United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG)
Evaluation Consultant
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Job Identification: 36520
Posting Date: 26/08/2026, 17:47
Apply Before: 04/09/2026, 17:59
Job Schedule: Full time
Locations: Home Based
Agency: UN Women
Job Function: Ending violence against women
Initial Contract Duration: 8 months
Vacancy Category: Consultancies
Vacancy Timeline: 1 Week
Job Description
Background/Context
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.
The Ending Violence against Women (EVAW) Section, part of the Programme, Policy and Intergovernmental Division (PPID) at UN Women, provides knowledge-based policy and programming guidance to a diverse array of stakeholders at international, regional and country levels. The Section provides substantive support to intergovernmental processes and leads global and regional initiatives to address violence against women and girls (VAWG), often partnering with other UN agencies and stakeholders, and is responsible for developing and managing several global and regional programmes to address VAWG.
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most serious and universal human rights violations. Nearly thirty years after the Beijing Platform for Action, and despite unprecedented momentum and commitments to eliminate VAWG, its prevalence has remained persistent. Global emergencies, crises and conflict have further intensified the drivers and risk factors of VAWG, and digitalization has exacerbated existing forms of violence and led to the proliferation of new forms. At the same time, the rise in anti-rights movements, shrinking civil society space and backlash against women’s rights are undermining efforts to prevent VAWG and leading to a rise in attacks against women human rights defenders. Despite these worrying trends, evidence demonstrates that the presence of a strong and autonomous feminist movement is the single most critical factor in driving policy change to end violence against women and girls.
In this context, the European Union and UN Women have partnered to deliver the Advocacy, Coalition Building and Transformative Feminist Action (ACT) to End Violence Against Women Programme — a joint commitment between the European Commission and UN Women as co-leaders of the Action Coalition on Gender-Based Violence (GBV). The ACT Programme is focused on strengthening global and regional advocacy, coalition building and transformative feminist action to end violence against women (EVAW). It is implemented over three years in two regions — Africa and Latin America — with a global component to accelerate impact and position the priorities of women’s rights movements in global fora. It builds on the EU–UN Spotlight Initiative’s results and lessons learned to strengthen women’s rights movements at the regional and global levels and to elevate women’s rights advocacy priorities in regional and global policymaking and intergovernmental fora.
The Programme’s Overall Objective Is To Accelerate Efforts To Eliminate All Forms Of Violence Against Women, Through Two Overarching Objectives
- To strengthen coalition building, networking, leadership, and resilience of global and regional feminist women’s rights movements; and
- To increase and enhance advocacy, campaigning and policymaking on EVAW through multistakeholder partnerships and coalitions.
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ACT achieves its results through direct investments in global and regional feminist women’s rights organizations to strengthen their institutional capacities, resilience, coalition building, networking and leadership. Importantly, ACT does not primarily provide grants to CSOs for their own capacity strengthening; rather, it engages programme partners identified as already having stronger capacities in advocacy, coalition building and movement strengthening to, in turn, engage and support a broader range of CSOs and women’s rights organizations (WROs). UN Women leads the overall management and coordination of the initiative, while the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UNTF) provides grants to emerging women’s rights coalitions at the regional or sub-regional level.
The ACT Programme Document set out a participatory evaluation strategy comprising a baseline study and a final assessment. A baseline study, together with capacity-strengthening (MEL) workshops and one-to-one mentoring sessions with ACT programme partners, has been completed under a separate engagement. Given ACT’s implementation models the final evaluation should capture changes experienced both by organizations funded by ACT as grantees or programme partners, but also by the broader set of organizations reached directly or indirectly through ACT through a wide range of convenings, capacity strengthening, movement and coalition-building, learning opportunities etc.
UN Women is commissioning a final Programme Evaluation of the ACT Programme. The purpose of the evaluation is to assess how well the Programme achieved its aims over its lifecycle. It will be commissioned as both summative (backward-looking) and formative (forward-looking). It will assess the achievement of programme results at the global and regional levels, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and will provide forward-looking recommendations on how UN Women can enhance its work to strengthen women’s rights movements, advocacy and coalition building to end violence against women. This is especially pertinent, as ending violence against women and girls is one of the four thematic impact areas of the UN Women Strategic Plan 2026–2029.
