Call for Consultancy - Reducing SGBV in Refugees and Host Communities in Lebanon – Evaluator

Project: Reducing SGBV in Refugees and Host Communities in Lebanon

Title: Project evaluator

Position: Project evaluation

Location of implementation: Beirut / ML

Duration of assignment: 10 December 2022 – till 10 January 2023

About ABAAD

ABAAD– Resource Center for Gender Equality is a UN ECOSOC accredited organization that aims to achieve gender equality as an essential condition to sustainable social and economic development in the MENA region.

ABAAD advocates for the development and implementation of policies and laws that enhance women’s effective participation, through a rights-based approach that would bring about tangible change to gender justice.

With the purpose of ending gender-based violence, ABAAD adopts a holistic care approach to provide protection and support services to GBV survivors/right holders during times of peace, war and disasters since 2011.

Overall goal of this assignment

In line with ABAAD’s accountability principle towards the beneficiaries - ABAAD is seeking an evaluator to provide an assessment of the overall project progress and results against the objectives and indicators of achievement.

The evaluation will assess the impact, effectiveness, and sustainability of the project; explore the key factors that have contributed to the achieving or not achieving of the intended results; and determine the extent to which the project is contributing to improving public service delivery; addressing crosscutting issues of gender equality and women’s empowerment human rights, advocacy part; and forging partnership at different levels: Lebanese government, local communities and donor.

The evaluation exercise is intended to inform ABAAD and Diakonia about the project’s impact on the direct and indirect beneficiaries of the project within their respective communities, programme recommendation and lessons learned.

Geographical Scope:

Evaluation of project activities in the following implementation areas: Beirut-Mount Lebanon, Beqaa, Men center, Beirut and ML supported social development centers.

METHODOLOGY

The consultant is expected to propose specific methodologies they will use in the reports to be submitted to ABAAD Lebanon for approval. These should demonstrate the use of mixed methods approach in arriving at findings and ensure data quality. In addition, the report should elaborate on data collection methods, tools and timetables for the studies. The consultant must ensure compliance with the Programme’s Core Principles below throughout the development of the development of the baseline study:  

• A Gender-responsive approach (GRA)
• Inclusiveness
• Do no harm
• Accountability

 
EXPECTED DELIVERABLES

• The main reports expected to be delivered include:
  • An inception report detailing the main evaluation matrix and objectives.
  • End Report that reflects a review on the activities done and determines the impact of the project.
  • Results and Learning at the individual beneficiary level.

• The consultant should provide practical actionable recommendations on the scalability of the project and amplification of its learnings.
• The report should include detailed description of methodology including data collection tools and strategies, and approach to include core principles as described in the ToR.
• The report and data collection tools should be submitted to ABAAD for approval.
• All raw data collected, interview transcripts, and summaries shall be provided to ABAAD.

 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

With support from ABAAD the evaluator will lead the process of:

• Methodology, planning and quality control procedures; 
• Reviewing existing information, preparing outlines, including study objectives, research questions, and development of sampling methodologies; 
• The consultant will finalize the topics for assessment in consultation with ABAAD (the extent and rigor of this assessment will depend on the study objectives and the result framework outputs);
• The consultant will guide and provide required technical support to the field teams for carrying out interviews and gathering information from different stakeholders;
• The consultant will remain responsible for the entire study maintaining the highest level standards and quality and for producing the final reports.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

Experience  

• In depth knowledge and experience on research methods;
• Experience working within the local Lebanese context;
• Experience working on evaluation and learning studies; and  
• Previous evaluations relating to GBV, youth and gender studies is advantageous 

General competencies

• Fluent in both oral and written English and Arabic
• Strong interpersonal and oral communication skills;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• High level planning, organizational and time management skills;
• Ability to quickly adapt to change, and to remain calm under pressure; and
• Excellent analytical and report writing skills.

Qualifications

Post graduate degree/s in fields such as Development studies, Social Sciences, gender related studies.