National Research Consultant at Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre (RWAMREC): (Deadline 15 September 2024)

National Research Consultant at Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre (RWAMREC): (Deadline 15 September 2024)

Overview

RWAMREC is looking for a National Research Consultant for the purpose of conducting an end-term evaluation of Generation G Rwanda according to the terms of reference set out herein.

Key details:

Post title: National Research Consultant

 Programme Locations: Rwanda (Kigali city, Karongi district);

Application Deadline: 15 September 2024

Timeline Contract: 5 October 2024 – 31 December 2025

Reporting to: Global end-term evaluation consultant (to be hired)

The Generation G partnership strives towards the creation of gender-just and violence-free societies with and for young people in their full diversity. The partnership raises public support, advocates for improved policies and laws, and strengthens civil society to contribute to achieving gender justice. It thrives on the diversity, strength and collaboration of experts, evidence-based and evaluated approaches, cross-country learning, and global advocacy. Programme activities are running in seven countries in the Global South: Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda, and will conclude at the end of calendar year 2025. As the end-term date of the programme approaches, the organisations and institutions involved in the programme are eager to investigate the results of their work, and document lessons about the successes and challenges of the programme to inform our future programming and the lobby and advocacy field as a whole.

Programme Background

The Generation G partnership raises public support, advocates for improved policies and laws, and strengthens civil society as a means to contribute to gender justice. More specifically, this partnership engages an innovative gender-transformative strategy that equips youth leaders and civil society organisations to address the root causes of gender inequality and power imbalances. Engaging (young) men in promoting gender justice is a key component of this strategy.

The key approach of the programme is a gender-transformative approach. A gender-transformative approach  focuses on the following elements: a) investing in amplifying young feminist voices; b) strengthening the role of young men as allies in gender equality; c) promoting human rights and youth agency; d) analysing and addressing harmful norms and unequal power relations; e) embracing sexual and gender diversity.

Next to a gender-transformative approach, this partnership has fully embraced the principles of inclusiveness, meaningful and inclusive youth participation, do no harm and accountability. As young people are our key actors and key impact group, they are actively included in decision-making processes, as well as the design and implementation of key strategies. The diversity in these principles refer to the fact that, although the partnership recognises the need to amplify voices of women and the need to actively engage men, we live in a world where youth have intersecting identities that influence their position in society and access to rights and power. As such, an intersectional feminist approach to gender justice is strongly embedded in the Generation G programme

Gender-transformative lobbying and advocacy happens at the individual, community, institutional and policy levels.

The different levels of gender-transformative lobbying an advocacy are embedded in three mutually reinforcing long-term outcomes (LTOs), described below:

• LTO1 aims at increasing and mobilising public support for gender justice and rejecting gender-based  This LTO also feeds into the other two LTOs as mobilised individuals can become part of organised civil society or might use their voice or voting power to pressure decision makers towards more gender-transformative policies and legislation.
• LTO2 focuses on strengthening gender-transformative and youth-inclusive policymaking and legislation. This LTO feeds into the other two LTOs as decision makers directly influence the availability of civic space and have a strong influence on the general public through discourse, legislation and
• LTO3 envisions a strong, inclusive and resilient civil society that is able to fight forgender  This LTO also feeds into the other two LTOs as a strong civil society is able to advocate for gender-transformative laws and policies and is able to foster and stimulate public support.

Our strategic objective is to create societies that are gender just and violence free, with and for young people in their full diversity. By saying gender just, we imply systemic change at the level of root causes of discrimination, sexism and harmful norms that impede full access to rights for young people on the mere basis of their gender. By violence free, we imply our ambition to actively contribute to a decrease in gender-based violence in the countries where this programme is active.

Objectives 

The end-term evaluation of the Generation G programme has two-fold objectives: programmatic focused and collaboration focused. Detailed objectives are:

Evaluatingthe effectiveness of the programme: evaluate the results (including unexpected or unintended results) of the programme, which changes occurred, how changes happened and the contribution of the programme to these changes:

• To assess and validate the country programme progress towards the achievement ofthe 5-year targets at output and outcome level;

To assess the country programme strategies regarding:

• Sustainability(what is the likelihood that the programme results will be sustainable, in terms of systems, institutions, policies, financing) and institutionalization (e.g. on GTA and MIYP);
• Operationalisationof programme principles (do we live up to our own principles?);
• Capacitystrengthening (Is the programme sufficiently sensitive and responsive to capacity strengthening needs? Is the country capacity strengthening plan effective and likely to lead to sustained capacity improvements in the long-term?)
• A mapping of funding in relation to budgets vs. expenditures at activity, thematic,and geographical level, as well as an evaluation of financial resource management (e.g. appropriateness of budget planning, whether grant allocation has been appropriate, whether there were any bottlenecks in the system of financial disbursement between consortium, national lead partner and coalition partners;
• Additionalcountry specific evaluation and/or learning

Evaluating the partnership collaboration focusing on; coherence, localisation/leadingfrom the South, partnership with the Ministry and the Embassies, lessons learned and good pratices

Evaluating the relevance and validity of the theory of change: evaluate the programmes’ theory of change including assessing the validity of the assumptions underlying the TOC in the different country contexts by providing evidence of which mechanisms of change worked, which did not, and why

The Generation G country coalition of Rwanda calls for an independent National Research Consultant to address these objectives clearly and comprehensively. Further details are presented below.

