NGO JOBS

Organization: Save the Children
Country: South Africa
Closing date: 02 May 2014

Opportunity closing date:

Friday, May 2, 2014

Opportunity type:

Call for proposals

Save the Children International is the world's leading independent organisation for children. We work in around 120 countries. We save children's lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfill their potential.
In South Africa and Zambia the majority of people have access to some form of media. Media plays an important role in shaping adults’ and children’s attitudes as well as setting political, economic and social agendas. South Africa and Zambia have ratified the UNCRC and the ACRWC thereby committing to ensure opportunity for children to participate and be heard in decision making processes. Despite this, initiatives to strengthen children’s ethical and meaningful participation in both family and public sphere are very limited. In a national survey with 1 200 children in South Africa, children identified lack of participation as the third most violated right in their lives. The children felt that they were denied the right to make their own informed choices and the right to express their own opinions, ideas and listened to.
With that Save the Children in partnership with Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), and Media Network on Child Rights and Development (MNCRD) initiated a project to empower children in South Africa and Zambia to influence duty bearers to fulfil their rights by taking into account their opinion. To contribute to this overall objective this project was meant to ensure that 50 percent of stories about and by children in targeted news media in South Africa and Zambia include children’s opinions and quotes.
The expected outcomes of the project where:

1. National media bodies and individual media houses have endorsed ethical guidelines on reporting on children with clear frameworks for how to ensure child participation;
2. News produced by the Children’s News Agencies are published in targeted national news media;
3. 200 children with increased media literacy interact with journalists/editors on children’s rights

Save the Children and partners are looking for an experienced consultant to evaluate this project. The main objective of this final project evaluation is:

• To assess impact, success, challenges and best practices against project goals, objectives and approved plans;
• To provide a systematic and objective assessment of the impact of the project and achievement of the objectives;
• To provide a feedback to our donors and Save the Children with regards to meeting the intended purpose, objective and results of the project;
• To provide a basis for accountability to all stakeholders involved in the project.

The consultant will critically assess:

• Performance (effectiveness and efficiency):
• Effectiveness will look at achieved results based on project objectives and desired outcomes for target beneficiaries;
• Efficiency will look at how optimally inputs (including finances) were transformed into outputs and the timeliness of implementing program activities relative to time schedules.
• Impact:
• The consultant will look at the short-term and long-term effects that the programme implementation has had on the situation addressed and target beneficiaries, explaining the extent of change and elaborating on the lessons learnt and best practices.
• Sustainability:
• Project sustainability entails looking at mechanisms that enable durability of positive results after the withdrawal of the funding or support. The consultant will look at contribution to attitude change towards children and the media.

How the results will be used

• To improve future project design and making sure that the desired results are replicated amongst the target groups.

Duration and timing of the assignment:The assignment will last 30 days
The Evaluation Consultant: The consultant will be an evaluation expert with the following profile:

• Experience and knowledge of media and/or child participation;
• At least a Masters degree in a relevant discipline i.e. media, project management, Monitoring and Evaluation, etc.
• Proven experience in monitoring and evaluation;
• Experience in survey design, assessment tools and administration;
• Ability to manage multiple, complex tasks being undertaken concurrently;
• Experience conducting key informant interviews and focus group discussions;
• Ability to analyse, interpret and synthesise information from a number of sources.

Deliverables
The consultant will deliver the following outputs:

• Inception report. The Inception report should also include evaluation tools and clear work plan and methodology and the cost of carrying out the activity;
• Draft reports (2) for comments by Save the Children, MMA and MNCRD - one electronic and hard copy;
• Final Report Finalised - one electronic and hard copy;
• Bibliography of literature reviewed and list of people interviewed.To apply, submit an expression of interest to undertake the assignment with a detailed CV, motivational letter (including your capacity and experience, your daily consultancy fee, and your availability) and an example (3-5) page of reports that you have written for similar assignments.

Applications should be received on or before 2 May 2014.

How to apply:

All applications should be submitted to scijobssa@savethechildren.org

Organization: Transparency International
Country: Libya
Closing date: 20 Feb 2014

Transparency International is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption. Through more than 90 chapters worldwide and an international secretariat in Berlin, Germany, Transparency International raises awareness of the damaging effects of corruption and works with partners in government, business and civil society to develop and implement effective measures to tackle it. Transparency International will undertake a National Integrity System assessment in Libya, as part of a seven country project from March 2014 to February 2015 and is seeking a project team/research organisation or institute to: (a) coordinate the project and (b) conduct the research. -

See more at: http://www.transparency.org/whoweare/work/call_for_proposals_national_in...

How to apply:

Please visit: www.transparency.org/whoweare/work/call_for_proposals_national_integrity...

