Consultancy Opportunity – Monitoring & Evaluation of JPF Funded Projects in Lebanon

1. Background

Japan Platform (JPF) is an international aid organization which offers the humanitarian and emergency assistances to refugees, IDPs and communities in the countries and regions affected by man-made and natural disasters. JPF conducts such aid through a tripartite cooperation system where NGOs, business communities, and the Government of Japan work in close cooperation, based on equal partnership, and making the most of the respective sectors’ characteristics and resources.

JPF serves as an intermediary support organization providing various types of assistance to NGO partners to deliver quick and comprehensive aid on their own. Since 2000, JPF has implemented over 1,500 projects and invested approximately 60 billion Japanese Yen to respond humanitarian needs in 47countries.

In line with its mandate and responsibility, JPF conducts monitoring and evaluation activities to review progress towards achieved results as per the key performance indicators of the projects, identify and document lessons learned includinghuman interest stories and the contribution of JPF to the development of the programmes/projects for NGO partners. JPF contracts individual consultants to be part of the JPF Field Visit Team to have expertise on sector specific subjects, in depth understanding on the local context and to receive support on logistics and security related issues.

2. Purpose and schedule of assignments

The Consultants expected to conduct periodic field visits to the project implementation locations;

• To verify that the project activities are being conducted according to the project proposal
• To verify that the humanitarian principles and standards are respected
• To understand the beneficiary satisfaction
• To analyze the impact of the project with the available data
• To provide technical advice and feedback to the project improvement

• To identify additional technical assistance and other resources that may be needed

  A draft field visit schedule is as below which might be subject to change according to project progress.

Project 1: 3 days – 2nd Week of December 2020 / 3 days – 3rd week of February 2021

Project 2: 3 days – 2nd Week of December 2020 / 3 days – 3rd week of February 2021

Project 3: 3 days – 3rd Week of December 2020 / 3 days – 4th week of February 2021

3. Key Responsibilities:

The field visits will be based on a desk review, direct observation of project activities and conducting household visits, key informant interviews and focus group discussions with stakeholders, including but not limited to; project beneficiaries, representatives of implementing partners of member NGOs, relevant cluster, UN and government agency representatives.

Specific responsibilities are :

• Assisting JPF Tokyo HQ M&E division for planning, development, coordinating and implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities in Lebanon.
• Setting the Project Specific Household (HH) Visit, Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and Key Informant Interviews (KII) targets and objectives together with JPF M&E Officer in line with the project proposal, country context, humanitarian standards and principles.
• Developing project specific questionnaires/checklist for HH Visit, FGD and KII, site visit and meeting with NGO.
• Conducting targeted number of HH Visits, FGDs, KIIs and site visits to the project locations together with JPF M&E Officer.
• Supervising local staff during field visits when required
• Preparing project summary of the target projects
• Analyzing the data collected during the field visit and preparing the draft field visit project monitoring/evaluation reports
• Preparing and conducting a debriefing meeting to share findings with member NGOs, implementing partners of the member NGOs, JPF and relevant stakeholders in Lebanon and for the projects assigned for in close coordination with JPF.

4. Skills, Experience and Knowledge:

• Knowledge, awareness and demonstrated commitment to JPF’s values and vision.
• Minimum 5 years previous development or humanitarian work experience on M&E, focusing on one of the humanitarian sectors such as WASH, shelter, health, nutrition, education and protection
• Knowledge and understanding of humanitarian standards (e.g. CHS, Sphere and INEE)
• Bachelor or master’s degree in relevant subject.
• High level of computer literacy and excellent working knowledge of databases.
• Ability to prioritize own workload, work independently, be pro-active and innovative and work to deadlines.
• Ability to supervise a team
• Good interpersonal and team skills and proven ability to be flexible in demanding situations.
• Experience of working with/for NGO, INGOs and/or UN agencies
• Fluency in English and Arabic.
• Residing in Lebanon