Foreign economic-aid-related services

Tender description

DFID Southern Africa seeks to appoint a Service Provider to provide evaluation services to the Strengthening African Networks for Governance, Accountability and Transparency Programme — Phase II (SANGAT II). The supplier will design and deliver an evaluation of the SANGAT II programme, tailored to the work of 3 regional governance networks. This will follow an evaluation approach that was set out in the business case and a previously commissioned evaluability assessment and will implemented throughout the 3 year programme cycle. The TOR will include fine-tuning the M&E framework developed in the SANGAT inception phase as well as establishing clear, measurable and reliable baseline data at the outset of SANGAT phase II. The supplier will also provide a small amount of M&E technical support to partners, through the life of the programme, to ensure their monitoring processes are capturing the data required for evaluation. 3 main evaluation deliverables included in the TOR are: 1. A process evaluation (network analysis) 2. A performance evaluation and 3. An Impact evaluation. The impact evaluation will only be carried out if the performance evaluation indicates that measurable impact is likely.