Background
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The Democratic Governance
for Development (DGD II) is a joint donor-funded project managed by UNDP
in support of deepening democracy in Nigeria. It is funded with
contributions from the European Union (EU), the UK Department for
International Development (DFID), the Canadian International Development
Agency (CIDA), the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and
the UNDP.
The project provides technical and financial support to
the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), civil society
organizations, and institutions such as the judiciary, the media,
national and state assemblies, and political parties as a means of
strengthening accountable and responsive governance institutions, and
consolidating democratic governance in line with international best
practices. It has 4 main components as outlined below.
Component
1. Promoting Credible, Transparent and Sustainable Electoral Processes —
DGD II seeks to promote sustainable electoral processes through
engaging the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to improve
INEC’s institutional capacity; strategic planning and operational
competency; staff professional development; voter registration;
strategic engagement with electoral stakeholders to promote political
party reform; legal reform involving the legislature; civic education;
election monitoring and observation; and gender mainstreaming in the
electoral process. The project also supports the capacity of the State
Independent Electoral Commissions (SIEC) to promote credible local
elections through strengthening the normative frameworks for the
management of elections by the SIECs, inter-SIEC peer-learning and
enhanced cooperation between INEC and the SIECs.
Component 2.
Improving the Democratic Quality of Political Engagement — Efforts in
this Component aim to improve the democratic functioning of political
parties, professionalizing their administration, strengthening
inter-party dialogue and enabling political parties to effectively
engage with the electoral and democratic processes. DGD II activities in
this component are geared towards developing the capacity of the
parties to engage constructively in electoral and democratic processes.
This will be achieved by delivering two outputs, namely: (1) Capacity of
political parties strengthened, and (2) improved effectiveness of
targeted National Assembly Committees/Processes.
Component 3.
Enhancing Participation by Women, Youth and other Marginalized Groups —
This component seeks to support ongoing legal reform to promote
affirmative action and women’s empowerment and political participation
through supporting political parties to strengthen internal processes
geared to advancing the role of women within the party structures;
training women to organize and mobilize public support for their
election to public office; and supporting elected women to become
effective role models and drivers of change to promote affirmative
action and address gender gaps especially in the National Assembly.
Component
4. Strengthening the Channels of Civic Engagement — DGD II supports
CSOs and media efforts to champion governance reforms, confront
corruption, advocate respect for human rights, and promote and defend
democratic processes and institutions through improving institutional
capacities of CSOs to develop and engage in a wide range of deepening
democratic governance initiatives, including advocating for electoral
reforms, disseminating information on and monitoring government
performance in addition to supporting civic education and election
observation.
Evaluation purpose
UNDP commissions
evaluations to capture and demonstrate evaluative evidence of its
contributions to development results at the country level as articulated
in both the Nigeria UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and
UNDP country programme document (CPD). These are evaluations carried out
within the overall provisions contained in the UNDP Evaluation Policy.
In line with the Evaluation Plan of UNDP Nigeria, this terminal
evaluation of the DGD II project is to assess the progress in the
implementation of the project, what worked what did not and why? Look at
challenges faced and ensure accountability for the overall results. The
lessons learned and recommendations from the evaluation will be used in
the design of any similar development support in the future.
The
UNDP Office in Nigeria is commissioning this evaluation under its good
governance programme to capture evaluative evidence of the relevance,
effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability, which can be used to
strengthen existing programmes and to set the stage for new initiatives.
Objectives and Scope of the Evaluation
The
main objective of this evaluation is to assess the achievements of the
DGD II project results and to draw lessons that can both improve the
sustainability of benefits from this project, and aid in the overall
enhancement of UNDP programming.
Specifically, the terminal evaluation will assess:
- The relevance and strategic positioning of UNDP and other partners’ support to Nigeria on democratic governance.
- The
frameworks and strategies that UNDP has devised for its support on good
governance, including partnership strategies, and whether they are well
conceived for achieving planned objectives.
- The progress made
towards achieving election outcomes, through this specific project and
advisory services, and including contributing factors and constraints.
- The progress to date and what can be derived in terms of lessons learned for future election and governance support to Nigeria.
- Make
recommendations about design of any future electoral cycle support
project based on lessons learned in the project implementation.
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Duties and Responsibilities
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The evaluation will cover the period
from the inception of the project to its envisaged end that is 2012 to
July 2015. The terminal evaluation will be conducted during the month of
August 2015, with a view to consolidate the gains made while providing
strategic direction and inputs to the preparation of similar projects in
the future.
Questions guiding the evaluation
Relevance:
- Was
the initial design of the project adequate to properly address the
issues envisaged in formulation of the project and provide the best
possible support to the INEC?
- Has it remained relevant?
Effectiveness
- Are the project outputs appropriate, sufficient, effective and sustainable for the desired outcome?
Output analysis
- Are the project outputs relevant to the outcome?
- What
are the quantities and qualities of the outputs, and their timeliness?
What factors impeded or facilitated the delivery of the outputs?
- Are the indicators appropriate to link the outputs to the outcome?
- Has the outputs been delivered as planned?
- Which aspects of the project have been most effective so far? Which ones are least effective?
- What key challenges have hampered the delivery of intended outputs?
- How can the effectiveness of support to the project be strengthened in future projects?
Efficiency:
- Was
UNDP support to the project appropriate to achieving the desired
objectives and intended results? If not, what were the key weaknesses?
- Has there been an economical use of financial and human resources?
- Were the results delivered in a reasonable proportion to the operational and other costs?
- Could a different type of intervention lead to similar results at a lower cost? How?
- Did
the monitoring and evaluation systems that UNDP had in place helped
ensure that the project was managed efficiently and effectively?
