Monitoring and Evaluation (Visayas Region)

  • Volunteer, Long-term consulting assignment
  • Posted on 5 February 2025

Job Description

Location: Philippines

Salary: Not Specified

Contract Type: Not Specified

Contract Length: 2 years

Full Time: Not Specified

Application Closing Date: Feb 18, 2025 00:00:00

Interview Date: February 2025

Start Date: April 2025

VSO is recruiting a national volunteer to be embedded with implementing partners across Visayas region. The volunteer will work closely with the project’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) Coordinator to support the generation of evidence and learning related to the implementation of Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) localization actions.

If you possess these skills and are passionate about making a difference, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

The women, peace and security (WPS) agenda, initiated by UN Security Resolution 1325, recognizes that women must be critical actors in all efforts to achieve sustainable peace and security. The National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (NAPWPS, 2023-2033) serves as the response of the Philippines to the WPS agenda and aims to ensure the protection of the rights of women in areas affected by conflict.

The Gendered Actions on Peace, Advocacy and Community Transformation (G-PACT) project seeks to implement the WPS agenda through reinforced capacities and participation of CSOs, WROs and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) in Mindanao, Luzon and Visayas throughout the WPS policy process.

Working with the project’s MERL coordinator, the volunteers will support partners to generate evidence and learning about the implementation of WPS localization actions in Mindanao, Luzon and Visayas

VSO is recruiting three national volunteers to be based with implementing partners in region of Mindanao, Luzon and Visayas (one volunteer in each region).

Level 2: This post will have direct access or contact with children either or will have responsibility for the day-to-day management of those with direct access to children. A criminal background check (Enhance DBS check for UK or equivalent Police check) will be obtained for post holder at this level prior to their start date.

Project Background and Contextual Information

The Philippines has a long history of conflict and instability, driven by political, socio-economic and climate-related grievances. The Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda promotes women’s equal and meaningful participation in peace-building and security. This project supports the nationwide implementation of the WPS agenda through reinforced capacities and participation of CSOs and local community organisations/associations throughout the WPS policy process. The National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (NAPWPS) in the Philippines was launched in 2023. The NAPWPS is a 10-year plan (2023-2033) and is the Philippine government’s roadmap for advancing the WPS agenda. The NAPWPS consists of 4 pillars (participation, protection, prevention and relief and recovery) and 26 action points, and is aligned with various policy instruments including United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, the Magna Carta of Women, and the Joint Memorandum Circular 2014-01 between the OPAPRU and the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW).

The NAPWPS 2023-2033 emphasizes the importance of strong collaboration between the government and civil society and aims to ensure the effective implementation of the plan at national and local levels. A key feature of the NAPWPS is a focus on monitoring, evaluation and learning to ensure greater accountability of all WPS stakeholders.

This project is to support the implementation of the NAPWPS at local and regional level in the 3 regions in the Philippines working closely with local and regional government, civil society organisations and local communities.

The project will be delivered through a consortium of VSO with three implementing partners who will be responsible for implementing the project in regions in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, including the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

Role Outputs

  • Strengthened M&E capacity of project consortium partners and other stakeholders (including CSOs, WROs, CBOs) in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
  • Working with MERL coordinator, implementation of the Measuring Impact for Learning & Empowerment (MILE) approach MILE is the practice of participatory monitoring evaluation and learning (PMEL) and forward accountability in VSO projects.
  • Input into the development of other evaluation and data collection tools, including the survey for localised WPS Index study.
  • Support the implementation of WPS Index study and risk and resilience vulnerability study through participatory workshops
  • Support the MERL coordinator to analyse data and draft the WPS studies.
  • Support the development and use of the WPS digital dashboard.
  • Support WPS dialogue, implementation and monitoring.
  • Generate learning and evidence about the processes of WPS localization for localised WPS reports and the creation of digital dashboards.
  • Working with the communications and advocacy volunteer and other stakeholders, identify priority advocacy actions for CSOs, CBOs and WROs working on the WPS agenda
  • Work closely with partners to localise evaluation data tools and outputs
  • Contribute to MERL technical working group for GPACT and work in collaboration with other Evaluation NVS
  • Take lead in the lobbying with local government units, national agencies, and other relevant stakeholders for the integration of WPS key performance indicators in the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS)
  • Other support to the implementation of the project

Experience and skills required for this volunteer placement

  • Experience in monitoring and evaluation of the donor funded projects
  • Knowledge of evaluation tools and methods essential, experience desirable
  • Facilitation skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills – verbal communication skills
  • Report writing skills
  • Collaborative, team player

Equal Opportunities: VSO promotes equal opportunities and values a diverse workforce.

VSO reserves the right to close this job early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Additional Information

All volunteers have an allowance paid in local currency. The allowance meets reasonable living expenses in country, but will not be enough to send money home.

VSO works with some of the poorest communities in the world which means accommodation varies and will be basic.

Deadline for Applications: Feb 18, 2025 00:00:00

“While we try our best to keep our information updated, the closing date of the actual job source may be changed by the recruiter without prior notice. With this, please make sure to check the official job link when submitting your application. Thank you.”

About the Organization

VSO is an international development charity that works through volunteers. Our vision is a world without poverty in which people work together to fulfil their potential. We bring people together to share skills, creativity and learning to build a fairer world. VSO welcomes volunteers from an ever increasing range of countries, backgrounds and ages. National agencies in Canada, Kenya, the Netherlands and the Philippines recruit volunteers from many different countries worldwide and this international approach allows us to combine and learn from a rich variety of perspectives. Tackling Disadvantage at "Grass Roots" Level Ours is a very individual "people to people" approach to development. Instead of sending food or money, we send women and men from a wide range of professions who want the chance to make a real difference in the fight against poverty. These volunteers work in partnership with colleagues and communities to share skills and learning and jointly achieve change. But we have to be realistic in our expectations. We commit to long-term development goals and long-term partnerships and focus on sustainable development rather than the short-term relief of certain problems. VSO also works to address the structural inequalities and barriers that prevent people from exercising their rights. We use our experience and our supporter networks to work for changes in policy and practice - rich and poor countries - that reduce disadvantage. VSO is by far the largest independent volunteer-sending agency in the world. Since 1958, we have sent out more than 29,000 volunteers to work in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Pacific region and, more latterly, Eastern Europe in response to requests from our overseas partners. At the moment we have around 1,500 people working in placements in these regions. Shared Partnerships, Shared Benefits You only have to talk to VSO volunteers to realise that they gain from their experience, personally or professionally, as much as they contribute. Many will enthuse how fascinating it was to explore a different culture at first hand. Others will point to the friendships they have made. But many will also tell you how their professional talents have been stretched, and how they have learnt new skills that will significantly enhance their career prospects on their return home. If ever it was true that "you get out what you put in", VSO is proof positive. This experience makes volunteers passionate in challenging misconceptions about developing countries. In the current climate, it is more urgent than ever that we work to achieve a global community where people of all cultures are seen as equal, learn from each other and share a common sense of rights and responsibilities as global citizens. VSO builds on this experience and passion to support a range of global education activity. To find out more about volunteering with or supporting VSO visit our website at www.vso.org.uk

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