1. Background of the project

UN Women is the lead agency within the UN system on gender equality and women’s empowerment, mandated to promote, and coordinate efforts to advance the full realization of women’s rights and opportunities. UN Women brings global technical expertise in gender equality and women’s empowerment, and links local and regional interventions with global best practices, including work on the Sustainable Development Goals. Placing women's rights at the center of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action globally. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States' priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

Montenegro ratified the Istanbul Convention as well as the CEDAW which, in accordance with the Constitution of Montenegro as international law has the primacy over domestic legislation and is to be directly applied when domestic legislation is not aligned with international law. Currently, a new strategic document on the implementation of the Istanbul Convention is being developed as a five-year Strategy on the Prevention of Domestic Violence has expired in 2020.  Under the current Protocol on the Treatment, Prevention and Protection from Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, which become obligatory for all signatories in 2019, institutions within their roles, competencies and missions, are responsible for preventing violence and taking protective measures, guided by the principle of due diligence. However, since the adoption of the new Protocol, no information has been available on its implementation in practice.

Through its programmes and projects, UN Women is providing technical assistance to national partners (governmental and non-governmental) in the implementation of existing international and national commitments to women’s rights and gender equality, it facilitates networking and exchange of good practices and advocates for women’s rights and gender equality in all areas of life.

 UN Women Programme Office in Serbia is implementing a four-year Project “Improved Safety of Women in Serbia” (short title: ISWS Project), started in January 2020, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway. Through this project, Serbia Office is working to ensure that women and girls in Serbia and Montenegro live in a society free from violence.

2.            Description of the programme/project

2.1          Project strategy and key objectives

The project relies on several proven strategies to build sustainable commitment and capacity to support gender equality and protection from VAWG including:

-              Facilitating partnerships to reach consensus on policy priorities, implementation strategies and accountability mechanisms. These include cooperation with the Government of Montenegro and the Commissioner for Protection of Equality in the Republic of Serbia as the national independent equality body, advocacy and cooperation with grass-roots women’s as well as human rights organizations.

-              Providing innovative models to support measures and actions, which can be up-scaled and replicated to all sectors.

-              Ensuring sustainability of the Project objectives and results that will be given highest priority, which include continued operation of project initiatives, institutional stability, and continued participation of women CSOs in outreach programs. 

-              Documenting and disseminating proven practices for enhancing performance and accountability for gender equality and EVAWG, including through encouraging lessons sharing amongst networks of partners.

-              Building an evidence-base that supports advocacy and action on implementing commitments to gender equality and EVAWG.

Overall objective of the project is that women and girls in Serbia and Montenegro live in a society free from gender-based stereotypes, discrimination and violence.

Specific Objectives (outcomes) of the project is that Montenegro applies special protection measures for women and girls from violence in family and intimate partner relations and combats gender-based discrimination and stereotypes as well as that Republic of Serbia applies additional, innovative programs for prevention of violence against women and girls in family and intimate partner relations and combats gender-based discrimination and stereotypes.

The project has focused on the following key results (outputs):

Output 1.1.: The Ministry of Justice of Montenegro has human and organizational capacities for the implementation of the protection measure - the bracelet for victim(s) and perpetrator(s) system.

Output 1.2.: The Commissioner for Protection of Equality has capacities to raise awareness and confidence of rural women about measures and actors responsible for protection from violence and gender-based discrimination.

Output 1.3.: Media and journalists have improved knowledge and skills about risks of gender-stereotyping in reporting about VAWG, and femicide.

Under the Output 1.1, the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro has strengthened human and organizational capacities for the implementation of the protection measure - the bracelet for victim(s) and perpetrator(s) system through provided software and 100 bracelets. Also, the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro has been supported for the implementation of EMS through additional human resources, training, and communications materials and established cooperation with women CSOs dealing with combating domestic violence in Montenegro.

Under the Output 1.3, among other achieved results and bearing in mind that adequate and stereotype-free media reporting is closely connected to statements issued by the police officers, UN Women Serbia developed the Brief Note for police officers on communication with media in cases of VAWG and distributed this Brief Note to Montenegrin police officers.

