Location : Home-based
Application Deadline : 09-Jul-21 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left : 13d 7h 54m
Type of Contract : Individual Contract
Post Level : International Consultant
Languages Required :
English
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
Background
Introduction:
These terms of reference guide the services sought by the UN Women Independent Evaluation Service (IES) for a Gender Equality and Climate Change Evaluation Consultant to support an IES-led formative evaluation of UN Women’s Climate Change work at the headquarters, regional and country levels. The Gender and Climate Change Evaluation Consultant will have expertise in gender equality and climate change and environmental programming and experience with gender responsive evaluations.
The formative evaluation will be forward-looking with a focus on future strategy development for implementing climate change programming within the context of UN Women’s Strategic Plan. It will draw on past and ongoing work to present evidence and develop learnings. The evaluation is expected to be complete by December 2021. The evaluation will be utilization focused and intended for strategic decision making and organizational learning by UN Women, partners, and others within the policy advocacy community of practice.
Context:
UN Women’s climate change work is guided by a series of international normative frameworks relating to climate change, including the Paris Agreement, Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Convention to?Combat Desertification, Sendai Framework for?Disaster Risk Reduction, and the Sustainable Development Goals. UN Women delivers on its commitment to support UN Member States in addressing structural barriers to gender equality and women’s empowerment by leveraging its triple mandate of normative support, UN system coordination and operational activities. Within this mandate, UN Women works to mainstream gender into national climate action plans and strategies, while climate change programming work includes awareness raising and capacity building to support environmentally friendly agriculture practices, disaster risk reduction and resilience work and other interventions. UN Women’s forward-looking areas of interest include gender-responsive green economy, decent work and economic autonomy for women?, violence against women in the context of disasters and climate change?, climate security, women’s agency and leadership in climate change?, climate financing, sustainable energy, gender-responsive budgeting, climate related migration, and ?increasing data and knowledge on the gendered dimensions of climate change.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Evaluation Lead and in collaboration with other evaluation team members, the Gender and Climate Change Evaluation Consultant will utilize their gender, climate change and environment expertise to provide thematic and technical guidance and direct input into evaluation reports (including the inception report, preliminary findings PPT, draft report and final report), quantitative and qualitative tool development and other supporting documents and literature reviews. The consultant will also support data collection, analysis and report writing.
The evaluation must adhere to the UN Women evaluation policy, the IEAS charter, the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards for Evaluation and Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation, and it should apply the criteria of UN Women’s Global Evaluation Reports Assessment and Analysis System (GERAAS) standards to the highest degree possible.
From the commencement of the contract, the consultant will be responsible for:
Provide technical/thematic guidance and support to the inception report (timeframe 2 weeks) based on substantive inception interviews, literature review and desk review of key UN Women and external documents. The Climate Change Evaluation Consultant will contribute to stakeholder identification and attend inception interviews with stakeholders as assigned. The consultant will also contribute analysis and technical input into the inception report and review and integrate comments into the final inception report.
Expected Timeframe: End of July, 2021
Provide technical/thematic guidance and support to quantitative and qualitative tool development (timeframe 1 week) to ensure evaluation questions are adequately addressed and key climate and gender dimensions of UN Women’s programming are incorporated. The Climate Change Evaluation Consultant will provide input into focus group discussion (FGD) questions/guides, semi-structured key informant interview (KII) surveys, and a quantitative online survey conducted with UN Women staff and partners. The consultant will help ensure the quality of the tools and their appropriateness for remote data collection.
Expected Timeframe: End of July, 2021
Supporting data collection and analysis (timeframe 3 weeks) in conjunction with other members of the evaluation team. The Climate Change Evaluation Consultant will help produce qualitative transcripts/interview notes from FGDs and KIIs with UN Women personnel and external stakeholders. The consultant will support qualitative data analysis through coding using NVivo. The Climate Change Evaluation Consultant is expected to undertake data analysis using available qualitative data, quantitative data, desk review results and other relevant secondary sources to produce critical strategic analysis, develop key findings and form recommendations for the final report. Through this process, the consultant is expected to triangulate results across all data sources. The consultant will also participate in meetings with the external evaluation reference group as required.
Expected Timeframe: August – September, 2021
Support the drafting and sharing of preliminary findings (timeframe 1 week) by contributing to presentation materials, developing and highlighting key findings and recommendations, creating visualizations and participating in results sharing workshops with key stakeholders and the external evaluation reference group.
Expected Timeframe: October 2021
Support the drafting of the evaluation report (timeframe 3 weeks) through thematic and technical input, results of the data analysis and literature reviews. The Climate Change Evaluation Consultant will contribute to the development of findings, recommendations and other analysis and will be responsible for contributing specific components/sections of the report as assigned. The consultant will review the overall report, findings and recommendations, making technical inputs and ensuring the quality of the document.
Expected Timeframe: November – December 2021
Competencies
Functional Competencies:
Demonstrated experience leading or supporting independent strategic gender-responsive evaluations in a UN or similar setting.
Ability to identify good practices and areas for improvement, in particular root causes, in the areas of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability, and provide specific, feasible and helpful recommendations and solutions.
Ability to produce timely, quality outputs.
Ability to work well in a collaborative, team environment, multi-task and work independently with little supervision as required.
Strong interpersonal, negotiation, presentation and communication skills including ability to listen actively and responds effectively.
Strong resourcefulness, logical thinking and report writing skills.
Demonstrated ability to use Microsoft office and qualitative and quantitative data analysis software for evaluation.
Required Skills and Experience
Education
Advanced university degree in Environmental Studies, Evaluation, Gender Studies, International Development or related field, or a first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
Experience
At least 7-10 years-experience conducting or supporting independent strategic evaluations of organizational programmes and thematic areas using a wide range of approaches and methods including utilization focused, gender and human rights responsive, and mixed methods required, with systems thinking approaches desirable.
Expertise in gender and climate change related programming such as DRR and relevant international frameworks and policies required.
Strong knowledge and understanding of the UN system, UN reform processes, and UN programming at the country level preferred.
Strong understanding and experience in the areas of gender equality and women’s empowerment, gender mainstreaming, gender analysis and the related mandates within the UN system, particularly in relation to climate change and DRR preferred.
Experience and knowledge on human rights issues, intersectionality, the human rights-based approach to programming and evaluation, programming with marginalized groups, human rights analysis and related mandates within the UN system preferred.
Excellent analytical, facilitation and communications skills and the ability to engaged and negotiate amongst a wide range of stakeholders required.
Languages
Fluency in English is required.
Working level knowledge of French, Spanish, Russian or Arabic languages is an asset.
Workplan
Activity
Timeframe (2021)
Inception Period
Draft inception report
End-July
Inception meeting
Early August
Finalize inception report
Early-July
Data collection and analysis
Data collection
August – September
Qualitative and quantitative data cleaning and analysis
October
Preliminary results presentation
Team analysis meeting and presentation of preliminary results
End-October
Development and design of PowerPoint presentation
Early-November
Presentation of preliminary results
Early-November
Report writing and dissemination
Draft report
End-November
Final report
Mid-December
Management response
January
Dissemination
January
Payment Plan
A lump sum consultancy fee based on UN Women standard consultancy rates will be paid in three tranches upon satisfactory certification of the following deliverables:
First tranche to be paid upon completion and acceptance of the inception report (20%),
Second tranche to be paid upon completion of the preliminary results sharing workshop (30%)
Third tranche to be paid upon completion and acceptance of the final report (50%)
No travel is expected. All work will be home based.
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