External Evaluator

Provide credible and reliable judgements on the programmes’ results, including in the areas of programme design, implementation, impact on beneficiaries and partners, and overall results. Provide high quality assessments accessible to a wide range of audiences, including FGE donors, UN Women, women’s rights and gender equality organizations, government agencies, peer multi-lateral agencies, and other actors. Identify novel/unique approaches to catalyse processes toward the development of gender equality commitments. Identify particular approaches and methodologies that are effective in meaningfully and tangibly advancing women’s economic and political empowerment. Identify lessons learned from the experience of grantees in order to influence policy and practice at national, regional and global levels. Inform and strengthen UN Women´s planning and programming by providing evidence-based knowledge on what works, why and in what context. Final evaluations are summative exercises that are oriented to gather data and information to measure the extent to which development results have been attained. However, the utility of the evaluation process and products should go far beyond what was said by programme stakeholders during the field visit or what the evaluation team wrote in the evaluation report. The momentum created by the evaluations process (meetings with government, donors, beneficiaries, civil society, etc.) is the ideal opportunity to set an agenda for the future of the programme or some of their components (sustainability) through a Management Response. It is also an excellent platform to communicate lessons learnt and convey key messages on good practices, share products that can be replicated or scaled‐up at the country and international level. The evaluator will provide inputs for the Reference Group to design a complete dissemination plan of the evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendations with the aim of advocating for sustainability, scaling‐up, or sharing good practices and lessons learnt at local, national or/and international level. The evaluation will assess: 1. To what extent the programme has contributed to solve the needs and problems identified in the design phase. 2. To what extent the programme was efficiently implemented and delivered quality outputs and outcomes, against what was originally planned or subsequently officially revised. 3. To what extent the programme has attained development results to the targeted population, beneficiaries, participants -whether individuals, communities, institutions, etc.-, therefore improving political and/or economic empowerment of women in COUNTRY/REGION