2.2       Project beneficiaries and target groups

Project main beneficiaries are 5,000 women from the general population and women from multiple marginalized and discriminated groups, namely, rural women who were reached through community outreach campaigns and awareness-raising on protection from domestic violence implemented by women’s organizations (including also distribution of informational material such as brochures, leaflets).

Project target groups are:

1)            34 representatives of justice and police sector from Montenegro, selected by the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro, who improved their knowledge on gender-based discrimination, violence and stereotypes, and particularly EMS.

2)            15 women's rights organizations that provided support and advocated for the rights of rural women.

3)            74 journalists and editors from different media houses in Serbia, who were trained on principles and methods of reporting on VAWG and avoiding traps for sustaining gender-stereotyping in reporting.

4)            7 representatives of media houses and association who were engaged in development of guidelines and recommendations for ethical and non-discriminative reporting about VAWG in digital media, and especially femicide.

2.3       Project budget, geographical scope and timeframe

The ISWS project is four-year project implemented in the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro from 1 of January 2020 until 31 December 2023. Total project budget is NOK 26,165,624.00 financed by the Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs with UN Women contribution.

2.4       Project Management

Operational Management

UN Women implements the project in close cooperation with the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro, the Commissioner for Protection of Equality as well as women’s and human right’s CSOs.

UN Women have the overall responsibility for managing the implementation of the project. The project is managed by the project ISWS team and supported by technical experts in various areas. The ISWS Team members include: Project Officer, Operations Analyst, Project Associate, Coordination Associate, Administrative Assistant and Programme Assistant.

3. Evaluation Purpose and Use

3.1       Evaluation scope

The final evaluation of the project will be conducted at the end of project implementation and will cover the entire duration of the project from 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2023. The evaluation is scheduled between June and December 2023.

The evaluation includes a data collection mission to Podgorica.  

The evaluation shall cover all aspects of the project, and broadly allocate resources (time) in relation to the relative expenditure between the various project components.

3.2          Evaluation purpose

A final project evaluation will be conducted with a special focus on lessons learnt both from programmatic and coordination perspectives. The main purpose of this final evaluation is to assess the programmatic progress and performance of the above-described intervention from the point of view of relevance, effectiveness, impact, organizational efficiency and sustainability. The evaluation will not be able to fully assess the project performance, as some activities are still ongoing; however, it will address the following questions with the results and evidence that is available to date.

Project team will work closely with the evaluation team on the dissemination and use of evaluation results including the transformation of lessons learned into knowledge products on gender equality and EVAWG. Knowledge products will also be used for liaison with relevant thematic advisors, consultants, stakeholders, focal points in relevant institutions and women’s and human rights’s CSOs to improve knowledge products and organize learning platforms to promote the internal and external sharing of knowledge on gender equality and protection from VAWG. The evaluation should also provide specific recommendations as to the priority areas that should be considered in next projects implemented by UN Women Serbia office, including interventions that require continued support, successful interventions for expansion, and recommendations on prioritizing interventions to maximize impact. It should also define recommendations to improve project management structure. 

The evaluation will follow a participatory approach that will include a twofold management structure were all key partners will be represented and additional consultation with key stakeholders, relevant governmental representatives and national institution, with civil society representatives and active women’s groups as well as donor partner.

3.3          Evaluation objectives

The specific evaluation objectives include:

• Analyze the relevance of the project objectives, strategy and approach including developing and implementing community outreach programs to rural women, capacity development of the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro as well as civil society organizations in Montenegro about different aspects and roles in ensuring prevention and protection from violence against women and girls.
• Assess effectiveness and a potential measurable impact of the project intervention on the target group across all three outputs.
• Assess the sustainability of the results and the intervention in ensuring prevention and protection from violence against women and girls in the target group.
• Analyze how human rights-based approach and gender equality principles are integrated in the project implementation.
• Assess how the intervention and its results relate and contribute to the Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals.
• Identify and document lessons learned, good practices and innovations, success stories and challenges within the project.
• Identify strategies for replication and up-scaling of the project’s best practices.

