Background:
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
In Indonesia, UN Women works with the government, civil society organizations (CSOs), academia, the media, and the public and private sectors to address national priorities of gender equality and womenโs empowerment. Placing the advancement of womenโs rights at the centre of our work, UN Women Indonesia focuses on (1) Ending violence against women (2) Promoting womenโs human rights (3) Womenโs economic empowerment (4) Women contributing to and have greater influence in building sustainable peace.
As the specialized UN Agency on gender equality and the empowerment of women, UN Women in Indonesia is also working alongside other UN Agencies to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming are translated into UN works and programmes to achieve Sustainable Development Goals across the country. UN Women programmes in Indonesia are guided by the Strategic Note 2021-2024, which is aligned with UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) signed between the Minister of National Planning and the UN system in the country. In addition to programmatic interventions, UN Women has a triple mandate of normative support, UN coordination, and operational activities.
Project Background
Indonesia is renowned for its vulnerability to natural disasters and climate change impact according to its location between the Indian and Pacific Oceans as well as in โThe Ring of Fireโ with over 500 volcanos. The National Disaster Management Board (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana โ BNPB) reported the occurrence of such events was about 3.239 disasters caused by natural hazards from January to December 2023. Regarding the country context, Indonesia is the worldโs largest Muslim nation, the largest archipelagic country with more than 18.000 islands which geographically comprises of a rich socio-cultural diversity byย havingย 300ย ethnicย groupsย acrossย theย islands and Southeast Asiaโs largest economy. This diversity of socioeconomic settings has also caused Indonesia to have a high risk of conflict due to social and economic tension alongside the risk of natural disasters.
UN Women is committed to empowering women and girls to contribute and have greater influence in building sustainable peace and resilience and benefit equally from the prevention of natural disasters, conflict, and humanitarian action. Globally, including in Indonesia, the impact of conflict, climate change, and natural disasters has disproportionately affected women and girls. It is paramount to uphold gender-responsive resilience to ensure that women and girls have an agency to withstand crises emanated by politics, economy, socio-culture, and natural disasters. Funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), UN Women Indonesia developed a three-year programme, โEmpowered Women for Sustainable Peace: Addressing the Peace-Humanitarian Nex.us to Enhance Community Resilience in Indonesiaโ,ย with the full implementation period from 2024 to 2026.ย
The project aims to strengthen community resilience and reduce vulnerabilities in emergency and conflict-affected areas by addressing the humanitarian-development-peace nexus in the context of Indonesia. It will contribute to the goal,ย that women and girls are able to withstand adverse impacts of conflict and natural hazard and able to contribute to a peaceful and just society.
The project is implemented in 26 villages in the provinces of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB โ Bima District and Bima City), East Nusa Tenggara (NTT โ Timor Tengah Selatan and Kupang District) and Central Sulawesi (Sigi District). These are the provinces where the dimension of crisis (social-economic including conflict and radicalism and natural and climate-induced disasters) are prominent, providing the ground for justification of humanitarian development and peace nexus intervention. The project aims to develop scalable interventions that can contribute to the implementation of key policies in Indonesia that are relevant to the prevention of violent extremism, disaster risk reduction and resilience-building, and the protection and empowerment of women and children. In the context of policy advocacy, the project will support seven ministries/agencies: the Coordinating Ministry of Human Development and Culture (KEMENKO PMK), the Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection (KPPPA), the Ministry of Social Affairs (KEMENSOS), the Ministry of Villages, Disadvantages Regions and Transmigrations (KEMENDES), the Ministry of Home Affairs (KEMENDAGRI), National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), and the National Agency of Counter Terrorism (BNPT), to strengthen national policy on disaster management, prevention of social conflict, prevention on violence extremism.
The project is based on the theory of change (TOC) that: If (i) National and/or local governments have increased capacity to produce and use risk-informed, gender sensitive analysis of root causes and structural drivers of conflicts and positive factors for resilience; (ii) Women are able to influence and gain benefits from local policies, plans, and mechanisms that build resilience; (iii) Communities are able to identify and implement gender-responsive solutions/interventions/mechanisms to promote social cohesion, conflict prevention and resilience; and (iv) Multi-stakeholder platform is established to promote capacity-sharing and knowledge to enhance collaboration between humanitarian, development and peace actors at the national/local levels, focusing on womenโs leadership and participation in conflict prevention, emergency response and humanitarian action. Then, Indonesia will be able to strengthen community resilience and reduce vulnerabilities of conflicts and emergencies, in order to reduce the loss of lives and livelihoods, particularly among women and children of vulnerable groups, because policy/programme interventions will be more inclusive and gender-responsive and communities will benefit from womenโs participation and leadership in enhancing social cohesion and sustainable peace.
