Consultant: Final External Evaluation

Job posted by: International Rescue Committee (IRC)-USA - Wed, 1 Jul 2015

Job Details:

Organisation: International Rescue Committee (IRC)-USA

Deadline Sun, 30 Aug 2015

Job type: Permanent

Location: Thailand

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  1. Background and Context

The overall goal of this project is that women and girls affected by violence in Ban Mai Nai Soi and Ban Mae Surin refugee camps receive comprehensive, high quality assistance from community-based service providers. The project aims to achieve the goal by strengthening prevention and response to GBV in Ban Mai Nai Soi and Ban Mae Surin refugee camps through community-based providers, and addresses the following forms of violence:

  1. Violence in the family, including intimate partner physical, sexual, psychological, and emotional violence; and
  2. Violence in the community, including sexual violence by non-partners (rape/sexual assault) and sexual harassment and violence in public spaces/institutions, such as schools and work places.

 

Primary beneficiaries are women and girl survivors of violence in Ban Mai Nai Soi and Ban Mae Surin camps, who benefit from high quality, culturally competent and community-based services promoting health and healing, and preventing re-victimization.

A further key beneficiary and implementing partner is the Karenni National Women’s Organization (KNWO), who are supported to become the lead implementing organization working on gender-based violence issues by the end of the project.

The geographical scope of the project is Ban Mai Nai Soi and Ban Mae Surin refugee camps in Mae Hong Son province on the Thailand-Myanmar border. There are currently 14,561predominantly ethnic-Karenni refugees in the two camps, consisting of 7,435 females (51.06%) and 7,126 males (48.94%).

 

  1. Purpose of the evaluation

The purpose of the evaluation is to inform and strengthen the provision of Gender Based Violence (GBV) prevention and response services in the two target camps, implemented by the IRC’s Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) program and the partner community-based organization (CBO), Karenni National’s Women Organization (KNWO), under the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women project period (three years from November 2012 to October 2015). In particular, IRC seeks to assess these following:

  • To assess the IRC’s WPE program implementation to ensure the project objectives, indicators, outputs and expected outcomes are met, that KNWO has the capacity to effectively serving as lead GBV services agency and technical resource hub, and that multi-sector stakeholders, camp-based service providers have the capacity to provide GBV response in the target camps;
  • To provide recommendations for further capacity building and technical support to KNWO in  particular regard to preparation for return to Myanmar;
  • To provide recommendations based on the findings of the evaluation, achievements, lessons learned, gaps and challenges from IRC’s long-standing presence to guide subsequent WPE program adjustment and improvement in the target camps.
  1. Evaluation objectives and scope

 

  1. Scope of Evaluation:

This evaluation will encompass the entire project duration from 1st November 2012 to 31th October 2015. The evaluation activities will take place over a timeframe jointly agreed by the evaluation consultant and IRC upon the approval of this term of reference and the recruitment of the external evaluation consultant. The geographic coverage will encompass the two target refugee camps in Mae Hong Son province, namely Ban Mai Nai Soi (Site 1) and Ban Mae Surin (Site 2). The evaluation will cover p rimary beneficiaries of women and girl survivors of violence and KNWO in Ban Mai Nai Soi and Ban Mae Surin camps, and secondary beneficiaries of service providers involved in GBV response including UNHCR, INGOs, CBOs, and camp administration bodies as detailed in Section 1 above.

 

  1. Objectives of Evaluation

The overall objectives of the evaluation are to:

  1. To evaluate the entire project in terms of effectiveness, relevance, efficiency, sustainability and impact, with a strong focus on assessing the results at the outcome and project goals;
  2. To generate key lessons and identify promising practices for learning; 
  3. To generate knowledge that can be adapted to new WPE program focus, and inform adjustments to the program to continue to respond to preparedness for return

 

 

  1. Evaluation Questions

 

The key questions that need to be answered by this evaluation include the following divided into five categories of analysis. The five overall evaluation criteria – relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact - will be applied for this evaluation.

 

Evaluation Criteria

Mandatory Evaluation Questions

Effectiveness

  1. To what extent were the intended project goal, outcomes and outputs achieved and how?
  2. To what extent did the project reach the targeted beneficiaries at the project goal and outcome levels? How many beneficiaries have been reached?
  3. To what extent has this project generated positive changes in the lives of targeted (and untargeted) women and girls in relation to the specific forms of violence addressed by this project? Why? What are the key changes in the lives of those women and/or girls? Please describe those changes.
  4. What internal and external factors contributed to the achievement and/or failure of the intended project goal, outcomes and outputs? How?

