Consultant for the final evaluation of CRP’s project “Women Empowerment & Gender Based Violence Prevention in Urban Amman

Consultant for the final evaluation of CRP’s project “Women Empowerment & Gender Based Violence Prevention in Urban Amman”

Location: Amman, Jordan
Application deadline: 24/03/2024
Languages required: Arabic, English
Starting date:1/04/2024
Expected duration of assignment: 55 days over 4 months

Background and context of the project

Collateral Repair Project (CRP) is a non-profit organization working with urban refugee communities in Amman, Jordan since 2006. CRP operates two community centers in the city where we engage annually with about 6,500 families. Our community is refugees and migrants from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen as well as the Jordanian and Palestinian host community. Our work takes a community-based and trauma-sensitive approach to program development. We regularly consult with community leaders to ensure quality management of ongoing programs, and to identify new skill-building and community-building initiatives that would best meet our community’s needs.

Funded by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, CRP’s project “Women Empowerment & Gender Based Violence Prevention in Urban Amman” helps to protect women and girls from the refugee and host communities who have become more vulnerable to domestic violence as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. CRP worked to upscale its proven social, economic, and livelihood interventions to address the pandemic-driven structural issues contributing to domestic violence. By the conclusion of the project on 31 May 2024, we anticipate to have directly benefited at least 4500 vulnerable women and girls, the majority of whom are refugees, who received support at the individual, family, and community levels. The UNTF funded project duration was three years (1/06/2021-31/05/2024). See a short summary of this project published by UN Women online, and consult our website for an overview of CRP’s work.

Purpose of the evaluation

The evaluation is to be conducted to assess the effectiveness and impact of interventions aimed at supporting women and girls who are more vulnerable to gender-based violence (GBV) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the evaluation aims to determine the extent to which initiatives providing individual, family, and community support have contributed to enhancing safety and increasing well-being among the primary beneficiaries. Additionally, the evaluation seeks to gauge the success of programs in fostering positive behavior change, improving access to financial support and livelihood opportunities, and increasing access to information, assistance, and support services. The purpose is not only to assess the outcomes achieved but also identify lessons learned and recommendations for future programming. The evaluator is expected to engage with stakeholders, including project beneficiaries, to ensure a participatory and inclusive evaluation process that promotes transparency, accountability, and learning.

Roles and responsibilities

The Evaluation Team will consist of 1 or 2 national consultant(s) (to be further discussed with the applicant). The Senior Evaluator will be responsible for undertaking the evaluation from start to finish and for managing the evaluation team under the supervision of evaluation task manager from the grantee organization, for the data collection and analysis, as well as report drafting and finalization in English.

Required Competencies
Senior Evaluator

• Evaluation experience at least 5 years in conducting external evaluations, with mixed-methods evaluation skills and having flexibility in using non-traditional and innovative evaluation methods.
• Expertise in gender and human-rights based approaches to evaluation and issues of violence against women and girls.
• Experience with program design and theory of change, gender-responsive evaluation, participatory approaches and stakeholder engagement.
• Specific evaluation experiences in the areas of ending violence against women and girls.
• Experience in collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data as well as data visualization.
• In-depth knowledge of gender equality and women’s empowerment
• A strong commitment to delivering timely and high-quality results, i.e. credible evaluation and its report that can be used.
• A strong team leadership and management track record, as well as interpersonal and communication skills to help ensure that the evaluation is understood and used.
• Good communication skills and ability to communicate with various stakeholders and to express concisely and clearly ideas and concepts.
• Regional/Country experience and knowledge: in-depth knowledge and experience working in Jordan and with refugee populations such as from Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan is required.
• Language proficiency: fluency in English and Arabic is mandatory; good command of local Levantine Arabic language is desirable

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