Governance Equality and Social Inclusion Expert

CAMRIS International

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Governance Equality and Social Inclusion Expert, SajhedariBikaas Evaluation - Nepal

OVERVIEW:

CAMRIS International is an international development and research firm that realizes innovative solutions to health and development challenges through high-quality, cost-effective program and research management services. With experience working in more than 80 countries, we combine our proven systems with today’s most effective, evidence-based best practices to improve the lives of people around the world. We apply a customized, customer-centric, cost-effective business approach to offer greater value to our clients and challenge the way things have always been done in our field. CAMRIS' clients include U.S. government agencies and multilateral and private organizations. Our core practice areas include public health, agriculture and food security, economic development, education, environment, humanitarian assistance, democracy and governance, and medical research. 

CAMRIS seeks a qualified GESI Expert for endline evaluation of SajhedariBikaas (Partnership for Local Development) under the current USAID/Nepal Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning (MEL) project. The MEL Project supports achievement of USAID/Nepal’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy development objectives by assisting the Mission in planning, designing, conducting, disseminating and learning from more rigorous monitoring and evaluation of development activities. This includes designing and implementing both quantitative and qualitative evaluations and assessments, as well as providing expert analysis and technical assistance to USAID/Nepal’s programs. 

The MEL project has three major components:

  • Component 1: Support greater rigor and coherence in USAID/Nepal’s M&E efforts
  • Component 2: Design and conduct analyses, evaluations, surveys, studies, and assessments
  • Component 3: Support improved knowledge management within the Mission

Background of the Project to be Evaluated: 

Sajhedari’s aim is to improve local governance in Nepal through four principal objectives:

  1. Establish and improve the enabling environment for community development;
  2. Improve communities’ ability to access resources for development;
  3. Improve communities’ ability to effectively implement inclusive development projects; and
  4. Increase the ability of existing and new government units to function effectively.

This evaluation will focus on activities implemented during the life of the project to synthesize evidence for results to date to better understand the extent to which USAID’s development hypothesis/es were validated or not through the course of the project, document lessons learned, and provide recommendations for planning any future development programming in the area of local governance. Specifically, the evaluation will consider the following lines of inquiry: a) Governance Systems and Ownership Impact, b) Peace Impact, c) Intra-project Complementarity and GESI Impact, and d) Cross-Sectoral Impacts.

Responsibilities:

  • Draft the evaluation design and plan to address the evaluation questions outlined in the Scope of Work; 
  • Review project document and relevant literatures to identify the approaches, good practices, methods and tools that will be applied to evaluation the democracy, governance and conflict sensitive interventions at the national to local levels;
  • Design high quality and rigorous evaluation tools and pilot test the tools to ensure content richness and conflict sensitivity;
  • Collect field data in close coordination with and building trust of major stakeholders such as government, community, and civil society;
  • Provide technical support, training and mentoring to field team members on conflict/gender-sensitive/peacebuilding to ensure quality evaluation;
  • Ensure that GESI and sustainability are integrated in each stage of project evaluation
  • Data collation, cleaning, coding, analysis and report writing  
  • Present and disseminate the report to wide stakeholder as needed
  • Ensure timely and quality deliverables such as evaluation deign, work plans, and report;
  • Undertake other duties as assigned by the Team Leader.

Qualifications:

  • At least Master’s degree, Ph.D. is preferable in social science or other related subject area.
  • A minimum of five years’ experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of democracy and governance related projects, with a focus on gender and social inclusion.
  • Broad technical experience of working with the functions and operation of gender equality and social inclusion, GESI assessment tools and approaches including specific and extensive knowledge of Nepal.
  • Good Knowledge of local governance and development sustainability.
  • Experience of conducting interviews and discussions in Nepali and English.
  • Outstanding attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
  • Knowledge of USAID rules, regulations, and procedures preferred
  • Excellent communication skills and well-developed interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work independently, and as part of a team
  • High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office applications

Qualified applicant are requested to apply through following link:

https://careers-camris.icims.com/jobs/2841/gender-equality-%26-social-inclusion-%28gesi%29-expert/job

Overview

Category Development and Project
Openings 1
Experience 5+ years
Education Please check vacancy details
Posted Date 02 Jun, 2017
Apply Before 01 Jul, 2017
City Kathmandu