In partnership with governments, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders, the project pursues four main outcomes:
- National and/or local governments produce and use risk-informed, gender sensitive analysis of root causes and structural drivers of conflicts and positive factors for resilience.
- Women are able to influence and gain benefits from local policies, plans, and mechanisms that build resilience.
- Communities demonstrate commitment to advancing and implementing gender-responsive solutions/interventions/mechanisms to promote social cohesion, conflict prevention and resilience.
- Multi-stakeholder platform is established to promote capacity-sharing and knowledge to enhance collaboration between humanitarian, development and peace actors at the national level, focusing on womenโs leadership and participation in conflict prevention, emergency response and humanitarian action.
Objectives
As the project enters its 3rd year, UN Women plans to conduct a Mid-Term Review (MTR) to strengthen accountability, dive informed decision-making, and capture key lessons for advancing gender equality and womenโs empowerment in the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus. This review will assess progress, identify challenges, and refine strategies to maximize impact across UN Womenโs mandated areas of work, ensuring that interventions remain effective, responsive, and aligned with global best practices.
The design the conceptual framework and methodology of the MTR should consider the scopes, including:
- MTR Evaluation scope: The evaluation will focus on the overall progress of the project from June 2023 to June 2025 and on components implemented by UN Women and its responsible partner.
- Geographical coverage: The evaluation will focus on activities implemented in East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara, and Central Sulawesi, and the national level.
- Stakeholder coverage:ย The evaluation will reach out to principal stakeholders, e.g., beneficiaries, participating governments, responsible and implementing partners at the national and regional levels, partner agencies as well as the project steering committee members.
- Substantive scope: The evaluation will analyse the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability of the project in terms of progress achieved against the projectโs overall goal and its 4 specific outcomes, change on gender-sensitive analysis in national and local governments, womenโs participation in local policies, plans, and mechanisms, gender-responsive solutions/interventions/mechanisms among communities, multi-stakeholder platform and sustainability of the action, both financial and organizational. The evaluation will investigate the progress since the start of the implementation phase of the project.
The MTR will adopt a participatory and inclusive approach, engaging diverse stakeholdersโincluding government partners, responsible and implementing partners, women-led community organizations, and beneficiariesโthroughout the evaluation process. This ensures that multiple perspectives are reflected in the findings and recommendations, promoting local ownership and learning for future programming. Additionally, the entire evaluation will be undertaken as per United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) guidelines and taking into account a human rights-based and gender empowerment approach. The evaluation expert and all her/his direct collaborators will followย UN Womenโs Evaluation Handbook. This is a practical handbook to help those initiating, managing, and/or using gender-responsive evaluations by providing direction, advice, and tools for every step in the evaluation process: planning, preparation, conduct, reporting, evaluation use and follow-up.
Reporting directly to the WPS Project Coordination Analyst KOICA, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues, the Consultant is responsible for conducting the Mid-Term Review.ย
Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work
Working closely with the Monitoring and Reporting Analyst, the national consultant will be responsible for the following:
- Perform desk review of the projectโs key documents including UN Women Guidance on Monitoring and Evaluation, Program Document, Scoping Study, Annual Work Plans and Budget, Evaluability Assessment Report, Donor Reports, Quarterly Progress Reports of the Responsible Partners (RPs), relevant knowledge products including studies, research and outcome documents from project activities that have been conducted within the framework of the project.
- Conduct meetings to interview the project team members and key stakeholders involved in the project in Central Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), and West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) for data collection of MTR purposes. UN Women will provide a list of stakeholders and will assist with liaising and coordinating the meeting schedules as needed.
- Analyse the progress reached by the project โEmpowered Women for Sustainable Peace: Addressing the Peace-Humanitarian Nexus to Enhance Community Resilience in Indonesiaโ.
