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Project Monitor - Lessons Learned Report
Creating Spaces to Take Action on Violence Against Women and Girls
KEY INFORMATION
Position Type: consultancy, short term, part-time
Duration/Level of Effort: 70 days
Position Location: Jakarta, Manila
1. Summary of the Project
Field Support Services Project (FSSP) Indonesia is a five-year project (October 2019 – October 2024) funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and managed by Cowater International. FSSP provides administrative, financial, procurement, and logistical services, as well as support to the in-country development programming for the Government of Canada through the provision of technical specialists in gender equality, governance and human rights, and environment and climate action and assisting GAC in procuring and managing local development initiatives. These programs take place in Indonesia and the ASEAN regions
2. Background
The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life” (Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 1993). Violence against women and girls (VAWG), including the harmful practice of early, forced, and child marriage (CEFM), acts as a barrier to economic and decision-making opportunities for women and is linked to devastating consequences such as poverty, lack of education, gender inequality, and child and maternal mortality. CEFM negatively affects girls by denying their rights, disrupting their access to education, and severely jeopardizing their health. Despite considerable progress in establishing policies and programs globally and in targeted countries, concrete implementation of these has been slow. This is largely the result of deeply entrenched cultural values, attitudes and practices that are rooted in gender stereotypes and discrimination that perpetuate exploitation and violence against women and girls.
Violence against women in many countries throughout Asia is rising rapidly with consequential implications for families, economies, and productivity. The reality of many women and girls in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Philippines is one of hardship and marginalization. This is reflected in national rankings on the UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index (from #116 for Indonesia to #150 for Pakistan) and in the percentage of CEFM (65% in Bangladesh, 47% in India and 41% in Nepal). The violence experienced by women and girls in these six countries is among the worst in the region. All women and girls are at risk, although some circumstances – such as disability, race, caste or ethnicity, or conflict settings – increase vulnerability.
Canada’s work on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) supports the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, including through implementation of a National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. The Action Plan emphasizes participation by women and girls in all stages of peace and security efforts, the protection of their human rights, including protection from SGBV, and ensuring their equal access to humanitarian and development assistance. In addition to the UN, Canada works together with the G7 partners to strengthen prevention and response to SGBV.
Creating Spaces to Take Action on Violence Against Women and Girls (Creating Spaces) is a five-year, $20,652,500 project implemented in six countries by Oxfam Canada. Oxfam Canada collaborates with 23 local partners to implement the project (see Annex 5), in addition to Oxfam’s own in-country local offices (Oxfam Bangladesh, Oxfam India, Oxfam Indonesia, Oxfam Nepal, Oxfam Pakistan and Oxfam Philippines). Creating Spaces aims to reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG), and the prevalence of child, early and forced marriage (CEFM), through coordinated prevention and response in Bangladesh, India[1], Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines. The project aimed to directly reach 219,717 beneficiaries, including 46,228 men, 72,079 women, 31,363 male youth, 45,228 female youth, 12,139 boys and 12,680 girls as well as 53 organizations (including 23 partner organizations). Indirectly, the project aimed to reach 733,314 beneficiaries including men, women, boys and girls.
The project has taken an integrated and multi-faceted approach, acting on multiple levels (individual, community, institutional and societal) with diverse actors, as appropriate in each country. While outcomes and outputs are common across the project, country level interventions were specific to the context and priorities in the target areas.
The project was built on three pillars:
Pillar 1: Engaging key community actors to support and promote positive gender norms by creating an enabling environment to prevent violence against women and girls by engaging key community leaders (including religious, private sector and political) and youth in advancing women’s leadership and women’s rights. Activities under this pillar included: positive gender attitudes and behaviours workshops; media, edutainment and public awareness campaigns; knowledge and skills training on legal frameworks and implementation; women’s leadership training; advocacy, lobbying and campaigning with duty-bearers, and monitoring implementation of formal and informal laws.
Pillar 2: Supporting women and girls who have experienced violence by improving their access to economic opportunities and to services such as shelters, and legal and psychosocial support. Activities under this pillar included: connecting those who experience VAWG/CEFM with quality social and legal services; awareness raising and leadership skills building targeting women and girls who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing violence; training women and girls who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing violence in economic and livelihood opportunities; financial support to services (shelters, counselling, legal aid, etc.), and; building capacity of key service providers to deliver quality social and legal services.
