Afghanistan: Consultant – Management Evaluation

Integrity Watch’s Board would like, as a normal procedure, to conduct annual evaluation of Integrity Watch’s top management. The objective is to understand, in an independent manner, what are the achievements and challenges faced by the management.
The objective:
This evaluation is a normal procedure to understand:

· How Integrity Watch’s top management is performing,

· How it is perceived by the staff, by the donors and the close partners.

· What are the internal dynamics linking the staff to the top management.

· Assess the check and balances of Integrity Watch’s governance structure.

· Understand the current working dynamics structuring the staff relation to the top management.

· Ensure that Integrity Watch’s top management is supporting the development of a functioning, effective, dynamic, innovative, pleasant and attractive working environment for the staff, where the principles it stands for are being applied also internally.

The elements to be quantified and measured:

· Managerial performance: in terms of effectiveness, accountability, and human resources management. The consultant will be expected to propose a neutral evaluation/performance framework before the evaluation.

· Identify within Integrity Watch’s governance structure the checks and balances in the power distribution and the risk/advantages involved.

Minimum Necessary Activities and Approach:

· Interview of staff (at least 30 persons including top manager, middle managers, support and least qualified staff in Kabul and in the provinces). The interviews should also include staff that has left Integrity Watch and who had more than two years working history with the organization.

· Interviews with Integrity Watch’s executive director to clarify the objectives of the evaluation, gather his own perspectives and to elaborate on the findings. The evaluator’s report should reflect different visions if they are between the Executive Director and the evaluator on the findings.

· Analyse Staff background equilibrium (among others: gender, ethnic, religious and linguistic background).

· Conduct an anonymous survey on Integrity Watch’s working environment.

Background documents:

· Audit reports

· Integrity Watch internal rules and regulation

· Donor reports (quarterly, annual…)

Deliverables:

· One report describing the findings including the specific issues mentioned above under objectives and minimum activities, and the management’s achievements and challenges. Should the evaluator find different perspectives by different stakeholders, this should also be reflected in the report.

· Figures measuring achievements / performance

· Recommendations for the Director

· Recommendations for the Board

· Recommendations for any other group or entity if deemed necessary (staff, donor…) �