Vacancy Announcement Details

Guided by the UN Women Evaluation Policy, the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards for Evaluation in UN System and the UNEG Ethical Guidelines, the main objective of the evaluation is to assess the contribution of the Combatting Gender Based Violence (CGBV in Bangladesh) project in the prevention of violence against women through sustained and comprehensive actions at individual, family, institutional and societal levels. The CGBV project focused on primary prevention, stopping violence before it occurs, as it is a strategic approach to ending violence against women and girls.

The evaluation aim to be both summative (reviewing past gains) and formative (informing future strategies) in order to assess the achievement of results and identify the strengths and weaknesses of the programme, while drawing key learning from the evaluation findings that can inform recommendations for future EVAW programming of UN Women Bangladesh
The evaluation will have the following specific objectives:
1. To assess the CGBV project’s contributions to the overarching goal of: “Women and girls, including the most marginalized, are free of violence at home, at work and in public spaces”.
In doing so the evaluator will analyse the programmatic achievements under the following three outcome areas:
a. National and local laws and policies to prevent violence against women are strengthened and implemented.
b. Favourable social norms, attitudes and behaviours are promoted to prevent violence against women and enhance women’s economic empowerment.
c. Policy and program are increasingly informed by an expanded knowledge base on effective approaches to prevention of violence against women
2. To evaluate the project against the OECD DAC’s six evaluation criteria of relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability1.
3. To analyse how human rights approach and gender equality principles are integrated in implementation
4. To draw lessons and produce concrete recommendations on how UN Women Bangladesh can build on the gains of the CGBV project; including identifying what could be done differently and which interventions have worked and should be considered for scaling—whether through expansion or replication (horizontal) or through policy, political, legal, or institutional scaling (vertical).
V. Scope of the Evaluation
The scope of the evaluation will follow the prevention strategy of the CGBV project, and the prevention interventions that have been implemented at national level and local level in the districts of Bogura, Cumilla and Patuakhali. Evidence building -adapting model, measuring impact for generating knowledge on primary prevention of VAW remained the core overarching strategy of CGBV project.
The CGBV project has worked at the national level, supported concerted national level Policy Advocacy for a stronger legal framework protecting women from all forms of gender-based violence. Therefore, the geographical scope of the evaluation will include - Bogura, Comilla, and Patuakhali. The evaluation will cover the project implementation of the project from 20 March 2018 to 31 March 2023. The evaluation will assess all the components of the project.

Full details on the UN Women website. Application deadline 15 December.