The UN Secretary-General (UNSG) appointed the Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent (IAP) in 2016 to provide an independent and transparent review of progress and challenges on the implementation of the 2016-30 Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent’s Health (Global Strategy) to strengthen the response from the international health community and member states.

To date, the IAP has delivered and disseminated three annual reports, the goal of which was to make recommendations to potentially shape dramatic stakeholder action to implement the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ health. The consultant will conduct an evaluation of the IAP to present to an External Reference Group (ERG), with the goal of assessing the extent to which the IAP engagement, advocacy, reports and recommendations have impacted stakeholders’ actions and lead to better results for women, children and adolescents to achieve the goals set forth in the Global Strategy and broader 2030 Agenda.

The IAP is an independent panel of experts, whose secretariat is hosted by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH). The Evaluation will be managed by the Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) Secretariat, hosted by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), according to that agency’s policies and procedures for external evaluations.