A preliminary assessment would need to be made in all three divisions of the four districts respectively. While IMD’s will be facilitated in two of the three divisions, the third division would identify as the baseline control group for the assessment. In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the context, the preliminary assessment should be able to establish, through a baseline, existing leadership roles, with a focus on women involved in local governance structures and leadership roles within the community. The assessment must include disaggregated data by sex, district, age, ethnicity, religion, disability to qualitatively assess understanding trust and collaboration among diverse groups within the community.

Note: IMD’s are scheduled to commence in August 2024 and as such the data collection for the preliminary assessment would be required to be completed ahead of the dialogues.

The post assessment will focus on providing a comparative analysis of indicative factors such as the quality of IMD’s, women’s participation, its corresponding impact of peacebuilding and leadership and precursors for sustainability of impact. The assessment should include qualitative and quantitative indicators of tangible outcomes such as the number of joint initiatives or projects initiated as a direct result of the dialogues, changes in community perceptions towards conflict resolution, evidence of improved decision making processors and inclusivity including women’s role in leadership.

Note: IMD’s are scheduled to conclude on the 17nd February 2025 and as such the post assessment would proceed the following weeks thereafter.

Note: The consultant is encouraged to mobilise a team to support the consultant with data collection, translation/ simultaneous interpretation, data entering and data cleaning.

Deliverables

Requirements:

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Conflict and Peace Studies, Gender and Development, International Relations, Public Administration, Statistics, Law, Human Rights or a related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible work experience in working on programmes on peacebuilding and reconciliation, governance and WPS.
• Proven extensive experience in being the lead in conducting base line and end line assessments/evaluations for women and youth on women’s leadership in governance and peacebuilding is required.
• Experience of working with provincial/local community engagement is required.

Languages:

• Fluency in English and Sinhala or Tamil is required.