Фонд народонаселення ООН шукає експертів з оцінки

Фонд народонаселення ООН шукає експертів для оцінки другої Програми співробітництва між Фондом народонаселення ООН та Україною на 2012-2016 роки (далі – англ.)

UNFPA has been operating in Ukraine since 1996 through standalone projects mostly focusing on supporting the national family planning and reproductive health programmes and on developing systems for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV infection. The first UNFPA Country Programme for Ukraine has been implemented in 2006-2011 and addressed three key programmatic areas of reproductive health, gender equality, and population and development. Starting from 2012, UNFPA and its national counterparts have been delivering the second UNFPA Country Programme for Ukraine that extends through 2017.

As the current programme cycle is approaching completion, the UNFPA Country Office in Ukraine, in collaboration with the UNFPA Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and UNFPA Evaluation Office, is planning to conduct an independent evaluation of the second UNFPA Country Programme for Ukraine (2012-2017) as part of the Country Office monitoring and evaluation plan and in accordance with the UNFPA evaluation policy (DP/FPA/2013/5). The UNFPA country programme evaluation (CPE) will provide an independent assessment of relevance, performance and impact of UNFPA support provided to Ukraine during 2012-2016, as well as analysis of various facilitating and constraining factors influencing programme delivery. As per the evaluation policy, the CPE will serve three main purposes:

• demonstrate accountability to stakeholders on performance in achieving development results and on invested resources;
• support evidence-based decision-making;
• contribute important lessons learned to the existing knowledge base on how to accelerate the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action.

The evaluation will focus on the achievement of planned results of the country programme at the output and outcome levels. The findings, analytical conclusions and recommendations of the CPE will be used as inputs for the development of the new UN-Ukraine development partnership framework and the new UNFPA Country Programme for Ukraine for 2018-2022.

COMPOSITION AND QUALIFICATIONS OF THE EVALUATION TEAM

The evaluation will be carried out by a competitively selected independent Evaluation Team consisting of an Evaluation Team Leader and two Evaluators who are external to UNFPA. Ideally, the team members will combine knowledge and experience in monitoring and evaluation, preferably in the development sector, with technical knowledge and expertise in areas related to the UNFPA country programme.

The Evaluation Team Leader will hold the overall responsibility for the design and implementation of the CPE process. She/he will be responsible for the production and timely submission of all expected deliverables of the CPE, including design report, draft and final evaluation reports. She/he will lead and coordinate the work of the Evaluation Team and ensure quality of the evaluation products. The Evaluation Team Leader will be responsible for covering at least one programmatic area of the CPE. The Evaluation Team Leader should have the following qualifications:

• Advanced degree in social sciences, political science, public administration, economics or related fields
• Minimum 7 years of experience in leading complex evaluations, preferably in development aid for UN agencies or international development organizations
• Specialization and working experience in one of the programmatic areas covered by the evaluation (reproductive health and rights, gender equality, population and development, youth policies)
• Good knowledge and experience of working in the humanitarian settings will be strong assets
• Familiarity with UN and/or UNFPA mandate and activities
• Excellent management skills and ability to work with multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams
• Excellent analytical, communication and writing skills
• Good management skills and ability to work with multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams
• Excellent command of both spoken and written English and Ukrainian is required

The Evaluators will have in-depth knowledge and experience of some components of UNFPA programmatic areas (to complement those of the Evaluation Team Leader, so that all programme areas are covered) and excellent knowledge of the national development context, issues and challenges in the country. The evaluators will take part in the data collection and analysis work, and will provide substantive inputs into the evaluation processes through participation at methodology development, meetings, interviews, analysis of documents, briefs, comments, as advised and led by the Evaluation Team Leader. The modality and participation of evaluators in the CPE process, including participation in interviews/meetings, provision of technical inputs and reviews of the design report, drafting parts of the evaluation reports, will be agreed by the Evaluation Team Leader and done under her/his supervision and guidance. The necessary qualifications of the evaluators will include:

• Advanced degree in social sciences, political science, public administration, economics or related fields
• Minimum 3 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation
• Expertise and working experience in one of the programmatic areas covered by the evaluation (complementary to the specialization of the Evaluation Team Leader)
• Familiarity with UN and/or UNFPA mandate and activities
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in a multi-cultural team
• Excellent analytical, communication and writing skills in English
• Excellent command of both spoken and written English and Ukrainian is required

All Evaluation Team members should have in-depth knowledge of UNFPA programmatic areas and issues and challenges in the country. All must be committed to respecting deadlines of delivering outputs within the agreed timeframe. All should be knowledgeable of issues pertaining to gender equality.

The work of the Evaluation Team will be guided by the Norms and Standards established by the UN Evaluation Group. Team members will adhere to the Ethical Guidelines for Evaluators in the UN system and the Code of Conduct also established by UNEG. The evaluators will be requested to sign the Code of Conduct prior to engaging in the evaluation exercise.

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants that fulfil the above requirements are requested to submit a CV including the information about experience of evaluation of international programs and links to the relevant reports.

The deadline for submission of applications is 10 October 2016, 12:00 (Kyiv time).

Please, indicate Evaluation of the 2nd UNFPA Country Programme in the subject.

E-mail: [email protected].