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UN Women: National consultant to provide the Final evaluation of the EU funded project “Strengthened Gender Action in Cahul and Ungheni districts”.

Vacancy Number: Pr22/02560

Location:	Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline:	09 Sep 2022, 23:00 (GMT+2:00)
Application Extended deadline:	16 Sep 2022, 17:59 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:	Individual Contract
Starting date:	15 Sep 2022
Reference to the project:	UN Women
Expected Duration of Assignment:	6 months
Supporting Documents: Annex I. Price Proposal Guideline Annex II. Price Proposal Submission Form ToR National Consultant on Project Final Evaluation UN Women P11 form UN Women Conditions of Service Consultants

Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls, the empowerment of women, and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace, and security. Placing women's rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world.

Through its programmes and projects, UN Women is providing technical assistance to national partners (governmental and non-governmental), including the private sector, in the implementation of existing international and national commitments to women’s rights and gender equality, it facilitates networking and exchange of good practices and advocates for women’s rights and gender equality in all areas of life.

UN Women’s presence in the Republic of Moldova has evolved from being a project-based office in 2007 to a Country Office with fully delegated authority as of 2015. The work of UN Women in Moldova is guided by its Country Strategic Note for 2018-2022, aligned with the Republic of Moldova–United Nations Partnership Framework for Sustainable Development 2018–2022, the Global Strategic Plan of UN Women for 2018-2021, the National Strategy on Gender Equality for 2017-2021 (NSGE) and aims to contribute to the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

UN Women Strategy for Moldova 2018-2022 focuses on three main areas: 1) strengthening women’s participation in politics and decision making, 2) economic empowerment of women, and 3) ending violence against women and girls. To achieve progress in these areas, UN Women works with a variety of national and international partners and as part of different national and regional initiatives.

Based on the European Commission Decision ENI/2018/041-302 regarding the Annual Action Programme 2018 in favour of the Republic of Moldova for Support for the Implementation of the EU-Moldova Association Agreement, it was proposed that United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) will implement the following the project Strengthened Gender Action in Cahul and Ungheni districts with the short title: “EVA”.

Scope of work

The final evaluation of the Strengthened Gender Action in Cahul and Ungheni districts will be conducted at the end of project implementation and will cover the duration of the project January 2020 - December 2022. The evaluation will be conducted between September 2022 – March 2023.

The evaluation includes a data collection mission to Chisinau and to selected project sites in the district of Cahul and Ungheni, in case the epidemiological situation in the country will allow the field visits. 

The evaluation shall cover and analyse all aspects of the implementation of the project.

The objectives of this evaluation include to:

• Analyse the relevance and coherence of the programme objectives, strategy and approach at the local and national levels for the gender equality mainstreaming in local public policies and combating domestic violence affecting women and children.
• Assess effectiveness and a potential measurable impact of the project intervention on the target group across all communities under the project interventions.
• Assess organizational efficiency and coordination mechanisms in progressing towards the achievement of the project results, including the achievement of gender equality mainstreaming and combatting domestic violence affecting women and children.
• Assess the sustainability of the results and the intervention in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in the target group.
• Analyse how human rights-based approach and gender equality principles are integrated in the programme implementation.
• Asses how the intervention and its results relate and contribute to the Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals.
• Identify and document lessons learned, good practices and innovations, success stories and challenges within the project, to inform future work of UN Women and UNICEF in the frameworks of gender equality and women’s empowerment trough implementation of gender mainstreaming and combating domestic violence against women and children.
• Identify strategies for replication and up-scaling of the project’s best practices identified during the project implementation.
• Provide actionable recommendations with respect to UN Women’s and UNICEF work on gender mainstreaming and combating domestic violence against women and children.

Requirements for experience

Education:

• At least a master’s degree in economics, social sciences, international relations, development studies, gender equality or related area.

Experience:

• 3 years of relevant experience and involvement in several evaluations of development projects.
• Experience/knowledge of gender equality and women’s empowerment at the country level.
• Experience within the United Nations system will be considered an asset.

Language requirements:

• Fluent in English, Romanian written and spoken. Knowledge of Russian will be an asset.

Documents to be included

Interested candidates are invited to submit their online applications with the following documents:

1. Dully completed UN Women Personal History Form (P11 form) as attachment UN Women Personal History Form

2. Letter of Intent to include a brief overview about which of your previous experiences makes you the most suitable candidate for the advertised position.

3. Filled in and signed Financial proposal (Annex II) 

Financial proposal

Financial proposal, specifying a total lump sum amount for the tasks specified in Terms of References. The Financial proposal shall include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (daily rate). Please see ANNEX I and ANNEX II.