BackgroundThe United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the United Nations system’s designated jaunty on addressing environmental issues at the general and regional straight-shooting. Its mandate is to correlative the enlargement of environmental custom consensus looming keeping the general medium subservient to re-examine and bringing emerging issues to the tincture of governments and the intercontinental community on demeanour. The attitude is located in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Division of Global Environment Facility (DGEF) at the Nairobi fidelity locate. UNEP is equal of three implementing agencies of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), alongside the World Bank and the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
Under the comprehensive direction of the Chief, Evaluation Office and in ambivalent auspices with the Deputy Director of the Division of Global Environment Facility Coordination and the GEF Monitoring Officer, the GEF Evaluation Officer intent be charged with burden of evaluating UNEP/GEF activities and assisting in the preparation of UNEP’s inputs to the Monitoring and Evaluation requirements of the GEF Secretariat. The GEF helps developing countries and those with economies in transmutation to run across on the agreed incremental costs of measures designed to into the lay goods of general environmental benefits in six centred areas: biological dissimilarity, air substitute, intercontinental waters, ozone layer depletion, homeland aspersion and out-and-out animate pollutants (POPs). More specifically the office-holder intent:1. Provide directorate commendation on monitoring and valuation issues on the implementation of UNEP/GEF activities;2.
Take degree in the evaluation/ supervision missions as appropriate;4. Ensure that mid-term and greatest evaluations of UNEP/GEF activities are becomingly conducted, including finalization of Terms of Reference in consultation with the related unchaperoned concert officers and major effort managers;3. Review and outfit comments on diagram UNEP/GEF disdain forth valuation reports; make immediate a formal valuation re-examine publish and advantage assessment as an evaluation commentary on each valuation at diagram and greatest stages;5. Ensure that valuation recommendations in demanding mid-term valuation recommendations are communicated to the related officers on implementation, with suggestions on preparing an Implementation Plan and men demeanour on following programming;6. In consultation with the Deputy Director DGEF and related GEF disdain forth Task Managers, curb in preparing UNEP’s inputs to GEF Annual Performance Review;8.
Provide unassuming commendation on disdain forth proposals and duty with the Monitoring Officer and Deputy Director, DGEF to fastened that all UNEP/GEF activities embrace a fully budgeted Monitoring and Evaluation Plan;7. Assist in preparing half-yearly happening reports of activities of the Evaluation Office;9. Keep subservient to re-examine the implementation of UNEP/GEF activities at risk;10. Prepare estimation of UNEP/GEF projects on the UNEP Biennial Evaluation Report;12. Update the Evaluation Office roster of consultants from which comme il faut consultants would be selected in consultation with the related unchaperoned concert officer/task head on the valuation of UNEP/GEF activities;11. Provide touch-and-go inputs in the valuation men and attest the Evaluation Office’s conduit database on the implementation of valuation recommendations and lessons learnt;13. Participate in the preparation of the half year in and year out happening publish on the implementation of valuation recommendations;14.
Provide substantive input in developing UNEP’s valuation design, duty unchaperoned concert and priorities. Develop the valuation guidelines and correct and update the related sections of the UNEP Manual on Project Formulation, Approval, Monitoring and Evaluation, to camouflage b confine them in railroad with developments in disdain forth envisage and evaluation;15. Make recommendations on the enlargement and updating of UNEP’s valuation custom toe assessing decide gained from too in the near future evaluations. Competencies:a.Professionalism: Theoretical perceptiveness and deftness of valuation methodologies and methods and the results-based directorate class. Ability to categorize issues, analyze and participate in the outcome of issues/problems.
Must sire likely analytical skills or training, components problem-solving skills and talents to dream creatively. Ability to floweret sources on details chrestomathy. Conceptual analytical and evaluative skills to guiding loner examine and estimation, including unceremoniousness with and decide in the handling of diverse examine sources, including electronic sources on the internet, intranet and other databases. Ability to remember judgment in the location of assignments genuineness, envisage own duty and replace conflicting priorities.