4. Evaluation Management Structure

4.1. Evaluation Management Group

An Evaluation Management Group (EMG) will be conformed and will be the main decision-making body for the evaluation and is composed of UN Women project team members, UN Women Serbia Head of Office, and UN Women ECA RO Evaluation Specialist. The EMG will be responsible for the overall management of the evaluation and will oversee the day-to-day business of the evaluation and communication with the Evaluation Team. UN Women Serbia representative will be responsible for day-to-day management of the evaluation and the coordination for the field visits, including logistical support.

4.2. Evaluation Reference Group

An Evaluation Reference Group (ERG) will be established to ensure that the evaluation approach is relevant to stakeholders, and to make certain that factual errors or errors of omission or interpretation are identified in evaluation products. The reference group will provide input at key stages of the evaluation: inception report; draft and final reports. The ERG will be composed of the CPE, Ministry of Justice of Montenegro, Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and women CSOs representative. The ERG will be consulted on key aspects of the evaluation process. The group will be composed to ensure that all relevant stakeholders’ groups and perspectives are represented, including from CSOs.

5. Evaluation Approach, Methodology Criteria and Questions

The evaluation will assess progress and challenges for each of the three outputs, with measurement of the specific results achievements and gaps and how and to what extent these have affected overall progress. It will consist of a desk review, in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, such as the CPE, Ministry of Justice of Montenegro and women`s CSOs involved in project implementation or addressing the needs and representing the interests of specific groups of women, such as rural women, Roma women, etc.

The evaluation will be a transparent and participatory process involving relevant stakeholders and partners in Serbia and Montenegro. The evaluation will follow gender equality and human rights principles, as defined in the UN Women Evaluation Policy[1] and adhere to the United Nations norms and standards for evaluation in the United Nations system[2]. The evaluation methodology will employ mixed methods. A more detailed evaluation methodology will be proposed and agreed with the evaluation team and will be presented in the evaluation inception report.

The evaluation is a final project evaluation and both a summative approach focusing on capturing the lessons learned during the implementation and assessing the achievement of the results at output and outcome levels, as well as a formative, forward-looking approach assessing the applicability of the results will be employed. The evaluation methodology will furthermore follow a ToC approach and employ mixed methods including quantitative and qualitative data collection methods and analytical approaches to account for complexity of gender relations and to ensure participatory and inclusive processes that are culturally appropriate. Methods may include but are not limited to:

• Desk review of relevant documents such as project documents, progress reports, financial records, and secondary data or studies relating to the country context and situation analysis.
• Online consultations and discussions with the senior management and project management staff.
• Semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, surveys with direct and indirect beneficiaries, partners, donor and other stakeholders.
• Field visits and observation at selected project sites.

Data from different research sources will be triangulated to increase its validity. The proposed approach and methodology must be considered as flexible guidelines rather than final requirements, and the evaluators will have an opportunity to make their inputs and propose changes in the evaluation design. The methodology and approach should, however, incorporate human rights and gender equality perspectives. It is expected that the Evaluation Team will further refine the approach and methodology and submit a detailed description in the inception report.

The evaluation will include Relevance, Coherence, Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Sustainability and Impact criteria. More specifically, the evaluation will address the following evaluation questions that will be further refined once the evaluation team is recruited[3]:

Relevance:

• To what extent was the design of the intervention and its results relevant to the needs and priorities of the beneficiaries? Was the choice of interventions relevant to the situation of the target group?
• To what extent key partners were involved in programme’s conceptualization and design process?
• To what extent have gender and human rights principles and strategies been integrated into the project design and implementation?
• To what extent is the intervention aligned with international agreements and conventions on gender equality and combating violence against women and girls?
• To what extent was the design of the intervention relevant to gender equality and EVAWG priorities in Montenegro?
• What are the needs and priorities of the women in Montenegro ?
• To what extent has a project contributed to achieving nationalized Sustainable Development Goals?

Coherence:

Internal coherence:

• To what extent does the project fit within UN Women’s Strategic Plan and interrelated threefold mandate?
• Are there any synergies and inter-linkages between the project and other interventions of UN Women?

