Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The project would facilitate sharing experiences and peer learning between network members through stories of change during the Gender Links, SADC at Work Protocol Summits and the Commonwealth Local Government Forum Conference. Network members’ stories and profiles would be shared on the CLGF and Gender Links web and Facebook platforms.

OBJECTIVES OF THE EVALUATION ASSIGNMENT
• Evaluation Objectives
• The main objectives of this Evaluation are to provide:
• An overall assessment of the past performance of the Connecting the dots: Local actions for women political and economic empowerment project, paying particular attention to its results measured against its expected outcome; and the reasons underpinning such results;
• Key lessons learned, conclusions and related recommendations to improve current and future interventions
• The Evaluation will assess the Intervention using the six standard DAC evaluation criteria
• Relevance: the “extent to which the intervention objectives and design respond to beneficiaries’, global, country, and partner/institution needs, policies, and priorities, and continue if circumstances change.”
• Coherence: the “compatibility of the intervention with other interventions in a country, sector or institution.”
• Effectiveness: the “extent to which the intervention achieved, or is expected to achieve, its objectives, and its results, including any differential results across groups.”
• Efficiency: the “extent to which the intervention delivers, or is likely to deliver, results in an economic and timely way.”
• Impact: the “extent to which the intervention has generated or is expected to generate significant positive or negative, intended or unintended, higher-level effects.”
• Sustainability: the “extent to which the net benefits of the intervention continue or are likely to continue.”
• Additionally, the evaluation team shall consider whether gender and disability inclusion and other mainstream development issues as outlined in the project proposal.
• Issues to be addressed
• The evaluators will propose Evaluation questions with specific value judgment criteria and indicators and the relevant data collection sources and tools in their inception report, which will be contractually binding. The following are the proposed indicative issues to be addressed by the Evaluation:
• The effectiveness of the proposed activities and outputs in increasing the participation of women in politics and economic development
• The extent to which capacity building initiatives (training and mentorship) have a measurable impact on increased self-esteem and confidence of YWLGN, WLGF and WLED members. What has changed in the lives of the network members?
• The extent to which the establishment and support for WLGFs and YWLGN networks helped bolster women’s empowerment and advocacy for increased women’s participation in local government. What has changed at the institutional level?
• The extent to which the project provided the WLED members with access to skills, services and markets. What has been the effect on women’s incomes?
• The key lessons to be learned from the project approach regarding the partnership approach to implementing the project, changes in project design and implementation, problems encountered, and adaptation to change.
• The extent to which the project design is replicable nationally and regionally.
• How the project has enhanced gender equality, disability inclusion and other development issues.
• How the project benefits can be sustained after project completion.
• Innovations and lessons that can be learnt from the project.
• Any unintended outcomes both positive and negative.
• 2.3 Expected outputs
• The evaluation process will be carried out in three phases as follows: (a) Inception, (b) Desk and Field, and (d)Synthesis. The evaluator is expected to implement the activities and deliver the outputs outlined in the table below.
• Phases of the Evaluation
• Key activities
• Outputs
• Inception Phase
• Initial document/data collection
• Background analysis
• Inception interviews
• Stakeholder analysis
• Reconstruction (or as necessary, construction) of the Intervention Logic, and description of the Theory of Change
• Methodological design of the evaluation and evaluation matrix (Evaluation Questions with judgement criteria, indicators and methods of data collection and analysis)
• Kick-off meeting with the Project Executive Team via remote conference
• Inception report
• Slide presentation of the inception report
• Desk and field phase
• In-depth document analysis
• Interviews with stakeholders
• Identification of information gaps and of hypotheses to be tested in the field phase
• Methodological design of the Field Phase
• Gathering of primary evidence with the use of tools such as interviews, focus groups, among others
• Data collection and analysis
• Virtual meetings with project stakeholders, indicatively with the Local Government Associations in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Eswatini, Ministries responsible for local government in all four countries, representatives of participating local authorities and project beneficiaries
• Slide presentation of the critical findings of the desk and field phase
• A 2 pager of intermediary note” (content described in section 4)
• Debriefing with the Project Evaluation Management Team
• Synthesis phase
• Final analysis of findings
• Formulation of the overall assessment, conclusions, and recommendations
• Reporting
• Draft Final Report
• Executive Summary
• Final Report
• Slide presentation
• Meeting with Project Evaluation Management Team via remote conference.
• Dissemination
• Presentation of 3 Evaluation Briefs
• Slide Presentation of evaluation briefs
• The product of the Evaluation, The Final Evaluation Report, in English with the following structure:
• Executive Summary (5 pages)
• The Executive Summary should be short, tightly drafted, to-the-point and free-standing. It should focus on the primary purpose of the Evaluation, outline the main analytical points, and indicate the main conclusions, lessons to be learned and specific recommendations.
• The Final Report (Maximum 25 pages)
• Introduction- containing a description of the country and sector background and the methodology adopted for the Evaluation
• Findings- organised by evaluation question answered according to the judgment criteria in the evaluation matrix validated in the inception report supported by evidence and reasoning.
• Lessons Learnt and Good practice- case studies, and to be disseminated to different stakeholders at national and regional stakeholders.
• Conclusions and Recommendations – with suggestions organised per evaluation criterion and recommendations clustered, prioritised and targeted to appropriate audiences.
• Annexes
• The Evaluation will be managed by the Project Evaluation Management Team comprising the CLGF Secretary-General, the Chief Executive Officer -Gender Links, CLGF Regional Programme Manager, Gender Links Regional Networks Manager, CLGF Project Officer Eswatini; Gender Links Country Manager and CLGF Project Technical Officer Zambia.

REQUIRED EXPERTISE
• Qualifications and Competencies of the evaluator or evaluation team
• The evaluation team is expected to possess the following qualifications and competencies:
• A minimum of a Master’s Degree in Gender, Public Administration, Development Studies or any other relevant fields,
• At least 10 years’ experience in gender equality, public administration and management and international development, particularly in local government,
• At least 10 years demonstrable experience in conducting external evaluations, particularly in gender equality and women’s empowerment, including at the international level,
• Knowledge of contemporary, regional and international gender equality and women empowerment developments, including the UN, Southern Africa Development Community and national gender equality instruments in Eswatini, Lesotho, Zambia and Zimbabwe
• Advanced knowledge in participatory appraisals and interviewing and reporting skills,
• Proven experience in capacity building (training and mentorship) for women, particularly women in politics and women entrepreneurs.
• Demonstrated understanding of gender equality, women empowerment, local government, and development in Eswatini, Lesotho, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
• Strong communication and analytical skills, including communicating with various stakeholders, ensuring that the Evaluation is understood and fully utilised, and
• Commitment to delivering timely, high-quality results, ensuring the evaluation report is credible to all stakeholders.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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