Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

As one of UN Women’s projects which specially contributes to overall goal of contributing to peaceful and gender equal society,  UN Women Myanmar started supporting to the WLO/WROs, NGOs and INGOs focused on the humanitarian and emergency response as well as the protection of the women and girls in conflict and humanitarian contexts with local women and young women’s organizations.

Against this background, UN women has a plan to undertake monitoring and evaluation of a project.  This assignment is a home-based consultancy with possible field missions to the project areas. There are two areas of work in project evaluation of old grantees to measure the impact and outcome level result of the project and the monitoring of current grantees to monitor the progress update of the grantees and results achieved to date.

The consultant will work with UN Women Myanmar under the guidance of the Programme specialist with the UN Women Myanmar team. The consultant will be reporting to the Programme Specialist and will be supported by the Project team, who will be the focal point of contact on the contract and payment issues.

Duties and Responsibilities

Deliverables

The consultant will be expected to deliver on three deliverables in accordance with UN Women guidelines as follows:

Deliverable 1: Develop detailed inception report outlining the data collection methodology, data collection plan and timeline for evaluation of the old grantees and mid-term monitoring of the current grantees with the following tasks mentioned  below;

• Conduct a desk review of existing documents and reports provided by grantees and the project team.
• Design and develop data collection methods, identify the methodology and analysis tools in consultation with UN Women, ensuring a consultative and participatory approach.
• Develop (a) the evaluation plan for completed projects of former grantees, and (b) the monitoring plan for current grantees.
• Share the draft inception report with UN Women for review and inputs, then revise and finalize the report.

Deliverable 2: Develop a draft comprehensive report with the following tasks mentioned below; 

·       Develop the KII/FGD questionnaire and identify participants in close collaboration with the project team and grantees, if needed.

·       Conduct data collection with identified lists of participants and activity which identified in the deliverable 1 Data Analysis and findings.

·       Conduct evaluations of former grantees to measure project impact and monitor current grantees to assess progress, using both in-person

         and remote methods.

·       Analyze data quantitatively and qualitatively to assess project results, impact, and key findings.

·       Draft a comprehensive report on project results, impact stories, and recommendations for future projects.

Deliverable 3: Finalize the report with key findings of the project and recommendations, and do a presentation to UN Women team with the following tasks mentioned below;

• Conduct debriefing sessions to present draft report on results and key lessons learned.

·       Submit final M&E report, incorporating UN Women's recommendations.

·       Present key findings to UN Women and relevant stakeholders.

Based on the specific tasks, the consultant is expected to produce the following deliverables:

Remark: Prior to final payment, the M&E consultant shall submit all data collected during the consultancy including raw data. These shall remain as UN Women property and the consultant is not allowed to share or use any information gathered during the consultancy without the permission of UN Women this includes raw data.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a home-based consultancy with potential travel to the project areas for monitoring and evaluation (M&E). The M&E will be conducted through both in-person and remote monitoring. The consultant will be paid against satisfactory completion of each deliverable after it has been reviewed and certified by the UN Women’s Programme specialist and in accordance with UN Women policies and regulations. The actual travel related costs will be covered by UN Women.

Competencies

Required Skills and Experience