Sunday, May 4, 2014

Consultants

ActionAid International seeks Expressions of Interests (EOIs) from consultants in the sector with technical expertise in gender and M&E to prepare a global baseline report.

Deadline:         May 10, 2014
Location:         Global
Organization:   ActionAid International

ActionAid International Young Urban Women’s project: Terms of Reference for hiring a consultant for preparation of baseline report 


ActionAid International seeks Expressions of Interests (EOIs) from consultants in the sector with technical expertise in gender and M&E to prepare a global baseline report. 

About ActionAid:-
ActionAid International is an international NGO that puts women’s rights and gender equality at the centre of its work. One of the five strategic objectives of ActionAid’s 2012-2017 strategy is to: “Ensure that women and girls can break the cycle of poverty and violence, build economic alternatives and claim control over their bodies.” The “Young Urban Women” programme contributes to meeting this organisational objective. The “Young Urban Women” programme aims to influence both decision-makers at a local and national level in India, South Africa and Ghana as well as decision-makers at the international level. The programme targets women’s Economic Participation and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). It is innovative in that it attempts to bring together these two key areas of ActionAid’ s women’s rights work that are frequently dealt with separately in development interventions despite the strong linkages between these two issues in women’s lives. In targeting both, ActionAid foresees that this programme will have a greater impact by empowering young women to claim their rights. 
Project background and overview:- 
The Young Urban Women programme is a multi-country programme that is currently being implemented in seven poor urban and peri-urban areas across India, South Africa and Ghana. These three countries were carefully selected among the 45 countries that are part of the ActionAid Federation because of their large young urban populations, their influence within regional and international forums, and the geographic spread across two continents which continue to witness high levels of poverty and inequality. ActionAid also considered the significant political space available within these emerging democracies to raise the visibility of young women’s rights to decent work and sexual and reproductive health services. 
Programme goal: Our goal is that in 3 years, 5,800 young urban women living in poverty in India, Ghana and South Africa will have greater dignity through more economic independence and control over their bodies, and their voices will be heard and recognised in international forums. 
Expected outcomes: 
  • Outcome 1: Young women have safe and decent work and livelihoods, and can exercise greater control over their income
  • Outcome 2: Young women's informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health are increasingly realized
  • Outcome 3: Young women in the areas we programme in are empowered and supported by allies and responsible stakeholders to effect change in their own lives, their families, their communities and different levels of government 
Target group and indirect beneficiaries: There will be 2,800 young women direct beneficiaries in India; 1,000 young women direct beneficiaries in South Africa and 2,000 young women direct beneficiaries in Ghana. Across the programme, there will be 5,800 direct beneficiaries. National and international advocacy of putting young women’s rights to decent work and SRHR on the international development agenda is anticipated to have a wide impact on young women globally. 
Objective of the assignment:-
Currently a baseline is being undertaken in the three project countries which are slated to be finished in the 1st week of June. The 3 countries would be producing three national baseline reports of approximately 30-40 pages which would need to be compiled into a single global baseline report for the project.
The objective of this assignment is to develop the global baseline report for the Young Urban Women’s project 
Scope of the assignment:-
Using a feminist approach to monitoring and evaluation, the consultant will develop the global baseline report based on the 3 country reports of the baseline survey process for the YUW project. It is intended that the global baseline report will provide: a) baseline data for the project based on the project Results Framework b) information that will assist in designing the project’s Monitoring and Evaluation plan and c) information that will assist in identifying relevant policies, guidelines and frameworks for supporting project implementation and advocacy. 
The consultant will undertake the following tasks:- 
  • To review the relevant YUW project documents as well as relevant ActionAid documents.
  •  To review the national baseline reports coming out of India, Ghana and South Africa.
  •  To capture key data with regards to the Results Framework of the project in particular:
  1. Current status of each of the project indicators in the implementation sites.
  2.  Barriers and challenges in respect to the above.
  3.  Emerging legal and policy aspects with respect to young women’s SRHR, access to Decent Work and unpaid care work.
  • To work with ActionAid’s International Women’s Rights Team for the above processes and finalise the same. 
Time-frame:-
The national baseline reports will be available from the countries in the first week of June. The global baseline report will need to be completed between the 1st to the 30th of June.
Consultant specifications:-
  • Extensive experience of working on monitoring and evaluation (MEL) systems including baseline from a feminist lens. Extensive technical expertise on gender, particularly on young women.
  •  Able to provide evidence of producing high quality assessment/evaluation reports and working within tight timeframes
  • Significant experience of synthesizing and analysing quantitative and qualitative data from sample surveys.
  •  Immediate availability in June 2014. 
Application procedure:-
Please share the following documents as part of the application procedure:-
  • A cover letter with an updated CV.
  • A tentative budget.
  • Examples of previous baseline/evaluation reports undertaken. 
Please email the above-mentioned documents to YUW International Project Manager Baishali Chatterjee at baishali.chatterjee@actionaid.org by 10th May, 2014


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