Country Portfolio Evaluation National Consultant

Serves as national evaluator for UN Women’s Kyrgyz Republic country portfolio, collecting and triangulating evidence, applying gender-responsive and human-rights-based methods, analysing programme performance and helping produce inception, findings and final evaluation reports.

Department: Kyrgyz Republic Country Office

• Review the country portfolio, theory of change, performance indicators and available evidence
• Conduct interviews, focus groups, document review and observation using mixed methods
• Support in-country data collection and contextual analysis across the Kyrgyz Republic
• Analyse and synthesize findings on relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability
• Present preliminary findings for validation by evaluation governance groups
• Draft inception and evaluation-report inputs and address review feedback

• Master’s degree in social science, sociology, international development, gender or women’s studies, or a related area
• At least five years of practical experience on gender-equality and women’s-empowerment development issues, including support to evaluation processes
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Fluency in written and spoken Russian
• Independence from conflicts of interest in the evaluated portfolio

• National consultancy for up to 32 working days
• A two-week in-country data-collection mission is planned, subject to security and feasibility