Details

Mission and objectives

The United Nations Population Fund is the UN agency that leads global efforts to help ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s programs work to ensure that women, adolescents, young people, and marginalized populations, including Persons with Disabilities (PWD), are empowered to make decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive health and rights and can live free of discrimination and violence.

Context

UNFPA Afghanistan Country Office is strengthening support to its M & E Unit. UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments to accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon the UN Member States, organizations, and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recovering lost gains, and realizing our goals. Afghanistan faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with a very real risk of systematic collapse and human catastrophe. The crisis is feared to roll back development gains of the last twenty years. In response to the humanitarian situation, UNFPA in Afghanistan works towards increasing the availability and use of integrated SRH/PSS services (including family planning, maternal health, and psychosocial support) that are gender-responsive and meet human rights standards for quality of care and equity in access. Within this context, the M&E Analyst will assist in the smooth and transparent implementation of the Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation and support the UNFPA M & E Unit in data collection, processing, validating, storing, and reporting with evidence-based recommendations. She/he ensures the completion, accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of the required data.

Task description

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UNV M & E Analyst will: • Create/ or contextualize standard data collection tools for the M & E activities as required. • Ensure routine Data Collection, Data Analysis, and timely monitoring of the plan activities. • Collect standard data for all M & E-related activities and enter the data in the UNFPA dashboard. • Clean and compile all Service Delivery Points (SDP’s) facility and community level data and ensure the quality of the data by applying data quality assurance protocol and methods for providing the program with clean, complete, and up-to-date data. • Closely track and monitor the statistics and program indicators regularly. • Provide additional analysis of data and information on different variables when needed • Conduct routine data quality audits and review the quality of collected data and the methods for data collection • Share and discuss M&E findings and compiled data with relevant program staff to inform program activities • Support development of project monitoring plan of the projects • Support the Third Party Monitoring mechanism and coordinate with the Programme Staff and Implementing Partners in the effective roll-out of the monitoring activities. • Coordinate donor-supported third-party monitoring mechanism. • Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor. Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers program mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day); • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Provide annual and end of assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities. • Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers; • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.