| Overview : Description of the assignment: The Electoral Support Project (ESP) phase II is a continuation of the Electoral Support Project Phase I that was initiated in August 2008, following the first Constituent Assembly elections. The Phase II of ESP provides technical assistance focused on a long-term institutional capacity development of the Election Commission (ECN) for conducting credible, inclusive and transparent elections. The duration of ESP phase II is from November 2012 till May 2018 and the total budget is USD 28 million. The project is implemented by UNDP under the Direct Implementation Modality and in partnership with the European Union, United Kingdom Aids, Norway and Denmark. The project works in close collaboration with other implementing partners, particularly IIDEA and IFES. ESP together with IFES provide the secretariat to the Election Working Group formed under the framework of the International Development Partners Group. Since ESP phase II is coming to an end in May 2018, the project evaluation is being carried out to assess the progress made by the project against the project outputs and indicators. In-depth analysis will be needed to review the results achieved under eight project activities as outlined in the project document. The evaluation should look into the relevance, sustainability, effectiveness and efficiency of the assistance provided by ESP to ECN during the project cycle. The evaluation will also measure an impact of the project towards strengthening the capacity of ECN in conducting a credible, inclusive and transparent elections (UNDAF Output 5.1) contributing to the broader outcome of making the institutions, systems and processes of democratic governance more accountable, effective, efficient an inclusive ( UNDAF Outcome 5) . The analysis and recommendations presented by the evaluation mission will be useful to ECN, development partners and UNDP in measuring the contributions made by the project and in designing future interventions for strengthening electoral system and processes in Nepal. The specific objectives of the evaluation are the following: - To assess and evaluate the progress made by the project towards an attainment of the results as specified in the project monitoring and evaluation framework, UNDAF and CPD
- To measure the contributions made by the project in enhancing the accountability, effectiveness, efficiency and inclusiveness of democratic system and processes with focus on elections
- To assess the sustainability of the project interventions
- To examine the cost efficiency and effectiveness of ESP assistance
To document main lessons learned, best practices and propose recommendations Number of consultant required: 1 Project name: Electoral Support Project (ESP) Period of assignment/services (if applicable): 29 working days, starting from 23 April 2018 to 22 May 2018 (one visit, 26 days – KTM and 3 days home based). Duty Station: Kathmandu Proposal should be submitted at the following address: Procurement Unit, UNDP (Ref.: UNDP/PN/16/2018: International Consultant – Final Evaluation of ESP, by email to procurement.np@undp.org not later than 1730 hours (Nepal Standard Time) of 04 April 2018. | 
