UN Women: National Evaluation Consultant, Home Based, National Consultant

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  • *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.

Afghanistan remains one of the world’s most complex and protracted crises. Afghan women and girls face severe restrictions on their rights and participation in public life, compounded by humanitarian and economic challenges. UN Women Afghanistan remains committed to supporting Afghan women and girls and ensuring their leadership and participation in all response efforts.

The Country

Office focuses on five programmatic pillars: (1) Integrated Programming and Localization; (2) Women’s Civil Society; (3) Policy and Research; (4) Economic Resilience and Empowerment; and (5) Coordination, Access and Humanitarian Response. The office operates from Kabul with sub-offices in Balkh, Bamyan, Herat, Kandahar, and Nangarhar.

The Twinning initiative was conceived as a catalytic pilot under Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan (STFA) Output 4 to strengthen the institutional and technical capacities of women-led organizations (WLOs), enhance their engagement in humanitarian and Basic Human Needs (BHN) programming, and institutionalize their participation within Afghanistan’s aid architecture.

The initiative is administered by UN Women Afghanistan Office, with a Project Implementation Unit embedded within its Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Unit and supported by sub-offices in Herat and Nangarhar. The project is being implemented in Kunar, Nangarhar and Laghman Province in the eastern region and Herat and Farah Province in the western region. The project engaged 3 INGOs across the project and 7 Women’s Organisation each in the Eastern and Western region.

In line with the “Delivering as One” approach, the project builds synergies with other UN-supported CSO strengthening initiatives and pooled funding mechanisms, aiming to institutionalize women-led and focussed CSOs’ participation in humanitarian and BHN programming while advancing localization and gender-responsive aid delivery.

A Final Evaluation is being undertaken to independently assess the overall performance, achievements, limitations, and sustainability of the initiative. The evaluation will examine the extent to which the initiative achieved its intended outcomes, including strengthened institutional capacities of participating WLOs, improved technical competencies for gender-responsive programming, enhanced engagement within coordination mechanisms, and strengthened partnerships between WLOs, INGOs, and relevant stakeholders.

The evaluation team will comprise of one national and one international consultant.

The National Evaluation Consultant will be reporting to the Programe management support manager, who will serve as the primary focal point for the evaluation, and will work in close collaboration with the international consultant.

  • *Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work**
The national consultant will support the international consultant and will be involved in all phases of the evaluation, from the design and development of evaluation tools to data collection, reporting and dissemination of results. The national consultant will accompany the international evaluation consultant for the data collection at the field and support with translation and delivery of the tools. The international evaluation consultant will hold the overall responsibility for the design and implementation of the evaluation.

The duration of the assignment/consultancy is 30 working days (over a period of two months) after signing of contract. Days are inclusive of travelling, field work and reporting.

UN Women Afghanistan Country Office is seeking a consultant (National Evaluation Consultant) to be part of the Evaluation Team and closely support the evaluation process, ensuring cultural sensitivity, accuracy, and quality of evaluation outputs. The consultant is expected to fulfill the following responsibilities:

Contributions to the Inception Phase:

  • Review and Adjustment of Data Collection Tools and Plan:
  • Develop and/Review data collection tools and the data collection plan, make suggestions to ensure they are culturally and contextually appropriate and translate the final versions.
  • Provide inputs to the inception report:
  • Ensure the overall evaluation methodology is contextualized and culturally sensitive.
Data Collection and quality control:
  • Work closely with the international consultant to collect the dataTranslate the tools and interview notes where needed.
  • Verify the accuracy and cultural appropriateness used in the evaluation tools and protocols, ens
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