UNDP Jobs - 92180- National Terminal Evaluation (TE) Consultant

National Terminal Evaluation (TE) Consultant

Location :

Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

10-Aug-2020

Application Deadline :

25-Jun-20 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

25 working days, from 10 August to 30 October 2020

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

25 working days, from 10 August to 30 October 2020

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

Over the last 20 years, Cambodia has attained impressive economic growth. With an average GDP growth of 7 percent. Cambodia has been among the fastest growing economies in Asia and becoming a lower middle-income country (LMIC). Approximately 70% of Cambodian households derive all or an important part of their income from agriculture and the majority of agricultural production is dependent on the monsoon rain and natural floods/recession of the Tonle Sap River and Lake. Climate change is likely to disrupt the natural cycle of the monsoonal system and the hydrological function of the interconnected Mekong-Tonle Sap River drainage system and therefore cause a significant impact on the livelihood and welfare of rural Cambodians.

The SRL project has been designed to reduce the vulnerability of rural Cambodians, especially land-poor, landless and/or women-headed households. This will be achieved through investments in small-scale water management infrastructure, technical assistance to resilient agricultural practices, and capacity building support, especially targeting poor women, for improved food production in home gardens. Importantly, these services will be delivered by sub-national administrations (communes, districts and provinces) with a view to strengthen their overall capacity to plan, design and deliver public services for resilience building. The objective of the project, therefore, is to improve sub-national administration systems affecting investments in rural livelihoods through climate sensitive planning, budgeting and execution. The objective will be achieved through three Outcomes: 1). Climate Sensitive Planning, Budgeting and Execution at Sub-National Level Strengthened, 2). Resilience of Livelihoods of the most vulnerable improved against erratic rainfall, floods and droughts, and 3). Enabling environment is enhanced at sub-national level to attract and manage greater volume of climate change adaptation finance for building resilience of rural livelihoods.

The Department of Climate Change (DCC) of the General Secretariat of the National Council for Sustainable Development (GSSD)/ the Ministry of Environment (MoE) is the Implementing Partner (IP), with support from number of key technical Ministries. To ensure cross-sectoral integration, responsiveness to local needs and sustainability, sub-national activities of the Project have been integrated with the National Programme for Sub-National Democratic Development (NP-SNDD) under the coordination of National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development Secretariat (NCDDS).

The Project is currently being implemented in ten (10) target districts of Siem Reap and Kampong Thom Provinces over a four-year period. The project start date was in January 2016 and the original planned closing date is in January 2020. However, the inception phase took longer than usual to establish the project structure for implementation and the inception workshop took place in March 2017 to kick start the project implementation. The delayed start of the project had a ripple effect on the entire activity schedule of the project. Therefore, in responding to the NCSD’s letter dated 26 June 2019, the UNDP-GEF Executive Coordinator approved a request for project extension until December 31, 2020.

By the end of the project, it is expected that the following results will be achieved:

Capacity of sub-national councils (communes and districts) and Planning and Commune Support Offices in two target provinces enhanced for climate sensitive development planning and budgeting. The vulnerability reduction assessment (VRA) conducted with climate change adaption (CCA) and gender priorities identified during the processes and fully incorporated in all the 89 target communes, within 10 districts in Kampong Thom and Siem Reap.
100 resilient small-scale water infrastructures designed and put in place in ten (10) districts following the resilient design standards, specifically targeting rain-fed farmers.
160 farmer groups (including 80 LIGs, 40 SGs and 40 WUGs) mobilized to practice climate-resilient agricultural livelihood activities in ten (10) target districts targeting landless women and farmers practicing rain-fed agriculture.
The existing PBCR grant manual further updated, approved, and implemented in all the ten (10) target districts covering 89 target communes.

Duties and Responsibilities

The National Consultant / evaluator will assist the International Consultant to deliver the following:

Inception Report: Evaluator provides clarifications on timing and method; Evaluator submits to UNDP CO no later than 1 week before the evaluation mission
Presentation of Initial Findings: Evaluator submits to project management and UNDP CO at the end of evaluation mission
Draft Final Report: Full report (per template provided in TE Guidance) with annexes, Evaluator submits to CO within 3 weeks of the evaluation mission, reviewed by RTA, PCU, GEF OFPs
Final Report: Revised report, Evaluator submits to CO within 1 week of receiving UNDP comments on draft.

Interested offeror must read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=66842 for more detail information about term of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documetns to be submitted in the offer through online

Competencies

Knowledge of UNDP and GEF monitoring and evaluation policies

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

A Master’s degree in natural resource management, climate change, agricultural development, water resources management, environmental sciences, disaster management or related field.

Experience:

Minimum 5 years of experience in conducting evaluation for development projects and GEF funded project. Experience working in the UN system is a strong asset
Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in relevant technical areas of Climate Change Adaptation, DRR and local governance.
Demonstrated understanding of issues related to gender and climate resilient development and adaption to climate change; experience in gender sensitive evaluation and analysis
Experience working for development projects, with multi stakeholders including government agencies, development agencies, and UN agencies
Previous experience with results-based monitoring and evaluation methodologies, application of SMART indicators and reconstructing or validating baseline scenarios.

Language Requirement: High proficiency in English and Khmer.

UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete.

Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email.

Interested individual offeror must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

1. Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work

2. Technical proposal outlined approaches and methodologies to deliver the tasks outlined in the ToR if applicable

3. Financial proposal

4. Personal CV including experience in similar projects, list of publication written by Candidate and at least 3 references.

Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on-line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e-mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email chanpisey.ky@undp.org and cc procurement.kh@undp.org . While the Procurement Unit would endeavor to provide information expeditiously, only requests receiving at least 5 working days prior to the submission deadline will be entertained. Any delay in providing such information will not be considered as a reason for extending the submission deadline. The UNDP's response (including an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) will be posted in Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice page as provided above. Therefore, all prospective Offerors are advised to visit the page regularly to make obtain update related to this Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice.