Final independent evaluation of the project

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

Between January 2021 and December 2023, the UN Women Brazil Country Office implemented the project “Human Rights of Indigenous and Quilombola Women: a governance matter!”, funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Brasilia. The project aimed to facilitate inclusion and meaningful participation of these Indigenous and Quilombola women in policymaking, state and municipal planning and budgeting, thus ensuring that the governance processes in Maranhão and Pará go beyond averages, aim to reach everyone and thus, prevent and eliminate discrimination and inequalities based on gender, race and ethnicity.

The project document “Human rights of Indigenous and quilombola women: A governance matter” foresees a final evaluation to generate evidence on results, performance, challenges, opportunities and lessons learned. This evaluation will be an independent evaluation, managed by UN Women. As such, it will be carried out per the UN Women Evaluation Policy aligned with the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards. The evaluation will focus on the delivery of the initially planned project results. It should also provide recommendations for continuing, improving, expanding, or replicating the project within the framework of the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity, and the environment. The conclusions of the evaluation will be used by UN Women to contribute to its accountability to the donor, to its institutional learning and decision-making and to improve the quality of future interventions.

The evaluation will apply the criteria of the UN Women’s Evaluation Policy (relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, human rights, and gender equality). The conclusions and recommendations in the preliminary and final reports should be structured around the evaluation criteria and answer the evaluation questions proposed by UN Women.

The Evaluation Management Group will supervise the evaluation, make the main decisions (according to the specific attributions of each member, and their respective organization), facilitate access to information by the evaluation team and guarantee the quality of the results, as well as disseminate and promote the use of the evaluation’s conclusions and recommendations and draw up a management response to the evaluation after its conclusion. The Evaluation Management Group is responsible for the selection of the external evaluation consultant, inception report and the final evaluation report. The group will be composed of the UN Women Regional Evaluation Specialist (advisor), the UN Women Brazil Programme Analyst, the UN Women Brazil Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst, and the UN Women Brazil Programme Associate. The evaluation manager will lead the day-to-day management of the process and consult the management group on the main decisions to be taken.

In addition to the Management Group, and to facilitate a comprehensive review of the evaluation products, an Evaluation Reference Group will be established to promote the participation of key stakeholders and for them to have ownership over the evaluation findings and recommendations, to provide input for the evaluation products, to participate in preliminary discussions and the dissemination of key evaluation findings, among others. It will be composed of a representative of UN Women Brazil CO Representative, one civil servant of the government of Maranhão, one civil servant of the government of Pará, one representative of each civil society network per state and selected local mobilizers from the project. The consultant will be responsible for delivering all evaluation products. He/she will coordinate the work during all phases of the evaluation process, ensuring the quality of the results and the application of the methodology, as well as the timely delivery of all products. In close collaboration with the Evaluation Management Group, he/she will lead the conceptualization and design of the evaluation, the interviews and the definition of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the final report. He/she will be the focal point for all conversations with the Evaluation Management and Reference groups. The consultant will report to the UN Women Brazil Programme Associate and will be supported by the Project Assistant, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Draw up an inception report describing the proposed design, methodology, tools, resources required and the indicative work plan.
• Conducting research and analysis of the data collected and all relevant documentation.
• Design and carry out the virtual evaluation meetings and activities with the selected project partners and key stakeholders according to the evaluation matrix drawn up by the team and agreed with the Evaluation Management Group.
• Draw up the preliminary evaluation report and final report.
• Participate in online meetings to present and discuss the inception report and final report of the evaluation with the Evaluation Management and Reference Groups, finalizing the reports based on the feedback received.

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification:

• Graduation in social sciences, economics or similar is required.
• Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, economics or a related field is desirable.

Experience:

• At least two (02) years of proven experience in carrying out evaluations is required.
• At least three (03) years of experience in the application of qualitative and survey-based evaluation methods is required.
• Previous experience of at least 01 (one) evaluation of gender equality projects or evaluations with a gender perspective is required.
• Seven (07) years of experience in carrying out evaluations is desirable.
• Previous experience of at least 01 (one) evaluation of projects/programs implemented by governments, the UN and/or international cooperation partners is desirable.
• At least five (05) years of experience working as a team leader in complex public management evaluations and managing evaluation teams is desirable.
• At least five (05) years of experience in negotiating with a wide range of stakeholders is desirable.
• At least five (05) years of experience in Project Cycle Management and/or Logical Framework approach is desirable.

Languages:

• Fluency in English and Portuguese is required.

Source: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=116544