Relevance

  1. To what extent was the project strategy and activities implemented relevant in responding to the needs of women and girls?
  2. To what extent do achieved results (project goal, outcomes and outputs) continue to be relevant to the needs of women and girls?

Efficiency

  1. How efficiently and timely has this project been implemented and managed in accordance with the Project Document?

Sustainability

  1. How are the achieved results, especially the positive changes generated by the project in the lives of women and girls at the project goal level, going to be sustained after this project ends?
  2. Does KNWO have adequate resources to provide high quality GBV services to refugees after the project ends?
  3. How will stakeholders sustain ownership of the well being of women and girls after the project ends?

Impact

  1. What are the unintended consequences (positive and negative) resulted from the project?
  2. Have survivors of GBV experienced any positive or unintended negative consequences since receiving services?
  3. Has there been any change in attitude toward GVB issues and stigmatization among stakeholders and camp residents?

Knowledge Generation

  1. What are the key lessons learned that can be shared with other practitioners on Ending Violence against Women and Girls? 
  2. Are there any promising practices? If yes, what are they and how can these promising practices be replicated in other projects and/or in other countries that have similar interventions?

 

  1. Evaluation Methodology

 

This evaluation will focus on process and outcomes and will be conducted by an external consultant specializing in GBV among displaced populations. The evaluation will use a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, including case audits, surveys and semi-structured interviews with clients, KNWO and camp stakeholders. The details regarding methods and respondents are laid out in the full term of reference to be provided to the recruited consultant.

 

The evaluation consultant will conduct two field visits to the two target camps in MHS province to conduct the semi-structured interviews and administer the short quantitative surveys with support from camp-based assistants. The participants in these semi-structured interviews and surveys will be selected using an appropriate means and criteria agreed between the evaluation consultant and IRC. Meanwhile, the cases that will undergo the evaluation audit will be chosen at random based on the GBV information management system (IMS) data collected during the UNTF project period.

 

The data gathered from these evaluation methods will be analyzed by the evaluation consultant and compiled into an evaluation report to be submitted to IRC Women’s Protection and Empowerment Manager for MHS and the Deputy Director of Programs for review by December 2015 prior to submission to UNTF in January 2016.

 

  1. Key deliverables of evaluators and timeframe 

 

 

Deliverables

Description of Expected Deliverables

Timeline of each deliverable (date/month/year)

1

Evaluation inception report

(language of report: English)

 

 

The inception report provides the IRC and the evaluator with an opportunity to verify that they share the same understanding about the evaluation and clarify any misunderstanding at the outset.

 

The inception report must include a proposed schedule of tasks, activities and deliverables, designating a team member with the lead responsibility for each task or product.

31/10/2015

 

2

Draft evaluation report

(language of report: English)

 

Evaluators must submit draft report for review and comments by all parties involved. The report needs to meet the minimum requirements specified in the annex of the detailed TOR.

 

The grantee and key stakeholders in the evaluation must review the draft evaluation report to ensure that the evaluation meets the required quality criteria.

31/12/2015

 

3

Final evaluation report

(language of report: English)

 

Relevant comments from key stakeholders must be well integrated in the final version, and the final report must meet the minimum requirements specified in the annex of the detailed TOR. 

 

The final report must be disseminated widely to the relevant stakeholders and the general public.

31/01/2016

 

 

  1. Evaluation team composition and required competencies

 

7.1 Evaluation Team Composition and Roles and Responsibilities

 

The Evaluation Team will be consisting of one international consultant and one national interpreter.

 

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.

 

The national interpreter will be responsible for assisting the evaluator in the design and implementation of all interviews and focus groups discussions with community level stakeholders. The national staff interpreter will assist the evaluator in ensuring the data collection tools are linguistically and culturally appropriate, and provide high quality interpretation and translation assistance to ensure the evaluator collects accurate and comprehensive information from all stakeholders engaging in the evaluation. The IRC will recruit the national interpreter directly to work with the Evaluator.

 

7.2 Required Competencies

Evaluator

Number of working days: 23

 

  • Evaluation experience of 5 to 10 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
  • Specific evaluation experiences in the areas of ending violence against women and girls
  • Experience in collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data
  • 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 of the context of Burmese refugees is highly desirable; in-depth knowledge of gender issues and issues of violence against women and girls in refugee contexts is required.
  • Language proficiency: fluency in English is mandatory; good command of
    Burmese and or Karenni (for Site 1) and Karen (for Site 2) is desirable.

 

  1. Budget

The total budget for this evaluation is USD 14,000. This amount will cover the consultant fees and international travel costs. The IRC will directly cover the costs of local travel and logistics.

 


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