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Date Posted: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Terms of Reference for consultancy to carry out a final evaluation of the EOL financed Zambia National Education Coalition Project 2020-2021.
Title of the consultancy “Evaluation of EOL financed Zambia National Education Coalition Project 2020-2021”
Background Information The Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) was awarded a grant from the Education Out Loud (EOL) fund in 2020. Education Out Loud (EOL) fund is established by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) for supporting civil society organisations in their efforts to advocate for improved national public education systems in low-income – and lower-middle income countries with the aim of ensuring that the public national education systems become stronger in producing equality and gender transformative quality education for all, including for marginalized groups. Oxfam-IBIS is the Grant Agent of EOL. As part of the EOL Operational Component 1, EOL supports 50+ National Education Coalitions (NECs) that gather the voices of organisations of those marginalized groups that tend to be discriminated in the national education systems, such as girls and women, people living with disabilities and people living below the poverty line.
EOL OC1 provides support to the National Education Coalitions to enable them to exist and participate with a coordinated voice in education policy discussions to defend the right to education for all and particularly for the marginalized groups. The OC1 grants also support the strengthening of the national education coalitions´ capacities and skills to participate effectively and meaningfully in evidence based and policy-relevant discussions.
Overall the EOL OC1 Theory of Change is that the national public education systems will improve if civil society organisations participate in policy setting arenas and discussions and advocate in favour of marginalized groups´ right to quality education; particularly if the civil society organisations are strong actors with good governance, technical and advocacy skills acquired through diverse learning strategies; and are capable of collecting and using evidence on the education situation of marginalized groups and in participating in the multi-level monitoring efforts.
The global EOL OC1-Objective is to strengthen national civil society engagement in education planning, policy dialogue and monitoring, and the expected outcomes at the end of the EOL program are briefly stated:
1. ZANEC has become more inclusive, particularly of marginalized groups
2. ZANEC has better capacity to engage in policy dialogue
3. Policy changes have taken place, influenced by civil society
4. Learning collaboratives on civil society strengthening are in place
Oxfam IBIS is the EOL Grant Agent. The EOL structure consists of a Global Management Unit (GMU) placed in Denmark and four Regional Management Units (RMUs) for West and Central Africa (WCA) placed in Ghana; Horn, Eastern and Southern Africa (HESA) placed in Uganda; Asia and Pacific (AP) in Nepal; and Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) in Mexico, respectively.
ZANEC, just like other 51 National Coalitions that are OC1 grantees, elaborated its own fully fledged project with information about the national context; theory of change, objectives, expected outcomes, outputs, activities and budget.
Among others, ZANEC participated in policy discussions to advocate for marginalized groups´ right to quality educations. ZANEC also participated in the Policy Implementation Technical Committee (PITC) also known as the Local Education Group (LEG) where the Education and Skills Sector Plan (ESSP) is discussed and ZANEC positions are presented to influence policy implementation. From March 2020 when the first cases of COVID 19 were recorded in Zambia, ZANEC had to rapidly adapt to the use of virtual meetings as means for raising concerns directly with the Ministry of Education and other public authorities regarding the continuity of learning amidst the COVID 19 pandemic for all learners including poor and marginalized groups such as people with disabilities and female adolescents. All EOL supported Coalitions including ZANEC are considered to have contributed to changes in public policies, laws, directives and guidelines since the start of the project in 2020. While the Covid-19 has negatively affected EOL program implementation in general and caused that some activities such as workshops and project visits to be cancelled; it is estimated that 40 (¾) of the 52 supported NEC projects are on-track reaching their expected project results at the end of 2020.
EOL incorporates the human rights-based approach and aligns to the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG4 on quality education. The promotion of gender equality and inclusion of marginalized groups, such as people living with disabilities, is a cross-cutting concern in the EOL program.
Purpose and objectives of the consultancy The purpose of the consultancy is to evaluate the EOL financed Zambia National Education Coalition project (2020-2021).
The specific objectives are to:
1) Compile information to document and/or confirm to what extent project outcomes and objectives were achieved (including change in the education policy formulation, implementation and monitoring; and effect on cross-cutting themes such as gender and inclusivity) and/or reported to EOL; in order to evaluate the project´s effectiveness and efficiency; in addition to evaluate its relevance in the national context (for marginalized groups´ interests/rights and in relation to national policies/priorities) and ability to adapt as well as the sustainability of the results achieved.
2) Compile information about lessons learned, good practices and successful innovations through the systematization of information, analysis and evaluation of the EOL financed ZANEC project, in order to orient the EOL Program and ZANEC for improving future project strategic planning and adaptation, particularly in relation to promote policy changes aimed at ensuring equality generating and transformative quality education for marginalized groups.
3) Make recommendations on how to improve the strategic orientation and implementation of future ZANEC project(s). This evaluation is carried out during the last semester of the implementation of the EOL financed ZANEC project, and the results will be used as input to inform or adapt an eventual new EOL financed ZANEC project design.
The primary users of the evaluation are the Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) and EOL Regional Management Unit.
The secondary users of the evaluation are EOL Program staff and stakeholders, such as Oxfam IBIS staff, GCE and its regional coalitions, etc.
Scope of the Evaluation The evaluation should concentrate on those ZANEC strategies and activities, that are financed by EOL (first phase of EOL financed ZANEC project), and carried out in the period from January 2020 (including coalitions that went through a Year Zero) to the end of December 2021.
The evaluation should not take into account ZANEC activities that have been financed by other donors and sources, unless there has been at least 50% EOL co-financing of the relevant initiative.
The evaluation will integrate human rights approach, gender equality perspective, disability inclusion and other non-discrimination issues as a cross-cutting concern throughout its methodology and all deliverables, including the final report.


Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure

Download the full Call for Bids ToRs for Project external evaluation 2021 here. 
Send Expressions of Interest to: The Executive Director, Zambia National Education Coalition, Baptist Fellowship Building, Plot 3061/2 Corner Makishi Road and Great East Road, P.O. Box 30774, Lusaka-Zambia,

Email: admin@zanec.org.zm 


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