INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND ELECTORAL ASSISTANCE has floated a tender for Consultant - Final Project Evaluation MyConstitution Programme. The project location is Myanmar and the tender is closing on 31 Jul 2018. The tender notice number is , while the TOT Ref Number is 24734523. Bidders can have further information about the Tender and can request the complete Tender document by Registering on the site.

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Country : Myanmar

Summary : Consultant - Final Project Evaluation MyConstitution Programme

Deadline : 31 Jul 2018

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 24734523

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Competition : ICB

Financier : Other Funding Agencies

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Purchaser : INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND ELECTORAL ASSISTANCE
Yangon Attn: Belayneh Alehegn Geremew
Myanmar
Email :b.geremew@idea.int / jobsmyanmar@idea.int

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Consultant - Final Project Evaluation MyConstitution Programme.

Country: Myanmar

Sector: Governance

Starting date of the assignment:** As soon as possible

Expected duration of the assignment: 22 days

1. Background

This evaluation is intended to assess the performance of and generate lessons learned from implementation of the Myanmar Constitution Centre (MyConstitution) programme. The programme is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway (since December 2015) and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (since April 2017). Myanmar-s 2008 Constitution nests both locks and keys to Myanmar-s democratic transition. As constitutional change continues to be a prominent arena where the nascent democratic framework is forged, this programme aims to increase the inclusiveness and accountability of state institutions in Myanmar for them to become more democratic (impact) by promoting an inclusive, home-grown and well-informed debate about constitutional change as an integral part of Myanmar-s democratic transition (outcome). The project brings together national and international actors to achieve three specific transformations:

1. Increased domestic expertise in constitutional affairs relevant to Myanmar-s democratization process;

2. Improved capacity of civil society organizations and other democratic actors to convene dialogues and advocate for changes to the constitution;

3. Invigorated and better-informed public debate amongst key democratic stakeholders on constitutional change with references to Myanmar-s history and institutions, as well as comparative experiences.

The creation of the Myanmar Constitutional Centre (MyConstitution) responds to the challenges facing Myanmar-s democratic transition. Although the political landscape has grown more pluralistic since 2012, and all major political stakeholders have openly expressed their commitment to the current transition to democracy, there is a lack of consensus as to the desired pace and extent of these democratic reforms in the years ahead. The official position of the Government of Myanmar remains that constitutional reform is focused on the national peace and reconciliation process. However, agreement on certain constitutional questions, such as secession, self-determination, and sub-state constitutions, evaded the participants of the 2ndUnion Peace Conference in May 2017.

Despite the increased sensitivity of debate regarding constitutional change, calls for broader constitutional change continue to loom large. In this context, International IDEA has continued to provide demand-driven advisory support, analysis and capacity building on constitutional issues with a view to ensuring a sustainable constitutional framework to Myanmar-s development towards peace and democracy.

Additionally, with a view to the possibility of a constitutional change process, International IDEA has continued to engage with civil society, women-s groups, and political parties, to share information on potential avenues for reform. In particular, International IDEA has also developed avenues for constructive engagement between civil society and government actors.

The project follows a three-fold approach that combines capacity development, dialogue-based advocacy for reform, and locally-generated knowledge. Project beneficiaries include representatives from key democratic stakeholders, including CSOs, political parties, parliamentarians, ethnic armed groups, academia, the media, and government institutions. The project beneficiaries use the demand-driven advisory services of the Myanmar Constitution Centre, and receive information briefs and other research, to gain access to comparative analyses of options to navigate on constitutional issues. Additionally they attend courses, workshops, roundtables and dialogues organised by the Centre on topical constitutional debates to be informed and inspired about strategies to move forward in the transition to democracy.

This evaluation comes at the conclusion of the implementation period which covers December 2015 - July 2018 and is intended to provide an overview of results achieved and lessons learned to inform implementation of the second phase of the programme; MyConstitution: Constitutionalism in support of an inclusive, peaceful and democratic Myanmar (hereafter MyCon II). The evaluation should seek to identify which interventions were the most successful in achieving intended impact, and which programme interventions could be strengthened or innovated in the future.

