Consultant to Develop a Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, and Learning Framework for Paralegal Education Providers at IDLO - International Development Law Organization

The Consultant’s duties and responsibilities will include the following:

•  Conduct a national mapping of paralegal education providers and individual and institutional legal aid service providers mapping, and develop a mapping report.
•  Using the mapping report above, developed an online database of paralegal education providers and individual and institutional legal aid service providers countrywide to be hosted by CLE. The database will detail the legal names, physical addresses, geographical coverage, thematic focus areas, target groups, and active contracts for referral areas that are active and operational.
•  Develop an online Monitoring, Evaluation, learning, and Reporting framework for monitoring the paralegal education providers and legal aid services by the accredited providers to be hosted by CLE.
•  Present the online database of paralegal education providers, legal aid service providers and MELR framework for validation by stakeholders, organised by CLE and IDLO for interrogation and feedback.
•  Consider the feedback from stakeholder consultations to improve the database of legal aid service providers and the monitoring evaluation, learning, and reporting framework developed.
•  Present the refined database of legal aid service providers and the MELR framework for validation
•  Officially launch MERL in a meeting convened by NLAS, CLE, and IDLO.
•  Post development, train NLAS and CLE staff on effectively using the database of paralegal education providers, legal aid service providers and the framework developed for optimum benefit.

DELIVERABLES

•  An Inception Report detailing the understanding of the assignment, methodology, timelines, work plan, potential risks, and mitigation measures.
•  A mapping report for legal aid service providers
•  Access to an online database of legal aid service providers
•  Access to an online MELR framework for legal aid service provision
•  An Assignment Completion Report and sources of information relied upon.

DURATION

The consultancy contracts will run for six months, from December 2022 to May 2023

Job Requirements

Education

•  A Bachelor’s Degree in, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related discipline from a university recognised in Kenya.
•  Professional Certification in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting from a Kenya-recognised university.

Work experience

•  A minimum of 7 -10 years of professional experience in:
•  Design and implementation of MELR Frameworks
•  M&E approaches, methodologies, and tools
•  Formative and summative results-oriented evaluation of systems and processes
•  Quantitative and qualitative data collection methods
•  Designing qualitative and quantitative indicators at appropriate levels
•  Familiarity with principal M&E methodologies based on OECD DAC standards and evaluation criteria, basic evaluation standards and principles, results-based management concepts, and the logical framework approach.
•  Demonstrated experience in conducting stakeholder mapping databases and developing online databases.
•  Demonstrated experience leading assignments of similar nature for large government agencies, learning, or corporate institutions.