Terms of Reference - Steering Committee for the Resource Mobilization Strategy Evaluation

1. Background The Resource Mobilization Strategy 2012 -2015 has supported the ambitions of the medium term strategy to provide a long and healthy life, acquired skills and knowledge, a decent standard of living, and human rights enjoyed to the fullest. It has aimed to provide UNRWA with stable predictable revenue through strengthened partnership with traditional donors, diversified sources and donor – base contributing increasingly to resource needs, and establishing an enabling environment to support donor relation management.

The Resource Mobilization Strategy independent evaluation will determine as systematically and objectively as possible the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the Resource Mobilization Strategy as well as its substantive progress towards its objectives.

2. Steering Committee Composition The Steering Committee consists of UNRWA internal and external members and will be chaired by UNRWA’s Planning Department. UNRWA representatives are from:  Department of Planning (chair)  External Relations and Communications Department;  Gaza Field Office

Host and Donor representatives are from:  Swiss Development Cooperation  The United States PRM  DPA of Jordan

Participants will act as a collective group, i.e. providing a technical support/challenge function for the evaluation team. Members will, to the extent possible, offer evaluation expertise. The Steering Committee will not discuss/represent national policy interests (as this is rightfully the remit of UNRWA’s Advisory Commission and its Sub-Committee). The Steering Committee will be supported by a secretariat (Evaluation Division and ERCD).

3. Steering Committee’s Responsibilities The Steering Committee will  Comment and approve the background paper of the evaluation;  Receive a debriefing about the process and outcome of the procurement exercise that is managed by a procurement committee;1  Endorse the inception report (including methodology, timeline and work plan for the evaluation process);  Engage periodically with the substance of the evaluation, providing preliminary feedback to the evaluation team during the debriefing sessions (one during and one at the end of the field mission);

1 Steering Committee members will be invited to participate in the procurement process as members of the procurement committee.  Manage the commenting process on the draft evaluation report;  Endorse the final report (as an appropriate fulfilment of the TOR).  Support in the dissemination of the report and its recommendations

Operation of the steering committee During its work, the Steering Committee will strive towards reaching consensus on any issues that are discussed. Should this not be possible with regard to comments on the draft evaluation report, minority views will be reflected in an annex to the final evaluation report.

The steering committee will operate according to the following principles:

 Evaluation Division and ERCD will act jointly as secretariat of the Steering Committee  Minutes will be kept of actions taken  Frequency of meeting to be decided by Committee