International Consultant to conduct a Final Project Assessment of the project: “Building Democratic, Peaceful and Gender Equal Society in Ukraine – Phase II”

• Country: Kyiv, Ukraine
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNWOMEN
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: 2024-02-15

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall guidance and supervision of the UN Women Ukraine Coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst, the consultant will implement a set of tasks, including:

1. Inception Report and Planning

In consultation with the UN Women Ukraine team, the consultant will develop an inception report, which will present a proposed plan for undertaking the final project assessment. The report should be no more than 5 pages and include a proposed methodology and framework to be able to respond to the key questions and areas of inquiry of the assessment (outlined above). The report should include a proposed plan and approach to conduct the assessment remotely, which is respectful of the current context in Ukraine and has minimal disruptions to projects and stakeholders important ongoing response to the crisis.

Output: Inception Report (3-5 pages)

Time:    3 days

1. First Draft of Project Assessment Report

The consultant will write a project assessment report based on a detailed desk review and interviews/focus group discussions, as outlined and deemed appropriate in the inception report. The desk review should include the documents related to the implementation of the project such as:

• Donor progress reports and annual corporate reporting contributions
• Project documents, budget and log frame
• Progress reports from implementing partners and consultants
• Knowledge products and other concrete outputs from the project

The consultant may also conduct interviews and focus group discussions with project staff, relevant country office staff and with selected implementing partners and project consultants. Engagement with the project team should utilise a participatory approach and focus on providing support to clearly extract and formulate the key results of the project and opportunities for further work. The report should cover all areas of inquiry as outlined and agreed upon in the inception report, and for each area clearly articulate key findings, good practices and recommendations.

Output: First Draft Project Assessment Report (15-20 pages)

Time:    12 days

1. Feedback Workshop, Final Project Assessment Report and Dissemination

The consultant will prepare and conduct a comprehensive and participatory workshop with the project team and relevant CO colleagues. The aim of this workshop will be to review the preliminary findings, good practices and recommendations, and collectively brainstorm to expand on these.  The consultant will then incorporate the feedback and results of the participatory workshop into the final project assessment report. In addition to finalising the report, the consultant will also prepare dissemination materials, including key talking points and a PowerPoint presentation (or similar), and conduct one internal and one external presentation of the assessment process, findings and recommendations.

Outputs:

• First Draft Project Assessment Report (20-25 pages)
• Dissemination materials, including talking points and PowerPoint presentation

Time:    10 days

Approach to Project Assessments

UN Women sees this assessment as an opportunity to creatively approach project assessments and innovate in monitoring and evaluation of projects. Due to the challenging context of conducting assessments in Ukraine, the CO is keen to get a fresh perspective on how to innovate in M&E. Therefore, UN Women is seeking a consultant who may have unique experiences in M&E, especially in crisis contexts, or may be able to leverage their experience to support the office in identifying new ways to monitor and evaluate projects through similar assessments in the future.

Key priorities for the country office during this assessment is:

• Minimise as much as possible disruptions to projects’, partners’ and stakeholders’ important ongoing lifesaving/ humanitarian work.
• Identify clear opportunities for next steps, which are specific, realistic and actionable.
• Identify effective, easy and useful M&E strategies for a rapidly changing context, which at the same time hold projects and partners accountable to achieving results.
• Innovate in assessment frameworks, to look beyond the OECD-DAC criteria when assessing projects’ results and their true value, with a gender transformative approach in mind.
• Map out new ways to implementation project activities to increase the impact, and identify “does and don’ts”

Assignment /Deliverables

The assessment will be conducted from the period of 12 February 2024 to 1 April 2024, for 25 working days. All deliverables will be presented in English.

Competencies

Core Values

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

Required Skills and Experience

Required Skills and Experience

Qualifications Education:

• Advanced (Masters) degree in Law, Political Science, Human Rights, Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Business Administration, Development Studies or related field.

Experience:

• Minimum five years of progressive professional experience in the field gender equality and/or women’s empowerment;
• Proven experience in evaluating, assessing or auditing development projects, programmes, policies and strategies using innovative approaches.
• Knowledge of the Ukrainian context and gender equality would be a strong asset;
• Previous experience conducting gender assessments, audits or evaluations in challenging circumstances, such as war, would be a strong asset;
• Previous experience with development agencies and the United Nations will be an asset, especially work with UN Women.

Languages and other skills:

• Proficiency in English. Knowledge of Ukrainian is an asset.

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