Overview

RWAMREC is looking for a Youth Researcher for the purpose of conducting an end-term evaluation of Generation G Rwanda according to the terms of reference set out here in.

Key details:

Post title: Youth Researcher

Programme Locations: Rwanda (Kigali city, Karongi district);

Application Deadline: 15 September 2024

Time line Contract: 5 October 2024 – 31 December 2025

Reporting to :Global end-term evaluation consultant(to be hired)

The Generation G partnership strives towards creating gender-just and violence-free societies with and for young people in their full diversity. The partnership raises public support, advocates for improved policies and laws, and strengthens civil society to contribute to achieving gender justice. It thrives on the diversity, strength and collaboration of experts, evidence-based and evaluated approaches, cross-country learning, and global advocacy. Programme activities are running in seven countries in the Global South: Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda, and will conclude at the end of calendar year 2025. As the end-term date of the programme approaches, the organisations and institutions involved in the programme are eager to investigate the results of their work, and document lessons about the successes and challenges of the programme to inform our future programming and the lobby and advocacy field as a whole.

ProgrammeBackground

The Generation G partnership raises public support, advocates for improved policies and laws, and strengthens civil society as a means to contribute to gender justice. More specifically, this partnership engages an innovative gender-transformative strategy that equips youth leaders and civil society organisations to address the root causes of gender inequality and power imbalances. Engaging (young) men in promoting gender justice is a key component of this strategy.

The key approach of the programme is a gender-transformative approach. A gender-transformative approach focuses on the following elements: a) investing in amplifying young feminist voices; b) strengthening the role of young men as allies in gender equality; c) promoting human rights and youth agency; d) analysing and addressing harmful norms and unequal power relations; e) embracing sexual and gender diversity.

Next to a gender-transformative approach, this partnership has fully embraced the principles of inclusiveness, meaningful and inclusive youth participation, do no harm and accountability. As young people are our key actors and key impact group, they are actively included in decision-making processes, as well as the design and implementation of key strategies. The diversity in these principles refer to the fact that, although the partnership recognises the need to amplify voices of women and the need to actively engage men, we live in a world where youth have intersecting identities that influence their position in society and access to rights and power. As such, an intersectional feminist approach to gender justice is strongly embedded in the Generation G programme.

Gender-transformative lobbying and advocacy happens at the individual, community, institutional and policy levels. The different levels of gender-transformative lobbying and advocacy are embedded in three mutually reinforcing long-term outcomes (LTOs), described below:

• LTO1 aims at increasing and mobilising public support for gender justice and rejecting gender-based violence. This LTO also feeds into the other two LTOs as mobilised individuals can become part of organised civil society or might use their voice or voting power to pressure decision makers towards more gender-transformative policies and
• LTO 2 focuses on strengthening gender-transformative and youth-inclusive policymaking and legislation. This LTO feeds into the other two LTOs as decision makersdirectly influence the availability of civic space and have a strong influence on the general public through discourse, legislation and
• LTO3 envisions a strong, inclusive and resilient civil society that is able to fight for gender This LTO also feeds into the other two LTOs as a strong civil society is able to advocate for gender-transformative laws and policies and is able to foster and stimulate public support.

Our strategic objective is to create societies that are gender just and violence free, with and for young people in their full diversity. By saying gender just, we imply systemic change at the level of root causes of discrimination, sexism and harmful norms that impede full access to rights for young people on the mere basis of their gender. By violence free, we imply our ambition to actively contribute to a decrease in gender-based violence in the countries where this programme is active.

Objectives

The end-term evaluation of the Generation G programme has two-fold objectives: programmatic focused and collaboration focused. Detailed objectives are:

Evaluating the effectiveness of the programme: evaluate the results (including unexpected or unintended results) of the programme, which changes occurred, how changes happened and the contribution of the programme to these changes:

• Toassess and validate the country programme progress towards the achievement of the 5-year targets at output and outcome level;
• Toassess the country programme strategies regarding:
• Sustainability (what is the likelihood that the programme results will be sustainable, in terms of systems, institutions, policies, financing) and institutionalization(e.g. on GTA and MIYP);
• Operationalisation of programme principles (do we live up to our own principles?);
• Capacity strengthening (Is the programmesufficiently sensitive and responsive to capacity strengthening needs? Is the country capacity strengthening plan effective and likely to lead to sustained capacity improvements in the long-term?)
• A mapping of funding in relation to budgets vs. expenditures at activity, thematic and geographical level, aswell as an evaluation of financial resource management (e.g. appropriateness of budget planning, whether grant allocation has been appropriate, whether there were any bottlenecks in the system of financial disbursement between consortium, national lead partner and coalition partners;
• Additionalcountry specific evaluation and/or learning

Evaluatingthe partnership collaborationfocusing on; coherence, localisation/leading from the South, partnership with the Ministry and the Embassies, lessons learned and good practices.

