TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR

NATIONAL EVALUATION EXPERT

UN WOMEN RWANDA COUNTRY OFFICE STRATEGIC NOTE 2019-2024 

1. Background 

The Rwanda Country Office Strategic Note is the main planning tool for UN Women’s support to normative, coordination and operational work in Rwanda. This evaluation will consider the Strategic Note covering the period January 2019 – December 2024 as a precursor action to the development of a new Strategic Note which will start in February 2024.

The Strategic Note is linked to the UN Women Global Strategic Plan and country-level United Nations Development Assistance Framework 2019-24. The Rwanda Country Office Strategic Note supports and contributes towards the following UN Women 2022-25 Strategic Plan Impact and Systemic outcomes:

The strategic note is aligned to Rwanda’s national development plans, including the National Strategy for Transformation 2017-2024, the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the African Union Agenda 2063, and the East African Community (EAC) Vision 2050.

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The Strategic Note is grounded in the standards, principles and obligations of the Convention to Eliminate all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Concluding Observations of the Commission on the Status of Women, Sustainable Development Goals, and the AU Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, among others.

Purpose, objectives, and use of the evaluation

The UN Women Evaluation Policy and the UN Women Evaluation Strategic Plan 2022-25 are the main guiding documents that set forth the principles and organizational framework for evaluation planning, conduct and follow-up in UN Women. These principles are aligned with the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards for Evaluation in the UN System and Ethical Guidelines.

The Country Portfolio Evaluation (CPE) has seven objectives:

1. Assess the relevance of UN Women contribution to the intervention at national levels and alignment with international agreements and conventions on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
2. Assess effectiveness, organizational efficiency and coherence in progressing towards the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment results as defined in the Strategic Note.
3. Enable the UN Women Country Office to improve its strategic positioning to better support the achievement of sustained gender equality and women’s empowerment.
4. Analyse how human rights approach and gender equality principles are integrated in the design and implementation of the Strategic Note.
5. Identify and validate lessons learned, good practices and examples of innovation that can be scaled up and replicated to support gender equality and human rights.
6. Provide insights into the extent to which the UN Women has realized synergies between its three mandates (normative, UN system coordination and operations).
7. Provide actionable recommendations with respect to the development of the next Strategic Note.

The Country Portfolio Evaluation (CPE) is a systematic assessment to validate the contributions made by UN Women Country Office’s portfolio of interventions to development results with respect to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment at the country level. It also assesses the Country Office’s organisational effectiveness and efficiency in delivering the planned results. It uses the Strategic Note (including the DRF and OEEF) as the main point of reference.

• Duties and Responsibilities

Roles and responsibilities  

The National expert is expected to provide key contextual information and perspective to design a robust utilisation-focused CPE. The national expert is also expected to support the in-country data collection process. 

1. Support the team lead to design the Evaluation methodology including evaluation data collection tools  
2. Support the team lead to facilitate the inception workshop and drafting the inception report  
3. Under the supervision of the team lead, collect virtual/in-situ field visits for data collection  
4. Coordinate and communicate with evaluation stakeholders, including for exit briefs and evaluation preliminary findings validation meetings etc.  
5. Contribute towards the draft and final evaluation report 

Time frame

The assignment is expected to be completed within 30 calendar days starting from the date of contract signature. 

Required Skills and Experience 

The National Consultant must possess the following qualifications:  

Education: 

• Master’s degree in gender/women studies, sociology, international development, or related area; or
• A Bachelor’s degree in gender/women studies, sociology, international development, or related area, with additional two years’ experience

Experience: 

1. At least 5 years of relevant work experience preferably in the area of monitoring, evaluation or research on gender equality, women’s empowerment and human rights in Rwanda
2. Process management skills, including facilitation and communication skills with stakeholders 
3. Knowledge of the role of UN Women or the UN system and its programming, coordination, and normative roles at country level is an asset.  

Language: 

Fluency in oral and written English;

Kinyarwanda is considered an added advantage.

Application process

All interested applicants may download the detailed terms of reference at UN WOMEN Jobs - 112854- Evaluation Expert Consultant- UN Women Rwanda Coun (undp.org) and are requested to submit all required documents to rwanda.offers@unwomen.org not later than 28^th June 2023 at 5pm Kigali time. Only pre-selected candidates will be notified. 

Interested applicants are requested to submit:

1. A brief summary setting out their relevant experience against the required experience section, no more than 100 words per requirement (education, experience and language)
2. 200 words setting out what challenges they anticipate facing as they deliver the evaluation, and how they would manage these challenges
3. A CV
4. Two examples of recent evaluation reports where the applicants played a key role in delivery
5. Daily rate in US$
6. A statement to confirm their availability to deliver the assignment
7. A statement to confirm that they are independent, and that they have not been directly responsible for the design, or overall management of the subject of the evaluation, nor expect to be in the near future, and that they have no vested interest and have the full freedom to conduct their evaluative work impartially.