Final Project Evaluation

1. Background and Rationale

• General Overview

CARE Egypt Foundation (CEF) is a non-governmental organization registered with the Central Administration of Associations and Federations at the Ministry of Social Solidarity under registration number 2018/833. The Foundation’s headquarters is located at 25 Asmaa Fahmy Street, 5th Floor, Plot No. 1, Square Y, Nasr City First Police Station, Cairo, Egypt. The Foundation is subject to the provisions of the Law on Regulating the Exercise of Civil Work No. 149 of 2019.

CARE Egypt Foundation builds on and benefits from the legacy and expertise of CARE International in Egypt, which extends back to 1954. The Foundation assumes responsibility for designing, implementing, and managing development programs and projects aimed at improving living conditions and quality of life. This is achieved by responding to and addressing the root causes of poverty and meeting the most urgent needs of the poor and marginalized groups in Egypt, using a sustainable approach consistent with local and national cultures, realities, and contexts.

• Women’s Rights Program

The Women’s Rights Program was designed to empower poor and marginalized women in Egypt. Its impact goal is that “Poor and marginalized women in Egypt are empowered to claim their rights and enjoy a better quality of life by 2025.” To achieve this goal, the program works with duty bearers in government and civil society, as well as with rights holders—women themselves—to address discriminatory attitudes and behaviors against women and girls.

The program works with duty bearers to support their role in protecting and safeguarding women’s rights. It also works with women themselves to encourage them to understand, express, and demand their legitimate rights. The program focuses on three main pillars: Individual Agency, Relations, and Structure, aiming to empower marginalized women in Egypt to access their rights. By focusing on individual agency, the program contributes to building women’s self-esteem and confidence and enhances their financial independence, enabling them to realize their potential as productive members contributing to their families’ and communities’ income. Additionally, gender equality can be achieved when power relations (within families) become more gender-sensitive, addressing all forms of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) inside and outside the family, and when social structures (such as norms or social laws) are reformulated, particularly in areas of personal status and domestic violence, and are issued and enforced.

• Project Description: Strengthening Women’s Rights Movements within the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda

The project “Strengthening Women’s Rights Movements within the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda in Three Different Contexts” is implemented in Egypt, Iraq, and South Sudan with funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through CARE Germany. The project lasts for three and a half years, from July 2022 to December 2025.

The project aims to support Women’s Rights Organizations (WROs) to empower them to work with marginalized groups on women’s rights and gender equality issues in their countries. This support comes within the framework of broader women’s rights movements’ efforts, which include the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. This project recognizes that women’s rights movements consist of WROs and the most needy groups of women and girls. The project works with WROs as implementing partners and as target groups, using the term “Participating Women’s Rights Organizations” to refer to both categories.

• Scope in Egypt:

In Egypt, the project directly targets 11 Women’s Rights Organizations (one as a partner organization and ten as target groups). Additionally, it targets 52 staff members and volunteers from these organizations, 500 women and girls from marginalized groups, and 30 decision-makers (5 at the national level and 25 at the governorate level). Indirectly, the project seeks to reach 5,000 people in Egypt (65% women/girls and 35% men/boys). The project implements its activities in Cairo, Giza, Qalyubia, Assiut, and Sohag.

• Implementation Partners:

In Egypt, CARE Egypt Foundation collaborates with a classified WRO as an implementing partner:

1. The Center for Appropriate Communication Techniques for Development (ACT).
2. The Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA).

Through these partners, the project works with 10 grassroots Community Development Associations (CDAs) (Targeted WROs).

(Note: Cooperation in Iraq and South Sudan is mentioned for context but is outside the scope of this evaluation).

CARE Egypt Foundation plays a role in providing project coordination and strengthening institutional and technical capacities, with a focus on the WPS agenda. During the implementation period, participating WROs assume greater roles in leadership and responsibility, supported by long-term mentoring, guidance, and technical assistance.

Key Project Milestones:
To ensure this evaluation builds on previous evidence, the Consultant should take into account that:

• A Baseline Study was conducted in [Insert Date/Year].
• A Learning Study was conducted in November 2025.

