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Terms of Reference (ToR)

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“Standing together for Free, Fair and Peaceful Elections in Sierra Leone”

Project Summary

SFCG is leading the implementation and management of a 20 months DFID funded electoral cycle support with a goal of ‘creating the conditions for free, fair and peaceful elections in Sierra Leone’. This project started on 1st December 2016 and will end on 31st July 2018. In support of achieving the goal, the project seeks to achieve the following specific objectives: 1. Increase the availability of quality and reliable information on democratic rights and responsibilities to citizens, including marginalized segments of the population (youth, women and girls, PWD); 2. Increase the participation of women in the electoral process; and 3. Increase the capacities of key stakeholders, including institutions and elections-related agencies, as well as civil society groups, to support the delivery of free, fair and peaceful elections. To this effect, the project targets the 14 districts in Sierra Leone through direct engagement (trainings, media, capacity-building and community outreach activities) targeting 500,000 citizens as direct beneficiaries, including at least 50% youth, women and PWDs, as well as key institutions, decisionmakers, political parties and candidates. The project seeks to indirectly reach a minimum of two million (2,000,000) Sierra Leoneans (approximately 70% of the voting population), mostly via its media programmes designed and broadcast nationwide through Search’s and IRN’s extensive network of over 40 community and national partner radio stations across the country, including some of the most hard-to-reach communities in Sierra Leone. The project started in December 2016 and ends on the 31st July 2018. Since then, over 90% of proposed project activities have been implemented, including project start-up (human resources, logistics and management set up) and capacity strengthening for Consortium downstream partners. Other key project thematic activities implemented include: • the Consortium’s public policy dialogue series (including KAP1 and 2, the Citizens Manifesto, the PWD Agenda, the Presidential Debate and other engagements); • civic mobilization and voter education (including the mobilization of Women, First Time Voters and PWDs through numerous civic and education campaign – including the week of citizens engagement); • civil society mobilization electoral trust and integrity promotion (including observation of various phases and stages of the electoral process); • and the promotion of peace and non-violent electoral process (including violence mitigation training, national and constituency dialogue session).

Key Responsibilities

The evaluation will cover the entire project duration, from December 2016 to July 2018. Within this period, the evaluation will assess project outcomes at all levels: including all result areas, Consortium partners, beneficiaries and project stakeholders.

The objectives of the evaluation are summarized below:

1. To evaluate the project in terms of its effectiveness, relevance, efficiency, sustainability, and impact, with a priority on assessing the project expected results, objectives and overall goal;
2. To identify key lessons and potential practices for learning;
3. To identify potential areas for civil society advocacy and donor collaboration in the governance process in post-elections Sierra Leone;
4. To assess the challenge, best practice and document the outcome for future processes

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Qualifications

The Evaluator shall have the following expertise and qualifications:

Education

• At least a Master’s degree in Public Policy, International Development, Development Economics/Planning, Economics, International Relations/ Diplomacy or any other relevant university degree;

Experience

• Extensive expertise, knowledge, and experience in the field of aid effectiveness and aid management process related issues, including governance and electoral support programmes and management in developing countries – especially in the Mano River Basin demonstrated by evaluation previously performed;
• Experience of project formulation and evaluation and practical experience of end of project evaluation in Sierra Leone or in similar context;
• At least 10 years of experience in working with international organizations and donors, evaluating projects with multiple partners with complex implementation modalities; and specifically, experience in the evaluation of DFID funded projects;

Skills and Competencies

Required

• Excellent written and verbal Communication skills is English;

Preferred

• Experience in local Sierra Leonean language including Krio will be an added advantage.

Offers will be evaluated on these criteria as well as the quality of the technical offer (proposed methodology, capacity to mobilize qualified personnel in the field, etc.) and the soundness of the financial offer.

This position will close on June 21st, 2018.