VACANCY: CONSULTANT for END TERM REVIEWER of Prevention+ Program

TOR

Prevention+

End Term Reviewer(s) (ETR)

Background

Rutgers Indonesia is an organization working on reproductive health, sexuality, and to create a society without violence. Since 2006, Rutgers Indonesia leads the Prevention + programme in Indonesia. Prevention+ focuses on engaging men to end all forms of gender-based violence (GBV), including by promoting the fuller economic participation and self-reliance of women. This programme is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is being carried out in Indonesia, Pakistan, Uganda, Rwanda and MENA countries. Prevention+ is funded under the FLOW (Female Leadership of Women) budget and runs from 2016-2020. More detail of Prevention+ programme can be downloaded o from https://www.rutgers.international/programmes/prevention-programme.

The program’s long-term objective is to contribute to a gender just society, free of GBV, by transforming harmful social norms driving GBV at the individual/relationship, community, and civil society level and to ensure that these changes are firmly rooted in a supportive legal and policy framework. The programme strategy seeks to scale-up evidence-based gender- transformative interventions working in strategic partnerships with key public sectors and CSOs, toward these ends. Prevention+ is a five-year multi-country programme.

Programme interventions complement the work and advocacy of feminist groups and social justice movements to end gender-based violence. The five-year programme fosters positive interactions and gender-equitable relationships to address the root causes of GBV by: 

•   taking a multi-level approach: that is, designing interventions at four levels of society - individual, community, institutional, and government - to transform the intersecting social and structural factors that allow GBV to persist;

•   actively engaging young and adult men as part of the solution; that is, engaging them as partners/advocates for change - alongside young and adult women - to challenge and transform harmful gender norms and practices. 

In 2020, as the Prevention+ programme approaches its end date, programme teams will undertake multiple activities to evaluate the programme and document its lessons learned and successes.

This process requires multiple studies, analyzing internal and external reports and collecting data from interviews and FGDs and with specific stakeholders.

To undertake this in country large scale study, a researcher team (institutional or individual based) will conduct an end-term review covering the five Prevention+ sites in Indonesia (Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Solo, Bandar Lampung & Metro Lampung) and field office’s work.

Objectives of the end-term review

•   To assess the country program achievement of the 5 years’ goals and targets (activities)

•   To assess the country program achievement at outcome level (result)

•   Reporting back on process underlying achieving these result, challenges and lessons learnt.

Scope of programme data collection

Findings and recommendations will be thoroughly discussed with the Rutgers International and Rutgers Indonesia during and also at the end of the ETR. The Reviewer will complete and submit a draft final report in Bahasa Indonesia and English. The Reviewer will finalize the report in the light of comments/suggestions of stakeholders. The key outputs of the ETR are:

(a)   Inception Report: consisting of tools/instrument that will be used in data collection, data collection plan, analysis plan, and report outline format;

(b)   Report of data collection and analysis on community based programmes comprising community discussion and counselling activities. These will include reflections on underlying processes of these activities and results and on successes and challenges;

(c)   Report of data collection and analysis of national programmes with the Police and capacity building activities. These will include reflections on underlying processes of these activities and results and on successes and challenges;

(d)   Final Reports: covers the whole of findings, analysis, conclusion and recommendation that refer to guiding questions and objective of ETR. This also include annexes of changes of the program documents to provide clear understanding of program progress.

The report should be logically structured, comprising of evidence-based findings, conclusions, lessons and recommendations, and should be free of information that is not relevant to the overall analysis. The report should respond in detail to the key focus areas described above. It should include a set of specific recommendations formulated for the program, and identify the necessary actions required to be undertaken, who should undertake those and possible time-lines (if any).  Program stakeholders will provide comments on the Draft Report, and the Reviewer will finalize the report in view of these comments. The final draft report will be presented and discussed interactively through a facilitated one-day concluding workshop with stakeholders

The ETR will be based on templates for the countries to complete. Excel template will provide space to report back on output and outcome level, and a Word template will provide space to report back on underlying processes achieving these results, challenges, lessons learnt, and a compact summary.

All documents and reports submitted to Rutgers Indonesia will be in English. All written documents should be logically structured, with evidence-based findings, conclusions, lessons and recommendations, and free of any irrelevant information to the overall analysis. The report should respond in detail to the key focus areas. Program stakeholders will provide comments on the Draft Report, and the Reviewer(s) will finalize the report in view of these comments.

Methodology

The mission will adopt a consultative and participative approach. This will include field visits to program sites and meetings with communities’/programme direct beneficiaries’/government bodies at district/provincial/national level. The program sites include Yogyakarta, Lampung, and Jakarta to collect first-hand information^[1]. The ETR will start with a meeting at Rutgers Country Office and conclude with a debriefing meeting with Rutgers and other program partners. 

Timeline

Activity	Timeline
Inception report including: a)     Data Collection tools/instrument b)     Data collection plan c)     Analysis plan d)     Report Outline	Week 2-3 April 2020
Data collection	At 4 intervention sites May-July 2020
Data processing & analysis	Week 1-2 August 2020
Quality checking	April Week 2 – Week 2 August
Presentation of results (Zero Draft), Revision, finalization	Week-3 August 2020
Final quality check	Week-4 August 2020
Final report submission	1 Sept 2020

Requirements

Considering the magnitude and time limit of this review, it is advisable that a team or institution applies to this consultancy.

The successful application should identify one lead researcher of the research team to be the primary contact person for the End Term Review Team. This person should:

·       Have proven experience in layered and complex evaluations;

·       Have a strong methodological background in multi-country evaluations; and

·       Have proven experience in using a mixed methodology approach.

·       The evaluation team should not comprise current staff of Rutgers Indonesia or partners, in order to protect the independence of the evaluation.

The successful application will identify one or more key personnel within the evaluation team who meet desired criteria such as the following:

·       Master’s degree in social sciences; and advanced skills in quantitative and qualitative research methodologies is advantageous;

·       At least five years’ experience in the development sector;

·       Proven experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis for evaluations;

·       Ability to work independently, take initiative and respond appropriately to constructive feedback; and

·       Experience in sharing and discussing evaluation findings with clients, in-country partners and beneficiaries.

·       Having experience in the evaluation of gender equality, engaging men and boys, and GBV programme, particularly in long-term assignments such as this one, will be an advantage.

·       Other experiences including working with faith based organizations and religious leaders; Having worked in closed setting such as prison setting will be advantageous;

Proposal Submission

Rutgers is seeking a five-page proposal that will include following content:

1.     Technical section: proposed of analysis flow and outline of reporting, timeframe & work plan

2.     Financial section: consultancy fee

3.     Link to your completed report from other consultation work

4.     Curriculum vitae which includes an evaluation portfolio

Submissions must be emailed and received through email to recruitment@rutgers.id by 16 February 2020. All tender submissions will be evaluated on the basis of a technical and financial assessment. The following evaluation criteria and weighting will form the basis of tender research:

a) Technical            : 40%

b) Financial             : 20%

c) CV                     : 40%

---

[1] The consultants will discuss and finalize the data collection tools and success indicators in consultation with Rutgers Indonesia.