Effectiveness
- What
evidence is there that UNDP support has contributed towards an
improvement in national government capacity, including institutional
strengthening?
- Has UNDP been effective in helping improve
governance at the local level in Nigeria? Do these local results
aggregate into nationally significant results?
- Has UNDP worked effectively with other UN Agencies and other international and national partners to deliver governance services?
- How effective has UNDP been in partnering with civil society and the private sector to promote democratic governance in Nigeria?
- Has UNDP utilized innovative techniques and best practices in its governance programming?
- Is UNDP perceived by stakeholders as a strong advocate for improving government effectiveness and integrity in Nigeria?
- Taking
into account the technical capacity and institutional arrangements of
the UNDP country office, is UNDP well suited to providing governance
support to national and local governments in Nigeria?
- What contributing factors and impediments enhance or impede UNDP performance in this area?
Sustainability:
- Will
the outputs delivered through the project be sustained by national
capacities after the end of the project duration? If not, why?
- Will there be adequate funding available to sustain the functionality over the short, medium and longer term?
- Has the project generated the buy-in and credibility needed for sustained impact?
Resources, partnerships, and management analysis
- Were project partners, stakeholders and/or beneficiaries involved in the design of interventions?
- If yes, what was the nature and extent of their participation? If not, why not?
- Was
the structure and management of the project appropriate to achieving
the desired objectives and intended results of the project? If not, what
were the key weaknesses?
- Has the intervention developed the necessary capacities (both human and institutional) for sustainability?
The
evaluation should also include an assessment of the extent to which
project design, implementation and monitoring have taken the following
cross cutting issues into consideration:
Human rights
- To
what extent have poor, indigenous and tribal peoples, women and other
disadvantaged and marginalized groups benefitted from UNDPs work in
support of democratic governance?
Deliverables
The following deliverables will be expected from the evaluation team:
- Inception
Report, detailing evaluation scope and methodology, including data
collection methods as well as approach for the evaluation. The inception
report should also contain a detailed work plan with timelines for
agreed milestones;
- The Draft Evaluation Report which will be
shared with Government of Nigeria, UNDP and funding partners for
comments and input; and
- The Final Evaluation Report, incorporating comments from stakeholders.
One
week after contract signing, the evaluation manager will produce an
inception report containing the proposed theory of change for UNDPs work
democratic governance in Nigeria. The inception report should include
an evaluation matrix presenting the evaluation questions, data sources,
data collection, analysis tools and methods to be used. The inception
report should detail the specific timing for evaluation activities and
deliverables, and propose specific site visits and stakeholders to be
interviewed. Protocols for different stakeholders should be developed.
The inception report will be discussed and agreed with UNDP and other
stakeholders before the evaluators proceed with site visits.
The
draft evaluation report will be shared with stakeholders, and presented
in a validation meeting that the UNDP country office will organise.
Feedback received from these sessions should be taken into accountGender Equality
- To
what extent has gender been addressed in the design, implementation and
monitoring of governance projects? Is gender marker data assigned to
the project representative of reality?
- To what extent has UNDP
governance support promoted positive changes in gender equality? Were
there any unintended effects? Information collected should be checked
again data from the UNDP country office’ Results-oriented Annual Reports
(ROAR) during the period 2012 - 2015.
Based on the above
analysis, the evaluators are expected to provide overarching conclusions
on UNDP results in this area of support, as well as recommendations on
how the UNDP Nigeria Country Office could adjust its programming,
partnership arrangements, resource mobilization strategies, and
capacities to ensure that the governance portfolio in general fully
achieves current planned outcomes and is positioned for sustainable
results in the future. The evaluation is additionally expected to offer
wider lessons for UNDP support in Nigeria and elsewhere based on this
analysis.
Implementation Arrangements
The UNDP Nigeria
country office will select the evaluation team, and will be responsible
for the management of the evaluators. UNDP will designate a focal point
for the evaluation and any additional staff to assist in facilitating
the process (e.g., providing relevant documentation, arranging
visits/interviews with key informants, etc.). The Country Office will
take responsibility for the approval of the final evaluation report. The
M&E Specialist in the Country Office will arrange introductory
meetings within UNDP and Unit Head will establish initial contacts with
government partners and project staff. The consultants will take
responsibility for setting up meetings and conducting the evaluation,
subject to advanced approval of the methodology submitted in the
inception report. The UNDP country office will develop a management
response to the evaluation within six weeks of report finalization.
While
the Country Office will provide some logistical support during the
evaluation, for instance assisting in setting interviews with senior
government officials, it will be the responsibility of the evaluators to
logistically and financially arrange their travel to and from relevant
project sites and to arrange most interviews. Planned travels and
associated costs will be included in the Inception Report, and agreed
with the Country Office.
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Competencies
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Functional Competence:
- Excellent Communication,facilitation and presentation skills in English;
- Strong organizational awareness,client orientation and government advisory skills;
- Execllent
expernce in issues affecting human rights especially in developing
nations;Strong awareness in the latest deveopment on methodoligies and
capacity development methods on social research and human rights;
- Strong drafting and reporting skills in English
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Required Skills and Experience
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Education:
- University degree in public administration,
political science/elections studies, economics, development planning,
business administration, law or other relevant qualifications
Experience:
- Minimum
of 10 years professional expertise in international development
co-operation, governance issues, programme/project evaluation, impact
assessment/development of programming/strategies; gender equality and
social services
- Extensive experience in conducting evaluations,
with a strong working building/development and state building;knowledge
on institutional capacity
- Extensive knowledge of result - based
management (RBM) evaluation, and participatory monitoring and evaluation
methodologies and approaches;
Language Requirement:
- Strong skills in written communication in English particularly in preparing issue -based papers and reports
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