CFPs for “Safe Cities Free of Violence against Women and Girls” (Egypt)

Deadline: 23-Aug-20

UN Women has announced a call for proposals for the End line Evaluation of “Safe Cities Free of Violence against Women and Girls” in Greater Cairo and Giza.

Purpose

UN WOMEN Egypt Country Office now seeks to undertake an end-line evaluation of the Cairo Safe City and Safe Public Spaces programme for the purpose of:

• Learning and improvement (by UN Women, Key partners and Implementing organisations);
• Accountability (to donors and stakeholders);
• To provide an evidence base that will inform future work in the area of ensuring safe cities for possible up-scaling;
• Measuring the impact of some of the programme’s implemented activities.

Expected Impact

The expected impact in the Safe City Sites of Intervention include:

• A reduction in sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence (SDG 5.2, SDG 11.7)
• A reduction of fear and increased feelings of safety of women and girls
• Increased autonomous mobility of women and girls in accessing and using public spaces

Geographical Scope

• In Cairo and Giza the programme targeted three low-income neighbourhoods, namely: Imbaba, Manshiet Nasser, and Elhagana, and has been implemented from 2011 until end of 2019, in partnership with the NCW, Giza governorate, Cairo governorate, Care International in Egypt and three local civil society organizations.

Competencies

• Technical/functional competencies required;
  • The selected NGO will be responsible for carrying out the end line evaluation ensuring the realization of the anticipated interventions in line with UN Women rules and regulations and will work in close collaboration with the UN Women Egypt Country Office team. The selected NGO must present:
    • Organizational experience and proven track record/credibility on gender and development and evaluation and other areas of expertise relevant to the services required.
    • At least 10 years in designing and conducting gender-responsive evaluations and impact evaluations, social research, using quantitative and qualitative research methods including document reviews, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions.
    • At least 5 years of experience in evaluating programmes focused on sensitive social issues, particularly violence against women and sexual violence.
    • Relevant experience in partnerships with UN Women, other UN agencies, governments, NGOs, private sector, national institutions, and other development actors.
    • Demonstrated integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards.
    • Profile reflecting cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
  • Other competencies, which while not required, can be an asset for the performance of services
  • Overall governance/management structure of the proponent organization

Evaluation Criteria & Questions

In alignment with the Global Programme Impact Evaluation strategy, the evaluation needs to address the criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, inclusiveness, sustainability, and impact and answer the following suggested evaluation questions:

• Relevance:
  • How do the programme intervention logic and design match with the complexity of national structures, systems and decision-making processes?
  • What capacities, skills, programme strategies and interventions should UN Women prioritize and further develop to bring greater coherence and relevance to its interventions to create safe inclusive and sustainable cities for women and for all.?
• Inclusiveness
  • Is the programme design based on quality analysis, including gender and human rights-based analysis, risk assessments, socio-cultural and political analysis and conflict assessments?
• Effectiveness:
  • What has been the progress made towards the achievement of the expected outcomes and expected results? What are the results achieved?
  • What are the reasons for the achievement or non-achievement of the programme results?
  • To what extent have capacities of relevant duty-bearers and rights-holders been strengthened?
  • Does the programme have effective monitoring mechanisms in place to measure progress towards results?
  • How adaptable and rapidly did the programme react to changing country context?
• Efficiency:
  • Have resources (financial, human, technical support, etc.) been allocated strategically to achieve the programme outcomes? This should specifically review and capture the technical support provided by the HQ through the global advisory role, seed support and the cross-regional exchanges.
  • Have the outputs been delivered in a timely manner?
  • To what extent are relevant national stakeholders and actors included in the programming and implementation and policy advocacy processes?
• Sustainability:
  • What is the likelihood that the benefits of the programme will be maintained for a reasonably long period of time after the programme phase-out?
  • How effectively has the programme been able to contribute to the generation of national ownership of the results achieved, the establishment of effective partnerships and the development of national capacities?
  • To what extent has the programme been able to promote replication of successful programmes?
• Impact:
  • Where appropriate, what is the impact of some of the programme activities implemented for over two years?
  • To what extent was gender equality and women’s empowerment advanced as a result of the interventions?
  • What were the unintended effects, if any, of the intervention?

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