Consultants for ex-ante evaluation of Danida Programme (multiple location options)

Action Aid Denmark (AADK) is hereby inviting consultants to submit proposals for an ex-ante evaluation of its Strategic Partnership Programme (SPA) with Danida.

The ex-ante evaluation should present a robust evaluation of results, effectiveness, and relevance towards the end of the SPAII from the perspective of the right-holders. The overall objective of the SPAII programme is Societies are transformed to become more just, feminist, green, and resilient. The thematic priorities are expressed through the following 3 strategic objectives:

1: Democracy Deliver: Young people, especially young women and those facing marginalisation or fragility, enjoy their rights to an open and enabling democratic space and access to well-resourced programmes and public services.

2: Resilient Livelihoods and Just Transition: Young people, especially young women and those facing marginalisation or fragility, enjoy a just transition and their right to climate resilient livelihoods.

3: Youth Leadership in Crises: Young people, especially young women and those facing marginalisation, are resilient to shocks and enjoy their right to protection in fragile contexts, disasters, and protracted crises.

The ex-ante evaluation has two complementary objectives:

1. To provide AADK with a robust evaluation of the breath of work and approaches within the SPA programme and serve as evidence of results achievements, effectiveness, and relevance.

2. To provide recommendations for programming and strategic improvements.

These objectives will support AADK in demonstrating accountability to right-holders, partners, donors, and other stakeholders in terms of evidence of results achievement as well as to contribute to evidence-based decision-making, fundraising, and support learning processes internally and with partners. The evaluation will require assessment at multiple themes, organisational and contextual levels (global, national, local) across diverse settings. A human rights-based approach should be employed to bring into focus not only the relevance, effectiveness and sustainability of programme interventions and results achieved but also the programme strategies and priorities as reflected in the integrated capacity strengthening support approach of AADK, the global programmes approach, and the variety of partnerships.

The methodology should be formative and apply a mixed-methods approach while taking into consideration the DAC evaluation criteria of relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability. Specifically, the design must include:

The ex-ante evaluation has a timeline of 7 months from November 2024-April 2025. Adequate effort should be allocated by the evaluation team to ensure timely submission of all the deliverables and the full assignment is expected to total around 50 days of work for a team of two consultants.

EVALUATION TEAM – QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS

The team conducting this evaluation is expected to include two team members that meet the following criteria:

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

This is a global competition open to bidders from all geographic areas outside Denmark. Following the technical review, the financial proposal will be reviewed for the best overall comparative value. The evaluation is expected to take place from November 2024 to April 2025 and to total around 50 days of work for a team of two consultants.

Proposals shall be submitted by email to [email protected] (Kirsten Hjørnholm) at AADK no later than 18 October 2024. Any questions for the content of the TOR or the process should also be addressed to her. You can read more in the detailed ToR here.