Consultancy to conduct evaluation of the PAMOJA Women’s Voice and Leadership Project under
implementation by WFT Trust.
Location: Selected regions in Tanzania
WFT Trust is looking for suitable persons or firms to carry out an evaluation of the PAMOJA
Women’s Voice and Leadership Project.
Duration: One month
- Background:
The PAMOJA Women Voice and Leadership (WVL) project is a five-year initiative (2018-2023)
co-funded by the Irish Embassy and Global Affairs Canada and is implemented by Women Fund
Tanzania Trust. This project has been in implementation for the past 3.5 years within a context that
is challenging politically as well as socio-economically.
The project was designed to specifically address key constraints to the women’s movement, by
partly providing women’s rights organizations and networks with direct funding.
Some of the key constraints identified at the design stage included:
i) Limited conceptual clarity, articulation, and internalization of the feminist agenda and principles:
ii) Poor coordination that has led to fragmented actions, voices, and the operation of Women Rights
Organizations (WROs) in silos with inadequate collaboration among them:
ii) Inadequate Women Rights Organizations institutional capacities, feminist leadership, and poor
programming skills:
iv) Intergenerational gap within most women organizations and movement:
v) Low number of platforms for popularizing transformative feminism at national and grassroots
levels.
The support the project provides is intended to help WRO’s advance gender equality, empower
women and protect their human rights by:
Improving the management and sustainability of local and national WROs
Strengthening the capacity of WROs to program and advocate to advance gender equality
and the empowerment of women and girls
Increasing the effectiveness of local and national women’s rights platforms, networks and
alliances to affect policy. legal and social change
Thus, PAMOJA WVL seeks to amplify women’s voices, strengthens women organisations and the
larger women’s movement in Tanzania. It does so by brokering and facilitating partnerships
between organisations, within the women’s movement and beyond. These partnerships additionally
build the resilience and impact in advancing gender equality and human rights for women and girls.
To achieve the desired outcomes, the project is focusing on two major areas:
First is the strengthening of WROS and Women Organizations programmatic capacity in the
women’s movement through better coordination, joint planning and implementation. Nontraditional actors and other marginalised groupings are purposefully included to join the
mainstream movement for increased inclusivity and diversity. This deeply grounds the feminist
agenda and is an approach that engages women more effectively in promoting social, policy, and
legal changes for transformation. Second is the oversight of WROS that receive funding and
institutional capacity building from WFT-Trust to further support the realization of their objectives.
The goal is to contribute to a robust and sustainable women’s rights movement that is able to
effectively deliver the mandate of these organizations through outreach.
Since its inception, PAMOJA WVL has invested in interventions that strengthen WROs and other
non-traditional actors in Tanzania by supporting them to enhance their performance through
collaboration and collective social action. Grants have been made available to support the work and
agency of women in different spheres of women political leadership and in strengthening collective
action, voice and agency of women across the country in order to leverage sustainable change.
Furthermore, much focus has been directed towards continued support to institutional growth and
WROS financial sustainability. To achieve this the project has implemented interventions that
focus on enhancing inclusivity, intergenerational and intersectionality of both the agenda and
approaches to ensure maximum impacts and sustainable transformative changes that advance
gender equality and promote women’s and girls’ rights are achieved.
- WVL PAMOJA Ultimate Goal and Outcomes.
The ultimate outcome of the project is the increased enjoyment of human rights by women and
girls and the advancement of gender equality in Tanzania. To achieve this, the project pursues three
intermediate outcomes:
Enhanced inclusive collaboration and collective social action across the women’s movement
of Tanzania to effect policy, legal and social change that advances gender equality and
women’s and girls’ rights in Tanzania (1100)
Enhanced performance of women’s rights organizations programming to advance gender
equality in Tanzania (1200)
Strengthened viability of local women’s rights organizations of Tanzania to advance gender
equality and the rights of women (1300)
- Main objective of the review
The overall objective of this review is to assess the progress made towards attaining the stated
results of PAMOJA WVL Project and its effects on targeted beneficiaries (Grantees) including but
not limited to what are the measurable benefits based on the four implementation pillars (Capacity
Building of WROS, Multi-Year Core Funding to WROS. Fast Responsive Funding and Strategic
Alliance Building and Networking) - Specific objectives of the review:
I. Results Achievement, Areas of improvement and Sustainability
Review WFT Trust’s grantees progress in delivering on the project outcomes for the 4 key
implementation pillars: Capacity Building of WROs, Multi-Year Core Funding to WROs,
Fast Responsive Funding and Strategic Alliance Building and Networking)
Assess WFT Trust grantees focus based on rural urban funding distribution based on WFT
Trust’s approach of intersectionality, inclusiveness and intergeneration
Assess how WFT grantees beneficiaries have benefited from their involvement with WVL
PAMOJA Project.
Assess the results of WFT Trust movement building strategies and their effectiveness.
II. Lesson learnt and recommendations
The consultant is expected to generate and document lessons learnt in the course of
delivering the project, and provide relevant recommendations. - Scope of review
The consultancy is expected to use the OECD DAC Network on Development Evaluation
(EvalNet) evaluation criteria-relevance. coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and
sustainability)will focus on the following key areas of inquiry: - Reach: The review will cover 60% of peripheral grantees and 40% of national grantees funded
by Irish Embassy (Annexed) - Sample size: Proposed sample from 12 regions of Tanzania mainland and covering at least a
sample of 15-20 grantees funded by WFT Trust.
- Deliverables
An inception report to detail how the consultant has understood the scope of the assignment
and the terms of reference.
A comprehensive review report highlighting all main aspects of the review Le.: methods,
findings. lessons and recommendations not exceeding 30 pages.
A short document (2-3 pages) summarizing insights from the main report. - Confidentiality
All information (including the documents provided) concerning the assignment shall be considered
as confidential and not to be released to any third party. The Consultant should maintain such
confidentiality at all times, be it during the assignment or thereafter. The Consultant will also agree
that all knowledge and information not within the public domain which may be acquired from
WFT Trust or its employees by virtue of this assignment, shall for all times and for all purposes be
regarded as strictly confidential, and shall not be directly or indirectly disclosed to any whatsoever,
except with WFT Trust written permission. - Consultant qualifications
I. Relevant academic qualification and experience in development studies, gender equality, social
accountability and women and children empowerment agenda
II. Strong experience with and knowledge of qualitative and quantitative evaluations with feminist
analysis. The knowledge of the OECD DAC Network on Development Evaluation (EvalNet) will
be an added advantage
III. Excellent analytical skills and strong proficiency with data analysis
IV. Proven experience in conducting baseline and reviews, study surveys, and evaluations with a
focus on transformative change
V. Excellent communication and written skills in English and where possible, knowledge of local
languages and the ability to present data concisely and clearly.
VI. Experience working on women rights agenda and gender equality frameworks. - Sexual Harassment Exploitation and Abuse, Anti-corruption and Child Safeguarding
The consultant agrees to adhere to WFT Trust’s Sexual Harassment Exploitation and Abuse Policy.
Child safeguarding and No tolerance stance on corruption. - Miscellaneous
The consultant is responsible for ensuring that appropriate arrangements, processes and procedures
are in place for the successful execution of this assignment, considering the environment they will
be working in and the level of risk involved in delivery of the contract.