Methods and approach

For the Generation G end-term evaluation the realist evaluation approach will be used. See for example: https://www.intrac.org/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Realist-evaluation.pdf. The realist evaluation focuses on understanding what works, for whom and under what circumstances, and will be informed by the programme’s theory of change and context at country and global levels. It is particularly useful for understanding complex interventions and how context influences programmes. A realist evaluation works by going back to the theory of change, mapping how we assume the programme works (i.e. who is doing what and what outcomes do we assume these interventions have), then gathering data to understand if these assumptions are in fact true, and how context has an influence. Data will be collected around these assumptions. A range of data collection methods can be included in a realist evaluation. For this end-term evaluation interviews, focus group discussions, outcome harvesting, and observations will be used, with scope for further methods to be included as needed.

Scope of Work

The main tasks of the National Consultant are as follows:

• Attendan orientation meeting with global consultants and the Generation-G team;
• Attendan end-term evaluation planning meeting in Rabat Morocco, which will be held from 2 – 6 December  Participation is mandatory, you must be available for this week, and eligible to fly to Morocco. All costs such as flight and hotel will be reimbursed by the lead agent Rutgers. Per diems and visa costs will be paid by the global consultant;
• Attend training on a) the Realist Evaluation approach (most likely this will integrated intothe planning meeting week in Morocco), and b) data collection, including pre-testing the tools;
• Translateand contextualize the tools;
• Leadon all logistical planning and arrangements of the data collection activities;
• Facilitatefocus group discussions (FGDs), key informant interviews (KIIs) and conduct observations at country level;
• Reviewcountry project reports and validate progress against indicators targets and key learning identified at country level;
• Supportdata analysis lead by the global consultant;
• Developa field work report, including country specific recommendations;
• Provideinput for the preliminary findings;
• Provideinput for the final

Expected Deliverables

• Recordingof each interview and FGD session conducted;
• Summarisedtranscripts of interviews and FGD sessions in English;
• Fieldnotes of how the field work was implemented (including supporting and hindering factors during the field work, observation notes);
• Partof the draft report related to the assigned work – will be discussed further during the data collection;
• Otherdeliverables that are needed by the global consultants – will be discussed further during the online

Duration:

Approximately 30 days (spread between November 2024 – December 2025).

Travel:

The consultant will work in their home country, with travel to the sites. The global consultant will cover the travel expenses, including accommodation and per diem. Attendance at the end-term evaluation planning meeting in Rabat Morocco, 2 – 6 December 2024 is mandatory. All costs for this meeting such as flight and hotel will be reimbursed by the lead agent Rutgers. Per diems for this meeting will be paid by the global consultant.

 Qualifications and specialized knowledge, experience and skills required:

• Master degreein a relevant subject g. development studies, social studies, public health;
• Proven track record in the evaluation of complex programs, with specific attention togender equality and gender justice especially in the area of SGBV, advocacy, campaign, and civil society strengthening;
• Asolid understanding of the social, political, and cultural context in Rwanda;
• At least 10 years of relevant working experience with civil society organisation orresearch institute, and experience working with vulnerable communities, including youth, women and girls;
• Proven track record in facilitating participatory evaluation workshop and qualitative datacollection;
• Preferableexperienced in the Realist Evaluation Approach;
• UnderstandingGender Transformative Approach (GTA) and Meaningful and Inclusive Youth Participation (MIYP);
• Knowledgeof human rights, gender justice, gender transformative lobbying and advocacy, intersectionality, youth agency, youth inclusive policy making and legislation and collaborative programming, including approaches to engage men and boys;
• Writtenand spoken fluency in English and Kinyarwanda. Understanding and can communicate with local language used in Rwanda is an advantage;
• Familiarity with the Most Significant Change (MSC) and Outcome Harvesting is anadvantage;
• Abilityto travel in-country.

Conflict of Interest (CoI):

National Reseach Consultant should not have COI nor have been involved in the Generation G programme nor have been working/worked with one of organisations implementing the Generation G programme.

How to Apply

The candidates are encouraged to submit the following documents, no later than 15th September 2024 at 4 pm Rwanda time. Please send your CV, sample of work and one-pager of expression of interest to info@rwamrec.org. The expression of interest should include information about your skills, experience in similar assignments, and your daily rate. Please put “RWA NC ETE” as the subject of your email. Late applications will not be accepted. For inquiries please contact +250788315140