Consultancy for the development of the UNESCO IOS Synthetic review of evaluations 2021

UNESCO Internal Oversight Service, Evaluation Office, Paris, France http://www.unesco.org/ios

Duration of assignment: an estimated number of 35 - 40 professional working days over a period of 3 – 4 months

Start of assignment: March 2021

Description of Responsibilities:

Under the authority of the Director of IOS and the Evaluation Office, the main tasks of the consultant shall include:
• reviewing approximately 25-30 evaluation reports (indicatively up to 15 decentralized evaluations and up to 15 corporate evaluations);
• analysing and synthesizing the information contained in the reports into three broad areas: programme results (against the Organization’s Expected Results (i.e. outcomes) as defined in the UNESCO Programme and Budget (40 C/5) for 2020/21); performance against OECD/DAC evaluation criteria; cross-cutting achievements and challenges;
• assessing/validating the quality of the reports in particular against the UNEG Quality Checklist for Evaluation Reports;
• producing a report of 30 pages maximum excluding annexes, including a visual depiction of the evaluation portfolio, as well as visuals and other communication outputs, such as a two pager and /or infographics.

Please refer to attached procurement notice.