Overview
Consultant to conduct a Management Led Terminal Review (MLTR) for the GEF ID 10317 Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency Maldives Project, ensuring timely delivery of outputs and adherence to GEF and UNEP policies.
Key Responsibilities
- Author and lead the terminal review for the project in accordance with GEF and UNEP policies.
- Overall responsibility for undertaking the review and preparing the final report in English.
- Review and assess all elements of the projects in accordance with UNEP evaluation office guidance documents.
- Deliverables to be prepared in accordance with UNEP evaluation office templates.
- Develop terminal review findings and recommendations based on sound evidence and analysis, clearly documenting these in the final reports.
- Triangulate information from various sources for verification.
- Base findings on a desk review of relevant background documentation, including project documents, reports, evaluations of similar projects, and GEF/UNEP guidance documents.
- Conduct interviews with key stakeholders, including UNEP staff, project steering committee, governmental agencies, private institutions, associations, CSOs, and NGOs.
- Utilize other data collection tools, potentially including a country visit, to garner or triangulate information and evidence.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 5 years of technical / evaluation experience preferably including evaluating large, regional or global programmes and using a Theory of Change approach is required
- Experience in drafting project proposals and assessing project documents, including concepts, progress reports, work plans, and financial documents (budgets and expenditure reports) is required
- Experience working with GEF, or UNEP projects is desirable;
- Experience in working for multilateral or bilateral funding entities in the field of environment, climate finance, climate change, sustainable mobility, or development is desirable.
Qualifications
- A Masters degree in energy, environmental sciences, engineering, international development or related area is required.
- A first-level degree with an additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
