: International Rescue Committee
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: 31 July 2025
15 August 2025
Title: Program Evaluation Consultant
Number of Consultants: 1
Country Program: Monitoring & Evaluation, Thailand
Proposed Dates: 1 September - 31 October 2025
Duration: Period of 2 months contract (45 working days)
Application Deadline: 15 August 2025
1. Organizational and Program Background
1.1 Organizational background and the context
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, including the climate crisis, to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC delivers lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions.
The IRC has been operating in Thailand since 1975 and currently provides assistance to refugees and displaced persons in Tak, Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi, and Mae Hong Son provinces and people affected by conflict in the deep south provinces of Thailand mainly through Health, and Protection and Empowerment programming.
IRC in Thailand implements its emergency response program outside the refugee camps including Temporary Designated Areas (TDAs) and across the border (Southeast Myanmar: Kayah State, Kayin State, Mon State, Southern Shan State, Eastern Bago, and Tanintharyi Regions) through local partners while provides assistance to refugees in nine refugee camps named Ban Mai Nai Soi, Ban Mae Surin, Mae La Oon, and Mae Ra Ma Luang camps (Mae Hong Son Province); Mae La, Umpiem Mai and Nu Po camps (Tak Province); Ban Don Yang camp (Kanchanaburi Province); and Tham Hin camp (Ratchaburi Province).
IRC Thailand provides protection and empowerment program interventions which is composed of the Protection and Legal Assistance Center Program, Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) Sector, Livelihood Sector, and Emergency Protection Response. The WPE program improves and expands community-based services to survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). The program supports and strengthens community-based efforts to respond to and prevent violence against women and girls through comprehensive and holistic programing, including case management. This includes coordination of a network against GBV that ensures a comprehensive and multi-sectoral response for survivors, increasing the safety and power of women and girls through promoting community leadership and provision of technical training on GBV core concepts.
1.2 Program Overview and the Scope
Since January 2023, IRC Thailand, in collaboration with its partner TBC (The Border Consortium), IRC Myanmar, Committee for Internally Displaced Karen People (CIDKP), Help Without Frontiers (HWF), Human Rights and Development Foundation (HRDF), Karenni National Women’s Organization (KNWO), Legal Status Network Foundation (LSNF), Suwannimit Foundation (SNF), Smile Lay Club, Mae Tao Clinic (MTC), Civil Health and Development Network (CHDN), Karen Department of Health and Welfare (KDHW) with funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), has been implementing a project titled Strengthening the Protection and Wellbeing of Displaced Populations from Myanmar to Foster Empowered Futures. The three-year project focuses on protecting displaced people from all forms of violence, exploitation and discrimination, while bolstering economic independency and paying particular attention to those who are at a heightened protection risk, including, but not limited to, women, children, non-binary people, people with disabilities (PWDs), and minority ethnic groups.
The program’s goal: Displaced people are resilient, safe, secure, and have the capacity and resources to exercise free and informed decisions over their future.
The target clients/beneficiaries under this program includes: (i) 108,377 refugees across nine camps in Thailand, (ii) 85,000 conflictaffected people outside camps in Thailand, and (iii) 291,100 conflict-affected persons displaced by ongoing fighting in Kayah State, Kayin State, Mon State, Southern Shan State, Eastern Bago, and Tanintharyi Region in Southeast Myanmar.
The key program objectives and outcomes are as follows:
Objective 1: Displaced people across nine refugee camps including women, children, older persons, and people with disabilities are safe, empowered and equipped to make decisions about their future.
Sub-objective 1.1: People have safe and inclusive access to comprehensive, responsive protection services and are in safe and protective environments.
Sub-objective 1.2: People are protected and empowered when they experience harm.
Sub-objective 1.3: People develop sustainable livelihoods to support their self-reliance.
Sub-objective 1.4 (led by TBC): People are equipped and empowered to exercise free and informed decisions over where and how to live, now and in the future.
Objective 2: Conflict-affected populations in Thailand and Myanmar have the appropriate services and knowledge during emergencies and are able to recover from shocks to protect themselves against threats related to protection and food security.
Sub-objective 2.1: Conflict-affected populations have safe and inclusive access to critical services and protection support.
Sub-objective 2.2 (led by TBC): Basic needs of displaced communities (with a focus on women, children, older persons, and people with illness or disabilities) in the form of food, cooking fuel and shelter are met across all nine camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border and in Southeast Myanmar.
