| Overview : Background United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Department for Political Affairs (DPA) and more recently the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), have been collaborating on the Joint UNDP-DPA Programme on Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention. First launched in 2004, the Programme has grown significantly in recent years. In 2015/2016, the Joint Programme has provided support to 45 countries globally through the UN Country Teams’ conflict prevention programmes, in many instances involving the deployment of Peace and Development Advisers (PDAs). The deployment of PDAs represents the most visible element of the partnership, though the programme provides broader support (see below outputs). Previous deployments of PDAs, coupled with other types of remote support from DPA and UNDP, have enabled UN contributions to violence-free elections or referenda in countries as diverse as Guyana, Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Togo, Lesotho, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Uganda, and the Solomon Islands; breaking deadlocks and resolving conflicts in Lesotho, Bolivia, Ghana, and Kenya; sustaining viable platforms for dialogue or conflict resolution in Chad, Guinea, Fiji, Georgia, FYROM, Cyprus, and Malawi; and initiatives to reduce insecurity at the local level in Ecuador, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Mauritania. During 2017, the programme aims to deploy between 35-39 PDAs and to increase the support being provided to joint conflict analysis and programmatic interventions. The programme has the following outputs: Peace and Development Advisors deployed to help build long-term capacity of national partners and UN Country Teams to undertake conflict/political analysis, and design and implement conflict-sensitive programming; Enhanced mechanisms and capacities for collaboration and dialogue; Mechanism for deployment of short-term expertise to respond and engage in crisis settings; Coordinated and complementary UNDP and DPA support, analysis, and engagement in target countries; Enhanced capacity of UN Country Teams, DPA, and UNDP to share good practices, lessons learned, and engage in community of practice. The 2015 reviews of UN Peace Operations and the Peacebuilding Architecture both highlight the Joint Programme as one of few examples of effective collaboration across the UN system on conflict prevention and peacebuilding, and an effective vehicle through which the UN is able to engage with national stakeholders to prevent and resolve conflict. Current partners of the Joint Programme include the European Union, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In the last two years, the Joint Programme has enhanced partnerships with Sweden’s Folke Bernadotte Academy on training and capacity support, as well as with UNV, both in an effort to strengthen the technical capacities and support to PDAs. The first phase of the programme ended in mid-2015 and the second phase was developed for 2015-2018. The programme engages in multiple conflict prevention initiatives at the country level and regularly receives positive feedback from the Country Teams on the ground. At the same time, the programme team has been engaged in reviewing the standard operating procedures of the programme during 2016 to address any inefficiencies in the programme implementation. Currently the programme is being implemented in the following five regions: Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, Arab States, Latin America/Americas, with the majority of the advisors being deployed in Africa. Objectives The evaluation will assess the performance of the Programme in achieving its intended results. The evaluation will specifically focus on the following components: Country level, global level and Programme management level. Details are provided in the Terms of Reference as advertised on UNDP job site: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=71471 Interested bidders are requested to submit their application using the following link: VA #71471 https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=71471 as per the instruction in the notice and using templates provided. | 
