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| Vacancy id | VAC-12091 |
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| Job title | VAC-12091 National Consultant – Data Collection Project Evaluation |
| Location | Tripoli |
| Apply by | 10-Jun-2024 |
| Start date | 01-Jul-2024 |
| Duration | |
| Number of vacancies | 1 |
| Qualification | Bachelor’s in Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, statistics, development studies, or other related fields; • This assignment requires the services of a consultant that can demonstrate skills relating to analytical capacity, relevant gender analysis (especially collection and analysis of gender disaggregated data in the areas of livelihoods and resilience to climate change), adequate reporting and English editing, and the ability to use RBM language. (essential). |
| Sector experience | Minimum of Minimum of 10 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, and conducting surveys • Experience working on governance and rule of law evaluations or data collection • Prior experience of conducting baseline and impact studies in the development sector; • Experience of data collection in conflict situations; • Proven writing, analysis and presentation skills; • Fluency in written and spoken English and good drafting skills; • Working experience with the United Nations or similar organization in Libya would be an asset. year/s of demonstrable relevant M&E experience (essential). |
| Geographical experience | Minimum of 10 year/s of experience in MENA (essential). |
| Languages | Fluent in English (essential). Fluent in Arabic (essential). |
Job description
| CTG overview | CTG staff and support humanitarian projects in fragile and conflict-affected countries around the world, providing a rapid and cost-effective service for development and humanitarian missions. With past performance in 17 countries – from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia, we have placed more than 20,000 staff all over the world since operations began in 2006.
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| Overview of position | Children encounter the justice system as victims, witnesses, because they are in conflict with the law or as parties to the justice process, such as in custodial arrangements. Children in contact with the law” refers to children, who come into contact with the justice system as victims or witnesses, children alleged as. accused of or recognized as having infringed criminal law, or children who are in any other situation requiring legal proceedings, for example regarding their care, custody, or protection, including cases involving children of incarcerated parents. The Joint Programme aims to support the national authorities to ensure child friendly treatment for children in contact with the law, including those deprived of their liberty, within the framework of the UN Child Rights Convention (CRC) and other relevant international and national legal instalments. The Joint Programme combines the strengths of the participating UN organizations Our client , UNICEF and UNODC in a joint effort to ensure that children in contact with the law in Libya benefit from a child friendly justice system. The Joint programme will provide technical support in exploring alternatives to detention as well as to enhance services being delivered to children in contact with the law and their families to facilitate their rehabilitation and reintegration. The Joint programme will help set up and/or strengthen coordination mechanism based on clearly defined roles and responsibilities of relevant stakeholders. Considering the current context and capabilities, and in consultation with Libyan stakeholders, priority areas have been identified for programmatic engagement are as follows:
Overall objective: All children in Libya have access to a child-friendly justice system that protects their basic rights, in accordance with UN Child Rights Convention (CRC) and relevant international legal instruments. |
| Role objectives | In conducting the Final Evaluation of the “Developing Juvenile Justice in Libya” Joint Project, Our clientLibya is hiring a national consultant to assist the international consultant in fieldwork and data collection. The local consultant will collect, analyze, and present data through field work of conducting surveys, interviews, and field visits. The evaluation will also provide project donors with an assessment of the use of their resources.
The national consultant, guided by an international consultant, will conduct the assignment in Libya.
The purpose of the evaluation Our client commissions evaluations to capture and demonstrate evaluative evidence of its contributions to development results. This evaluation is carried out under the UNDP Evaluation Policy and the UNDP evaluation guidelines programme, which can be used by Our client, UNODC and UNICEF and their partners to strengthen existing programmes and to set the stage for new initiatives. The evaluation serves as an important accountability function, providing national stakeholders and partners in Libya with an impartial assessment of the results of our client governance support in line with national priorities and corporate strategies. In assessing the degree to which the project met its intended outcomes and results, the evaluation will provide key lessons about successful implementation approaches and operational practices, as well as highlight areas where the project performed less effectively than anticipated.
The results of the evaluation will draw upon lessons learned that will inform the donor, Our client, UNICEF and UNODC as the key stakeholders of this evaluation to inform phase II of the project. The evaluation will generate knowledge from the implementation of the project and reflect on challenges and lessons learnt. It will also propose actionable recommendations for future programming related to the next phase of the justice for children project. The evaluation will specifically focus on the following:
• An in‐depth review of implementation of various project outcomes and outputs outlined in the project document with a view to identifying the level of achievement as well as an analysis of factors in case the set benchmarks were not fulfilled.
• Review the extent to which the project has contributed to gender equality and women’s empowerment and other cross-cutting issues addressed during project planning and implementation.
• Assess the quality of partnerships, national ownership, and sustainability vis‐à‐vis the strategy in the project document, identify if there were gaps and document a lesson for future referencing.
• Extent of intended and unintended changes in development (condition/outcome) between the completion of outputs and achievement of impacts
• Review the oversight, reporting and monitoring structures designed to support the project strategies
Extract the lessons learned and best practices that can be considered in planning and design of future project phase and recommendations that can be applied projects with the same nature, focusing onstrengthening the justice for children system in Libya.
Methodology
Based on Our clients guidelines for evaluations, and in consultation with our client in Libya CO, the evaluation will be inclusive and participatory, involving all principal stakeholders into the analysis. The evaluator is expected to ensure close engagement with the head of PMSU, Monitoring & evaluation focal point, the international consultant and the project staff throughout the process. The evaluation will consider the social, political, security and economic context which affects the overall performance of the project. All evaluation products are expected to address gender, conflict sensitivity, disability and human right issues.
