The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the world's environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the environment.
Role Overview
The role of the Midterm Review Consultant involves conducting a comprehensive review of the GEF 10844 and 10845 projects. This consultancy focuses on assessing project performance and implementation.
Key Activities and Duties
The findings of the Review will be based on the following activities:
- Desk Review and Instrument Preparation
- Conduct a desk review of all relevant project documentations and determine key data to collect from stakeholders.
- Prepare key instruments (questionnaires, logic models) to collect data through interviews and/or surveys.
- Review Project Documents and Appendices.
- Review Project design documents (including minutes of the project design review meeting at approval), Annual Work Plans and Budgets or equivalent, revisions to the project (Project Document Supplement), the logical framework and its budget.
- Review Project reports such as quarterly progress and financial reports, progress reports from collaborating partners, meeting minutes, relevant correspondence, including Project Implementation Reviews and Tracking Tool, etc.
- Review Evaluations/Reviews of similar projects.
- Stakeholder Interviews
- Conduct online or in-person interviews (individual or in group) with key stakeholders, including:
- UNEP planetGOLD programme lead, UNEP Project Manager and team members.
- planetGOLD Guinea Executing Agency and PMU.
- planetGOLD Cote d’Ivoire Executing Agencies and PMUs.
- planetGOLD Global project team.
- Government representatives.
- Representatives from Project Steering Committee, National Advisory Committee.
- Representatives from civil society and specialist groups (Miners Organizations based in target areas, Women organizations).
Qualifications and Experience
Required Qualifications/Special Skills
- An advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent) in environmental sciences, international development, chemical and waste, or other relevant political or social science areas is required.
- A first-level university degree, combined with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience, may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
- A minimum of 5 years of technical/evaluation experience in projects and programmatic approaches is required.
Desirable Experience/Knowledge
- Experience evaluating UNEP and/or GEF projects is desirable.
- Experience evaluating ASGM (Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining) and mercury projects is desirable.
- Good/broad understanding of mercury, pollutants management is desirable.
- Working knowledge of the UN system and specifically the work of UNEP is desirable.
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