External coherence:

• To what extent is the intervention consistent with the national development strategies in the area of gender equality and elimination of violence against women and girls, and reflect Montenegrin national priorities and commitments on GE and EVAWG?
• How does project reflect and align with Serbian national strategic plans and normative frameworks and Montenegro` international obligations and commitments in the field of women’s rights and elimination of violence against women and girls?
• To what extent the project is in complementarity, harmonized and coordinated with the interventions of other actors’ interventions in the same context?
• To what extent does the implementation of the project ensure synergies and coordination with key partners relevant efforts while avoiding duplications? 
• To what extent are the interventions achieving synergies with the work of the UN Country Team?
• What are UN Women’s comparative advantage in Montenegro to implement this project?
• To what extent is the project aligned with the UN Development Partnership Frameworks and nationalized SDGs?

Effectiveness:

• To what extent have the expected results of the project been achieved on both outcome and output levels?
• What are the reasons for the achievement or non-achievement of the project results? Has the project achieved any unforeseen results, either positive or negative? For whom? What are the good practices and the obstacles or shortcomings encountered? How were they overcome?
• How effective have the selected programme strategies and approaches been in achieving programme results?
• How well did the intervention succeed in involving and building the capacities of the project partners?
• To what extent are the programme approaches and strategies are innovative for achieving EVAWG in Montenegro? What -if any- types of innovative good practices have been introduced in the programme for the achievement of EVAWG results?
• Is there a clear understanding of roles and responsibilities by all parties involved?

Efficiency:

• Have resources (financial, human, technical support, etc.) been allocated strategically to achieve the project outcomes?
• Has there been effective leadership and management of the project including the structuring of management and administration roles to maximize results? Where does accountability lie?
• Have the outputs been delivered in a timely manner?
• To what extent are the project monitoring mechanisms in place effective for measuring and informing management of project performance and progress towards targets? To what extent was the monitoring data objectively used for management action and decision making?
• Were there any constraints (e.g. political, practical, bureaucratic) identified in the implementation of the different actions and what level of effort was made to overcome these challenges?

Sustainability:

• What is the likelihood that the benefits from the project will be maintained for a reasonably long period of time after the project phases out? 
• To what extent did the intervention succeed in building individual and institutional capacities of rights-holders and duty-bearers to ensure sustainability of benefits achieved by the project?
• How effectively has the project generated national ownership of the results achieved, the establishment of partnerships with relevant stakeholders and the development of national capacities to ensure sustainability of efforts and benefits?
• What steps were taken to develop and/or reinforce the operating capacities of Montenegrin partners during the implementation of the programme?
• To what extent has the project been able to promote replication and/or up-scaling of successful practices?
• To what extent has the exit strategy been well planned and successfully implemented?
• How effectively has the project contributed to the establishment of effective partnerships and development of national capacities?

Considering the mandates to incorporate human rights and gender equality in all UN work and the UN Women Evaluation Policy, which promotes the integration of women’s rights and gender equality principles into evaluation, these dimensions will require special attention for this evaluation and will be considered under each evaluation criterion.

It is expected that the evaluation team will develop an evaluation matrix, which will relate to the above questions (and refine them as needed), the areas they refer to, the criteria for evaluating them, the indicators and the means for verification as a tool for the evaluation. The final evaluation matrix will be approved in the evaluation inception report.

6. Evaluation Process, duties and responsibilities of the Evaluation Team

6.1.         Evaluation process

The evaluation process is divided in five phases:

1. Preparation, mainly devoted to structuring the evaluation approach, preparing the TOR, compiling programme documentation, and hiring the evaluation company;
2. Inception, which will involve consultations between the evaluation team and the EMG, programme portfolio review, finalization of stakeholder mapping, inception meetings with the ERG, review of the result logics, analysis of information relevant to the initiative, finalization of evaluation methodology and preparation and validation of inception report;
3. Data collection and analysis, including in-depth desk research, in-depth review of the project documents and monitoring frameworks, online interviews as necessary, staff and partner survey/s, and field visits;
4. Data analysis and reporting stage, focusing on data analyzed, interpretation of findings and drafting and validation of an evaluation report; and
5. Dissemination, follow-up and use, once the evaluation is completed UN Women is responsible for the development of a Management Response, publishing of the evaluation report, uploading the published report on the GATE website, and the dissemination of evaluation findings.

