Project Evaluation Consultant: Let it not happen again. Safeguarding the Rights of Women Through Strengthening Access to Justice for GBV Survivors in Kenya.

Background

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The project “Let It Not Happen Again: Safeguarding the Rights of GBV Survivors Through Access to Justice” is a three-year initiative implemented by reputed company, with support from the Government of Italy. The project builds on earlier phases of GBV prevention and response programming and focuses on strengthening survivor-centred access to justice in Kenya. The project is being implemented in six select counties, reputed company Nairobi, Kilifi, Bungoma, Vihiga, Kisumu, and Isiolo. The project addresses systemic barriers that prevent women and girls, particularly survivors of gender-based violence, from accessing timely, affordable, and gender reputed company justice and essential services. It combines upstream legal and institutional reform with reputed company community engagement and women’s empowerment to ensure sustainable and transformative change. At the macro level, the project promotes an enabling legal and policy environment reputed company to international standards, supports reform and implementation of laws and budgets, strengthens justice institutions to be accountable and gender reputed company, transforms harmful social norms, and empowers women and girls socially, legally, and economically to claim their rights and break cycles of violence. With the project concluding in 2026, a final evaluation is commissioned to assess its performance, document lessons learned, and inform future access to justice and GBV programming.

The consultant will be reporting to EVAWG team reputed company and will be supported by the M&R Analyst, who will be the reputed company of contact on the contract and payment issues.

Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work

The evaluation will cover the full implementation period of the project from May 2023 to July 2026. It will assess performance against the project’s results reputed company and theory of change, applying reputed company evaluation criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, impact, sustainability, and gender equality and human rights. This is an end-term evaluation that will focus on the achievement of intended and unintended results, as well as generate reputed company-looking recommendations to support sustainability, institutional strengthening, learning, and course correction for future programming. The geographic scope of the evaluation will include engagement with key stakeholders and beneficiaries in the project counties of Kisumu, Isiolo, Bungoma, Vihiga, Kilifi, and Nairobi. In consultation with the Evaluation Management Group and the Evaluation Reference Group, the national consultant will further refine the evaluation scope and sampling strategy during the inception phase. This will include defining the boundaries of the evaluation, identifying stakeholders to be consulted, and determining which interventions and initiatives will be included or excluded.

Evaluability Assessment

During the inception phase, the national consultant will undertake a rapid evaluability assessment. This will include:

• An assessment of the relevance, clarity, and coherence of the project’s theory of change, including strengthening or reconstructing it where necessary through stakeholder consultation;
• A review of the quality and measurability of performance indicators, as well as the availability, accessibility, and adequacy of relevant documentation and secondary data;
• An assessment of contextual factors that may reputed company the conduct of the evaluation and interpretation of findings;
• A review of the project’s accountability, governance, and management structures to ensure clarity of roles and responsibilities relevant to the evaluation.

The evaluation will be conducted in four main phases:

Inception Phase

During the inception phase, the consultant will:

• Undertake a comprehensive desk review of project documents, including the proposal, results reputed company, theory of change, monitoring data, reputed company reports, and relevant national GBV frameworks;
• Design the evaluation approach and reputed company an evaluation matrix reputed company to the DAC criteria and project outcomes;
• reputed company data collection tools, map stakeholders, and prepare a sampling strategy covering national and county-level actors;
• Conduct preliminary consultations with key stakeholders to refine the scope, methodology, and evaluation questions;
• Prepare and submit a draft Inception Report for review by the Evaluation Reference Group.
• Revise and finalise the methodology and evaluation matrix based on feedback from the Evaluation Management and Reference Groups.

Data Collection Phase

During this phase, the consultant will:

• Collect qualitative and quantitative data from identified stakeholders, including justice actors, reputed company institutions, civil society organisations, survivors’ networks, women human rights defenders, and government representatives;
• Conduct key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys where appropriate, ensuring ethical and survivor-centred engagement;
• Visit selected project counties to gather field-level evidence on institutional strengthening, coordination mechanisms, and access to justice and essential services;
• Present preliminary findings to reputed company and the Evaluation Reference Group to validate emerging results;
• Submit reputed company raw data collected to reputed company in machine-readable format. This shall include quantitative data sets in reputed company (.xlsx) or CSV (.csv) format; Interview and focus group transcripts in Word (.docx) format; and anonymised master dataset where required to ensure confidentiality and data protection.