Pillar 3: Building knowledge and capacity of institutions and alliances to influence change by reinforcing the use of innovative knowledge, including best and emerging practices, and accountability systems to end violence against women and girls, including CEFM. Activities under this pillar included: organizational capacity building, specific to elimination of VAWG; research, including participatory action research; synthesis and dissemination of knowledge and learning (internal/external digital platforms; methodology development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for real time feedback loops to monitor social services and policy implementation, and; convening and facilitating linkages and alliances.
GAC requires the services of a Consultant to undertake a Lessons Learned report through consultations with the project stakeholders. Stakeholders include Oxfam Canada, through both its Canadian staff and staff based in Oxfam’s local in-country office (as possible, recognising that the project has terminated), local partners, operating within the country, direct Beneficiaries (primary stakeholders), men, women, boys and girls living in the target areas in the implementing country who experience a change of state. The result of these consultations will serve as the basis for the report.
3. Objectives
The purpose of developing this Lessons Learned report is to gather local stakeholder’s appreciation of results achieved by the project and analyse their sustainability. This report will inform the design and implementation of future programming that is focused on addressing VAWG and/or CEFM.
Specific objectives of the Lessons Learned report is to develop a better understanding of:
- Project’s value added
- How did beneficiaries and partners benefit from it
- Was Oxfam able to make impact at policy level – if not why?
- What type of advocacy activities were effective?
- Was alliance building done at both the national and local levels?
The intended end users of this report is mainly GAC, but ideally the report will be shared with Oxfam Canada and local partners.
4. Description of services
The Consultant will review information to assess and capture lessons learned from the project.
Tasks will include:
- Become familiar with the details and key documents related to the project (approval documentation, contractual agreements, project implementation plan, annual work plans, narrative reports); as well as Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) and any other related documents.
- Identify the extent to which overall program design (the three pillar areas of work, the local model and standard indicators) is fit for lessons learned purpose.
- Produce a mapping of the project’s stakeholders, including a power analysis, through consultations with key people and desk review.
- Collect relevant data from the stakeholders to assess and verify findings to be included in the report.
- Discuss regularly the progress of the report with he Project Team Leader (PTL).
- Prepare and submit the reports for revision and approval by the PTL, and
- Any other relevant tasks as assigned by GAC.
5. Deliverables/Outputs
All deliverables must be prepared in English and submitted to the PTL.
Both the draft and final work plan, and the draft and final lessons learned reports must be submitted in MS Word and if needed in other compatible format. PDF files are not acceptable. If need be, GAC will convert files into PDF format. Finally, and upon GAC’s request, the Consultant shall submit documents used/created under the current mandate (e.g., questionnaires, focus groups protocols, interview notes, raw data, survey data, database(s).
a. Draft Work Plan
The Consultant is to submit a draft work plan to GAC within 2 weeks of the signing of the contract. The draft work plan must include:
a) TS`s approach to respond to questions provided.
b) Table of contents for the Lessons Learned report, and
c) Work plan with timelines
b. Final Work Plan
Within one week of receiving comments, the Consultant is to submit a final work plan to be approved by GAC.
c. Stakeholder Mapping
The Consultant will develop a project stakeholder mapping to illustrate the different stakeholders relevant to the consultations, and their relationships to each other.
d. Lessons Learned Report.
The Consultant will submit the Lessons Learned Report to the PTL. This report would have maximum 30 pages.
6. Description of the Consultant’s Profile
GAC requires the services of a national expert with solid knowledge on, monitoring and evaluation of gender equality and GBV projects and programs, as well as project planning and design of gender-specific projects; GBV, gender sensitive and feminist MEL in development settings, strong relationship with Government and Civil Society partners, and experience working with international development partners.
Required Skills and Experience
- More than 10 years of professional work experience, as technical expert and advisor in gender equality, GBV, CEFM and women’s rights in development programs and projects.
- Completed at least two independent monitoring assignments related to international development assistance projects that are similar in scope (budget and duration) and nature in the following sectors: gender equality, GBV, CEFM, advancing the rights of women and girls, organizational capacity building of civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations or networks and partnerships (within the last 10 years).
- She/he must have experience in monitoring and evaluation of GBV projects and programs, as well as project planning and design of gender-specific projects.
- Experience in conducting program or project monitoring using feminist methodologies or approaches.
- Proven experience designing, implementing or monitoring programming related to GBV or any gender-specific projects.
- Experience working with civil society organizations, preferably women’s rights organizations, to review, develop, or design organizational programming.