The outline above corresponds to the entire evaluation process from preparation, to conduct, reporting and follow up and use. The evaluation team will only be responsible for the inception, data collection and data analysis and reporting phase. Evaluation preparation and dissemination, follow up and use will be the responsibility of EMG.

6.2.         Evaluation team requirements

Corresponding with the inception, data collection, data analysis and reporting stages of the evaluation process, the duties and responsibilities of the evaluation team will be as follows:

• Leading the inception phase and developing an inception report outlining design, approach and methodology of the evaluation and an indicative workplan of the evaluation team within the framework of this ToR.
• Directing and carrying out collection, research and analysis of relevant documentation and other data, and reporting.
• Overseeing and assuring quality of data collection and leading the analysis of the evaluation evidence.
• Preparing for meetings with the evaluation management group, evaluation reference group and other stakeholders to review findings, conclusions and recommendations.
• Leading the preparation of the evaluation of communication products.
• To conduct a data collection field mission with the support of the EMG which will include individual interviews with the relevant stakeholders.
• To prepare a Power Point Presentation and an outline of preliminary findings and present to EMG and to ERG.
• To produce and submit a draft and a final evaluation report in English to be validated by EMG and ERG.
• To produce an evaluation brief in English.

7. Evaluation team composition

The evaluation team will include an international consultant as a team leader and two national consultants (one for Serbia and one for Montenegro) as team members supporting in all substantive aspects of the evaluation.

All of them have some experience of each of the following: conducting evaluations, gender equality and elimination of violence against women and girls. The international consultant as team leader is responsible for coordination during all phases of the evaluation process, ensuring the quality of outputs and application of methodology as well as timely delivery of all evaluation products in close collaboration with the evaluation task manager and the evaluation management group. The national consultants will provide support to the international consultant in all the aspects of conducting the evaluation.

[1] UN Women, Evaluation policy of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNW/2012/12), http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2012/10/evaluation-policy-of-the-united-nations-entity-for-gender-equality-and-the-empowerment-of-women

[2] United Nations Evaluation Group, Norms and Standards for evaluation in the United Nations system, access at: http://www.uneval.org/normsandstandards/index.jsp?doc_cat_source_id=4

[3] The final evaluation matrix will be included and validated in the evaluation inception report.

Expected deliverables:

The evaluation team is expected to deliver:

• An inception report: The evaluation team will present a refined scope, a detailed outline of the evaluation design and methodology, evaluation questions, and criteria for the approach for in-depth desk review and field work to be conducted in the data collection phase. The report will include an evaluation matrix and detailed work plan.  A first draft report will be shared with the evaluation management group and, based upon the comments received, the evaluation team will revise the draft.  The revised draft will be shared with the evaluation reference group for feedback. The evaluation team will maintain an audit trail of the comments received and provide a response on how the comments were addressed in the final inception report. 
• Presentation of preliminary findings: A PowerPoint presentation detailing the emerging findings of the evaluation will be shared with the evaluation management group for feedback. The revised presentation will be delivered to the reference group for comment and validation. The evaluation team will incorporate the feedback received into the draft report.
• A draft evaluation report: A first draft report will be shared with the evaluation management group for initial feedback. The second draft report will incorporate evaluation management group feedback and will be shared with the evaluation reference group for identification of factual errors, errors of omission and/or misinterpretation of information. The third draft report will incorporate this feedback and then be shared with the reference group for final validation. The evaluation team will maintain an audit trail of the comments received and provide a response on how the comments were addressed in the revised drafts.
• The final evaluation report: The final report will include a concise Executive Summary and annexes detailing the methodological approach and any analytical products developed during the course of the evaluation. The structure of the report will be defined in the inception report.
• Evaluation communication products: Online presentation of the preliminary findings (date TBD), a PowerPoint/Prezi presentation of the final key evaluation findings and recommendations, and a 2-pager/infographics on the final key findings, lessons learned and recommendations in a format preferably adjustable for individual project sites both in English and Serbian/Montenegrin.

Payment will be issued in three instalments upon the satisfactory submission of the deliverables cleared by the evaluation task manager to certify that the services have been satisfactorily performed:

30% upon approval of evaluation inception report;

30% upon the submission of the draft report; and

40% upon the validation of the final evaluation report and communication products.

