Final Evaluation of the Project
Search for Common Ground Indonesia is looking for an
experienced evaluator to carry out the final evaluation of its project “A More
Inclusive Democracy: Strengthening Women’s Participation for the 2014 Elections”,
a program aiming to strengthen the participation of women representing diverse
political ideologies in the 2014 district/municipality (kota/kabupaten)-level
elections.
This Terms of Reference (TOR) defines the work that
must be carried out by the external evaluator. It provides a brief outline of
the project, specifies the scope of the evaluation, and outlines the evaluation
method.
Background
Project Summary
Reflecting on SFCG’s experience on LWI project during
the 2009 elections, most of women candidates tend to be new to politics and are
thus often unequipped both to run for office and to lead if elected. In
comparison to their male peers, female candidates vying for public office tend to have a poor
understanding of election rules and regulations and also lack the confidence to
speak publicly and liaise with the media, key skills for any candidate or
leader.[1] Furthermore, elite women
candidates are decidedly at an advantage: not only can they use their families’
connections to build political clout, but they also have the financial
resources to fund their campaigns. This means that women from lower
socioeconomic background often struggle to win elections. Moreover, because of
polarising party politics, women from different parties are often pitted
against each other. As a result, they lack the capacity to look beyond narrow
party interests and use other women as resources to stand for a common platform
that would benefit not just women, but Indonesian communities as a whole.
However, women’s representation in parliament is one
of the most important principles of democracy. To strengthen democracy in
Indonesia, women’s representation needs to be improved in many sectors of
Indonesians’ lives, particularly in political parties’ representatives. It is
an important step to gain genuine support from political parties for female
candidates to run for political offices in Indonesia. Therefore SFCG implemented
the project under the title ‘A
More Inclusive Democracy: Strengthening Women’s Participation for the 2014
Elections’, this project funded by EU, started February 2013 to February 2015.
To run this project, SFCG have a partner namely Solidaritas Perempuan that have branches across
Indonesia. This project worked with women candidates to build their capacity to
participate in the political process and to lead, not only on behalf of their
parties, but also for their whole constituency, including other women, thus
enabling them to become inclusive, capable leaders. Participants from all
castes and socioeconomic levels (particularly in Bali and Lombok) as well as
first-time women candidates were prioritised.
The theory of change on which the project is based:
· If we
build the capacity of women on leadership and communication skills, they will become
actively involved in public affairs including political parties.
· If more women actively participate in a
national election, then the opportunity for women to become a member of
parliament will be more open.
· If political
parties have increased awareness on gender perspectives and diverse leadership,
they will support female candidates in becoming parliament members
· If more
women become members of parliament, then they could fight for gender equality
in their community or district
· If
more people increased their awareness on the importance of women participation
in parliament, then they will vote for women candidates running for parliament
The goal of
the program is to strengthen the participation of women representing diverse
political ideologies and a common platform in the 2014 district/municipality (kota/kabupaten)-level
elections.
The specific objectives
are:
a)
To build the capacity of women running for Parliament
at the district/municipality level in collaborative and inclusive leadership;
b)
To build the capacity of political parties to foster
more diverse leadership by supporting female candidates; and
c)
To build voter/constituency support for women in
politics.
The project expected
to achieve following results.
1. Increased capacity of women candidates
in running for district/municipality elections in skills promoting
collaborative and responsible leadership
2. Increased capacity of political parties
to support female candidates in district/municipality elections
3. Increased mechanisms for dialogue,
coordination and cooperation between female candidates, as well as between
candidates/parties and their constituents
4. Changed perceptions of Indonesian
citizens about acceptable roles for women to play in society
The target
groups for this program are:
·
Women candidates
·
Political parties
·
Local communities
The project activities
include:
1.
Baseline Assessment
2.
Stakeholder Meeting
3.
Workshop with political parties
4.