About International IDEA:

The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, International IDEA, is an intergovernmental organization with 30 Member States and over 20 years of experience in supporting sustainable democracy worldwide. The Institute aims to stimulate and contribute to the public debate on democracy and assist in strengthening processes, reforms, institutions and actors that build, advance and safeguard democracy, with a primary focus on three key impact areas including electoral processes, constitution building processes, and political participation and representation. Throughout all of its work International IDEA also mainstreams gender, diversity and security. International IDEA works to provide knowledge to democracy builders, provide policy development and analysis and support Yangon, Myanmar.

2. Evaluation Scope & Intended Users

The purpose of the evaluation of the MyConstitution programme is to:

· Promote the accountability of International IDEA-s work and contribute to International IDEA-s global programming on constitution building by highlighting successful methods of supporting constitution building processes;

· Provide an overall independent assessment of the MyConstitution programme, with regard to the achievement of its overall outcomes, relevance, effectiveness and efficiency, key lessons and recommendations in order to improve the second phase of the programme;

· Assess whether the programme achieved its goals to effectively and efficiently support its key beneficiaries in the context of the new government-s priorities and make recommendations for the second phase of the project;

· Assess the conditions and effectiveness of capacity building activities;

· Evaluate the extent to which the project has mainstreamed gender perspectives, diversity and conflict sensitivity in the design and implementation of the project, and make recommendations in this regard.

The primary intended users of the evaluation are International IDEA and the MyConstitution donor organisations; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

The evaluation is to be designed, conducted and reported to meet the needs of the intended users and the consultant shall elaborate in the tender how this will be ensured during the evaluation process.

3. Evaluation Objectives and Questions

The final evaluation will assess the MyConstitution programme throughout its implementation from December 2015 until July 2018. The evaluation relates to activities as outlined in the project proposal, taking into account adjustments as captured in the updated intervention framework. The evaluation will critically consider how fit the original project design was for obtaining the longer-term objectives of the program and will identify overlaps, inconsistencies, synergies (or the lack of the same) and the achievement of cumulative results. It will serve both as a final evaluation of the work and its achievements in order to inform the programme-s next phase (MyCon II), as well as IDEA-s work on constitution-building globally.

The evaluation will consider the following questions, along with others proposed by the evaluators in their inception report:

· Relevance (with emphasis on alignment of the project objective and approach to Myanmar-ssituation)

· To what extent is MyConstitution responding to the emerging national needs and priorities of the target beneficiaries?

· Do the various target beneficiaries of the programme recognize its relevance (including women-s groups)?

· To what extent was the programme able to respond to the fluidity of Myanmar-s political process and remain relevant?

· Effectiveness (with emphasis on achievement of objectives at all levels)

· To which extent has the programme contributed to its intended outcomes?

· How effective where MyConstitution strategies and activities towards achieving the programme-s objectives?

· Most components of MyConstitution interventions had a strong emphasis on capacity development. To what extent were the capacity development approach(es) fit for achieving the programme-s outcomes, outputs and results?

· How effectively were gender and social inclusion considerations streamlined across project interventions? What methods worked best for streamlining?

· Efficiency

· Were resources available to MyConstitution utilized in the most appropriate and efficient way possible towards achieving results?

· Were synergies between key national stakeholders, partner organisations and activities increased?

· How were partnerships that have been developed with other national stakeholders perceived and how can they be strengthened?

· Impact:

· What is the overall impact of the programme in terms of direct or indirect, negative and positive results?

· Sustainability:

· What measures were put in place for ensuring capacity development initiatives and other activities were sustainable?

· To what extent was national ownership and agency promoted in the project activities?

The intervention logic of the programme is based on the recognition that Myanmar requires the bes

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