HORIZONT3000 TENDER OCTOBER 2025
| TERMS OF REFERENCE |
FOR THE MID-TERM EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAMME INTERVENTION GENDER EQUALITY 4 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT EAST AFRICA
Closing date: 2 Nov 2025
Background
Horizont3000 is Austria’s largest non-governmental development organisation, supported by 11 Catholic member organisations. It partners with civil society actors in Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. Its work focuses on sustainable livelihoods, human rights, and gender equality, using three main instruments:
- Co-financing development projects and programmes.
- Technical advisory services through international and regional experts.
- Knowledge management and learning via its platform knowhow3000.
In East Africa, horizont3000 works through its Regional Office in Kampala, supporting 21 partner organisations to empower rural communities, promote climate resilience, defend land rights, and advance women’s empowerment.
About the Framework Programme
The Gender Equality 4 Sustainable Development (2023–2026) Framework Programme, co-funded by the Austrian Development Cooperation, is implemented in 10 countries worldwide. It has three strategic outcomes:
- Promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment.
- Mainstreaming gender in sustainable livelihoods and human rights.
- Enhancing knowledge management on gender equality through knowhow3000.
In East Africa, the programme covers 24 projects with a budget of EUR 7.8 million, reaching 96,000 direct participants (52% women) and an estimated 930,000 people indirectly. Activities include;
Sustainable livelihoods: smallholder farmer training, eco-friendly agriculture, village savings, cooperatives, entrepreneurship, and renewable energy.
Human rights & civil society; land rights advocacy, education, legal aid, and women’s rights promotion.
Organisational capacity: gender analyses, self-assessments, gender action plans, male engagement strategies, and peer learning.
About the Evaluation
This midterm evaluation will review programme progress between January 2023 and mid-2025, and provide recommendations for the next phase (2027–2030).
Objectives
- Assess the relevance, coherence, and effectiveness of gender-transformative approaches.
- Evaluate how partner organisations mainstream gender in livelihoods and human rights projects.
- Identify good practices and lessons learned to strengthen strategy and implementation.
Scope & Methodology
- A participatory, gender-sensitive, human rights-based approach.
- Mixed methods: document review, surveys, key informant interviews, focus groups, and 4–6 case studies (with suggested focus on Uganda & Tanzania).
- Deliverables include; Inception Report, Theory of Change, Draft & Final Evaluation Reports, and workshop presentations.
For full details, please check the complete Terms of Reference here
https://horizont3000.org/media/pages/jobs/jobs/ee25c79e9a-1759217321/tor-for-midterm-programme-evaluation_gender-equality-4-sustainable-development-east-africa_final.pdf
How to apply
Submission
Send offers in English by November 2, 2025 to irmgard.neuherz@horizont3000.at and joel.chemusto@horizont3000.org
For full details, please check the complete Terms of Reference here
https://horizont3000.org/media/pages/jobs/jobs/ee25c79e9a-1759217321/tor-for-midterm-programme-evaluation_gender-equality-4-sustainable-development-east-africa_final.pdf
Access the detailed ToR Here: https://reliefweb.int/job/4179320/terms-reference-mid-term-evaluation-programme-intervention-gender-equality-4-sustainable-development-east-africa