Curriculum development
workshop
5. Training
for candidates
6. Community
engagement
7. Produce and distribute animated
video/multimedia component
8. Alumni
forums
Organizational Background
Search for Common Ground (www.sfcg.org) has been working in Indonesia since 2002. Its mission
is to transform the way the world deals with conflict: away from adversarial
approaches, toward cooperative solutions. SFCG works in 35 countries across Africa,
Asia and the US engaging in a long-term process of incremental transformation.
In Indonesia, SFCG has a multi-pronged approach to
support the peacebuilding process, combining media with community peacebuilding
work. SFCG Indonesia has 20 staff with a presence in 15 provinces across the
country and works with youth, women, security services, teachers, media, and other
civil society actors.
The Evaluation
Organizational
Goal
SFCG as an organisation is committed to conducting
program evaluations in order to assess the effectiveness of our programs and
engage in continuous improvement and learning within programs and across the organisation.
The overall goal of this evaluation is to assess to contribution of the project
in strengthening the participation and election of women candidates in 2014
Elections at District and Municipal level.
Specifically, the evaluation wants to answer following
three specific questions.
• How the
program affected significant changes among the women candidates related to
their skills in the task of campaigning in the 2014 elections?
• How
political parties increased their skills and awareness in fostering more
diverse leadership by supporting women candidates in the elections?
• How the
intervention has brought changes in the voters/constituents in supporting women
in politics?
Evaluation Criteria
and Key Evaluation Questions
The evaluation will specifically focus on the
following evaluation criteria taken from the OECD DACs Guidance on Evaluating
Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities:
Relevance:
·
How relevant were the
project interventions in the current social, political and electoral context of
Indonesia? To what extent the project
approach and interventions were consistent with the need of women leaders to
run for the election?
·
How relevant are the project strategies and activities
as perceived by the beneficiaries and other community stakeholders?
·
What, if any, are the project’s unique contributions
to women’s empowerment and increased political participation that others are
not providing?
Effectiveness:
·
What are the major outputs and outcomes of this project?
How is the progress in comparison to the relevant baseline data?
·
To what extent the knowledge and skills of women
candidates on collaborative and inclusive leadership, including public speaking
and engaging media, improve among the participating women leaders?
·
Have they women leaders applied those skills in
campaigning in the 2014 elections and after the elections?
· To
what extent the project contributed in empowering and transforming women
candidates, political parties, and voters on collaborative, inclusive, and
diverse leadership?
· Are there
any positive examples of successful electoral campaign of women candidates who
participated in the project activities?
· How have
the elected women members of parliament applied their knowledge and skills in
the parliament?
· To
what extent did the women candidates who did not succeed in the 2014 elections
implement collaborative and inclusive leadership in their daily activities?
· How
has the project contributed in bringing positive changes among political party
leaders in relations to women leadership within the party structure and candidate
nomination? Has there any positive shift in the perception of male leadership
towards female leadership?
· How
has the project contributed in positively shifting public perception towards
women leaders and their leadership?
· To
what extent the project contributed in increasing the number of elected women
members in respective parliaments as compared to General Election 2009?
· What
unexpected positive or negative results did the project lead to?
Coherence
and coordination:
· How
well was the project implementation process managed?
· How
was the coordination between SFCG’s program leadership and its partner in
implementing the project?
· What
were the partnership/coordination challenges, if any, and how did SFCG managed
these challenges?
· How
coherent were the activities implemented in achieving the goal/objectives set
for the project? To what extent did the different categories of activities
complement each other?
Sustainability:
· To what extent SFCG, and its partners were successful in working with the
political parties develop to develop an action plan for supporting women in
politics in the future?
· How many political parties develop such plans and how are they
implementing these plans?
· What steps were planned or have been taken by the political parties as
well as the government institutions to create long‐term processes,
structures and institutions for the successful participation of women in
politics, including in public areas?
· Have the women candidates that were not elected to parliament organized independent
initiatives for building community awareness on social and political issues, as
well as women’s issues, beyond the project activities?
· How have been voters and citizens mobilized to support women leaders?
How did this project reached to young men and women to promote women leadership
in the long term??
