Save the Children in Yemen is looking for eligible candidates for the position of
Final Evaluation consultant
Location: Aden, Lahj, and Taiz

Background 
Save the Children has been implementing a Family Planning project funded by the USAID aimed at enhancing increased use of Family Planning services and commodities among conflict affected women in Aden, Lahj and Taiz Governorates since 2018. The project is supporting 220 Health Facilities from three governorates and providing FP commodities, equipment, and conducting capacity exchange programs. As part of the wider FP Technical Working Group, Save the Children has been spearheading the development of an integrated FP information management system. 

Context
After six years of continuous conflict, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is the worst in the world, driven by conflict, economic collapse, and the continuous breakdown of public institutions and services. 16.2 million people are one step away from famine and starvation. Approximately 7.4 million people, nearly a quarter of the entire population, are malnourished, many acutely so. Essential public services, including healthcare services that are crucial to support mothers and childbirth, are on the brink of total collapse. Only 51 percent of all health facilities are functional, and even these face severe shortages in medicines, equipment, and staff. This leaves pregnant women and newborns with limited access to a broader range of maternal and child health services, including antenatal and emergency obstetric and neonatal care. Yemen’s contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) has also stagnated. There remains a high unmet need for Family Planning (FP) at 31.7 percent. 

Save the Children’s Response 
Save the Children has been working in Yemen since 1963 implementing both humanitarian and development programs. Save the Children Yemen country office is located in Sana'a supporting seven field offices: Hodeida, Sana'a, Hajjah, Sa'ada, Ibb, Aden, and Taiz. Save the Children has an operational presence in ten governorates namely in Sa’ada, Hajjah, Hodeida, Amran, Sana’a, Taiz, Ibb, Lahj, Aden, and Al Dhale. Save the Children implements programs in seven different technical areas: child protection, child rights governance, education, health, nutrition, water sanitation & hygiene (WASH), and food security & livelihoods (FSL). 

Save the Children’s health response is mainly focused on ensuring that targeted communities have access to primary health care (Consultations, EPI, IMCI, ANC etc) through the provision of essential medicines, health worker incentives, capacity exchange programs and covering operating costs. In 2020, SC was supporting more than 330 Health Facilities with basic health services package in addition to more than 200 HFs with FP services. 

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Purpose of the Evaluation

This evaluation is being conducted at the end of the SFPS in Yemen project. It will build upon the baseline evaluation and ongoing, routinely collected monitoring data from the previous years of the project.  The primary purpose of the evaluation is to determine the overall impact of the project, i.e. the extent to which the project achieved its goal of increasing access to and uptake of quality family planning services in three Yemen governorates- Aden, Lahj, and Ta’izz.  
Role Dimensions:
This consultant will lead the Process Evaluation which aims at determining the overall impact of the project, i.e. the extent to which the project achieved its goal of increasing access to and uptake of quality family planning services in three Yemen governorates- Aden, Lahj, and Ta’izz. The suggested methodology for the study will be a mixed-methods assessment that puts together feedback from different stakeholders.

Scope of the evaluation and key questions
The evaluation and key questions were formulated following the OECD DAC criteria as articulated in the attached Evaluation’s ToR, the consultant will be able to review and revise the questions in consultation with Save the Children MEAL and Program leads.

Timeline
The evaluation is estimated to be completed within 35 working days, including preparation, field work in Yemen, data analysis and report writing. A final timeline will be determined jointly by the evaluation steering committee and the consultant. 

Expected outputs

The expected outputs from the consultant are:

• Finalized research protocol
• Data collection tools
• Inception report
• Cleaned data sets
• Evaluation report 
• PowerPoint presentation

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTES

• An advanced university degree in Public Health, Community Medicine, Health Systems Strengthening, Reproductive Health, Social Sciences, Monitoring & Evaluation, Statistics or related field
• At least five years working in Public Health, Community Medicine.
• Experience/knowledge evaluating Reproductive Health in development projects. Familiar/experience with gender-sensitive programming in development projects. 
• Good communication, analytical, and drafting skills. 
• Understanding of child safeguarding and child participation procedures. 
• Familiarity with humanitarian aid in the Middle East (preferably Yemen) 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills 
• Thorough understanding of different data collection methods.
•  Strong understanding of humanitarian and evaluation ethics and a commitment to ethical working practices; 
• Knowledge of the OECD-DAC criteria 
• Proven record of communicating with beneficiaries and with children using child-friendly methods; 
• Fluency in English is a must; 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

The Organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
We are looking for both men and women from Yemen with enthusiasm and commitment to improve the protection and promotion of the rights of all children and to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Save the Children International seeks to always be a child safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child.”