National Consultant: EMPOWER Programme Endline Evaluation

Leads an independent endline evaluation of UNFPA Uganda’s EMPOWER private-sector family-planning project. The consultancy assesses results, value for money, market sustainability and regulatory assurance, conducts mixed-methods research, and produces recommendations, policy briefs and a peer-reviewed journal article.

Department: Uganda Country Office

• Design a robust mixed-methods endline evaluation and agree its tools with the project team
• Assess project results against OECD-DAC criteria and the FCDO value-for-money framework
• Evaluate private-provider financial viability, price caps and health-insurance integration
• Assess regulatory surveillance and last-mile assurance for family-planning commodities
• Conduct surveys, client interviews, key-informant interviews, focus groups and desk review
• Analyse quantitative and qualitative evidence and maintain a clean evaluation database
• Produce an endline report, lessons compendium and three policy briefs for national stakeholders
• Prepare and submit a peer-reviewed global-health journal manuscript

• Applicants proposed as Evaluation Specialist and Team Lead require a master’s or doctoral degree in public health, biostatistics, health economics, demography, evaluation, development economics, population and reproductive health, statistics or a related field, plus at least seven years of relevant evaluation experience
• Applicants proposed as Family Planning Programme Evaluation Specialist require a master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, health services research, monitoring and evaluation, social sciences or a related field, plus at least five years of relevant public-health research or evaluation experience
• Demonstrated expertise in reproductive health, family planning, private-sector health systems or market-shaping initiatives
• Experience designing and implementing quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods
• Excellent analytical, report-writing, presentation and communication skills in English
• Institutional review board approval and Ugandan ethical and UNCST clearance before field data collection

• Assignment comprises 30 working days between 20 August and 15 October 2026
• Fieldwork covers Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono, while analysis and steering-committee presentation may be remote
• Regular written progress updates and milestone presentations are required