Audience
The primary audience of this evaluation includes:
·
The
staff and members of SFCG Indonesia and partner organisations to draw out
reflections and lessons learned from the project and to use the recommendations
for future project design, especially for gender-related projects; and
· EU, the
funding agency, for assessing the effective and efficient use of the funds to
achieve the stated goals and results of the project.
Evaluation
Methodology
SFCG
is committed to conducting the evaluation with solid methodology to measure the
participation of women representing diverse political ideologies and a common
platform in the 2014 district/municipality (kota/kabupaten)-level
elections through the activities. The
methodologies will include: desk study review, key informant interviews, focus
groups, and surveys, all detailed as follows:
Desk
study review: Academic literature
discussing women and politics in Indonesia should be reviewed. This is
important for capturing and mapping women’s participation in Indonesian
politics since at least the first direct election in 1999, when women were given
an affirmative action to improve their participation in politics through a 30%
quota for women in the election process. Literature is crucial to identifying
ideas that support women’s participation in politics. It is equally important to
review project proposal, logframe, annual project reports and monitoring data
and reports
Interviews:
Interviews will be conducted with key informants in the three target
areas. Women alumni of our trainings will be interviewed to capture the changes
in their knowledge and skills on engaging communities and media, how they
implemented the training materials for campaigning in the 2014 elections, and
how those materials helped them in gaining voters. The interviews will also
identify what conflicts and challenges the women alumni faced and how they
solved those conflicts using training material approaches. Interviews with
women alumni will also capture the stories of success and failure of women
running for parliament in the 2014 elections. Members of political parties will
also be interviewed to evaluate the changing perspectives of political parties
in supporting women to become parliament members, how the political parties
developed policy to support women in parliament, and how the training materials
and other activities impacted internal party support for women running for parliament.
Voters or community members will also be interviewed to get information on their
views on women candidates in 2014 elections and how the women candidates
communicated with them and influenced their vote.
Surveys: A short survey
will be conducted to measure the results around objective 3. This short survey will collect quantitative
data on the male and female alumni of the leadership workshop on their general skills
and knowledge of engaging communities and media for campaigning in the 2014
elections. This survey will also evaluate the political parties in terms of
their support for women in the 2014 elections and post elections. Constituents
or community members will also complete the survey to see the change in their perspectives
on women’s leadership.
Focus
Groups: At least two focus
group discussions (with groups such as parliament members, former legislative
candidates, religious leaders, community leaders, and constituents) will be
conducted in each location to measure participants’ skills and knowledge of women’s
participation in politics.
Scope
of Work
Location:
This evaluation will take place in the three locations
where program activities are implemented: Bogor,
Bali, and Lombok.
Deliverables:
Following specific deliverables are expected form the
consultant.
·
Within seven days from signing the
contract, the consultant will submit the Inception Report, which clearly
defines the evaluation methodology, such as clear outlines of FGDs and KII
checklist, survey questionnaires, and an evaluation timeline with specific
deadlines for each deliverable. The
inception report should also clearly explain the sampling methodology and
sample size for the quantitative survey and clear and logical explanation of
the number of FGDs and KIIs planned in each location. The inception report will
be reviewed and approved by the SFCG Team. The evaluator cannot start the data
collection process without the SFCG team’s approval on the inception report.
·
Draft revaluation report to be submitted
within 10 days of completion of the data collection in the project sites for
the review and comments from SFCG Team. The review and feedback of the report
could be more than one round depending on the quality of the report submitted
by the consultant and the extent to which the comments and suggestions from the
first round of review have been incorporated.
