Senior Evaluation Consultant: Terminal Evaluation Go Blue Project NGO Job UN-Habitat

Senior Evaluation Consultant: Terminal Evaluation Go Blue Project NGO Job. Project Management Jobs In Kenya

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Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Chief, Independent Evaluation Unit, the Consultant will perform the following key objectives of the evaluation:

• Assess the performance of the project in terms of its availability of outputs and achievement of outcomes.
• Assess the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, sustainability and likelihood of impact of the project in applying integrated ecosystem approach to land-sea planning and management.
• Assess the measurable impacts the project has generated in terms for enhancing the capacity of national and county institutions to undertake integrated, ecosystem-based land-sea planning for sustainable blue economy and coastal resilience.
• Assess the extent to which effective data and knowledge-sharing mechanisms and a project data policy has been developed by the project management unit to enable open access and effective application of data and mapping resources generated by the project by national and county institutions and other stakeholders.
• Assess the extent to which the recommendations of the mid term evaluation were implemented and enhanced project implementation.
• Assess the planning, adequacy of resources, working arrangements and how these may be impacting on the effectiveness of the project.
• Assess the effectiveness of the joint working arrangements between UN-Habitat and UNEP and with partners at national, county, municipality and community levels.
• Assess how cross-cutting issues such as gender equality, persons with disability, youth and human rights have been integrated in the activities of the project.
• Assess how the effects of pandemics including COVID-19 and other internal factors such as changes in government and institutional reorganisation may have affected the performance of the project.
• Identify and validate areas of improvement, lessons learnt and make actionable recommendations to future interventions.
• Assess scope for scaling up of project outputs to support county-level and national processes, such like County Integrated Development Plans (CIDPs), County Spatial Plans, national marine spatial planning to enable development of bankable projects for fundraising.
• Assess whether an effective project exit strategy has been developed by the project management unit to ensure future sustainability and use of project outputs and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Advanced academic degree in evaluation, policy analysis, urban development, environment, gender, housing, infrastructure, governance or related fields is required.
• 10 years of evaluation experience in conducting and managing evaluations with extensive experience in conducting evaluations of complex programmes and/or partnership agreements is required.
• Strong track record of delivering specified outputs, presenting credible findings derived from evidence and drafting conclusions and recommendations supported by the evaluation findings is required.
• Knowledge and experience of regional/ multi-country projects is desirable. Knowledge and understanding of UN-Habitat and UNEP mandates and their operations is desirable.

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