability:Are there regular updates done effectively on national strategy on mine action, and are there mechanisms to inform or to train all staff on the updates?

• Are there national standard of operation built on international standard, and are there mechanisms to inform and train all related staff on the standard of operation?
• Are there refresh trainings systematically organized and periodically carried out to field staffs, staffs at the branches, central office and the Mine Detection Dog Center on different subjects?
• Assess the national capacity of the MDDC in the area of medical knowledge on dogs and animals. What are the gaps, and measures for enhancement?
• Are all the necessary reports are produced in a good quality and submitted in a timely manner?
• Has the Institutional memory such as documents and data been stored in an organized and systematic fashion so that it is accessible and available when required?
• Has the organizational capacity built with clearly written out rules and regulations with clear understanding of them by the staff and having all the work processed according to them?

 7.   Assessment on organizational capacity:

• Are there statutes of national agencies clearly state necessary information such as organizational structure, purpose, function, information on board etc? If so, assess the quality and identify the gaps if any.
• Are there any documents clearly state guide-lines, manuals, which include information such as authorization capacity, work flow etc. If so, are the staffs regularly trained on them? Is the work done according to the written guidelines and manuals? What are the factors contributing to the current status? What and how should it be improved?
• What is the capacity of human resource department? Are the documents related to personnel systematically stored with sufficient level of confidentiality to the personal information? Are there policies regarding protection on personal information and are the staffs trained on them? What is the quality of the contracts prepared by the project? What is the quality of sign-in/out system? Is there systematic recording system for leaves, and what is the quality? What type of system are there to record the attendance of field staff?
• What is the capacity of logistic department? Are there guidelines and are staffs regularly trained on them? What kind of systems are there regarding assets and equipments? Are they properly recorded, maintained, used and stored?
• Have the capacities of middle management built after the observation by the past evaluation, and decentralization of authorization implemented? What are the factors affected the results? 

8.   Partnership Strategy/Visibility:Are there effective partnerships among parties involved in implementation of the project such as national entities, donors, civil society organizations and UNDP?

• Have the partnerships expanded during the second phase of the project? What were the factors affected the change? How can the partnerships further enhanced?
• What are the existing levels and strategies of ensuring visibility of donors? Are there rooms for enhancement?

9.   Recommendations:

• Recommendations need to be made on each topic and they must be objective, realistic, practical, and concrete so that they can be implemented in the phase IV of the project.
• Recommend realistic time-frame for implementation of the recommendations.

Competencies

Required Skills and Experience