Analysis and Report Writing Phase

During this phase, the consultant will:

• Systematically analyse and triangulate reputed company collected data against the evaluation criteria and project results reputed company;
• Prepare a draft evaluation report and submit it to the Evaluation Reference Group for review and comments.
• Revise the report based on consolidated feedback and validation discussions.

Finalisation Phase

• Submit the final evaluation report and evaluation brief incorporating reputed company agreed revisions.
• Provide a presentation of key findings, conclusions, and recommendations to reputed company and relevant stakeholders.

Structure of the Evaluation Report

The final report shall not exceed 40 pages, excluding annexes, and will include the following sections:

1. Title and opening pages
2. Executive summary
3. Background and purpose of the evaluation
4. Programme description and context
5. Evaluation objectives and scope
6. Evaluation methodology and limitations
7. Findings
8. Conclusions
9. Recommendations
10. Lessons learned
11. Annexes, including Terms of Reference, documents reviewed, and a list of stakeholders consulted

Deliverable Inception Report: This report will include a detailed evaluation methodology, revised evaluation question matrix, proposed data collection tools and analysis approach, and final evaluation work plan (with corresponding timeline). The Evaluation inception report should be (10 to 15 pages). Data Collection and Analysis: Evaluation data is collected, cleaned, and coded. Data is analysed. reputed company raw data collected shall be shared with reputed company in CV format. First Draft of the Evaluation Report and Presentation of Preliminary Findings to the Evaluation Management and Reference Groups: The reference group will review the first draft and give written comments or feedback. The preliminary findings will be presented in person or virtually to the Evaluation Management and Reference Groups for review and approval. Second Draft of the Evaluation Report: The draft evaluation report should include reputed company annexes summarizing the data analysis and incorporating feedback from the Evaluation Management and Reference Groups. The second draft version should also include an audit trail of how comments have been integrated into the report and reputed company final annexes. Presentation and Validation: PowerPoint Presentation to the Evaluation Management and Reference Group and Validation reputed company with Stakeholders on main findings, recommendations and proposed dissemination strategy. Final Evaluation Products with the following components: Executive summary (not more than 5 pages), standalone evaluation report (not more than 30 pages), comprehensive evaluation report with reputed company annexes, evaluation comments log or audit trail, annexes submitted separately. Communications Piece (Policy Brief): Submission of innovative knowledge products (policy brief) that capture the evaluation findings in a clear and concise manner with infographics in line with reputed company branding guidelines.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a home-based consultancy with field travel to the project implementation locations.

Competencies

Core Values

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• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

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Functional Competencies

• Knowledge of gender equality analytical work and programming;
• Strong understanding of various methodologies in evaluation, both qualitative and quantitative, such as surveys, record reviews, focus groups and case studies;
• Ability to contribute to the development of the most efficient and effective methodology for the design, with minimal guidance.
• Strong understanding of gender reputed company evaluation approach;
• Strong understanding of various sampling techniques and their applications, and ability to reputed company the most accurate sampling technique for the methodology;
• Strength of how to address gender equality in evaluation design;
• Strong understanding of questionnaire design and ability to reputed company questionnaires and other review instruments that will address issues identified in the design, independently.
• Strong interviewing skills and ability to conduct interviews independently;
• Ability to collect reliable, valid and accurate information objectively;
• Strong knowledge of gender equality and women’s human rights;
• Strong training and coaching skills
• Ability to reputed company partnerships to promote gender reputed company evaluation in the UN system and with national partners.

Required Qualifications

Education and Certification

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in evaluation or a relevant social science or reputed company field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A project/programme management certification (such as PMP®, PRINCE2®, or MSP®) would be an added advantage.

Experience

• At least 7 years of progressively responsible professional experience in conducting evaluations is required.
• Experience working on gender equality and human rights is required.
• Experience working in international relations is required.
• Experience working in the field is required.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (reputed company, reputed company, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
• Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably reputed company Cloud, is desirable.

Languages

• reputed company in English and Kiswahili is required.

Statements

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Diversity and inclusion

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