UNDP is recruiting for a National Consultant-Project Mid -Term Review: Namibia Integrated Landscape Approach for enhancing Livelihoods and Environmental Governance to eradicate poverty (NILALEG) (m/f), to be based in Windhoek, Namibia.
Description
- The project was designed to contribute to the forest, savannah and rangeland of Namibia’s northern areas to pilot an integrated landscape management approach, reducing poverty through sustainable nature-based livelihoods, protecting and restoring forests as carbon sinks, and promoting Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)
- Project overall objective: To promote an integrated landscape management approach in key agricultural and forest landscapes, reducing poverty through sustainable nature-based livelihoods, protecting and restoring forests as carbon sinks, and promoting Land Degradation Neutrality
- Project Outcomes: Functioning intra-governmental coordination to guide implementation and monitoring of global targets
- Enhanced sustainable land and forest management, biodiversity conservation and livelihoods in target landscapes
- Enhanced access to finance, technical assistance and market information to pilot and scale up the integrated landscape management approach and sustainable enterprises
- Project results are tracked, and the impact of interventions evaluated, with learning captured and shared
Duties
- The MTR will assess progress towards the achievement of the project objectives and outcomes as specified in the Project Document and assess early signs of project success or failure with the goal of identifying the necessary changes to be made in order to set the project on-track to achieve its intended results within the available resources (time and finance). Its overall objective is to increase the chance of the project success at the project completion. The MTR will also review the project’s strategy and its risks regarding sustainability. a) Scope of the Services: The MTR team will assess the following four categories of project progress. See the Guidance for Conducting Midterm Reviews of UNDP-Supported, GEF-Financed Projects for extended descriptions. i. Project Strategy Project design:
- Review the problem addressed by the project and the underlying assumptions
- Review the effect of any incorrect assumptions or changes to the context to achieving the project results as outlined in the Project Document
- Review the relevance of the project strategy and assess whether it provides the most effective route towards expected/intended results. Were lessons from other relevant projects properly incorporated into the project design?
- Review how the project addresses country priorities
- Review country ownership. Was the project concept in line with the national sector development priorities and plans of the country (or of participating countries in the case of multi-country projects)?
- Review decision-making processes: were perspectives of those who would be affected by project decisions, those who could affect the outcomes, and those who could contribute information or other resources to the process, taken into account during project design processes?
- Review the extent to which relevant gender issues were raised in the project design (see Annex 9 of Guidance for Conducting Midterm Reviews of UNDP-Supported, GEF
- Financed Projects for further guidelines) Were relevant gender issues (e.g. the impact of the project on gender equality in the programme country, involvement of women’s groups, engaging women in project activities) raised in the Project Document?
- If there are major areas of concern, recommend areas for improvement
Requisites
- A Master’s degree in environmental management, development studies, evaluation theory or other closely related field
- Relevant experience with result-based management evaluation methodologies
- Experience applying SMART indicators and reconstructing or validating baseline scenarios
- Competence in adaptive management, as applied to land degradation, specifically Sustainable Forest Management (SFM)
- Experience in evaluating projects
- Experience working in Southern Africa
- Experience in relevant technical areas for at least 10 years
- Demonstrated understanding of issues related to gender, land degradation and SFM; experience in gender sensitive evaluation and analysis
- Fluency in written and spoken English
Notes
- Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted