International Consultancy: Evaluation of Unfpa

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa UNFPA Full time

Background


UNFPA is the United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency committed to delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled.

The East and Southern Africa Regional Office works as an extension of the organization to realize the mandate and goals in the region.

- developed, these costs place a burden on the personal, household, community, and state economies. As a result of global efforts to meet the 2030 goals, critical progress is being made in ending FGM.


Ending the practice by the target set out in the Sustainable Development Goals - would require redoubling evidence-based efforts and innovation.


UNFPA in ESAR has adopted innovation and digitalisation as an accelerator of UNFPAs Transformative Results (TR), which includes ending preventable maternal death, ending unmet need for family planning and ending gender-based violence and harmful practices.

This is reflected in the new UNFPA Strategic Plan, the Regional Action Plan, Nairobi Declaration, innovation and digitalization strategies, and assessment report on the iAccelerator Program 2019, among other Programme reports.


Young people the world over are championing social innovation as an accelerator of solutions to the current political, social, and economic challenges they face.

With support from the UNFPA East and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) via the Innovation HackLabs project, young people are developing and scaling innovative solutions to support collective efforts to achieve transformative results, create jobs for themselves and others through their social impact projects.

UNFPA in ESAR is committed to supporting the development of an enabling environment to grow innovation in the region.


UNFPA in 2021 initiated the Innovation HackLabs model to identify and support innovation idea generation on the one hand and also support existing 'startups' to scale their social innovation enterprises.

The project has since achieved some successes including identifying over 300 innovation solutions, providing critical seed and growth funding, access to enterprise support services, investor relations, networks, dialogues and exposure to market opportunities.


UNFPA ESARO is seeking to evaluate the project through determining an approach to crowdsourcing innovation solutions moving forward; determine the impact of the developed innovation solutions , assess opportunities for enterprise growth/improvement and development of key recommendations to provide value for money as well as accelerate efforts to achieve the transformative results.

The evaluation also seeks to assess the governance systems, the administrative arrangements, support offered, impact of and on recovery from COVID 19.

The evaluation is expected to use innovative and adaptive approaches that offer a 360 degrees' assessment of the project.

Objectives


UNFPA ESARO is calling for a consultant to evaluate the HackLabs model used to crowdsource innovation (especially harmful practices) solutions from external stakeholders including young people and make strategic recommendations to accelerate efforts towards improving the SRHR innovation ecosystem across Africa.


The evaluation will have four broad components:

  • Review of the project design, structure and approach as well as the implementation processes over the two years of roll out.
  • A forwardlooking prospective assessment of the HackLabs project which will include a review of the impact of the innovators engaged, viability of the seed fund and business incubation support provided, implementation mechanisms (internal and external), communication and impact measurement and reporting systems including the skills, funding, market access, networking etc using adaptive evaluation approaches
  • The evaluation will cover implementation at the country and regional level including the governance, administrative processes as well as engagement with external partners; i.e. AfriLabs as an implementing partner.

Specific Objectives

  • Identify key opportunities and recommendations to improve the HackLab programme design, approach, governance, administrative and other implementation processes, and systems (including impact documentation and dissemination).
  • Propose a viable design and structure for HackLabs implementation in the region aligned to the strategic plan, financial and programme policies and procedures.
  • Identify opportunities for using innovation hacklabs as part of community resilience building including with COVID 19 recovery efforts.

Scope of work _(Description of services, activities, or outputs)_**Desk Review:The evaluation is expected to conduct a desk review of relevant documents, including the HackLab project concept notes and other project documents, the operational processes and plans and any other relevant reports or documents related to the project. Other documents will include relevant innovation ec

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