Consultant End of Project Evaluation
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Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)
Remote (global)- Career category: Monitoring & Evaluation /MEAL
- Job type: Consultancy
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (global)
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Remuneration: $7,000 USD / Budget
- Deadline: 03/10/2025
- Location: Remote (global)
Background and Context of the Project
The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA Network) is a regional coalition of civil society organizations operating across Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Somaliland, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Uganda.
PURPOSE OF THE EVALUATION
The final evaluation aims to assess the effectiveness of the Justice for Women project in advancing access to fair, gender-responsive justice systems for women and girls in Sudan and Ethiopia. The evaluation will examine the project’s relevance, impact, effectiveness, efficiency, adaptability, and sustainability, with a focus on its dual strategy:
- Strengthening the capacity of legal professionals and WRAs to drive legal and policy reform through strategic litigation and advocacy.
- Enhancing the delivery of survivor-centered legal services through trained lawyers, paralegals, and community legal support structures.
The evaluation is also expected to explore how the project contributed to dismantling systemic legal and social barriers that prevent women from accessing justice, and how it amplified the voices and leadership of female legal actors across the Horn of Africa.
Additionally, the evaluation will:
- Identify key challenges and lessons learned, particularly in navigating the evolving context of the war in Sudan.
- Highlight promising practices that can inform future feminist legal empowerment initiatives across the region.
- Assess the project’s contribution to shifts in community attitudes toward the legal rights of women and girls.
- Analyze how strategic partnerships, networks, and sub-granting mechanisms support systemic change and local ownership.
- Evaluate to which extent the project ensured accountability to its stakeholders, including legal professionals and WRAs, community members, implementing partners, and the donor.
The evaluation will draw comparisons with the 2023 baseline assessment, helping to identify concrete changes in institutional capacity, legal service access, and policy engagement over the course of implementation.
Required Competencies
The Lead Consultant is expected to hold the following qualifications to be eligible for this position:
- Relevant academic qualification is preferably a master’s degree in one or more of the following disciplines: Social Sciences, Development Studies, Statistics, and Gender Studies.
- Evaluation experience of at least 5 years in conducting external evaluations, with mixed-methods evaluation skills, and flexibility in using non-traditional and innovative evaluation methods.
- Expertise in gender and human-rights-based approaches to evaluation and issues of violence against women and girls.
- Experience with program design and theory of change, gender-responsive evaluation, participatory approaches and stakeholder engagement.
- Specific evaluation experiences in the areas of ending violence against women and girls.
- Experience in collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data as well as data visualization.
- In-depth knowledge of gender equality and women’s empowerment.
- A strong commitment to delivering timely and high-quality results, i.e. credible evaluation and its report that can be used.
- A strong team leadership and management track record, as well as interpersonal and communication skills to help ensure that the evaluation is understood and used.
- Good communication skills and ability to communicate with various stakeholders and to express ideas and concepts concisely and clearly.
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