- Knowledge of gender sensitive and feminist MEL in development settings.
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and oral, and
- Knowledge of Global Affairs Canada policies and priorities is an asset.
Educational Background
The consultant must have a degree from a recognized university, preferably a Master’s degree or higher, in gender and/or feminist studies, human rights, sociology or any other related fields.
The working languages are both English and Indonesian. Ability to speak Filipino is an asset. All formal correspondence and reporting will be in English. Field work will be conducted in Indonesian and possibly other local languages. The consultant must possess the following levels in English and Bahasa:
Oral = 4 – Advanced Professional Proficiency
Reading = 4 – Advanced Professional Proficiency
Writing = 4 – Advanced Professional Proficiency
The Consultant will work from his/her home base with virtual meetings/interviews with GAC colleagues and relevant partners. As necessary, in producing analysis/report/briefs, the Consultant may need to do his/her own literature review and perform triangulation by interviewing experts.
The Consultant will submit deliverables to the Project Team Leader. Payment is conditional upon satisfactory delivery of the assignments. In the event that travel to other regions or cities is necessary, all necessary costs will be borne by GAC, through the Field Support Services Project (FSSP).
8. Level of effort and duration of the Contract
The estimated level of effort required for this monitoring contract is approximately 70 days. Activities, including field missions to the Philippines and some areas in Indonesia, are expected to be carried out between September 2022 and mid January 2023. The draft lessons learned report must be submitted in time to seek PTL`s comments, incorporate revisions, and deliver a final approved report by 28 February 2023. The Consultant is expected to start in September 2022.
The estimated budget for this consultancy is up to a maximum of CAN$80,000. This estimate includes all taxes, fees, travel, expenses and incidentals.
How to apply:
Interested individual consultants must include the following documents when submitting the applications to admin@fssproject.com latest by 20 August 2022:
- CV indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references.
- Brief statement as to why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment.
- Financial Proposal shall be submitted in the following format:
- The financial proposal should specify an all-inclusive daily rate for up to 70 working days;
- The financial proposal must be all-inclusive and take into account various expenses that will be incurred during the contract, including: the daily professional fee and when applicable any other relevant expenses related to the performance of services under the contract, excluding travel expenses.
Cowater International is an equal opportunity employer, basing employment on merit and qualifications as they relate to professional experience and position expectations. Cowater does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender identity, disability, age, or any other basis protected by law.
We thank all applicants, however only those shortlisted will be contacted
EVALUATION OF APPLICATION
The award of the contract shall be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as: a) responsive/compliant/acceptable; and b) having received the highest score out of the weighted criteria (70% technical score (comprising of 15% technical qualifications desk review, 20% written test, and 35% interview) and 30% financial score.
The proposals that achieve a minimum of 70% for the technical qualifications desk review shall be further considered for an interview and written test. The financial score shall be computed as a ratio of the proposal being evaluated and the lowest priced proposal received for the assignment.
Technical Qualifications Desk Review
The evaluation of the technical criteria will be as follows:
| St No | Criteria | Points |
| 1 | Academic qualifications of the Consultant. | 10 points |
| 2 | More than 10 years of professional work experience, as technical expert and advisor in gender equality, GBV, CEFM and women’s rights in development programs and projects. | 30 points |
| 3 | Experienced in monitoring and evaluation of GBV projects and programs, as well as project planning and design of gender-specific projects. | 20 points |
| 4 | Experience working with civil society organizations, preferably women’s rights organizations, to review, develop, or design organizational programming. | 20 points |
| 5 | Experienced in conducting program or project monitoring using feminist methodologies or approaches. | 20 points |
| | Total points | 100 points |
ABOUT US
With more than 34 years’ experience, Cowater International is Canada’s global leader in management consulting services specializing in international development and has managed the implementation of over 800 projects in more than 80 countries around the globe. We work with governments, partner organizations, communities and civil society to design and implement sustainable solutions that generate lasting social, financial and environmental impacts. Our adaptive approach to management has led to our award-winning work and recognition as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies in 2017 and 2018. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Cowater International also has corporate offices in Montreal, Quebec, Paris, France, Pretoria, South Africa, and London, United Kingdom, Nairobi, Kenya in addition to project offices in a wide variety of other locations across Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
We thank you for your interest in building a better tomorrow with Cowater International.
[1] Note that the India portion of the project is funded through Oxfam Canada’s cost-share contribution, not DFATD funds.
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