Evaluating the relevance and validity of the theory of change: evaluate the programmes’ theory of change including assessing the validity of the assumptions underlying the TOC in the different country contexts by providing evidence of which mechanismsof change worked, which did not, and why

The Generation G country coalition ofRwandacallsforaYouthResearchertoaddress these objectives clearly and comprehensively. Further details are presented below.

Methods and approach

For the Generation G end-term evaluation the realist evaluation approach will be used. See for example: https://www.intrac.org/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Realist-evaluation.pdf. The realist evaluation focuses on understanding what works, for whom and under what circumstances, and will be informed by the programme’s theory of change and context at country and global levels. It is particularly useful for understanding complex interventions and how context influences programmes. A realist evaluation works by going back to the theory of change, mapping how we assume the programme works (i.e. who is doing what and what outcomes do we assume these interventions have), then gathering data to understand if these assumptions are in fact true, and how context has an influence. Data will be collected around these assumptions. A range of data collection methods can be included in a realist evaluation. For this end-term evaluation interviews, focus group discussions, outcome harvesting, and observations will be used, with scope for further methods to be included as needed.

Scope of Work

The main tasks of the Youth Researcher areas follows:

• Attendan orientation meeting with the global consultant and Generation-G team;
• Attendan end-term evaluation planning meeting in Rabat Morocco, which will be held from 2 – 6 December Participation is mandatory,you must be available for this week,and eligible to fly to Morocco. All costs such as flight and hotel will be reimbursed by the lead agent Rutgers. Per diems and visa costs will be paid by the global consultant;
• Attend training on a) the Realist Evaluation approach (most likely this will integrated into the planning meeting week in Morocco), and b) data collection, including pre-testing the tools;
• Assist the National Consultant with logistical planning and arrangements of the data collection activities;
• (Co)facilitate focus group discussions, key informant interviews andstory of changes interviews at country level;
• Checkthe quality of the transcriptions of interviews and
• Provideinput for the preliminary findings;
• Provideinput for the final

ExpectedDeliverables(jointly with the national consultant)

• Recordingof each interview and FGD session conducted;
• Summarisedtranscripts of interviews and FGD sessions in English;
• Fieldnotes of how the fieldwork was implemented (including supporting and hindering factors during the fieldwork, observation notes);
• Partof the draft report related to the assigned work – will be discussed further during the data collection;
• Other deliverables that the global consultants need– will be discussed further during the online training.

Duration:

Approximately 25 days (spread between November 2024 – December 2025)

Travel:

The youth researcher will work in their home country, with travel to the sites. The global consultant will cover the travel expenses, including accommodation and per diem. Attendance at the end-term evaluation planning meeting in Rabat Morocco, 2 – 6 December 2024 is mandatory. All costs for this meeting such as flight and hotel will be reimbursed by the lead agent Rutgers. Per diems for this meeting will be paid by the global consultant.

Qualifications and specialized knowledge ,experience and skills required

• University degree in a relevant subject g. development studies, social studies, public health;
• Between 15 and 32 years of age;
• Experiencein the area of SGBV, advocacy, campaign and civil society strengthening;
• A solidunderstanding of the social, political, and cultural context in [country];
• Experienceworking with vulnerable communities, including youth, women and girls;
• At least 5 years of experience inconducting qualitative research, including key informant interviews and focus group discussions;
• Writtenand spoken fluency in English and Bahasa Understanding and communicating with the local language used in Bandung and Palu is an advantage.

Conflict of Interest (CoI):

Youth researchers should not have COI nor have been involved in the Generation Gprogramme nor have been working/worked with one oftheorganisationsimplementingthe Generation G programme.