The consultant will be reporting to Programme Management Specialist, and will be supported by the Finance & Programme Associate, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues.
Description Of Responsibilities/Scope Of Work
Evaluation in UN Women is guided by normative agreements to be gender-responsive and utilizes the entity’s Strategic Plan as a starting point for identifying the expected outcomes and impacts of its work and for measuring progress towards the achievement of results. The UN Women Evaluation Policy is the main guiding document that set forth the principles and organizational framework for evaluation planning, conduct and follow-up in UN Women. These principles are aligned with the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards for Evaluation in the UN System and the UNEG Ethical Guidelines.
The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the contribution of the programme towards ending violence against women and girls. The evaluation will draw on the baseline study of the ACT Programme, and the corporate evaluation on UN Women Support to Civil Society.
More specifically, the Consultant will
- RELEVANCE: Assess the extent to which the ACT programme has responded to the needs and priorities of women’s rights organizations and remained relevant in a changing EVAWG context.
- COHERENCE: Examine the extent to which the ACT programme complemented, aligned with and added value to other EVAWG initiatives, stakeholders and policy frameworks at global and regional levels.
- EFFECTIVENESS: Assess the extent to which the ACT Programme achieved its objective and two outcomes (1) strengthening coalition building, networking, leadership and resilience of global and regional feminist women’s rights movements; and increasing and (2) enhancing advocacy, campaigning and policymaking on EVAW through multistakeholder partnerships and coalitions;
- EFFICIENCY: Analyse how efficiently the ACT programme’s resources, management arrangements, partnerships and implementation approaches contributed to programme delivery and results.
- IMPACT and SUSTAINABILITY: Assess the ACT Programme’s contributions to longer-term changes in feminist movement strengthening, advocacy influence and efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls efforts at global and regional level, including projects for sustaining results beyond the programme period.
- To assess UN Women’s contribution and comparative advantage to strengthening movement building, facilitating partnerships, and advancing EVAWG advocacy and policy influence.
- Identify good practices, innovations, lessons learned, and actionable recommendations for future EVAWG programming, movement strengthening and coalition-building initiatives.
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Evaluation scope
The scope of the evaluation will cover the entire lifecycle of the ACT Programme, from its inception in September 2023 until its completion, scheduled for February 2027. It will include all geographic areas of implementation at global and regional level (Africa and Latin America), as well as components of the UN Trust Fund, to assess the ACT programmes’ relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, impact and sustainability.
The evaluation will draw on data provided by both funded programme partners and the wider set of CSOs/WROs supported through ACT.
Evaluation criteria and guiding questions
The evaluation will assess the Programme’s relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, impact and sustainability, in line with UN Women and UNEG evaluation criteria and grounded in gender equality and human rights principles.
The evaluation consultant should gain consensus on the final evaluation questions (including the gender equality and human rights aspects) with key stakeholders, as part of the consultative process. The evaluation consultant is expected to develop an evaluation matrix as part of the inception report, summarizing key questions, indicators, sources of information and methodology to guide the analysis and triangulation. The final inception report and evaluation matrix must be reviewed and approved signed off by UN Women before the onset of the evaluation.
Evaluation methods and management processes
Methods
The evaluation will be a transparent and participatory process involving relevant UN Women staff, stakeholders and partners at the global, regional, national and local levels, and ensure a plan for inclusion of women’s right organizations (both, direct financial partners and CSOs/WROs that were influenced through the ACT Programme), in all their diversity, across the programme regions as part of the evaluation process, including the provision of translation and interpretation, as necessary. It will be carried out in accordance with the UNEG Norms and Standards and Ethical Code of Conduct and the UN Women Evaluation Policy. The content and process must integrate gender equality and human rights principles in line with the UNEG guidance on integrating
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