Democratic Republic of the Congo: EVALUATING THE PROMOTION OF WOMEN’S HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL AFRICA

This is an exciting, challenging, long-term consultancy opportunity; offering the possibility of both evaluating a multi-year, multi-country programme, and contributing to the developing of a new programming framework for the promotion of Integral Human Development.

On 1^st November 2015 SCIAF (Caritas Scotland) launched a three-year livelihoods, women’s empowerment and climate change resilience programme in DR Congo, Malawi and Rwanda. Supported by DFID’s UK Aid Match, the programme will promote increased food security, gender equality and resilience to climate change for 2,000 households.

SCIAF is seeking a consultant to provide technical support for an evaluation process that will run throughout the three years of the project. The evaluation will:

1. assess the extent to which the project has achieved its objectives, and

2. identify and evaluate the factors that:

   1. Promote and strengthen livelihoods opportunities for women living in varied contexts;
   2. Reduce gender and social inequalities; and
   3. Enhance women’s (and men’s) integral human development.

   Integral Human Development (IHD) is a holistic approach to development based in Catholic Social Teaching (CST). It relates to an understanding of poverty and human development as multi-dimensional, including an element of relationships with family and community, and thus gender relations. This project will test an IHD framework for the design and evaluation of livelihoods projects. This is a new initiative for SCIAF, and will contribute significantly to organisational learning.

   Intended Outputs of the evaluation:

3. An evaluation report that answers the evaluation questions outlined in this TOR;

4. Monitoring and evaluation tool(s) for Integral human Development are designed, developed, tested and finalised;

5. Increased capacity of SCIAF and the four partners to design, implement, monitor and evaluate livelihoods interventions;

6. Increased capacity to use digital data collection and analysis tools amongst SCIAF and partners;

7. One promising practice booklet on the design, monitoring and evaluation of projects promoting Integral Human Development for women and men.

A full terms of reference is available to interested applicants on request, providing more information on the consultancy and details of how to apply. Please contact Eileen Dean at edean@sciaf.org.uk. Deadline for applications 24:00 GMT Sunday 17^th January 2015.