UNFPA launched a three-and-a-half-year programme titled “Chaguo Langu Haki Yangu” in October 2021, the programme is expected to end in March 2025, whose goal is to Protect the Rights and Choices of Women and Girls, including Women and Girls with disabilities in Tanzania” that is implemented at both the national and regional levels in Shinyanga and Mara Regions and Zanzibar with financial support from the Government of Finland.
The programme aims to ensure that women and girls, including women and girls with disabilities, enjoy their right to live a life free of discrimination, violence, and abuse and to make their own decisions about their bodies by ensuring that the rights and choices of all women and girls of all abilities are protected and enhanced in Tanzania.
UNFPA, the United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency, works to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. The strategic goal of UNFPA is to “achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health, realize reproductive rights, and reduce maternal mortality to accelerate progress on the agenda of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action (POA), to improve the lives of women, adolescents and youth, enabled by population dynamics, human rights and gender equality.”
In pursuit of this goal, UNFPA works towards three transformative and people-centred results: (i) end preventable maternal deaths; (ii) end the unmet need for family planning; and (iii) end gender-based violence (GBV) and harmful practices, including female genital mutilation (FGM) and child, early and forced marriage. These transformative results contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly good health and well-being (Goal 3), the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls (Goal 5), the reduction of inequality within and among countries (Goal 10), and peace, justice and strong institutions (Goal 16). In line with the vision of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UNFPA programmes and projects are designed and implemented within the principle of Leave No One Behind (LNOB), which is the central, transformative promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The programme evaluation will be conducted in line with the Handbook on How to Design and Conduct a Country Programme Evaluation at UNFPA (UNFPA Evaluation Handbook), available at https://www.unfpa.org/EvaluationHandbook.
The main audiences and primary intended users of the evaluation are:
(i) UNFPA’s Tanzania Country Office (CO);
(ii) the Ministries, Departments and Agencies involved in the advancement of rights of women and girls, particularly women and girls with disabilities in Tanzania;
(iii) implementing partners of the UNFPA Tanzania CO;
(iv) rights-holders involved in CLHY programme interventions and the organizations that represent them (particularly women, adolescents and youth and people with disability.
The evaluation results will also be of interest to a wider group of stakeholders, including local civil society organizations (CSOs) and international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The evaluation results will be disseminated as appropriate, using acceptable traditional and digital communication channels.
The evaluation will be managed by the Evaluation Manager within the UNFPA Tanzania CO, with guidance and support from the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Adviser at the East and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO), and in consultation with the Evaluation Reference Group (ERG) throughout the evaluation process. An independent evaluator(s) will conduct the evaluation and prepare an evaluation report in conformity with this Terms of Reference (ToR).
Submission Requirements.
The consulting firm should submit Technical and Financial proposals separately. The technical proposal should be a maximum of 10 pages and include the proposed approach and activities for implementing and managing the consultancy, including an operational work plan with timelines.
Following documents should be attached to the proposal;
1) a profile of the firm,
2) Curriculum Vitae of a team lead and team members expected to undertake the evaluation exercise, and
3) evidence of undertaking similar work in the past and names and contact details (email and phone numbers) of past clients.
Please refer to the RFQ with reference number RFQ Nº UNFPA/TZA/RFQ/24/004 for the submission guidelines
How to Apply
Qualified research firms should send the application letter and proposal documents, as well as technical and financial documents, in separate files through the email address tanzania.office@unfpa.org.
The deadline for application is 13 November 2024 at 23:59:59 hrs.
Please download the relevant Documents
- Terms of Reference
- RFQ Endline Evaluation CLHY Programme
- General Condition of the Contract / Services