Organization: ActionAid
Country: Kenya
Closing date: 24 Sep 2013

ActionAid International Kenya is an affiliate of ActionAid International which is active in over 42 countries in Africa, Asia, America and Europe and works in partnership with other affiliate organizations in Spain, Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy and the USA to eradicate poverty and social injustices. The organization has been working in Kenya since 1972 to ensure social justice through anti-poverty initiatives, local institutional capacity building and public policy influencing processes, directly impacting on lives of over 1 million people.

ActionAid is seeking consultant (s) or agency to conduct an end-term evaluation of its programmes in Usigu Local Rights Programme(LRP) which is phasing out in December 2013. ActionAid’s work in the LRP were focused on Right to Just and Democratic Governance; Women’s Rights; HIV and AIDS and Right to Health; Right to Food; and Education and Child Rights.

2.0 The Objectives of the Evaluation

The overall objective of the assignment is to carry out an end term evaluation in the LRP to assess the extent to which AAIK’s achieved the desired end-results and generate information to inform future interventions in other areas. Specifically, this evaluation aims to:? Establish the extent to which the goals and objectives of ActionAid programmes in Usigu were met
? Assess the effectiveness of AAIK’s interventions and strategies, outcomes and impact/change realized through the programme in the lives of direct target groups, indirect target groups and other stakeholders with special emphasis on community organization, capacity building and advocacy
? Determine the efficiency of the programme achieved in terms of cost vs benefit to community, human resource, timeliness and relevance of projects.
? Assess the viability of sustainability strategies put in place in the LRP - programming approaches (systems, structures and methods) examining them for quality, compliance with standard.
? Assess LRP county level engaements in relation to advocacy, networking and collaboration
? Identify possible gaps/weaknesses in programme design, approach and implementation and make recommendations to ActionAid to inform future interventions in other areas.
? To appraise the programme partnership approach to community implementation, research and advocacy in relation to the programmes achievement.

2.1 Scope of the Evaluation

AAIK work is anchored on the principles of Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA). In this context, therefore, the consultant/agency is expected to assess the performnace of the LRP in light of HRBA focusing on the following dimensions:
Impact and effectiveness: what are the impacts of the initiatives(intended vs unintended, positive vs negative); who benefitted from the initiatives and how, is it the rich or the poor; what is the level of involvement & participation of women and poor, how have these impacts been translated to households, how have the initiatives led to capacity building for local communities/groups.
Efficiency: is the money, effort and time well spent in relation to the objectives; how well were the tools and guidelines within AAIK used to implement the initiatives; are they appropriate; was the financial and technical support provided sufficient, is the planning process for the programme appropriate and are there adequate and efficient implementing procedures, how do the staff secure proper management of the various types of initiatives.

Relevance of the AAIK Initiatives: How were the interventions designed? What were the priority issues that AAIK sought to address, were these addressed? How were the various groups of poor people targeted and involved (i.e women, PLWHAs, children, youth), what is the relevance of the approaches used to the situational contexts of the LRP and to the set strategic objectives of the LRP, and to what extent are the LRP initiatives in line with AAIK’s HRBA approach? What are the gender considerations identified and integrated in programming.

Sustainability: Are the projects initiated sustainable, who owns or manages these projects; how would external factors affect their sustainability, what exit strategies are in place, do the local institutions and or partners have adequate capacity to carry on with the activities? how well is the project/interventions linked with others service providers for technical support?

Monitoring and evaluation systems: How were the results of the LRP initiatives measured? Did the LRP have appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems in place to track results of the initiative? To what extent did lack of an effective M&E system hinder the achievement of desired objectives at the LRP?

Partnerships: review identification and relationship with partners in relation to community implementation, research and advocacy in relation to the programme’s achievements. The consultant should assess the effectiveness of partnerships and make recommendations to improve our partnership in future. For example: how well has each partner fulfilled its obligations and contributed to the programme’s achievements; how have the different partnerships helped or hindered the achievement of programme’s objectives and the delivery of lasting change; what have been the key challenges among the partnerships and limitations among the partners?

3.0 Key Deliverables

The key deliverable expected at the end of the evaluation is the evaluation report that should include:• A stand-alone 6-10 page executive sumary distilling the key findings of the evaluation;
• A clear methodology for the evaluation
• Key findings focussing on the performance of the LRP focussing on the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact with regard to AAIK’s work and approach
• Lessons learned and best practices: What worked well and why; what didn’t work well and why?
• Practical recommendations for improving effectiveness of delivery of AAIK’s initiatives and areas requiring further support

Annexes: Evaluation tools, list of key informants and any other relevent information. The format of the report will be agreed upon with the successful bidder.

7.0 Evaluation Timelines

The evaluation is expected to be conducted between September and October 2013 and will last for a period of one month.

How to apply:

Interested consultants should submit a technical (not more than 10 pages) detailing understanding of the Terms of Reference and the methodology for the evaluation with resumes of the core team. They should also provide a financial proposal (one page). The proposals should be submitted to Wyckliff.Ombede@actionaid.org and George.Oduor@actionaid.org on or before Tuesday, September 24th, 2013. For any clarifications, please contact the aforementioned.