Deadline: 11-Nov-22
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking Expressions of Interest from Individuals and/or public or private Institutions (including Foundations, Consultants, and NGOs) with relevant experience in independent evaluations of programs and/or projects, particularly on the Argentine health system.
Specific Objectives
- Analyze the factors that contributed and those that hindered and/or delayed the achievement of the Products and identify good practices and lessons learned.
- Assess the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on meeting goals.
- Evaluate the implementation of the gender equality and sexual diversity strategy in the framework of the Program.
- Analyze the quality of the originally planned indicators and the monitoring system information and data generated within the framework of the Program.
- Assess progress in terms of Program sustainability.
Evaluation Scope
- The evaluation will deal with the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of the Program’s intervention in the period June 2020-July 2022 in relation to the results achieved, considered an examination of the unintended results, identifying possible negative and positive consequences derived from the intervention. The evaluation is not expected to produce evidence on the impact of the Program.
- It is expected to identify the lessons learned and good practices that can be replicated in other contexts and situations. Lessons should cover managing for development results and monitoring and evaluation practices. As a result of the evaluation, specific, pertinent and applicable recommendations to the project must be issued that allow working on an improvement/response action plan.
- The analysis will consider the effectiveness in incorporating the gender and sexual diversity approach, and human rights, with special emphasis on populations with violated rights.
Evaluation Criteria and key Guiding Questions
- The evaluation criteria cover relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability.
- Relevance is related to the degree to which the program is consistent with national and local policies and priorities, as well as with the needs of the beneficiaries. Relevance also considers the extent to which the program responds to UNDP corporate plan and human development priorities on gender equality and empowerment.
- Coherence covers the compatibility of the program with other interventions in the country, the health sector or in the Ministry of Health. The extent to which other interventions (particularly policies) support or undermine the program, and vice versa. Includes internal coherence and external coherence: Internal coherence addresses the synergies and interrelationships between the intervention and other interventions carried out by the Ministry of Health or the government, as well as the coherence of the program with the relevant international norms and standards to which the program adheres. Ministry of Health. External coherence considers the consistency of the intervention with the interventions of other actors in the same context. This includes complementarity, harmonization and coordination with others, and the extent to which the intervention is adding value while avoiding duplication of effort.
- Effectiveness is a measure of the degree to which the program has achieved the expected results (outputs and outcomes) and the degree to which progress has been made in achieving those outcomes and outcomes. The effectiveness assessment assesses UNDP’s contributions to the intended effects.
- Efficiency measures whether inputs or resources (such as funds, expertise, and time) have been economically converted into outputs. The program would be considered efficient when it uses resources appropriately and economically to generate the desired results.
- Sustainability measures the extent to which program benefits continue after external development assistance has ended. Assessing sustainability implies assessing the extent to which the social, economic, political, institutional and other relevant conditions exist, and, based on that assessment, making projections about the national capacity to maintain, manage and ensure development results in the future.
- The general questions to be answered are based on the OECD DAC evaluation criteria and UN Evaluation Group standards (including standards on gender mainstreaming), which have been adapted to the context of the Program To evaluate. The evaluation team must adapt these questions and detail them in its methodological proposal in the evaluation matrix to meet the objectives and scope of the evaluation.
For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=96630