Skills and Experience

Consultants/Consultancies should have the following experience:

• Extensive experience in monitoring and evaluation for international development project/programmes, with strong skills in both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

• Thematic expertise in economic empowerment with comprehensive understanding of preferred practices/policy issues at national and global levels.

• Prior experience of Most Significant Change or Outcome Harvesting for programme evaluation purposes (depending on proposed approach).

• Prior experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa essential, including primary data collection, preferably in Uganda.

• Prior economic empowerment work/evaluation experience and knowledge and expertise of disability inclusion and gender mainstreaming.

• Experience of carrying out evaluation and learning exercises of an appropriate scale and involving young people and persons with disabilities in a participatory manner.

• Can source and manage additional support with relevant services such as data collection, translation, sign language interpretation, and transcription, in Uganda when necessary.

• Can produce clear, concise, and analytical reports in English, with excellent attention to detail, and to meet agreed deadlines.

• Experience of producing learning and summary documents to share findings and recommendations with diverse audiences in clear and engaging ways. Familiarity with accessible design principles advantageous.

• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English. Fluency in relevant local languages in Uganda (Luo) is also highly desirable.