The MEAL Officer will be responsible for the establishment and coordination of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) system for the Women Leadership in the public ICT sector program and the coordination of the contributions of the six EU Member State agencies to this system. The MEAL Officer will be under the hierarchical supervision of the Program Director.

The main responsibilities of the MEAL Officer, with the support of the Program Director and the Project Coordinator of the PMU, are the following:

Monitoring and Evaluation

·         Review the project's theory of change and logical framework, in close coordination with the project implementation teams, and harmonize the way project implementation teams report on these indicators. To do this, the MEAL Officer may lead workshops gathering stakeholders from the same component, in addition to bilateral interviews if necessary. The review of the theory of change and the logical framework shall also be presented to and agreed with the Consortium.

·         Develop, in close coordination with the project implementation teams, a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan compliant with the quality standards of Expertise France and the donor and adapted to the project.

·         Define the roles and responsibilities of the different actors (PMU, project implementation teams in the field, executing partners' headquarter staff, beneficiaries, DG INTPA).

·         Set up the system for collecting, processing and consolidating monitoring and evaluation data (for example, using innovative digital tools).

·         Train the relevant actors on the various data collection tools.

·         Conduct documentary research to establish the baseline values for certain indicators.

·         Provide technical support to the six agencies during data collection, cleaning, aggregation, and analysis.

·         Propose a plan, a schedule, and tools to facilitate reporting.

·         Ensure compliance with the EU and EF reporting schedule.

·         Participate in the various project coordination meetings (management team, project component coordination meetings, etc.), whenever MEAL items are on the agenda.

Accountability and Learning

·         Develop the project's learning and capitalization strategy.

·         Write the sections of the donor reports concerning the monitoring of project indicators and prepare MEAL-related presentations for the project steering committees.

·         Organize the project's external evaluations (mid-term and final project evaluation) as well as external capitalization, including the development of terms of reference, selection of external service providers, monitoring of services, validation of deliverables, follow-up on recommendations, etc.

·         Organize and facilitate internal capitalization exercises.

·         Ensure the dissemination of evaluation and capitalization documents to the different project stakeholders, to promote a learning process.

·         Contribute to the establishment and implementation of monitoring-evaluation mechanisms within the department and, more broadly, the operations directorate, in close coordination with the MEAL team of the Governance department.