- Assess the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability of the project. Prepare an Inception Report detailing the evaluatorsโ understanding of what is being assessed in the MTR and why, showing how each evaluation question will be answered by way of proposed methods, proposed sources of data, and data collection procedures.ย
- Prepare a draft MTR report, summarizing key findings and recommendations.
Deliverables Deliverables Expected completion time (due day)
Deliverable 1
Submission and Presentation of inception report of the MTR
The inception report should capture relevant information including background, and proposed methods for data collection and analysis. The inception report should also include a mid-term review matrix, guiding questions, methodology, list of stakeholders to be engaged, and proposed schedule of tasks, activities, and deliverables. The inception report should be approved by UN Women.
16 June 2025Deliverable 2
Submission of the draft of MTR report and conduct presentation of preliminary findings to UN Women team and other relevant stakeholders, including Responsible Partiesโ project managers.ย
The consultant will share preliminary findings and recommendations at the end of the field visits/data collection phase.
The report should be structured as follows:ย
- Table of Contents
- List of abbreviations and acronymsย
- Executive summary
- Background and context
- Objectives and scope
- Methodology and limitations
- Findings
- Relevant
- Efficiency
- Coherence
- Effectiveness
- Impact
- Sustainability
- Conclusions
- Recommendations
- Lessons learned and innovations.ย
- Annexes
- Terms of Referenceย
- Documents consulted
- List of institutions interviewed, and sites visited
- Mid-term review Tools (questionnaires, interview guides, etc.)
- Summary matrix of findings, evidence, and recommendations
- Mid-term review brief
- Summary of recommendations 15 August 2025
Deliverable 3
Submission of a Final MTR Report.ย
Revise the draft report in line with feedback provided by UN Women and partners. The report should be structured as follows:ย
- Table of Contents
- List of abbreviations and acronymsย
- Executive summary
- Background and context
- Objectives and scope
- Methodology and limitations
- Findings
- Relevant
- Efficiency
- Coherence
- Effectiveness
- Impact
- Sustainability
- Conclusions
- Recommendations
- Lessons learned and innovations.ย
- Annexes
- Terms of Referenceย
- Documents consulted.
- List of institutions interviewed, and sites visited.
- Mid-term review Tools (questionnaires, interview guides, etc.)
- Summary matrix of findings, evidence, and recommendations.
- Mid-term review brief.
- Summary of recommendations. 12 September 2025
Consultantโs Workplace and Official Travel
This is a home-based consultancy. The consultant will be based in Jakarta, Indonesia, with possible official travel within the country/outside of Jakarta to projectsโ site.
Competencies :
Core Values:
- Integrity;
- Professionalism;
- Respect for Diversity.
Core Competencies:
- Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
- Accountability;
- Creative Problem Solving;
- Effective Communication;
- Inclusive Collaboration;
- Stakeholder Engagement;
- Leading by Example.
Please visitย this linkย for more information on UN Womenโs Values and Competencies Framework:ย
Functional Competencies:
- Ability to conduct research, data collection and data analysis to develop background information and briefs.
- Good knowledge and skills on monitoring, evaluation, evaluation design, and reporting.
- Good timeย management.
- Good writing skills, and able to identify target audience for writtenย documents.
- Good interpersonal communicationย skills.
Required Qualifications
Education and Certification:
- Masterโs degree or certification equivalent in social sciences, gender and development, development studies, disaster risks reduction, peace building, statistics, monitoring and evaluation, or other related fields isย required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced universityย degree.
Experience:
- At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in design and implementation of M&E in development projects implemented by national/international NGOs/UN bodies/Government;
- Experience in conducting Mid-Term Review, evaluation, final evaluation, or baseline studies, particularly with programmatic focus on disaster risk reduction, humanitarian and women, peace and security;ย
- Strong understanding of the results chain, Results-Based Management approach, and M&E Frameworks;
- Experience and contextual understanding related to data collection, data analysis, and monitoring in Indonesia;
- Expertise in analysingย data, presenting and communicating the findings effectively;
- Strong cooperationย skill;
- Knowledge about gender equality, the empowerment of women and violence against women and familiarity with non-profit and/or internationalย organizations.
Languages:
- Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia is required.
- Knowledge any other UN official language is an asset.
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