·
The final evaluation report after
incorporating the comments from SFCG. The report should be written strictly in
English language and should be around 25-30 pages (excluding annexes) in length
and consists of:
a. Cover Page. SFCG will provide sample cover sheet for reference.
b. Table of contents, list of acronyms/abbreviations and list of tables and
charts
c. Executive summary of key findings and recommendations – no more than 3
pages.
d. Introduction: Context analysis,
project description, evaluation methodology with clear explanation of sampling,
survey methodology, FGDs/KIIs participant selection and data analysis approach.
e. Evaluation findings, analysis, and conclusions with associated data
presented per evaluation objective and per evaluation criteria, via a
reasonable balance of narrative vs. graphs and charts (mandatory).
f. Recommendations for future activities/intervention. The recommendations
should be forward looking and should focus on program design, planning vs
implementation, implementation methodology and approach, project monitoring and
evaluation system, among others. The recommendations should also be frame
according to eh evaluation criteria.
g. Appendices, which include collected data, detailed description of the
methodology with research instruments, list of interviewees, bibliography, and
evaluator(s) brief biography.
·
It should be submitted electronically in a
MS-Word document. The evaluator is responsible for English editing of the final
report and should be well formatted. The report will be credited to the
evaluator and potentially placed in the public domain at the decision of SFCG. A
verbal presentation of the findings of the evaluation in a meeting organized by
SFCG for its staff and its partners. The representative of the donor may be
present in this meeting.
·
All handwritten and electronic transcripts
of interviews and FGDs, hard copies of the survey questionnaires, any logistics
taken from SFCG for the evaluation purpose and photographs taken during the
evaluation should be submitted to SFCG. Further to this, all information
generated during the evaluation will be the sole property of SFCG and is
subject to submission to SFCG along with the final report.
Duration & Deadlines
The duration of contract will be a total of one month spread over 4 weeks starting November
17, 2014 to December 15, 2014.
·
Consultant’s CV should be
submitted to Pramita Handayani via email: phandayani@sfcg.org no later than November
10, 2014. Decision on the selected Evaluator will be made by November 15, 2014.
·
The evaluation plan and inception report should
be submitted by November 17, 2014.
·
The comments on the inception report
should be incorporated and finalised by November 19, 2014.
·
The field evaluation should take place
during November 21 to November 30, 2014.
·
The first draft of the report should be
submitted by December 6, 2014.
·
The second draft of the report should be
submitted by December 11, 2014.
·
The final report should be submitted by December
15, 2014
Evaluation Team
The evaluation team will include the evaluator, SFCG’s
DM&E Coordinator, SFCG Asia DM&E Specialist. The evaluator will be
under the direct supervision of the SFCG Country Director. SFCG’s DM&E
Coordinator will be responsible for supervising the team and facilitating the
needs of the consultant for the purpose of the evaluation.
Logistical Support
SFCG will provide preparatory and logistical assistance to the evaluator,
including:
·
Background materials (project proposal,
periodic reports, existing evaluations, etc.)
·
Meetings, phone/e-mail communication with
program administrators
·
Identify interviewees and provide contact
information
·
All logistical support for the field
visit, including travel cost (local as well as air travel)
·
Arrange meetings and appointments with
stakeholders and beneficiaries in the field (if necessary).
Evaluator's Role and Competencies
Evaluator’s Role
The evaluation will be carried out by a single external evaluator, who will
report to and work under the guidance of SFCG's DM&E Officer, who is also
the evaluation manager for this project.
The external evaluator will:
· Identify and define evaluation priority areas, methodology and
indicators;
· Design and implement data collection;
· Analyse data and findings and prepare a report;
· Write and submit a final report;
· Make a brief presentation of findings and recommendations to SFCG
Indonesia and partners.
Evaluator competencies
1. Sound knowledge on gender issues including women in politics,
particularly in the Indonesian context;
2. Sound understanding of Indonesian policy on women in politics;
3. Sound knowledge on program development;
4. Master’s degree in social science or other related fields; Candidates
with degree in women’s studies or peacebuilding will be given priority.
5. Demonstrated technical skills in gender and peacebuilding project
evaluations;
6. Proficiency in written English;
7. Prior experience in evaluating gender programs will be an added
advantage.
8. Preferred Indonesian citizen.
A complete proposals/application should be submitted
by the deadline and should include:
ü Proposal (maximum 6 pages, including the methods and methodology to be
adopted)
ü Budget estimates and price quote
ü CV
ü Cover letter
ü Availability
ü References
ü Writing sample
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