Programmatic progress and challenges

• How effective was AWESOME in contributing to its key outcomes of:
• Self outcome: Women’s rights organisations, activists, young women and women with disabilities come together through movement building, and collective action through increased solidarity and closer cooperation.
• Society outcome: Greater willingness among society to challenge gender norms and attitudes.
• Institution outcome: Improved policy and legal framework for the realisation of all women’s rights, related to SGBV and the rights to meaningful participation in decisions that affect them.
• To what extent has AWESOME been effective in achieving the planned outputs? What unexpected outcomes have been observed (positive and negative)?
• What lessons and best practices have been learnt on the cross-cutting themes (gender, youth, and climate)?
• Which of the changes seen are likely to be sustainable? What will influence the future sustainability of outcomes achieved in each of the contexts? (in terms of continuing positive impacts)

Partnership collaboration

• How coherent was the partnership between AWESOME partners, the MFA in the Netherlands, and the Dutch embassies in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda?
• To what extent has AWESOME modelled southern leadership, localisation and shared power in its approaches to partnership and the programme?
• To what extent have partners within AWESOME enhanced their organisational and lobby and advocacy capacities?

Selection criteria

• Team profile: We are looking for a team of at least 3 consultants, who together bring deep understanding of the context and women’s movements in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. We encourage evaluators with deep experience of WWD and disability movements. We will give preference to a team who have worked together on previous evaluations and have strong working relations with each other.
• Evaluation experience: The successful team will have experience of conducting multi-country evaluations, including planning approaches, carrying out interviews, analysing evidence to draw out conclusions, working with stakeholders to validate the conclusions, and synthesizing the findings into useful final reports.
• Qualitative, participatory approaches: The successful team will have experience using feminist, participatory approaches that centre women’s voices and experiences. They will be familiar with approaches that create safe spaces for diverse groups of women to share their views, and to shape the focus of learning and recommendations.
• Thematic and contextual understanding: The successful team will have deep understanding of the current context of women’s movements, disability movements, SGBV and women’s participation and leadership in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and in regional policy spaces. Context is critical to understanding AWESOME’s approaches and impact, so we are seeking a team that deeply understands their contexts and can help us to situate our learning in the context.
• Communication and facilitation skills: Strong oral and written language skills within the consultancy team (which may require factoring interpreter/translation costs into budgets) including Amharic, Oromifa, Swahili and English. The consultant will produce final reports in accessible English. The final reports should have limited jargon and aim to influence, inspire and educate a wide range of stakeholders, including women’s rights organisations, government officials, and donors.