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9. DELIVERABLESA. Inception ReportWithin five (5) days of award of contract, the Team leader, based on consultations with the otherconsultant shall submit an electronic copy of a draft inception report to UNFPA CO. The inception reportprovides an opportunity for UNFPA CO and the Consultants to ensure that their interpretations of theTOR are mutually consistent. The CO will coordinate the internal review and approval of the inceptionreport before submitting the report to the UNFPA Country Director for review and feedback. Theinception report shall:• Explain the evaluators’ understanding of what is being evaluated and why;• Describe the strategy for ensuring the evaluations’ utility and applicability to the needs of UNFPAand those of key stakeholders;*• Review and strengthen the evaluation methodology, describing the plans to engage and involvestakeholders in the design (e.g., questions, objectives, methods, data-collection instruments), datacollection, data analysis, and development of recommendations;*• Explain how the evaluation questions will be addressed with respect to all evaluative criteriaindicated above by way of proposed methods, evaluation designs, sampling plans, proposed sourcesof data, and data-collection procedures;*• Note: Consultants/Evaluators are encouraged to suggest refinements to the TOR and to proposecreative or cost- or time-saving approaches to the evaluation and explain their anticipated value.• For each of the evaluative criteria, describe the measurable performance indicators or standards ofperformance that will be used to assess progress towards the attainment of results, includingoutcomes;*• Discuss (a) the limitations of the proposed methods and approaches, including sampling, with respectto the ability of the evaluation team to attribute results observed to UNFPA’s efforts especially in theabsence of a valid counterfactual and (b) what will be done to minimize the possible biases andeffects of these limitations;*• Explain the Consultants’/Evaluators’ procedures for ensuring quality control for all deliverables;• Explain the Consultants’/Evaluators’ procedures to ensure informed consent among all people to beinterviewed or surveyed and confidentiality and privacy during and after discussion of sensitive issueswith beneficiaries or members of the public;*• Indicate familiarity with and agreement to adhere to (a) the requirements of the Standards forEvaluation in the UN System, especially standards 4.1 through 4.18 and (b) UNFPA’s EvaluationQuality Standards, which will be provided to the evaluator; and,• Provide a proposed schedule of tasks, activities, evaluation methodologies and deliverables consistentwith this TOR.10
The Team Leader, assisted by the other consultant shall make oral presentation/briefing of the inceptionreport to UNFPA CO and its stakeholders. UNFPA Programme Coordinator shall obtain writtencomments on the inception report from the Government Counterpart Evaluation Group to theConsultants/Evaluators within 2 days of the report’s submission or completion of the oral presentation,whichever comes later. UNFPA CO reserves the right to modify the TOR in response to the inceptionreport.Note: Items marked with an asterisk should also be discussed in the evaluation report.B. Draft Evaluation ReportThe Evaluator/ Team Leader shall submit an electronic copy of a draft evaluation report to UNFPA COno later than 21 days after completing CP evaluation. The draft report should be thoroughly copy editedto ensure that comments from the UNFPA and other stakeholders on content, presentation, language, andstructure can be reduced to a minimum.The Team Leader shall make a debrief presentation to the UNFPA CO on submission of the draftevaluation report.After UNFPA’s and stakeholders’ review of the draft report, the UNFPA Programme Coordinator shallcoordinate written comments on the draft report from UNFPA CO and in-country partners and shallsubmit these to the Team Leader. Based on these comments, the Team leader, with the help from theother consultant shall correct all factual errors and inaccuracies and make changes related to the report’sstructure, consistency, analytical rigor, validity of evidence, and requirements in the TOR. The evaluatorswill not be required to make changes to conclusions and recommendations unless they are regarded asqualitative improvements. After making the necessary changes, the Team leader will submit a reviseddraft evaluation report, which may lead to further comments from UNFPA. After the second round ofreview and, if necessary, further revision to the draft evaluation report, the Team leader can then submitthe final report pending UNFPA’s approval.C. Final ReportThe recommended structure of the final report is provided below and the Team Leader as well as otherConsultants/Evaluators should follow this as closely as possible. The report must contain a self-containedexecutive summary that provides a clear, concise presentation of the evaluation’s main conclusions andkey recommendations and reviews salient issues identified in the evaluation. All deliverables must be inEnglish.Structure of ReportThe final evaluation report should contain the following:• Title Page• List of Acronyms and abbreviations• Table of Contents, including list of annexes11
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