Vacancy Announcement Details

The Evaluation Consultant will be responsible, in close consultation with the Project Manager for overall management of the evaluation and timely provision of its outputs. The Evaluation Consultant will ensure that all evaluation criteria and questions are adequately covered. More specifically:
Inception phase of the evaluation, including:
• preliminary desk review and introductory interviews with project staff;
• draft the reconstructed Theory of Change of the project;
• prepare the evaluation framework;
• develop the desk review and interview protocols;
• draft the survey protocols (if relevant);
• plan the evaluation schedule;
• prepare the Inception Report, incorporating comments until approved by the Project Manager

Data collection and analysis phase of the evaluation, including:
• conduct further desk review and in-depth interviews with project implementing and executing agencies, project partners and project stakeholders;
• interview project partners and stakeholders. Ensure independence of the evaluation and confidentiality of evaluation interviews.
• regularly report back to the Project Manager on progress and inform of any possible problems or issues encountered and;
• keep the Project/Task Manager informed of the evaluation progress.

Reporting phase, including:
• draft the Main Evaluation Report, ensuring that the evaluation report is complete, coherent and consistent with the Project Manager guidelines both in substance and style;
• liaise with the Project Manager on comments received and finalize the Main Evaluation Report, ensuring that comments are taken into account until approved by the Project Manager
• prepare a Response to Comments annex for the main report, listing those comments not accepted by the evaluation consultant and indicating the reason for the rejection; and
• (where agreed with the Project Manager) prepare an Evaluation Brief (2-page summary of the evaluand and the key evaluation findings and lessons)

Managing relations, including:
• maintain a positive relationship with evaluation stakeholders, ensuring that the evaluation process is as participatory as possible but at the same time maintains its independence;
• communicate in a timely manner with the Project Manager on any issues requiring its attention and intervention.

Specific tasks and responsibilities
The findings of the Review will be based on the following:
(a) A desk review of:
• Relevant background documentation, including documents related to the Belt and Road Initiative and International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure published by UNEP in 2021;
• Project design documents (including minutes of the project design review meeting at approval); Annual Work Plans and Budgets or equivalent, revisions to the project (Project Document Supplement), the logical framework and its budget;
• Project reports such as six-monthly progress and financial reports, progress reports from collaborating partners, meeting minutes, relevant correspondence and any other monitoring materials etc.;
• Project deliverables (e.g. publications, assessments etc) including output 1a - case studies developed, output 2a - Foresight Data Briefs published, and project proposals formulated, and output 2b - training completion reports including feedback from participants;
• Evaluations/Reviews of similar projects.

(b) Interviews (individual or in group) with:
• UNEP Project Manager (PM) - past and present;
• Project management team;
• UNEP Fund Management Officer (FMO);
• Sub-Programme Coordinator;
• Implementing partners (to be decided)
• Technical partners, including ITC-ILO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, Ministry of Environment of Rwanda , UNITAR, GiZ, etc.;
• Relevant resource persons.
• Representatives from civil society and specialist groups (such as women’s, farmers and trade associations etc).

(c) Surveys: continued countries effort to sustainable infrastructure

Full details available on the UNEP website. Application deadline 8th December