• Project Logic and Expected Results:

The goal is to increase the influence of WROs and the most needy groups of women and girls in Egypt, Iraq, and South Sudan on the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 agenda at local, national, and multi-country levels. To achieve this, the project seeks to realize one outcome and three expected outputs:

Targeted Outcome: Empowering WROs and the neediest groups of women and girls to use their enhanced strategies, developed capacities, and improved networks to organize work, participate, and influence collectively in informal decision-making circles (civil society-led) and formal ones (government-led) related to the WPS agenda at local, national, and multi-country levels.

• Output 1: Enhancing the institutional capacities of WROs, increasing their ability to mobilize resources and improve strategic plans related to WPS, ensuring they are representative of and accountable to marginalized women and girls.
• Output 2: Increased capacity of WROs and marginalized women/girls to engage in decision-making processes related to the WPS agenda, whether in formal or informal circles, at local, national, and participating country levels.
• Output 3: Strengthening networks of WROs and marginalized women/girls, enabling them to gather and exchange lessons learned and expand their scope within the WPS framework at local, national, and participating country levels.

 

• Key Activities Implemented:

To achieve these goals, the project implements the following key activities (aligned with the evaluation scope):

• Activity 1.1: Developing and implementing institutional capacity-building plans for participating WROs through training, technical assistance, mentoring, and guidance.
• Activity 2.1: Developing and implementing resource mobilization strategies for participating WROs to enhance their access to funding opportunities.
• Activity 3.1: Developing and implementing strategic plans for participating WROs representing the priorities of marginalized women and girls.
• Activity 2.1 (Repeat in numbering as per original text): Participation of WRO representatives in training, mentoring, and qualification programs on the WPS agenda and related advocacy and monitoring activities.
• Activity 2.2: Developing and implementing collective advocacy and monitoring plans for WROs to reinforce WPS agenda priorities with decision-makers at local and national levels.
• Activity 2.3: Engaging marginalized women and girls with decision-makers regarding their priorities related to the WPS agenda.
• Activity 3.1 (Repeat): Documenting collective lessons learned on WPS priorities and sharing them with local and national networks.
• Activity 3.2: Exchanging knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned on the WPS agenda among participating WROs across the three countries via multi-country networks.
• Activity 3.3: Expanding the scope of participating WROs’ initiatives using regional and global mechanisms affiliated with CARE.

2. Purpose, Objectives, and Use

• Purpose of the Final Evaluation:

This evaluation comes as part of the project’s natural life cycle to assess performance at the end of the implementation period in Egypt and extract lessons for future phases.

The purpose extends beyond merely “closing the project file” or meeting donor requirements (BMZ). This evaluation represents a strategic milestone for accountability and learning, aimed at deciphering the change the project has created in the women’s rights landscape in Egypt.

We are looking for an evaluation that dives deep to understand “how” and “why” specific interventions succeeded in conservative environments (e.g., Assiut, Sohag) versus urban areas (e.g., Cairo, Giza), and how the socio-economic dynamics in Egypt (2022-2025) influenced the project’s trajectory. The goal is to provide an evidence-based narrative on the Egyptian civil society’s ability to adopt the “Women, Peace, and Security” agenda and translate it from theoretical concepts into applied practices.

• Specific Evaluation Objectives (M&E Lens):
• The consultant is expected to go beyond descriptive narration and achieve the following analytical objectives:
• Theory of Change Validation: Examining the hypotheses upon which the project was built; did “institutional empowerment” for partner organizations actually lead to “policy influence”? Or were there other pathways for change we did not observe?
• Impact Assessment (Attribution vs. Contribution): Identifying tangible changes in the lives of target groups (marginalized women) and in the organizational structures of partner associations, clearly distinguishing between direct results attributed exclusively to the project (Attribution) and those where the project played a contributing role alongside other factors (Contribution).
• Value for Money (VfM): Assessing whether resources (time, effort, money) were invested optimally to achieve maximum development return amidst economic challenges.
• Sustainability Mapping: Assessing the solidity of networks and alliances built; do partner organizations in Egypt now possess full “ownership” of tools and knowledge to continue the struggle for women’s rights without direct external support?
• Target Audience:

The results and procedures of this learning study/evaluation will be shared with relevant stakeholders, including CARE Germany, CARE Iraq, CARE South Sudan, CARE Egypt, and all participating WROs. These results will be employed to enrich the project itself, enhance its effectiveness, and disseminate learning materials across the three countries.

Deadline for Submitting the technical and financial proposal 28th, Feb 2026 through the website or via email: Huda.Abdelgelel@cef-eg.org

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