The evaluator is expected to follow a participatory and consultative approach. The evaluation must provide evidence‐based information that is credible, reliable, and useful. The evaluation will provide quantitative and qualitative data through, but not limited to, the following methods:
• Desk review of relevant documents (including project documents, donor reports with project amendments made, project quality assurance reports, annual workplans, financial reports etc.)
• Interviews and meetings with current and former (men and women) our client, UNICEF and UNODC Libya project staff and key stakeholders such as representatives of involved ministries, representatives of key civil society organizations, and partners:
o Field missions for data collection by national consultant
o Semi-structured key informant interviews designed for different categories of stakeholders (UNDP, UNICEF and UNODC Libya staff, government and civil society partners, beneficiaries) based on the key guiding evaluation questions around relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and impact.
o Focus group discussions with male and female beneficiaries and stakeholders.
• Surveys and questionnaires including participants in development programmes, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Data review and analysis of monitoring, financial data and other data sources and methods. Evidence will be provided for every claim generated by the evaluation and data will betriangulated to ensure validity. An evaluation matrix or other methods can be used to map the data and triangulate the available evidence.
• Gender and human rights lens. All evaluation products need to address gender, disability, and human right issues.
The evaluation methodology needs to employ a gender sensitive approach and inclusion principle and this needs to be elaborated in the evaluation report including how data-collection and analysis methods integrated gender considerations, use of disaggregated data and outreach to diverse stakeholders’ groups. The findings of the evaluation should lead to the elaboration of specific, practical, achievable recommendations that should be directed to the intended users.
The proposed approach and methodology should be considered as flexible guidelines rather than final requirements. The evaluators will have an opportunity to make their inputs and propose changes in the evaluation design—with the final methodological approach to be clearly outlined in the inception report and fully discussed and agreed between our client, key stakeholders and the evaluators.
Due to travel restrictions imposed by local security and immigration protocols, the majority of work by international consultant will be done remotely (home-based) using different tools (Zoom, WhatsApp, Microsoft teams, etc.) to conduct the evaluation—as such, the evaluation will be primarily home-based for the international consultant. Meanwhile, national consultant will significantly contribute to data collection on site through field missions and through direct contacts with beneficiaries and desk review of local materials.
In consultations with the M&E Focal Person and our client , UNODC and UNICEF project staff, the consultant will undertake the following steps: 1) Support the international consultant to define the scope of the analysis and evaluation questions specific to the assigned project final evaluation. Propose feasible and cost-effective solution to narrow down the scope of analysis and focus on the most relevant information;
2) Support the international consultant to collect qualitative, quantitative and contextual information regarding the current state in supported communities, regional and national levels. Identify sources of information, including the results of studies or prior reports that are relevant to the current project environment, data and identifying key informant and target groups for surveys in the supported communities.
3) Support the international consultant in developing an inception report (IR). The IR will be shared with relevant partners. The report will include a detailed methodology and data collection plan. The consultant will include in the IR proposed sample size, sampling plan, questions, technical tools to conduct surveys and other data collection. Other tools may include in-depth interviews with key local partners and beneficiaries. Suggested key informants will be identified and questions will be presented in the IR. The IR will include a plan for fieldworkand data analysis. All approaches will follow the conflict sensitivity principle by ensuring that the methodologies used do not result in increased risk for respondents, the Project team and the consultants.
4) Local consultant will translate the approved IR data collection tools into Arabic.
5) Based on the approved IR, participate in data collection under the guidance and with involvement of the international consultant. The local consultant will administer surveys and organize focus groups and interviews. Following the fieldwork, the consultancy team (international and national consultant) will prepare and deliver a short presentation to UNDP, UNICEF and UNODC, on the initial findings and recommendations.
Building on the debrief and initial feedback received, the consultancy team will produce a draft evaluation report that will be shared with project partners for review. The report will include, at a minimum: executive summary, list of acronyms, introduction, project context and evaluation purpose, framework and methodology, findings and recommendations. Annexes will include the inception report, list of documents reviewed, list of persons interviewed or consulted and data collection instruments. The comments will be addressed and final evaluation report, summary product and presentation will be submitted. |
| Project reporting | Head of PMSU and International Evaluator |
| Key competencies | Competencies
• Analytical skills, communications abilities, teamwork.
Special skills requirements • Demonstrated knowledge of resilience and peace building challenges in Libya;
• Strong analytical skills, such as statistical analyses, particularly applied to peace and resilience profiling;
• Proven experience in conducting surveys of diverse stakeholders in Libya.
Functional Competencies: • Building Strategic Partnerships with relevant stakeholders;
• Ability to identify needs and interventions for capacity building of counterparts, clients and potential partners.
Results Orientation • Ability to take responsibility for achieving agreed outputs within set deadlines and strive until successful outputs are achieved.
Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing • Identifies new approaches and strategies that promote the use of tools and mechanisms;
Knowledge of inter-disciplinary development issues |
| Team management | Teamwork and Communication skills
• Excellent time management skills;
• Openness to change and ability to receive/integrate feedback;
• Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
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| Further information | Under the overall guidance of our client head of PMSU, the Consultant will undertake the Baseline Survey.
The Consultant is expected to bring his/her own laptop and mobile phone and meet local communications costs. Costs of arranging meetings, workshops, during the focus group discussions. shall be covered by UN agencies. The consultant will need to provide their own laptop and mobile phone and cover any associated local communication costs. our client will support for all organization related to arranging meetings, workshops, and focus group discussions. |
| Disclaimer: · At no stage of the recruitment process will CTG ask candidates for a fee. This includes during the application stage, interview, assessment and training. · CTG has a zero tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) which is outlined in its Code of Conduct. Protection from SEA is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to CTG’s Code of Conduct at all times. |
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