Panagora provides technical and advisory services related to monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning to USAID under the USAID/Philippines, Pacific Islands, and Mongolia Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Activity (PIMMELA).
Under the PIMMELA Activity, Panagora will conduct a performance evaluation of the USAID/Pacific Islands Pacific American Fund (PAF), implemented by Social Solutions International. PAF is a five-year grant facility that addresses critical development challenges across 12 Pacific Island Countries (PICs), including the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. The goal of PAF is to award and monitor grants that aim to improve the quality of life in the Pacific Islands by increasing climate change and disaster resilience, facilitating sustainable market-driven economic growth, extending access to quality health care and education, and advancing democratic governance. PAF targets local organizations providing local solutions to local issues.
The objective of the performance evaluation is to provide USAID/Pacific Islands with an analysis and strategic recommendations on the effectiveness of the PAF activity to build local capacity in the 12 PICs to deliver development assistance to communities in the areas of mitigating the economic impacts of COVID-19, climate change adaptation, economic or income development, biodiversity and natural resource management, WASH, education and infrastructure support. The results of the evaluation will provide USAID/Pacific Islands with deep understanding on what works well in supporting grant-making mechanisms such as PAF – demonstrate how grants provided to various organizations are making a difference and bring meaningful changes to the targeted communities. Also, the evaluation results will help inform USAID/Pacific Islands’ programmatic designs and advancing the USG’s priorities in the Indo-Pacific region, localization, and working with the private sector, academe, local civil society organizations and other like-minded organizations in advancing sustainable development outcomes.
The evaluation will be carried out by a team of specialists, including an evaluation team leader, the community organizing and development specialist, and a capacity building specialist.
Position Summary
Panagora Group seeks a short-term technical consultant to serve as a transcriptionist. S/He will transcribe recorded interviews in written format for documentation. The documentation of interviews is a critical input for data analysis and the development of the evaluation report. The transcriptionist must have exemplary listening skills since s/he will transcribe materials that may have different accents and background noise. The position will report to PIMMELA’s Evaluation Team Leader.
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Panagora Group is a social enterprise dedicated to providing high-quality, high-impact international development, global health, and learning consulting. We are a dynamic, woman- and employee-owned small business partner focused on market-based and integrated local solutions that strengthen country capacity and independence; and on learning, communications, and technology solutions to accelerate and heighten the impact.
