Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 10 Jul 2017
In the last five years the Comprehensive Emergency Obstetrics & Neonatal Care project (CEmONC) has made significant gains and contributed to the overall reduction of maternal and neonatal mortalities in South Sudan. The five years period of the project with no cost extension of additional year and half will phase out at the end of this year 2017. It is now time to take an independent stock of the project activities including achievements, challenges and above all to document lesson learnt for future projects. The project has bring together the knowledge and expertise required from the perspective of CEmONC services at a practical operational level in the field and introduces the concept of the Maternal Waiting Homes, the first time ever in South Sudan, helping to bridge geographical gaps in addressing one of the delays that contributes to maternal mortality in the country.
During the last two months of the project implementation (from August – September 2017) the project will conduct an evaluation to determine progress in the realization of the overall and specific project objectives, expected results and ongoing activities. The evaluation process will be based on the project framework and scope. Based on the results a Final Evaluation Report will be produced.
It is intended that the evaluation will be carried out by an expert consultant with background and experience in maternal child health services. This external evaluation will look at project impact, M&E and lessons learned for future initiatives.
1.Goal and objectives of the external evaluation
Goal:
An independent external evaluation will be carried out at project end phase to evaluate the effectiveness of the project in terms of its objectives
Objectives:
· Deliverables
The evaluator will prepare an evaluation report that describes the evaluation and puts forward the evaluator’s findings and recommendations
A verbal presentation and explanation of results will be made by the evaluator to the team lead upon receiving the written report.
· Scope of the work
o The evaluator will review and analyse existing project documents provided by the Project team.
o The process of evaluation will include conducting of interviews and focus group discussions with representatives from the project team in WHO, partner organisations and collaborating agencies from NGO as well as the Ministry of Health. The evaluation will assess the immediate effect of the project
o External evaluation will also review the project management component. The evaluator will be required to attend the final Steering Committee meeting/Project review workshop to contribute to discussions pertaining to the external evaluation and its findings.
2.Method
While maintaining independence/neutrality, the evaluation will be carried out using a participatory approach, which seeks the views and assessments of all stakeholders involved . The evaluation will make use of the results of previous evaluations of this project.
3.Evaluation Time Frame
August – September 2017 (8 weeks in total) **
Composition and requirements of the consultant** · 5 years or more experience in managing Reproductive maternal neonatal child health projects or carryout an evaluation for similar project Education : Master or equivalent in Monitoring & Evaluation, Statistics, Health sciences or related field Knowledge of programming, project cycle management and monitoring and evaluation Experience in projects monitoring and evaluation Excellent written and verbal communication skills Experience in producing high quality written reports Fluency in English
Elements for submission** The documents to be submitted and expressions of interest should include : CV/ resume Example of previous work done on evaluation of projects
How to apply:
Interested candidate are encouraged to send application ( Cover letter and CV) to:
denaries@who.int with copy to pauls@who.int and gargarm@who.int