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National Consultant Democratic Governance Outcome EvaluationVacancy Number: Pr15/00962
Contacts: Ms. Alla Skvortova. alla.skvortova@undp.orgBackground
Moldova declared its independence in 1991 with the European integration becoming a strategic priority 8 years after. Since its independence the country engaged into a multitude of reforms across all sectors, in parallel developing policies and legal and institutional frameworks aiming at achieving the Democratic Governance standards. The most important reform thought to contribute to the major transformation is the Central Public Administration Reform launched in 2005. It intended to improve transparency and accountability of the public administration, establish a modern civil service system and strengthen the public finance management. In 2012, the Decentralization Strategy aiming at consolidating the capacities of the local public administration authorities and at improving the management and the quality of public services provided to the citizens had been approved. The provisions of the Strategy have been correlated with the relevant policies documents, the Reform of the Central Public Administration, and other reforms representing an operational continuity of the actions of the National Development Strategy. In order to move towards a participative and inclusive process of policy development, the National Participation Council (NPC) representing the Civil Society organizations had been established. Representatives of the NPC participate in the Government meetings and are consulted on the policies developed. These developments had been noted at the global level, as the Republic of Moldova was among five winners of the 2013 UN Public Service Awards for the set of initiatives on increasing decisional transparency and fostering participation of civil society in this process. The State Chancellery is the leading central public authority responsible for the implementation of the above reforms and for coordinating the policies developed by the Line Ministries. Within the Central Public Administration Reform process (CPAR) it provided methodological guidance in the elaboration of the Institutional Development plans by the Line Ministries and other central administration institutions which identified the needs and set the actions for strengthening the financial, human and institutional capacities of the central public administration bodies. However, the linkage between strategic planning and finance planning is still weak, while the ex-ante policy impact assessment piloted through the CPAR has not been legally enacted. The overall capacity of the public administration to develop, implement and monitor policies in a transparent and participative manner is not sufficient for achieving a steady progress in the reform process. The implementation of the Decentralization Strategy faced many delays, the territorial-administrative reform is postponed again for another four years, and the official approval of the next phase of PAR is pending. Against this background United Nations – Republic of Moldova Partnership Framework (UNPF) “Towards Unity in Action” and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Programme Document (CPD) 2013 – 2017 response is aimed at contributing to the establishment of a modernized public administration system properly capacitated to effectively and efficiently develop, budget, implement and monitor evidence-based policies in support of the country’s priorities and European integration objectives. Results achieved with the UNDP and UN Women’s assistance will contribute to the achievement of UNPF/CPD Outcome 1 which refers to increased transparency, accountability and efficiency of central and local public authorities. The assistance is provided through UNDP programmes and projects, as well as through the joint projects implemented in cooperation with the UN Women with co-funding by Donor partners, such as EU and the Governments of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Romania, and in collaboration with the national partners, such as the Parliament, the Central Elections Commission, the National Integrity Commission, State Chancellery, 15 other central Government institutions and the local authorities. Scope of work
This mid-term evaluation exercise is commissioned according to the in the Republic of Moldova Evaluation Plan. The evaluation covers Outcome 1 of the UNPF/CPD 2013 – 2017. The evaluation will put the major focus on assessing the progress achieved within the Outcome 1 “Increased transparency, accountability and efficiency of central and local public authorities” and the impact produced so far under the area of intervention, as well as draw conclusions and recommendations for eventual adjustments, and, to extend possible, lessons learnt for further programming and implementation of programme. The evaluator shall also give importance to assessing efficiency and to a possible extent effectiveness of the UNPF/CPD Outcome 1, whether the size if resources, both financial and human, and partnership strategies continue to be cost-effective and may be applied in continuation and/or revised/changed. This is progress evaluation aims to assess the extent to which programme and project activities implemented with partners during 2013 – 2014 have contributed to the progress under UNPF/CPD Outcome 1, as well as to achievement of the set of targets, whether existing partnership with partners proved to be successful and relevant and overall whether UNDP and relevant UN Women (further referred to as UNW) supported activities have contributed to strengthening transparency, accountability and efficiency of central and local public authorities in compliance with the country’s EU integration agenda. The evaluation shall identify changes that happened during these two years as they relate to the development outcomes, the degree and level of these changes, i.e. enabling environment, organizational and/or individual levels. It shall also assess whether UN/DP’s strategic positioning in this area can be improved.
The evaluator shall take into account and rank the following items:
The national consultant will work in a team and under the leadership of the international consultant. To facilitate the Outcome evaluation process an Evaluation Focal Team (EFT) comprising of representatives of UNDP and UN Women will be set up. The EFT will assist in connecting the evaluation team with the senior management and key stakeholders. In addition, the EFT will assist in developing a detailed evaluation plan and conducting filed visits. During the evaluation, EFT will help identify key partners for interviews. Otherwise, the evaluation will be fully independent and the evaluation team will retain enough flexibility to determine the best approach in collecting and analyzing data for the Outcome evaluation. Requirements for experience
1. Academic Qualifications
2. Years of experience
3. Competencies
Documents to be included
Financial proposal
The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e. whether payments fall in installments or upon completion of the entire contract). Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR. In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of this lump sum amount. Travel All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel. In general, UNDP does not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources. In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between UNDP Moldova and the Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.
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