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CST Ethiopia represents the Catholic development agencies of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales and works in partnership with local, secular & church organizations. CST Ethiopia works in the thematic areas of resilience building, humanitarian response, peace building, and women’s empowerment. Working through a partnership model with local non-governmental organizations, CST provides capacity strengthening, technical and financial support to local organizations. CST has been working in Ethiopia for over 40 years and jointly with Caritas sister agencies SCIAF and CAFOD as CST Ethiopia since 2009. CST is a member of Caritas Internationalis, CIDSE and brings wide-ranging support to peace building, resilience building, and conflict mitigation work globally.

Rationale
In recent years, CST has commissioned evaluations, produced final reports, learning documents, proposals, and routine monitoring data across different GBV and protection projects. These documents reflect a rich body of experience, innovation, challenges, and lessons, particularly in fragile, insecure, protracted crises and post-conflict settings such as in the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia. However, learning to date remains fragmented across individual projects. There is a strong institutional need to systematically synthesize evidence, learning, best practices, challenges, and recommendations across CST’s protection portfolio, to inform:

To respond to this need, CST seeks to commission an independent, high-quality meta-analysis and learning review, using mixed methods and grounded in the IASC GBV Minimum Standards, with particular attention to conflict and post-conflict GBV programming.

Overall scope
The consultant will conduct a meta-review of 7 CST GBV and protection projects, covering diverse geographic areas, implementing partners, donor frameworks, and time period from 2019-2025. The review will draw on existing documentation and datasets and KIIs. The scope includes, but is not limited to:

Evaluation of Tenders
The assignment will be undertaken by a consultant who meets the following criteria:
a) Essential Qualifications
• Advanced degree (master's or PhD) in Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Humanitarian
Studies, or related field
b) Experience
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in GBV programming
• Demonstrated experience in GBV in emergencies and post-conflict settings
• Strong familiarity with IASC GBV Minimum Standards
• Proven experience conducting meta-analyses, learning reviews, or synthesis studies
• Experience working in international contexts - East Africa and/or Ethiopia highly desirable
• Experience working with international NGOs or UN agencies
c) Skills
• Excellent qualitative analysis and synthesis skills
• Ability to interpret quantitative performance data
• Strong writing skills for high-level technical and learning reports