Gender Justice Programme Evaluation

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ACT Alliance

Location: Home based with In-Person validation meeting in Bangkok 2023

Duration: October 2019 to December 2023

Type of Contract: Individual Contract

Languages required: English, Arabic, French and Spanish

Duration of Contract: 40 days (including 3 days in-person meeting)

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About ACT Alliance

Alliance is the world’s largest coalition of Protestant and Orthodox churches and church-related organisations engaged in humanitarian, development, and advocacy work. It consists of 144 members working together in over 120 countries, with headquarters in 73 countries, whose aim is to create a positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people regardless of their religion, politics, gender, sexual orientation, race, or nationality in keeping with the highest international codes and standards. 64% of our members are headquartered in the Global South, 30% in the Global North, and 6% are Global members. For more details about the general work of ACT, please refer to http://www.actalliance.org/.

Our goal is to promote a locally led and coordinated approach to advocacy, humanitarian, and developmental issues.

Gender Justice is one of the priorities identified in ACT Alliance’s current global strategy (2019 – 2026). Through the ACT Gender Programme, ACT is also seeking to strengthen structures and processes that will deliver a strong record of results and effective programming that respond to intersecting inequalities.

Gender Justice Programme

Challenging patriarchal or other structures of power and creating an enabling environment for gender justice requires interventions at multiple levels: societal, community, household and individual.

ACT Alliance is countering the backlash against women’s rights, including their sexual and reproductive health and rights, by creating a new narrative that positions faith-based actors and communities at the centre of a transformative process. We are working to ensure that faith actors are part of the solution.

ACT Alliance is committed to ensure gender equality and identity as common values and inalienable human rights. For this reason, ACT Alliance established the Gender Justice Programme in 2019, to challenge patriarchy and other discriminatory structures of power and oppression. The programme is the first of its kind in ACT Alliance. The pilot programme is currently funded by Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) for a three-year period (2020-2023) through the Strategy for Global Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Rights.

Purpose of the evaluation

The evaluation and its results will contribute to the final report to the programme’s main donor, Sida, as well as inform the development of the second phase of the programme. Therefore, the evaluation needs to look at the impact of the programme as well as learnings that may help shape the programme in the future.

Expected results

  • An assessment of the impact of the programme outcome 2: The programmatic work contributes to gender just societies and, outcome 3: ACT Alliance is a global progressive force for gender justice, contributing to the SDGs and connecting the national to the regional and global levels.
  • Identification of best practices applied in the strategic projects and advocacy
  • Recommendations for how to engage with strategic projects and advocacy in the second phase of the programme

Scope

Rather than an overall assessment of achieved results and impact, the programme’s evaluation will focus on:

  • Impact and effectiveness in outcome area 2 and outcome area 3, within the development and advocacy work of the ACT Alliance.
  • Progressive collective voice in advocacy, enabled by faith actors, in national, regional, and global levels
  • Faith actors’ added value, role and action in advancing gender justice

Evaluation Questions

OVERALL Question:

To what extent has the Gender Justice Programme contributed to gender just societies and to that the ACT Alliance is perceived as a progressive faith voice in national, regional, and global advocacy and policy spaces?

The DAC criteria of Relevance, Coherence, Effectiveness, Impact, Efficiency and Sustainability are to be used as a useful framework to identify the relevant questions. However, each criterion does not need to be given the same weight relevance.

Methodology & Principles

The evaluation of the Gender Justice programme should be a gender transformative evaluation, integrating the following perspectives in the evaluation process:

Be transformative – with opportunities for reflection and learning for all stakeholders and actors, including the evaluator.

Be empowering – a feminist, faith/religious and rights sensitive evaluator would ensure that voices of the less privileged are heard.

Be based on the principle of mutuality – not ‘extracting’ information, but also ‘giving back’ in terms of sharing by the evaluator, of analysis and insights and tools gathered

Participatory – it is critical that the evaluation involves all key stakeholders and that the findings and recommendations are owned

The ACT Evaluation Committee

An ACT Evaluation Committee will be formed to support the Evaluation team. The Evaluation Committee will be tasked to accompany the evaluation team in understanding the structures and processes of the ACT Alliance network, as well as provide access to all documents and information necessary for the desk review phase of the evaluation.

Time frame

The evaluation shall be conducted during January-March 2023 with the submission of the final report no later than 30 April 2022.

Interviews should be conducted in January- February 2023.

In-person feedback and validation workshop in Bangkok (end of March 2023).

The evaluation assignment is estimated to take 40 days over a period of 4 months.

Qualifications of the evaluator team

The evaluation will ideally be carried out by consultants meeting the following qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in social sciences (sociology, anthropology, development, gender studies) or another relevant field.
  • In-depth knowledge of quantitative and qualitative evaluation techniques and methods with at least 5 years of experience as evaluator and consultant.
  • Proven experience in participatory evaluations of international development, humanitarian and advocacy programmes and projects at global level.
  • Sensitivity to cultural, religious and gender transformative issues.
  • Multilingual ability (Arabic, English, French and Spanish)
  • Familiarity with the ACT Alliance and ecumenical and related institutions is an asset.
  • Knowledge of the multilateral system and international policy work is an asset.
  • Experience of working with gender justice and faith-based actors is an asset.

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, experiences and genders.

The consultant team will be required to sign ACT Alliance Code of Conduct.

Budget and logistics

Financial Proposal

The Financial Proposal shall be presented as an amount in USD in the Proposal Submission Form in Annex 2. The remuneration of the Candidate under the Contract shall be determined as follows:

Global price: The Candidate shall indicate in the proposal the proposed global remuneration for the performance of the Services. The Candidate shall be deemed to have satisfied themself as to the sufficiency of the proposed global remuneration, to cover both the fee rate, including overhead, profit, all the obligations, sick leave, overtime and holiday pay, taxes, social charges, etc. and all expenses (such as transport, accommodation, food, office, etc.) to be incurred for the performance of the Contract. The proposed global remuneration shall cover all obligations of the successful Candidate under the Contract (without depending on actual time spent on the assignment) and all matters and things necessary for the proper execution and completion of the Services and the remedying of any deficiencies therein.

The Project is VAT Exempt, and the successful Candidate must provide a Zero VAT Invoice attached with a valid deduction at source certificate.

Ownership and confidentiality

The evaluation and all related material are the property of ACT Alliance and can only be used by ACT Alliance or after written permission.

How to apply

Please submit your application via email to the following address [email protected]

by 29 November 2022. Your email should include the following title: “023-GJP Evaluation Applicant”

The Application must contain the following documents:

  • Evaluation Proposal inclusive of Budget and Timeline
  • CVs of Consultant Team
  • 2 examples of most recent evaluations
  • References for the most recent evaluations

ACT Alliance will only contact shortlisted applicants for interview.


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