Final evaluation of UPR Info’s Programme

Title of the programme:
In-country programme Type of contract: Consultancy Location: Home-based with travel to Geneva, Switzerland and possibly to one or more of the target countries of the programme Timeframe: Between 2 nd of June and 29 th of August 2025 Number of working days: 25 days UPR Info is an international NGO, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2008, the organisation promotes human rights for everyone by strengthening multi-stakeholder engagement in the UPR process.

It follows three objectives:

• Enhancethe UPR mechanism's impact in advancing the realisation of human rights to ensure that it results in concrete changes on the ground.
• Amplifythe voice of rights-holders to raise awareness of emerging and underrepresented human rights constituencies and issues through the UPR.
• Empower national and international stakeholders to utilise the UPR as an effective tool to improve the promotion and protection of human rights for all.

UPR Info strengthens the capacities of all UPR stakeholders, to improve the respect for all human rights for all segments of society within the 193 UN Member States, using the mechanism of the UPR as a tool to achieve results and to drive transformational changes. We seek to work with all UPR actors where possible, including the government, civil society, journalists, NHRIs, parliamentarians, legal professionals and international organisations.

A defining feature of our engagement with partners is that we seek to amplify national voices and efforts with technical expertise on the UPR, as well as sharing good practices that we have learnt from over a decade of experience in this area. UPR Info is now seeking qualified applicants to conduct the final evaluation of UPR Info’s  In-country Programme in 2025.

UPR Info has been implementing the “ In-country Programme” hereafter ‘the project’ over a period of three years. The overall objective of the In-country Programme is to equip national stakeholders to utilise all entry points presented by the UPR cycle to improve the domestic human rights situation. The  In-country programme seeks to contribute to enabling UPR framework at the domestic level consisting of: robust national human rights follow-up systems;

increased capacity of CSOs; and meaningful partnerships between CSOs and the government. Specifically, the programme is comprised of five interlinked steps , offering a unique opportunity for participants to enhance their knowledge about the UPR, and to fine-tune their strategies. Each step is carefully designed in close cooperation with national partners in order to address concrete needs at national level.

Step 1:
Other stakeholders’ workshop Step 2:
In-country Pre-session Step3:
Civil Society/NHRIs strategy workshop Step 4:
National Dialogue on UPR implementation Step 5:
Mid-term reporting workshop The programme has been implemented in the following countries:
Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Senegal, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan.

The primary users of the evaluation report will be UPR Info’s staff and the donors of the programme who will use the findings, and recommendations, of the evaluation to assess the results achieved by the programme and inform the design of the next phase of the In-Country Programme. As the final programme evaluation, this exercise primarily aims to take of stock of the results through the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of the activities implemented under the umbrella of the programme.

This includes reviewing whether the activities were delivered; presenting the results achieved; identifying successful strategies and obstacles; and proving recommendations to feed into the organization learning and decision-making process. The evaluation should have a strong learning objective in that it should reflect on what has worked and what has not worked so well, and identify lessons and ways to enhance the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the subsequent stages of UPR Info’s in-country engagements.