Post Date: Jun 30, 2024

Closing Date: Jul 06, 2024

Reference: 0673

Number of Vacancies: 1

Salary Range: $3000 – $3500 monthly

Years of Experience: 5 – 7 years

Probation Period: Not Specified

Contract Type: Short Term

Contract Duration: 2.5 month

Contract Extensible: No

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Gender: Any

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Job Summary

UNDP Afghanistan Mission Statement:

UNDP has been working in Afghanistan for more than 50 years on climate change and resilience, gender, governance, health, livelihoods, and rule of law. Under the broader framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in close coordination with other UN agencies, UNDP is supporting the Afghan people’s aspiration for peace, prosperity, and sustainability. UNDP is currently implementing its flagship crisis response programme, ABADEI (Area Based Approach to Development Emergency Initiatives), as part of the ongoing UN-led response to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and the breakdown of Afghanistan’s economy following the August 2021 shift in power. Key priorities that govern or provide direction for the position’s work to show the link between the Unit priorities and position priorities/expected outcomes of an incumbent. The General Services Unit within the Operational pillar of the CO is responsible for the efficient, transparent, and cost-effective delivery of Administrative, Premises, Asset Management, and Logistics services in support of the Programme and CO operations which also includes support to other UN Agencies.

Objective of the assignment:

As the leading UN development agency in Afghanistan, UNDP supports the Afghan people’s aspiration for peace, prosperity, and sustainability. Working with our broad network of experts and partners in 170 countries, we help nations build integrated, lasting solutions for people and the planet. UNDP has been working in Afghanistan for more than 50 years on climate change and resilience, gender, governance, health, livelihoods, and the rule of law. Under the broader framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in close coordination with other UN agencies, UNDP supports the Afghan people’s aspiration for peace, prosperity, and sustainability.

The political change of 15 of August has created new conditions, subsequent international sanctions, and a sudden stop of international aid flows. Since the takeover of the Taliban, the Afghan civil society has suffered greatly from the dire economic, social, and political situation. Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) play a vital role in promoting development, providing inclusive and critical basic services, strengthening local community action and ownership, and responding in swift and flexible ways to the needs of the population in Afghanistan. NGOs provide a critical voice for Afghans, are a pathway to expedited and targeted service delivery, and enhance social cohesion and local ownership of the development process, both vital to sustainability and security. Specifically, CSOs and NGOs are particularly important for delivering services to Afghan girls and women.

The UNDP project (Afghanistan NGOs/CSOs Capacity Support Project (NCCSP) aims to support NGOs/CSOs in the short to medium term and enhance their capacities to strengthen local networks, empower, and integrate community members, especially the most vulnerable, including women and girls. Under the project, 210 NGOs were supported with Low Value Grant (LVG) of $50,000 each.

Duties & Responsibilities

Scope of work:

Since the Project is at its final stage of implementation, the FINAL EVALUATION (FE) exercise aims to inform UNDP Afghanistan, the donor (World Bank), and partners, of the lessons learned, outcomes achieved, value for money ensured and recommendations for similar programing in future. The FINAL EVALUATION will draw out progress and achievements toward project deliverables, identify gaps in programming, efficient use of resources, impacts and key takeaways for future programming. Importantly, the findings and analysis of final evaluation will inform the designing of UN/UNDP’s future interventions related to engaging with NGOs/CSOs. The FINAL EVALUATION will produce valuable lessons and experiences, providing useful findings to the other relevant projects and various initiatives organized by UNDP Afghanistan and other Country Offices. Responding to the Theory of Change (ToC) as described in the project document, the agreed results framework (RF) and the approved workplans, the FINAL EVALUATION is expected to assess the relevance of the project, quality of the project design, effectiveness, and efficiency of the implementation to date, sustainability of the overall project results, impact of intervention, and forward-looking directions for future. FINAL-EVALUATION is expected to produce a report on the achievements of the NCCSP project and success stories on the project, which will be published on UNDP website.

The final evaluation will geographically focus on the provinces and zones that the NCCSP project is being implemented. NCCSP covers all the national NGOs and CSOs across eight regions and 34 provinces of Afghanistan. The beneficiaries will primarily be the NGOs, employees who received capacity building trainings and the local stakeholders including INGOs who will be approached for the betterment of the national coordination platforms.

The evaluation should cover the following cross-cutting themes: (a) Rights-Based Approach (RBA); (b) protection mainstreaming; (c) disability inclusion; (d) gender mainstreaming; (e) environmental sensitivity and sustainability; and (f) accountability to affected populations (AAP). All the above-mentioned themes have an equal priority to the UNDP that should be taken into account in this evaluation and the data collection process should be able to equally and effectively address these cross-cutting themes.

The evaluation may require field visits and Key Informant Interviews (KII) with UNDP and World Bank staff, and the local stakeholders covering a representative number out the 34 provinces where NCCSP has a footprint of delivering capacity building activities. It may also require direct observation of project sites where NCCSP supported NGOs and CSO or indirectly support the local communities through provision of economic and livelihood support.

The consultant is supposed to implement the following tasks in cooperation with an international consultant to be assigned:

• Review the relevant project documents including the Project proposal, M&E and GRM manuals, TPMA guideline, quarterly reports and other relevant documents deem necessary to be reviewed to help set the scene about the project nature and activities.

• Maintain a sound working relationship with the international consultant and team in the country office as well as in the provinces, seek support where needed and coordinate regularly.

• Undertake data collection through the team and directly in relation to the evaluation criteria and questions, ensure the validity and accuracy of the data and compare with the historic information collected by the NCCSP M&E and TPMA teams.

• Undertake field visits to the project locations, interview with the beneficiaries and stakeholders and collect evidence of the project progress and outcomes to feed the final evaluation.

• Implement the ethical considerations throughout the process and ensure to comply with the UNEG’s evaluation standards.

• Assist with the international consultant to develop and present a draft evaluation report and findings to the UNDP management and NCCSP management unit, take into account all the relevant discussions and comments, and the track record of the changes being proposed/made on the next versions of the evaluation report.

• Support the international consultant on the submission of the final evaluation report with due consideration of quality and effectiveness in line with the timeline that is initially agreed and approved by the UNDP.

Knowledge sharing, monitoring, Communication, reporting

• Systematically and strategically share experience and lessons learnt from the Monitoring activities with the PIU.

• Collects lessons learned and case examples to facilitate general understanding of the LVG implementation by NGOs.

Payment: Monthly basis

Job Requirements

Experience and Skills:

Academic Qualifications:

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in law, political science, development studies, history, or other relevant social science.

Years of experience:

• Minimum of Seven (07) years of relevant experience with bachelor’s degree or minimum of five (05) years of relevant experience with bachelor’s degree f.

• At least 5 years of proven experience in development, risk assessment, and/or evaluation of programmes or projects in capacity building of private sector, government entities and civil society organizations.

• Experience in the result-based management, evaluation methodologies and programme/project monitoring approaches with development partners.

• The project mid-term review/evaluation experience with UNDP is preferred.

• Sound understanding of the UN system and of UNDP’s mandate and role.

III. Language:

• Excellent knowledge, both oral and written, of English with presentational capacities is required.

• Excellent knowledge and fluency of the local languages; Dari or Pashtu is required.

IV. Competencies:

• Ability to work independently.

• Ability to perform tasks in a timely manner and produce quality final product.

• Strong interpersonal, communication and diplomacy skills.

• Openness to change and ability to receive and integrate feedback

Corporate Competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards.

• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP.

• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

• Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

• Fulfils all obligations to gender sensitivity.

Submission Guideline

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