2. Purpose and Rationale of the End of Project Outcome Evaluation
The primary purpose of the end of project evaluation is to measure the outcome and more likely the impact of the project and identify areas for improvement from the cumulation of the positive and negative changes as a result of the program. Therefore, the information and recommendations from the evaluation findings will inform the IRC, TBC, other partners and DFAT of the existing gaps and possibly inform future program design and implementation responsive to evolving needs of clients in given context. As such, the consultant is expected to provide information about success factors and recommendations on areas for improvement.
3. Evaluation Criteria and Questions
The evaluation will focus and be aligned into five OECD DAC criteria for humanitarian action on the aspects of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability, and related DFAT quality criteria (for example, relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, gender equality and social inclusion, monitoring and evaluation and sustainability).
Key Evaluation Questions
4. Scope of the consultancy
The Consultant will design an appropriate evaluation methodology based on their understanding of the objectives and evaluation questions of the terms of reference. The consultant is expected to propose a mixed methodology that combines both qualitative and quantitative evaluation approaches and conduct indepth desk review related to a program. The consultant must travel to Thailand to coordinate and undertake the primary data collection exercise in person. It will also include data collection about cross-border program activities through local partners.
After consolidating the evaluation findings, the Consultant is also expected to conduct a validation meeting with IRC and TBC staff. The evaluation should be utilization-focused, as IRC Thailand and TBC intends to use the findings to inform both current and future programming.
5. Reporting Arrangements
The Consultant will report to the Deputy Director of Programs with Technical dotted line of reporting to the Asia Regional Measurement Advisor, and with closer engagement with the Country Program MEAL Coordinator, the Senior Program Technical Coordinators, and Program Technical Advisors.
6. Duration of assignment
The consultancy must not exceed 45 working days and should take place starting from 1st Sep 2025.
7. Deliverables
7.1 Kick off meeting between Evaluator, IRC and partners to provide more information on the project and clarify the TOR and briefing on safeguarding policy.
7.2 Inception Report
The consultant is expected to develop an inception report within five days of signing the con-tract/agreement. The inception report will be submitted to IRC for review and will be presented virtually to the IRC team for feedback. IRC will approve the final inception report after submission before continuing any activities. The inception report will detail the agreed methodologies to be employed during the evaluation. The report should also include the finalized activity plan and a structural outline of the final evaluation report and should be shared and approved by IRC before the data collection and analysis commencement.
The inception report should also contain:
7.3 Facilitated Validation Session
The Consultant will facilitate a validation workshop preceding the delivery of a final report where the evaluation preliminary findings, conclusions, and recommendations will be presented to the IRC, partners, and stakeholders. The consultant will incorporate comments and feedback from the validation workshop into the final draft of the evaluation report.
7.4 Evaluation Report
The report should address the above consultancy objectives and contain an executive summary, acknowledgments, introduction including program summary and purpose of the evaluation, detailed methodology (including limitations), key findings (covering both document review and primary evaluation), lessons learned, evidence-based recommendations to improve future planning, key challenges and successes, conclusion, and annexes. Annexes should include, at a minimum, field sites assessed and a list of key informants. A final soft copy of the report should be shared with the IRC Deputy Director of Programs.
7.5 Summarized Four-Page Evaluation Report
Report that summarizes the evaluation purpose and background, evaluation questions, findings, lessons learned, conclusion and recommendations.
7.6 PowerPoint Presentation
Presentation of the evaluation process, key findings, lessons learned, and key recommendations.
The deliverables above will be complemented by regular communication and feedback from the IRC team and a validation workshop where the evaluation’s preliminary results will be presented to IRC leadership. After incorporating comments from the validation workshop, the report should be shared with the IRC Deputy Director of Programs.
8. Evaluation Roles and Responsibilities
IRC will:
The Consultant will:
Payment Rate and Schedule: The consultancy fee will be paid in three installments as follows:
9. Minimum Qualifications:
REQUIREMENTS
Please note that this consultancy is only open to individual consultants and not companies or other evaluation firms.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Interested applicants who meet the required profile are invited to submit an application in English. The application package should include:
Applications that fail to include one or more of these elements will not be considered.
Standard of Professional Conduct:
The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability and Equality. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding (including PSEAH, Adult Safeguarding and Child Safeguarding), Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.
If you are interested, please submit your application to the below email address.
Contact : Thailand.HR@rescue.org
