UNDP Jobs - 51936- Consultancy Services for the Mid-Term Joint Evalua

Consultancy Services for the Mid-Term Joint Evaluation of the UNDAF Outcome 4.3

Location :

Lilongwe, with Limited Travel to Selected Districts, MALAWI

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

15-Dec-2014

Application Deadline :

09-Dec-14 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

30 days to be completed over a period of 7 weeks

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

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 4.3, namely: National institutions advance gender equality and status of women by 2016.

Outcome 4.2 has four outputs as follows:

Output 4.3.1: Gender mainstreamed in 7 SWAps

Output 4.3.2: Ministry of Gender and selected sectors have the capacity to plan, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the National Gender Programme

Output 4.3.3: Women have the capacity and benefit from an enabling environment to claim and exercise their right to participate in decision making in public and private sectors

Output 4.3.4 Gender related laws revised and a functional implementation framework in place to address GBV

Outcome 4.3 is one of the 14 UNDAF Outcomes of the 2012-2016 UNDAF.

Four UN agencies namely: UN Women, UNICEF, UNFPA and UNDP are contributing financially and technically. The agencies has agreed to conduct a joint evaluation of the outcome.

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant will be required to deliver the following:

Inception report;
Key emerging issues paper;
Draft evaluation report;
Final Evaluation Report.

Competencies

Corporate Competencies:

Promotes the vision, mission and strategic goals of UNDP;
Demonstrate integrity by modelling the UN's values and ethical standards;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race and age sensitivity and adaptability.

Functional Competencies:

Proven track record of conducting outcome or country programme evaluations or complex programme evaluation.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

At least a Master’s degree with a bias towards gender, research and statistics.

Experience:

At least 5 years’ experience working on gender equality and women empowerment issues.

Language:

Fluent in English.

Note

Detailed Terms of Reference can be accessed from http://www.mw.undp.org/content/malawi/en/home/operations/procurement/

Documents to be included when submitting the proposals

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications by 10th December 2014, before 5 pm to the following email address: procurement.mw@undp.org.

Technical Proposal:

Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work;
Provide a brief methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work;
Personal CV (P11 Form) including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references;
Proposals must include all four documents. Proposals not meeting this requirement will be rejected.

Financial Proposal

Contracts based on daily fee;
The financial proposal will specify the daily fee, travel expenses and per diems quoted in separate line items, and payments are made to the Individual Contractor based on the number of days worked.

Travel:

All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station in Lilongwe /repatriation travel.

Evaluation

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodologies:

Cumulative analysis

When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

Responsive/compliant/acceptable, and

Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

Technical Criteria weight; 70

Financial Criteria weight; 30

Criteria A: Educational background - maximum points 10

Criteria B: At least 5 years’ experience working on gender equality and women empowerment issues – maximum points 20

Criteria C: Proven track record of conducting outcome or country programme evaluations or complex programme evaluation – maximum points 40

Financial maximum points 30

Combined score maximum points 100

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70 points in the Technical Evaluation would be considered for the Financial Evaluation

The financial score for the financial proposal will be calculated in the following manner:

Sf = 100 x Fm/F, in which Sf is the financial score, Fm is the lowest price and F the price of the proposal under consideration.

Total Financial Maximum points - 100 points

Total Score

The technical score attained at by each proposal will be used in determining the Total score as follows:

The weights given to the technical and financial proposals are: T= 0.7, F=0.3

The Total score will be calculated by formula: TS = St x 0.7 + Sf x 0.3

TS - Is the total score of the proposal under consideration?

St - is technical score of the proposal under consideration.

Sf - is financial score of the proposal under consideration.