Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – MHF project

The Evaluator will report to the UNRWA Evaluation Manager. The Evaluation Manager will provide all documents and information required to the Evaluator, organize meetings/interviews with relevant UNRWA staff, provide backstopping and liaise regularly on the progress of the evaluation with internal UNRWA management. The evaluation deliverables will be quality assured by the Evaluation Manager. Evaluation ToRs, inception report and draft evaluation reports are also reviewed by the Evaluation Reference Group.

The Evaluator is expected to undertake the evaluation in consultation with UNRWA, in full accordance with the terms of references outlined herewith and in full compliance with the UNEG’s norms and standards for evaluation.

The evaluation will be conducted in accordance with the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) norms and standards. It will serve a dual purpose of accountability and learning. The evaluation will assess the Medical Hardship Fund programme efficiency and its impact on beneficiaries’ lives, and how effectively it has helped reduce the medical financial burden of accessing health services for people with chronic illnesses. Additionally, the evaluation will examine the programme design to determine its relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, coverage, sustainability and impact within the context of UNRWA. It will identify any gaps or limitations and recommend areas for improvement. The study will evaluate the overall MHF programme design and all related policies with focus on specific MONACO MHF fund over the specific years (from 2017—2020 & 2021—2023). The evaluation should cover all beneficiary target groups covered under the MHF programme in the five operational areas of UNRWA in Lebanon.