Endline Evaluation Consultant

TERMS OF REFERENCE
Endline Evaluation Consultant
Feminist Futures Free from Violence Project

I. GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE

1.1 Background

Fòs Feminista
Fòs Feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the Global South, Fòs Feminista works as an alliance of organizations in 40+ countries worldwide to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. Fòs Feminista is both the connective tissue that links these diverse partners in an alliance and an active participant in the broader ecosystem of actors working on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ). Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action by connecting partners throughout the SRHRJ ecosystem, amplifying innovative partner-led solutions to SRHRJ issues, and catalyzing funding and political will for an intersectional feminist agenda on SRHRJ.

We recognize that the ability of women, girls, and gender-diverse people to make free and informed choices about their sexual and reproductive lives, including to access safe and legal abortion, is central to their life plans and to achieving gender and reproductive justice. Together with partners in the Alliance, we provide access to sexual and reproductive health care and services, including contraception, abortion, and care for victims of gender-based violence, and we reach young people with comprehensive sexuality education. We are at the forefront of advocating for sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice from an intersectional lens in national, regional, and global spaces, coordinating with our partners to ensure that diverse experiences, priorities, and voices of the Global South are represented in these spaces. We also strengthen intersectional feminist movements and organizations by creating and holding space for partners to participate in an international community built on feminist values of sharing power, diversity, mutual learning, and solidarity and to access resources to strengthen their work.

II. SCOPE OF WORK

2.1 Objective & Role of the Consultancy
The Consultancy will provide endline evaluation and learning support for the closure of the Feminist Futures Free from Violence project. The Feminist Futures Free from Violence project aims to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Mexico, Ecuador, and Paraguay. Carried out in collaboration with five local partners and two international partners over the course of three years, the project is currently in the last year of implementation, with all activities ending on March 31, 2025.

The selected Consultant(s) will be responsible for generating and synthesizing overall evidence and learning from the Feminist Futures Free from Violence project at endline. This will be used to evaluate the extent that the project contributed to its ultimate outcome of enhanced gender equality and empowerment of women, girls, and gender diverse people in Ecuador, Mexico, and Paraguay, as well as the intermediate outcomes of strengthening primary prevention of SGBV, expanding health responses to SGBV, and increasing government accountability for effective mitigation of SGBV. The Consultant(s) will also be responsible for leveraging evidence and facilitating sensemaking with partners to collectively identify best practices and lessons learned for diverse project stakeholders. Additionally, recommendations for next steps that can help to sustain the positive impacts of the project are expected to be cultivated with partners in a participatory manner.

To assess the achievements of project objectives and facilitate the co-creation of actionable learnings and recommendations, the Consultant(s) must closely collaborate with Fòs Feminista and project partners in both Spanish and English. The methodologies utilized to generate evidence and learning shall be qualitative and quantitative to reflect multiple ways of knowing. They must also be participatory to leverage localized insights of project partners in context. These mixed methodologies must have an intersectional feminist lens that analyzes differences in overall project effects for women, girls, and gender-diverse people at the intersection of discriminatory power structures and uplifts their voices, perspectives, and experiences.

2.2 Consultant Deliverables
In close collaboration with Fòs Feminista team members, the contracted Consultant(s) will complete the following deliverables:

1. Generate an inception report that outlines the overall design of the Consultancy, key evaluation and learning questions, proposed methodologies, a detailed work plan with the anticipated level of effort for each milestone, and a timeline with delivery dates for deliverables. This inception report will be subject to review and approval by Fòs Feminista.

2. Systematically collate existing findings from desk review of key project documents, including the Performance Measurement Framework, the project implementation plan, results and operations reports from prior periods, and the midterm evaluation. The Consultant(s) are expected to familiarize themselves with the information and insights already generated from the project and provide a synthesis of the existing evidence. The desk review is also expected to result in the identification of any gaps in existing evidence from the project that will be filled in by the evaluation and learning methods applied by the Consultant(s).

3. Co-create key endline findings on the project’s final results, promising practices, lessons learned, and priority recommendations from evaluation evidence and learning. To achieve this, evaluation and learning methodologies will be applied with project partners, many of which will be implemented during the project closure meeting in early 2025. They should be mixed methods that are participatory, utilize an intersectional feminist lens, and align with OECD evaluation criteria. The approaches used should include:

a. Leading evaluation and learning sessions that facilitate collective analysis of the overall achievement of the project’s outcomes, with a focus on ensuring that any gaps in the achievement of outcomes are contextualized, explained, and reflected through other evidence from better-suited or alternative evaluation methods that are applied by the Consultant(s).
i. Analysis of the project’s achievement of its outcomes should be supplemented by stories of change that qualitatively demonstrate the impact of the project at an individual, community, organizational, and policy level.
b. These sessions should also include sensemaking of the most important promising practices and learnings.
c. Priority recommendations should be generated for partners and donors that:
i. can be used to enhance SGBV programming;
ii. will improve future projects; and
iii. establish priority next steps for sustaining the positive effects of project after its closure.
d. Final results, learnings, and recommendations should be jointly interpreted and validated with all partners on the project in Spanish.

