Women’s Fund in Georgia announces an open call for the recruitment of an external evaluator or a team of evaluators for assessing the long-term impact of the EU-funded project “Job Equality: Equal, Inclusive and Safe Workplace in Georgia”. For more information about the project please visit: https://eu4georgia.eu/projects/eu-project-page/?id=766

Information about the Organisation

Women’s Fund in Georgia (WFG) is a local, feminist, grant-making organization, which supports women’s groups and organisations throughout Georgia. It targets groups and individual women that have limited access to funding and are working on underfunded areas of women’s rights.  Furthermore, WFG supports cross-movement building for growing solidarity between movements and amplifying voices.

Information about the Project

“Job Equality: Equal, Inclusive and Safe Workplace in Georgia” is a two-year project (2019-2021) financed by the European Delegation to Georgia. The implementing partners are: Women’s Fund in Georgia (WFG), Women Engage for a Common Future - Georgia (WECF), Kvemo Kartli Media (KKM) and the organisation “For Rights and Education” (FRE). The project aims at advocating gender equality issues on the local and national level - to eliminate gender discrimination at the workplace and ensure equal pay, to create safe and healthy working conditions for women and men. The project is targeted to two regions: Kvemo Kartli and Imereti and focuses on improving women’s labor rights in the above-mentioned areas.

Activities carried out during the project time span include: the Training of Trainers on women’s labor rights; developing a training manual; organising trainings in Kvemo Kartli and Imereti region for target groups: women’s NGOs and individual women’s rights and labor rights activists, vocational groups, local media, representatives of gender equality councils in the municipalities, etc; Sub-granting (6 organisations and initiative groups in the target regions were supported with small grants for projects to improve women’s labor rights and conditions in their communities each year. In total 12 grantee partners were supported in two years); Workshops and conferences for advocating women’s labor rights and economic empowerment; Media coverage and awareness-raising activities through the short informational videos.

External evaluator(s) will assess the long-time indicators, logframe and long-term impact of the project, based on the relevant methodology, interviews with the beneficiaries, data collected from MEL persons, publications and other sources of verification. The external evaluation is a final project evaluation and is meant to testify to what degree the project achieved its goals based on the indicators and logframe. The evaluator(s) will also make recommendations usable on a country level, by the four partners.

Key questions the evaluation should answer:

1. To what extent were the objectives of the programme valid?

2. Are the activities and outputs of the programme consistent with the overall goal and the attainment of its objectives and the intended impacts and effects?

3. Were the activities cost-efficient? Was it the most efficient way to implement them?

4. What real difference has the activity made to the beneficiaries? How many people have been affected?

5. To what extent can the benefits of a programme or project continue after ending?

Assignment:

Women’s Fund in Georgia announces an open call for the recruitment of an evaluator or team of evaluators for conducting impact assessment of WFG’s internal project “Job Equality” towards its goal. The aim of the external evaluation is to carry out an unbiased analysis of the range of activities that WFG, WECF, KKM and FRE along with the 12 grantee partners have carried out in order to achieve the objectives and to draw recommendations for further development. The evaluation will be made by external evaluator(s) – qualified expert(s) – and involves following stages:

• Elaboration of the evaluation methodology
• Data collection
• Data analysis
• Delivery of the final evaluation report (in English and Georgian languages)
• Presenting the main findings of the assessment to WFG, WECF, KKM and FRE staff and Board of Directors

The most successful candidate/candidates will be chosen by WFG management and will be invited for the interview. The final decision will be made based on the experience of the evaluator (or team) as well as the proposed methodology for the evaluation considering specificity of WFG’s work. The selected candidate/candidates will start work by November 26, 2021 and will evaluate the impact of the two-years long project.

The final evaluation report is due to be submitted by January 22, 2022.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Experience in evaluating EU-funded projects will be preferred;
• Knowledge of the specifics of project cycle, theory of change, logframe, results chain;
• Experience with evaluating gender-related, development projects/programs;
• Track record of elaboration of M&E methodology and successful management of project M&E systems, survey design and implementation;
• Skills in all aspects of quantitative and qualitative evaluation with knowledge of participatory evaluation methodologies;
• Experience with data collection using any of the following: surveys, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and other methods;
• Experience with data analysis using various data management and analysis systems;
• Readiness to travel;
• Ability to plan and manage tasks independently;
• Good interpersonal and communication skills;
• Fluency in Georgian and English;
• Ability to elaborate task-related documents in both Georgian and English languages;
• Strong professional and personal ethics;
• Respect to ethnic, religious, gender, sexual and other diversities;
• Gender sensitivity and respect for women’s rights.

Submission of Proposals:

Interested individuals/organizations/companies need to submit the following documents to Women’s Fund in Georgia:

1. Technical Proposal (including methodology and timeframe of the evaluation and highlighting relevant experience)

2. Technical Proposal Budget (separately for all required components)

3. CV (in case of individual expert)

4. Capacity Statement (in case of organization/company)

5. 2 References

All documents have to be sent to info@womenfundgeorgia.org no later than November 26, 2021. Please, indicate the position title in the subject line.