7.2.         Evaluation time frame

The project evaluation will be conducted between June and December 2023. The preliminary calendar for the process is detailed in the table below.

Core Values:

Integrity - Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

Professionalism - Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.

Cultural sensitivity and respect for diversity - Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Additionally, the individual should have an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity.

Competencies:

• Sensitivity and adaptability to culture, gender, religion, nationality and age.
• Strong analytical, writing and reporting abilities.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to lead a team and negotiate amongst a wide range of stakeholders.
• Commitment to quality products and deadlines.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf

Academic Qualifications:

• At least a bachelor’s degree in economics, social sciences, international relations, gender studies or a related area.

Qualification and experience:

• At least 3 years of relevant experience and involvement in several evaluations of development projects;
• Experience and knowledge on gender equality and elimination of violence against women and girls at the country level;
• Strong analytical skills and ability to quickly grasp and synthesize information;
• Demonstrated facilitation and communications skills, experience in participatory approaches and ability to negotiate amongst a wide range of stakeholders.

Language:

• Fluency in written and spoken English and Montenegrin language.

8. Application procedure:

• The following documents should be submitted as part of the application:

• P11 with past experience in similar assignments; can be downloaded at https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc, a signed copy should be submitted.
• Financial Proposal Specifying a total lump sum amount for the tasks specified in this Terms of Reference. Can be downloaded from the following link:  https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2022-07/confirmation.docx . The financial proposal shall include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (daily rate and number of anticipated working days and any other possible costs).

• In order to apply please merge your P11 and the financial proposal into a single PDF file. The system does not allow for more than one attachment to be uploaded.

  Any request for clarification must be sent by standard electronic communication to the e-mail info.serbia@unwomen.org

  	Evaluation Criteria	Max points
  TECHNICAL EVALUATION (70%)
  Language Requirements	Fluency in written and spoken English and Montenegrin	REQUIRED
  Education	Bachelor’s degree in economics, social sciences, international relations, development studies, gender studies or a related area.	20 0: without relevant bachelor’s degree 20: Bachelor’s degree
  Professional experience	Relevant experience and involvement in several evaluations of development projects.	20 0: without 3 years of experience 15: 3 years of experience 20: more than 3 years of experience
  	Experience/knowledge of gender equality and elimination of violence against women and girls at the country level	10 0: without relevant experience 10: relevant experience
  	Strong analytical skills and ability to quickly grasp and synthesize information.	10 0: without relevant experience 10: relevant experience
  	Demonstrated facilitation and communications skills, experience in participatory approaches and ability to negotiate amongst a wide range of stakeholders.	10 0: without relevant experience 10: relevant experience
  Total technical		70

  Financial Evaluation (30%) – max. 30 points:

  The maximum number of points assigned to the financial proposal is allocated to the lowest price proposal. All other price proposals receive points in inverse proportion. A suggested formula is as follows:

  p = 30 (µ/z)

  Using the following values:

  p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated

  µ = price of the lowest priced proposal

  z = price of the proposal being evaluated

   

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• Evaluation TOR Annexes
• UNEG Code of Conduct for Evaluations [1]
• UNEG Ethical Guidelines[2]
• UNEG Norms for Evaluation in the UN System[3]
• UNEG Standards for Evaluation in the UN System[4]
• UNEG Guidance Integrating Human Rights and Gender in the UN System[5]
• UN Women Evaluation Handbook[6]
• UNSWAP Technical Note and Scorecard [7]
• Protocol on the Treatment, Prevention and Protection from Violence against Women and Domestic Violence [8] (Montenegro)

• [1]  http://www.unevaluation.org/document/detail/100

  [2] http://www.unevaluation.org/document/detail/102

  [3] http://www.uneval.org/document/detail/21

  [4] http://www.uneval.org/document/detail/22

  [5] http://www.uneval.org/document/detail/1616

  [6] http://genderevaluation.unwomen.org/en/evaluation-handbook

  [7] http://www.uneval.org/document/detail/1452

  [8] https://www.gov.me/dokumenta/b945931e-01be-417d-a6b5-215ecb635af3