Please note that the Consultant(s) are expected to fulfill all administrative and data management duties associated with the implementation of these methods, including notetaking, data collection, and collation of information, among others.

4. Develop a final evaluation report in English by April 15, 2025. This endline evaluation report will demonstrate the impact of Feminist Futures Free from Violence project and its key promising practices, critical learnings, and priority recommendations for future work. The report should include the main components listed in the deliverable above. It should also align with Global Affairs Canada guidelines and capable of being segmented for different audiences.

5. Create an engaging, user-friendly summary document that highlights the most important accomplishments and learnings from the project in Spanish and English.

6. Share final findings and recommendations with project partners through a presentation in Spanish via agile online communication platforms.

2.3 Consultant Profile
A broad diversity of skills, capabilities, expertise, knowledge, and experiences will be considered for the role. The ideal Consultant(s) have:

• Fluent verbal and written communication skills in both English and Spanish required.
• Robust expertise in feminist and participatory evaluation, research, and learning methods that are both qualitative and quantitative.
• Knowledge of the sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a background in SGBV highly desired.
• Experience designing and implementing intersectional feminist approaches to evaluate programming on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice.
• Expertise in facilitating sensemaking and learning across diverse stakeholders, organizations, and countries using remote digital formats and in-person approaches.
• Capacity to not only facilitate evaluation and learning activities, but also document, analyze, and present the results from these activities. For activities facilitated by the Consultant(s), the Consultant(s) are required to fulfill all administrative and data management duties, such as notetaking, data collection, and collation of information, among others.
• Ability to review existing project documents, interpret this prior evidence from the project, and synthesize findings into Consultancy deliverables so that existing knowledge is leveraged and redundancies or duplication of efforts are avoided.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills, with the ability to fulfill the Terms of Reference, adhere to the inception report, and comply project requirements within established timelines.
• Capability to adapt to evolving needs, challenges, and opportunities as they arise.
• Skilled in reviewing and adhering to donor reporting requirements. Familiarity with Global Affairs Canada requirements or reporting is a plus.
• Superb interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in multicultural settings across multiple time zones and countries.
• Ability to travel to Panama or other locales in Latin America if resources allow for an in-person closing meeting for the project.

III. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

3.1 Project duration
The Consultancy is expected to initiate in January 2025. The final report must be completed by April 15, 2025. All other deliverables must be completed prior to May 31, 2025.

3.2 Project location
Fully remote, based in Latin America and the Caribbean. Work will be done virtually, with a project closure meeting with the participation of the Consultant(s) and all project partners that will be conducted either online or in-person in Latin America. If travel is required to attend an in-person project closure convening in February or March 2025, estimated expenses related to said travel are expected to be included in the budget for the Consultancy.

The Consultant(s) must be willing to adjust to different time zones.

3.3 Reporting
The Consultant(s) will report to Fòs Feminista's Business Intelligence, Evaluation, and Research Unit and the Program Implementation Unit.

IV. APPLICATION PROCESS

For consideration, please submit a résumé for all applicants or a portfolio that demonstrates expertise in evaluation and learning, as well as a proposal for the Consultancy. The proposal must include the proposed approach and methodology, anticipated level of effort, and timelines for deliverables. A financial offer in USD, not to exceed $20,000, should also be included in the proposal, which includes rates plus all taxes and liens that this type of consultancy requires. The financial offer should include an estimate of costing for travel expenses of the Consultant(s) if an in-person closing meeting is held.
All application materials shall be submitted in English.
Deadline to apply: Applications must be submitted by November 30, 2024.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

V. SAFEGUARDING COMMITMENTS

Fòs Feminista is committed to ensuring that the health, rights, and wellbeing of all children, young people, and vulnerable populations who work and engage with F Fòs Feminista's Team Members and Associated Persons are respected and protected in their interactions with them, and requires all its Team Members and Associated Persons to share this commitment.

The successful candidate must:
• Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in the United States, in the country of residence, and in the international context.
• Sign and adhere to Fòs Feminista's International Safeguarding Policy and Safeguarding Code of Conduct, including the minimum operating standards for protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).
• Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in the United States, in the country of residence, and in the international context.

VI. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER STATEMENT

Fòs Feminista is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive rights and health and dismantling inequities from a feminist intersectional lens. Reproductive justice, racial justice, and diversity are driving forces for us.

Fòs Feminista provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital and partnership status, genetic information, veteran status or any other protected category under federal, state and local law.

At Fòs Feminista, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from all kinds of backgrounds to build a diverse workforce in which all social and minority groups are represented.

Keywords

EvaluationLearningFeministSexual Reproductive HealthRightsJusticeIntersectionalLatin AmericaCaribbeanSGBVProject