Type: Individual Consultancy - Evaluation Team Leader 
Duty Station: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Closing Date: 21 July 2024, midnight Sri Lanka time (GMT + 5:30)
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The team leader will lead methodological design of evaluation, producing design document, conduct data collection, triangulation, validation of data, data analysis, drawing conclusion and recommendations based on evidences with and producing good quality evaluation reports including assessing quality of the report as per the UNFPA guidance. Also, the team leader will manage individual team members recruited by UNFPA for the evaluation. The team leader should have substantive expected experiences related to SRHR or Gender Equality and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence. Please refer annexure 01 in the ToR for details of the evaluation.

The Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in Sri Lanka developed the Humanitarian Needs and Priorities (HNP) Plan in June 2022 to respond to multifaceted crisis which, Sri Lanka experienced since its independence. The crisis led to difficulties in accessing essential health and protection services, exacerbated by inflation, low adaptive capacities, poor purchasing power and socio-cultural barriers. Consequently, community based protective systems were also disrupted and contributed to gender-based violence disproportionately. Against this backdrop, in line with HNP, UNFPA Sri Lanka implemented humanitarian response projects. Of them, the project titled “Provision of life-Saving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Gender Based Violence Services to the Most Vulnerable People in Sri Lanka" (UDD85) was carried out with the financial support of the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

The project evaluation at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) serves for ensuring accountability, support for evidence-based decision-making, and for learning  to accelerate implementation of the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). UNFPA Sri Lanka and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have agreed to conduct this evaluation as per the agreement signed between them.

The Individual Consultant Team Leader will lead this evaluation while managing the team members recruited by UNFPA as individual subject experts.