Re-advertisement RFP for the evaluation of the Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) programmes in Nepal

UN WOMEN is seeking the services of qualified firm to conduct an evaluation of the Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) Programmes in Nepal.

This RFP is open to following agencies who are legally constituted, can provide the requested services, and have a valid registration in respective country:

1. National agencies;
2. International agencies; and
3. In consortium/joint venture/association of national and international agencies.

Purpose and use of evaluation:

The main purpose of this evaluation is to assess how the GRB initiative, system and programme contributed to gender equality in Nepal.The evaluation will examine the GON work and UN Women’s support on GRB in Nepal for the last seven years. It will provide findings and recommendations that are expected to assist in identifying strategies and operational approaches to strengthen MOF and sector ministries in the area of gender responsive budgeting. It will be useful for adequate resource allocation as well as for adopting other fiscal measures to ensure women’s empowerment and gender equality.

Objectives:

The key objectives of this evaluation are to:

• Review all Ministry of Finance’s  and sector ministries initiatives and activities that have been undertaken under the GRB programme between 2007/8-2013/14;
• Assess the logic that underpins the Government of Nepal’s GRB programme in Nepal;
• Evaluate the relevance, effectiveness, usage and efficiency of the GRB  in the context of advancing gender equality in Nepal;
• Identify the enabling and disabling factors from the political, social, economic and institutional context that will affect GRB system and practices;
• Identify gaps and form recommendations for the improvement of GRB programmes so that governance and national planning fully reflect accountability for gender equality commitment and priorities; and
• Document lessons learned to inform future work of the Government of Nepal in addressing gender equality within the context of the aid effectiveness agenda.

The lessons from this evaluation are expected to strengthen and contribute to the improvement of the GRB programme in Nepal. This exercise is expected to provide MOF and UN Women and relevant stakeholders with an independent, sound and accountable evaluation that assesses the:

• Relevance measured by the extent to which Gender Responsive Budgeting is relevant in the context of achieving gender equality;
• Effectiveness measured by the extent to which GRB initiatives of UN Women support the process of developing Gender Responsive Budgets;
• Usage measured by the extent to which the GON  initiatives and training are being used by the beneficiaries for gender responsive budgeting; and  
• Efficiency measured by the efficiency of the GON initiatives in training government functionaries and other beneficiaries for developing gender responsive budgets.

The findings will be timely as GON is strengthening GRB system institutionalizing in the sector ministries and local government bodies and UN Women is supporting the government initiatives as well as the global community to accelerate their efforts to ensure that women’s priorities were adequately reflected in national budgeting processes and make concrete changes for resource allocation towards women’s priorities.

Please download the RFP document from 'Documents' section.