External Evaluator

Anticipated approaches to be used for data collection:

• Desk Review: Review and analyze  project documents, including: proposal documents and quarterly narrative reports.
• Field visits and interviews: Design and conduct survey(s) with project partners/beneficiaries, and analyze results. Evaluator should determine with the program team how the survey will be deployed safely. Conduct remote interviews with key project partners and community members after results of surveys have been received and analyzed. Evaluator should determine with the program team how the interviews will be conducted safely.

Final analysis and write up:

• Draft report writing: Synthesize findings and draft report detailing the answers to the evaluation questions, findings, and recommendations.
• Meeting and finalizing report: Prepare and hold meetings with Project Manager to review preliminary findings, recommendations and discuss the final results with the Project Manager. 
• Presentation: Organize and conduct a presentation of key findings, recommendations, and lessons learned.

Objectives of the evaluation are:

• Assessment of the program’s quality and internal coherence (needs and problems it aimed to solve) and its external coherence with Anera’s and PRM’s regulations
• Assessment on how the program operated and what is the efficiency of its management model in planning, coordinating, managing and executing resources allocated for its implementation, through an analysis of its procedures and operational and institutional mechanisms. This analysis will seek to uncover the factors for success and limitations in the project.
• Assessment of design and relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the program and the level of achievement of envisaged program results and outcomes.
• Assessment of program’s different internal and external M&E systems and tools developed including data collection, statistics, research and analytical outputs, databases, guidelines, etc. and assessment of program’s communication strategy, outreach activities and impact.

The evaluation process is expected to contain three phases:

• Inception Phase (3 days) - the Evaluation Consultant will review documentation, agree on the meetings and field visit locations with the program Coordinator, and produce the Evaluation Inception Report with a clear evaluation work plan and tools.
• Data Collection and Field Visit (8 days) – the Evaluation Consultant will gather data through group and individual interviews and field visits. At the end of the mission, a presentation with preliminary findings and recommendations will be presented to the program team/Evaluation Reference Group.
• Analysis and Reporting (3 days) – the Evaluation Consultant will prepare the draft evaluation report based on the analysis of findings, and will submit the report to the Evaluation Reference Group for factual review and comments. Opportunity to comment on the draft report will be open to the Reference group for a maximum of 4 days. After this process ends, the Evaluation Consultant will proceed with production of the final evaluation report (1 Day).

The reports should include Financial and Technical separated parts.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters degree in a related field, graduate degree preferred
• Fluency in both written and spoken English required
• Demonstrated experience conducting evaluations of advocacy and human rights programs, particularly for US donors
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative M&E data collection and analysis methods
• Strong facilitation, presentation, writing and communication skills