UN Women, Senior Evaluation Consultant - Cameroon 
Job Info
Job Identification : 29186

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10/11/2025, 04:59 AM
Job Schedule : Full time
Locations  Cameroon
Job Function
Audit and Evaluation
Initial Contract Duration
45 days
Vacancy Category
Consultancies
Job Description
Background:

The strategic note of UN Women Cameroon Country Office is the main planning tool for UN Women’s support to normative, coordination and operational work in Cameroon. This evaluation will consider the Strategic Note covering the period January 2022 – December 2025 as a precursor action to the development of a new Strategic Note which will start in February 2025.

The Strategic Note is linked to the UN Women Global Strategic Plan and country-level United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2022-26. The Cameroon Country Office Strategic Note supports and contributes towards the following UN Women 2022-25 Strategic Plan Impact and Systemic outcomes:

Impact    Outcomes
Governance and participation in public life;
Women’s economic empowerment;
Ending Violence Against Women.
Women, peace and security, humanitarian action and disaster risk reduction
Strengthening of global normative frameworks, and gender-responsive laws, policies and institutions;
Financing for gender equality;
Positive social norms including by engaging men & boys;
Women's equitable access to services, goods and resources;
Women’s voice, leadership and agency;
Production, analysis and use of gender statistics and sex-disaggregated data.
UN System coordination for gender equality and women’s empowerment
 

The strategic note of UN Women Cameroon Country Office is the main planning tool for UN Women’s support to normative, coordination and operational work in Cameroon. This evaluation will consider the Strategic Note covering the period January 2022 – December 2025 as a precursor action to the development of a new Strategic Note which will start in February 2025.

The Strategic Note is linked to the UN Women Global Strategic Plan and country-level United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2022-26. The Cameroon Country Office Strategic Note supports and contributes towards the following UN Women 2022-25 Strategic Plan Impact and Systemic outcomes:

 

Impact    Outcomes
Governance and participation in public life;
Women’s economic empowerment;
Ending Violence Against Women.
Women, peace and security, humanitarian action and disaster risk reduction
Strengthening of global normative frameworks, and gender-responsive laws, policies and institutions;
Financing for gender equality;
Positive social norms including by engaging men & boys;
Women's equitable access to services, goods and resources;
Women’s voice, leadership and agency;
Production, analysis and use of gender statistics and sex-disaggregated data.
UN System coordination for gender equality and women’s empowerment
The strategic note is aligned to Cameroon’s national development plans, including the National Strategy of Development (NSD 2020 - 2030), the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the African Union Agenda 2063.

The Strategic Note is grounded in the standards, principles and obligations of the Convention to Eliminate all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Concluding Observations of the Commission on the Status of Women, Sustainable Development Goals, and the AU Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, among others.

Description of the country portfolio:

The Strategic Note (2022-2026) is geared towards the implementation of its three integrated core mandates (normative, coordination and operational/programming) through two planning tools: the Development Results Framework (DRF) and an Organizational Effectiveness and Efficiency Framework (OEEF) whose performance is measurable with performance indicators.  

UN Women contributes to strengthening the capacities of rights holders and duty bearers in close collaboration with the UN Country Team.

Duty bearers: Government stakeholders across different ministries, including the National Gender Machinery.
Right holders: Urban/peri-poor women, women leaders and gender advocates, civil society, religious and cultural leaders, and youth.
Description of the evaluation: 

The Country Portfolio Evaluation (CPE) is a systematic assessment to validate the contributions made by UN Women Country Office’s portfolio of interventions to development results with respect to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment at the country level. It uses the Strategic Note (including the DRF and OEEF) as the main point of reference.

The UN Women Evaluation Policy and the UN Women Evaluation Strategic Plan 2022-25 are the main guiding documents 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 Ethical Guidelines.

The CPE is utilization-focused, tailored to the needs of the organization through a participatory approach from the inception through to the development of recommendations. It has five objectives:

Assess the relevance and coherence  of UN Women intervention at national levels through an analysis of 
(a) its alignment with international agreements and conventions on gender equality and women’s empowerment and 

(b) its strategic positioning and comparative advantage in relation with key players involved in Cameroon’s national development, including as part of the UN System;

Assess the Country Office’s  effectiveness, sustainability and organizational efficiency in delivering the planned results. 
Analyse how human rights approach and gender equality principles are integrated in the design and implementation of the Strategic Note;
Document lessons learned that can enable the Country Office to better support gender equality and human rights;
Formulate actionable recommendations to support the development of UN Women Cameroon’s Strategic Note 2027-2031.
The intended uses and users of this evaluation are:

Target UsersPrimary UsersSecondary Users
Learning    Formative (forward-looking) on effective, promising and innovative strategies and practices, to support improved decision-making    The UN Women Cameroon country office, the West and Central Africa regional office to inform the design of the new Strategic note, the Independent Evaluation and Audit Services    The UN Country Team and other stakeholders to derive learning on effective and promising practices.
Accountability    Summative (backward-looking) for UN Women’s contribution to gender equality and women’s empowerment.    UN Women HQ, regional and country offices, national partners, rights holders and donors, to support accountability for development effectiveness.

 HOW TO APPLY :

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