Re-advertise - International Consultancy Koica Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant

**Purpose of consultancy**:
UNFPA is the lead United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA expands choices and possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy and productive lives. The UNFPA strategic plan, 2022-2025, is the second of three consecutive strategic plans leading to 2030. It focuses on critical pathways and the strategies necessary to accelerate the achievement of three transformative results: (a) ending the unmet need for family planning; (b) ending preventable maternal deaths; and (c) ending gender-based violence and harmful practices, including female genital mutilation and child, early and forced marriage.

In 2024 UNFPA was awarded a grant from KOICA to provide life -saving SRH and GBV services to vulnerable women and girls. In the framework of this initiative, UNFPA is hiring a consultant to further contribute to the achievement of the objective and results of the project. The consultant is part of the proposed human resources (HR) under the Project Ecosystem budget. The project targets highly vulnerable women and girls in need of the above
- mentioned humanitarian services in Palestine and Lebanon.

To ensure adequate implementation support for the Regional KOICA ME Project 2025 annual workplan, UNFPA ASRO is looking for a consultant to provide grant management, act as ME component steering committee secretariat,and integrated reporting support as well as other duties as described below for the KOICA Regional ME project.

Reporting to the Resource Mobilization and Partnership Adviser (RMPA) at the Regional Office (RO), the consultant will take directions from RMPA and relevant staff to provide support in the areas of grant administration, management and reporting, ensuring compliance with donor requirements (including meeting organisation/minutes taking, liaison with the KOICA local and regional offices, liaison with the UNFPA SRO, and the relevant COs (Lebanon and Palestine). Tasks related to events, communication and media may also be supported.

The consultant will be hired under the overall guidance of the ASRO Regional Resource Mobilization and Partnership Adviser (RMPA) and RM liaison officer and under direct supervision of RMPA according to the work/duties. The consultant will work closely and in consultation with relevant CO staff (Lebanon and Palestine) and Seoul Representation Office (SRO).

**The consultancy will be full-time to be delivering from the UNFPA Regional Office based in Cairo.**

**How you can make a difference**:
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

**Scope of work**:
**You would be responsible for**:
Under the supervision of the Arab States Regional Office and of the relevant staff at RO/CO level the consultant will:

- Manage and track COs Grant implementation throughout its lifecycle, providing a monthly implementation and oversight update.
- Track deadlines for all donor narrative and financial reporting and work with members of the team (at level of COs/RO) to ensure that ‘integrated’ reporting is submitted in a timely manner, including timely drafting/review of financial reports. Compilation of such reporting on a regular basis in coordination with Seoul Representation Office (SRO), and RM officer.
- Develop and implement mechanisms for improved knowledge sharing, including organizing coordination meetings, documenting key decisions, and ensuring follow-up actions are tracked.
- In coordination with communications colleagues, develop a framework to systematically collect, document, and disseminate impact stories, success cases, and lessons learned from project beneficiaries and stakeholders.
- Work closely with field teams to identify compelling narratives that highlight the project's contribution to regional development goals.
- Support and facilitate the monthly reporti