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Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection Republic of Liberia Ministerial Complex, Congo Town Monrovia, Liberia Liberia Women Empowerment Project LWEP #: P173677 Terms of Reference Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA LIBERIA WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROJECT Credit No: 7168-LR Grant No: E0910-LR Assignment Title: MONITORING AND EVALUATION CONSULTANT Reference No: LR-MOGCSP-499483-CS-INDV I. Background The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has received support from the World Bank, for the implementation of the Liberia Women Empowerment Project (LWEP) in line with the Government of Liberia's national development strategy, the Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD). The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to reduce harmful social norms and improve livelihood opportunities for women in project areas while strengthening the institutional capacity of the Government of Liberia to advance gender equality. The LWEP comprises of five components, namely: i) Addressing social norms and mobilizing communities; ii): Enhancing basic GBV and ASRH services in health and education; iii) Promoting resilient livelihoods through community- led approaches; iv) Strengthening public institutions to advance gender equality; and v) Project management, monitoring and evaluation, and policy dialogue. The project will also complement ongoing World Bank projects in Liberia that are building human capital and developing economic opportunities for women and girls while filling key gaps. The project will be implemented in 6 counties over 5 years period; beginning with two pilot counties. In order to achieve the objectives of the LWEP, MGCSP has set up a Project Management Unit (PMU) to manage this project, the PMU is staffed by experienced consultants to strengthen MGCSP staff in key project functions - project management, procurement, financial management, safeguards supervision, and monitoring and evaluation and coordination. Objective of the Assignment The Monitoring and Evaluation consultant will assess the current capacity gaps and needs of the MGCSP M&E Department and i) help develop a user-friendly Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning, and Knowledge Management (MEALKM) system) for the MGCSP based on global best practices and lesson learned from similar projects; and ii) build MGCSP capacity to perform M&E of LWEP and other similar projects. The consultant will lead on the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection Republic of Liberia Ministerial Complex, Congo Town Monrovia, Liberia Liberia Women Empowerment Project LWEP #: P173677 LWEP M&E activities as well as the associated county monitoring alongside relevant stakeholders working on the project. The consultant will undertake these tasks in line with the government ‘s national Gender M&E database and performance management system. The consultant will work in close liaison with the PMU coordinator and M& E staff of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, M& E Unit of the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), and Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-information services (LISGIS) as well as other project stakeholder and agenciesThe objective of the assignment is to establish and maintain the project Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system in line with the Government of Liberia and World Bank's regulations for reporting on progress during the entire life span of the LWEP. Scope of Services The MEL is required for implementation of the Liberia Women Empowerment Project (LWEP) in accordance with World Bank Guidelines and other requirements stipulated in the Project Documents; as well as establishing and operating the overall project Monitoring and Evaluation system. The M& E Consultant will generally ensure the effective monitoring of project processes, activities, outputs, outcomes/impacts. In undertaking these tasks and in line with the government's promotion of a national M&E database and performance management system, the M&E Consultant will liaise (where possible) with the M&E staff of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MGCSP) as a form of capacity building for the Ministry staff. Main Responsibilities • Manage the LWEP Monitoring and Evaluation System to ensure a proper flow of information to and from the operational level to the PMU, and especially the provision of timely and adequate information for decision-making by Project Management; • Prepare training manuals and organize regular training and workshops to sensitize field enumerators on data collection, data tabulation and reporting systems. • Support in organizing the baseline/Endline survey in conjunction with the MGCSP, MOA and collaboration with the Lead Service Provider/NGO and or consortium and the World Bank and other technical advisors. • Take lead responsibility in drafting TORs for independent survey firms to implement endline surveys • Ensure that appropriate M&E manuals are prepared, established and implemented to provide systematic and quality project data in line with what is recorded in the project appraisal document. Including preparation of required forms to collect data on results framework indicators. Support the implementation of a rigorous impact evaluation (RCT) of the project. Participate and contribute to discussions on community selection, Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection Republic of Liberia Ministerial Complex, Congo Town Monrovia, Liberia Liberia Women Empowerment Project LWEP #: P173677 randomization, and data collection. Lead coordination among the PMU, LSP, MGCSP and other GoL stakeholders on the impact evaluation. • Review on a regular basis the status of Project implementation to identify corrective measures, bringing to the attention of Project Coordinator any problems/issues arising thereof which may hinder implementation of the LWE Project • Prepare results-focused project quar

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