Overview
Conduct an external final evaluation of the "Labour Migration Programme - Central Asia" to assess its achievements, efficiency, and sustainability, providing recommendations for future programming.
Key Responsibilities
- - Assess the extent to which the project has achieved its stated objectives and outputs.
- - Measure the project's degree of implementation, efficiency, and quality delivered.
- - Provide summative evaluative evidence on the project's contribution to developing coordination mechanisms for labour migration policies.
- - Assess the management and financial efficiency of the project.
- - Assess the extent to which the project's outcomes will be sustainable.
- - Assess the project's contribution to gender equality and women's empowerment.
- - Generate evidence-based knowledge by identifying best practices and lessons learned.
- - Provide a forward-looking perspective for IOM's positioning in relation to labour migration.
- - Provide formative recommendations toward design and implementation arrangements of MEAL for subsequent phases.
- - Review of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) approach.
- - Review of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) support activities.
- - Review of application of IOM’s Project Handbook.
- - Review of programme risk register.
Required Experience
- - Minimum 10 years of overall professional experience in research design, field work, qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method research strategies.
- - Minimum 7 years of relevant evaluation experience with designing, conducting, and managing complex international/national humanitarian/development evaluations.
- - Having conducted at least 5 evaluations/reviews/assessments on one or more of the following thematic areas: migration governance, labour migration, or related areas.
- - Experience in evaluating UN-implemented or SDC-funded projects/programmes in Central Asia or comparable contexts.
- - Minimum 2 years of professional experience in implementing or assessing institutional capacity development and public sector reforms.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree (or higher) in a relevant field such as Migration Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Public Administration, Law, Social Sciences or related disciplines.
- Formal training or certification in evaluation methodologies (e.g., OECD DAC evaluation, RBM, or equivalent) is an asset.
