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 managers, 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…)

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

Education:

· Master degree in the area of organizational management or a similar qualification, fitting the terms of reference.

Experience, Knowledge, skills and abilities

· Proven experience with institutional management evaluations

· A good knowledge of Afghan context and working environment

· Conducted such evaluations in the past or have conducted structure audits, organizational management evaluation

· Ready to travel to Kabul and at least one province to conduct interviews with the staff, donors and Government officials (main partners only). o

BACKGROUND

Integrity Watch is an Afghan civil society organization committed to increase transparency, accountability, and integrity in Afghanistan. The mission of Integrity Watch is to put corruption under the spotlight through community monitoring, research, and advocacy. We mobilize and train communities to monitor infrastructure projects, public services, courts, and extractives industries. We develop community monitoring tools, provide policy-oriented research, facilitate policy dialogue, and advocate for integrity, transparency, and accountability in Afghanistan.

Integrity Watch was created in October 2005 and established itself as an independent civil society organization in 2006. It has approximately 50 staff members and 1400 volunteers. The head office of Integrity Watch is in Kabul with provincial programmatic outreach in Badakhshan, Balkh, Bamyan, Ghor, Herat, Kabul, Kapisa, Logar, Nangarhar, Parwan, Panjshir, Samangan, and Wardak.

Integrity Watch’s work has three major components: (1) Community Monitoring, (2) Research, and (3) Advocacy. Integrity Watch tries to encourage active citizenship and community mobilization through its programs. Our community monitoring work includes development of community monitoring tools, mobilizing and training communities to monitor infrastructure projects, public services, courts, and extractives industries.

Our research work is focused on policy-oriented research measuring trends, perceptions and experiences of corruption and covering wide range of corruption related issues including security and justice sectors, extractive industries, budget and public finance management, and aid effectiveness. The objective is to develop new, ground-breaking empirical research in order to set the agenda, influence decision-makers, bring to the public attention non-documented and non-explored issues.

The aim of our advocacy work is to enhance Integrity Watch’s pioneering role in advocating for knowledgeable decision-making and informed public debate on corruption and integrity. Our advocacy work includes facilitation of policy dialogue on issues related to integrity, transparency, and accountability. We advocate for access to information; budget transparency, accountability, and participation; aid transparency and effectiveness; social accountability; and other issues related to anti-corruption.