Call for Expression of Interest: to Provide training on the MEL and documentation

Background:

The Network of Ethiopian Women’s Associations (NEWA) is a non-partisan, non-governmental network organization established in 2003, and currently NEWA has 50-member local organizations and associations seeking to create a stronger advocacy voice for women’s advancement. NEWA has a twofold goal: synchronizing the individual activities of women’s associations into an integrated collective effort and synergy to realize their common aspirations for gender equality; and launching a vigorous public campaign of promotion, advocacy, and lobbying for women’s rights.

NEWA with the support from CST Ethiopia is implementing a project entitled as “Empowering Women-Led Associations and Community Structures to Strengthen Grassroots and National Movements to End Child Marriage (CM), FGM, and Violence Against Children”. The project is implementing at national and regional levels in Amhara, Oromia, and Somali regions. The project generally aimed to build a mass movement around ending child marriage, FGM and violence and improve the response mechanism of GBV through the strategic engagement of grass root level women and youth-led organizations and their allies at different levels. One of the key components of the project is to provide training on the MEL and documentation of SBC interventions to the staff of NEWA and its members.

Recognizing the vital role of monitoring, evaluation and learning and documentation skill for effective project implementation, the project planned to provide two days capacity building training for NEWA staffs and member organizations on the area. Spanning two days, the training program will include interactive sessions focused on key thematic areas such as:

• Introduction to Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
• Developing Performance Indicators.
• Theory of Change (TOC) and Results Frameworks.
• Data sources and Data Quality Assessment (DQA)
• Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Plans
• Documentation for SBC interventions

Objective of the Training The overall aim of the training is to enhance the capacity of staffs in project monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) and documentation of SBC interventions.

Specific Objectives:

The training is designed to achieve the following specific objectives:

• Introduce Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning (MEL), and Learning Adaptation concepts and practice.
• To strengthen participants’ understanding of MEL principles and tools within the context of SBC programming.
• Explain the role and importance of MEL (including CLA) in programming as a tool for adaptive management, and why MEL is essential for effective program design, implementation, and management.
• To build practical skills for data collection, analysis, reporting, and adaptive learning.
• To build understanding of Theories of Change (TOC), Logic Models/Results Frameworks, and their importance for achieving strong program results.
• Build understanding of and ability to create and use a MEL plan
• To enhance participants’ capacity to design, monitor, evaluate, and document SBC interventions effectively. The training is designed to engage a diverse group of 30 participants from NEWA’s staffs, staffs from organizations implementing this project and other members of NEWA.

For more information please refer to this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mWRMCz9bLxMuPy9EX6Kt9Fi2obo-2Kau/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112871499205828425147&rtpof=true&sd=true

Eligibility /Mandatory requirements for Evaluation

• Applicant must have a renewed trade/business certificate for the year 2017 E.C (2025G.C), VAT, TIN, the renewed professional license certificate, attaching CV of the consulting team.