Overview
Conduct an external review to assess a project's achievements and performance against planned targets, identify lessons learned, and provide actionable recommendations for future programming. The review will focus on implementation quality and early results.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct an external review assessing relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, progress toward outcomes, and sustainability using adapted OECD-DAC criteria.
- Focus on implementation quality and early results, not long-term impact.
- Identify lessons learned and actionable recommendations for future programming, scale up, or replication.
- Prepare a draft and final inception report, including methodology, data collection tools, and review matrix.
- Conduct primary data collection and cleaning.
- Present key findings and recommendations to UNHCR, SEM, and partners.
- Submit draft reports addressing comments from UNHCR and external stakeholders.
- Finalize the External Review Report and an Executive Summary.
- Prepare an External Review Action Plan.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years in evaluating or reviewing humanitarian or development projects, preferably in refugee livelihoods or GBV programming.
- Familiarity with UNHCR’s mandate, operations, and approach to livelihoods and protection.
- Proven experience with diverse data collection and analysis methods (e.g., participatory reviews, focus groups, outcome mapping, vulnerability classification, self-reliance index scoring, survey design).
Qualifications
• Advanced degree in development studies, social sciences, economics, or related field; or a bachelor’s degree with at least 10 years of relevant experience.
