I.      Objectives and desired results

1)      General objective

To identify, describe, analyse and verify the changes in behaviour, relationships, practices, procedures and policies among the SDR project’s targeted groups and partner institutions to which the project contributed, and to assess their significance, the nature and extent of the project's contribution, and their implications for the project’s overall objective of promoting a more participatory, inclusive and accountable democratic process in Jordan.

The exercise will apply a learning-oriented Outcome Harvesting approach, focusing on observable mentioned-above changes, rather than solely on the delivery of project activities and outputs. It will capture intended and unintended, positive and negative changes, including the ones that may not have been anticipated in the project.

This exercise will also capture individual testimonials and success stories that show, in participants’ own words, how these changes came about. More specifically, the exercise will:

Ø  Identify and document concrete and observable changes in behaviour, policies, practices, relationships, procedures or actions that have occurred following SDR interventions, distinguishing actual changes from activities delivered, capacities acquired or intended results.

Ø  Understand how these changes came about by analysing the factors that enabled or hindered them, assessing their significance and prospects for sustainability and examining the project's possible contribution, while taking into account other influencing actors, external factors and developments in Jordan's political and institutional context.

Ø  Provide credible, triangulated and independently substantiated evidence of the project's contribution to selected outcomes, while transparently documenting them along with their limitations associated with each harvested outcome.

2)      Specific objectives

The exercise will examine changes at individual, organisational and institutional levels across the project's three specific objectives and cross-cutting media interventions. Particular attention will be paid to whether changes in individual capacities and participation have translated into meaningful influence, improved institutional practices or more inclusive and accountable decision-making processes.

The harvested outcomes should provide qualitative evidence to complement the project's logframe outcome indicators, identifying changes that may not be captured by existing monitoring tools. Findings should distinguish emerging changes from those embedded in institutional practices, while considering the wider political context, including the 2024 parliamentary elections, the formation of parliamentary blocs and local administration reform.

3)      Specific objectives per project’s outcomes

Outcome 1: Young men and women meaningfully participate in democratic life

Ø  Identify whether and how youth and young community leaders engage with policy makers and have influenced local decision-making, including documented uptake of their policy papers, concrete results of youth-led initiatives and changes in the responsiveness of decision-makers to youth priorities. This covers notably the youth spaces and policy dialogues and the grant scheme to young community leaders.

Ø  Assess changes in the actual influence of politically active youth within political parties, including their participation in internal decision-making, leadership opportunities and the extent to which dialogue with party leaders and decision-makers has translated into concrete actions or commitments. This covers notably the Political Youth Camp, the School of Politics, the youth leadership programme, the senior dialogue sessions and the local level dialogues.

Ø  Identify changes in how women and youth MPs exercise their parliamentary mandate, particularly their effective participation in legislative work, oversight, parliamentary debates and decision-making, beyond increased knowledge or confidence following the Political Leadership Development Programme and the mentoring of women MPs.

Ø  Examine whether and how youth used media for political influence, and asses the effects of the awareness campaigns and funded media content, beyond increased media exposure or awareness.

Outcome 2.1: Political parties create an enabling environment for increased participation and responsiveness to diverse groups

Ø  Assess whether and how political parties’ structures, practices and relations have created or increased spaces for the participation of different groups, particularly regarding the processes and proposals introduced and how theses said groups worked in practice. This covers the executive leadership programme, the inter-party dialogue programme, the Cost of Politics research and the Voter Compass.

Ø  Identify changes in how MoPPA and the IEC exercise their respective mandates in supporting and overseeing political parties, and the practical application of knowledge or procedures introduced through project support.

Outcome 2.2: The House of Representatives exercises its core parliamentary functions with greater professionalism, effectiveness, inclusivity and accountability

Ø  Identify changes in the practices and institutional capacities of the Centre for Strategic and Legislative Studies and the General Secretariat, particularly the adoption and effective use of new procedures, tools and working methods to improve the quality, consistency and responsiveness of support provided to MPs. This covers the needs assessment, the Centre’s annual plan, capacity building and streamlined procedures, the ToT, study visits, technical support and the development of Standard Operating Procedures.

Ø  Assess whether and how the Financial Committee and its supporting staff have strengthened their financial and budget oversight practices.

Ø  Identify changes in the application of policy and legislative oversight mechanisms, particularly through Post-Legislative Scrutiny, and assess whether these have translated into more systematic, evidence-based parliamentary scrutiny and follow-up actions.

Ø  Examine whether and how the House of Representatives and its MPs have evolved their communication and outreach practices towards more accessible, inclusive and two-way engagement with citizens, particularly women and youth, and whether citizen feedback is increasingly reflected in parliamentary work.

Cross-cutting: Media outlets participate in the democratic process

Ø  Assess whether and how journalists improved the quality and inclusiveness of political coverage, and the engagement of media outlets with youth, political parties and MPs.

Ø  Assess whether project-supported media initiatives have contributed to more informed public debate, greater visibility of diverse political perspectives or improved accountability, beyond the production and dissemination of media content.

Sustainability of outcomes

The exercise will assess how likely the harvested outcomes are to be sustained after the project ends, by examining how far the stakeholders and institutions have owned and embedded the changes themselves. This includes the adoption and use of procedures and tools developed with the project’s support, internal capacity that can continue independently, and participants continuing to apply new practices. It also covers networks maintained between youth, parties, institutions and civil society, and approaches replicated through stakeholders’ own structures and resources. The exercise will propose practical recommendations to consolidate these gains during the remaining implementation period.

Individual Testimonials and Success Stories

Alongside the harvested outcomes, the exercise will collect individual testimonials and success stories illustrating independently substantiated outcomes. These narratives should provide concrete examples of how change occurred and the project's contribution; every testimonial and success story must be linked to a harvested and verified outcome without substituting for evidence-based outcome analysis.

            II.      Scope of the assignment

The exercise will cover outcomes that occurred from the start of the project’s implementation in January 2024 up to December 2026 (even if they were not anticipated in the project's results framework, including unintended changes). The exercise will cover the project’s national-level interventions in Amman and its interventions across the 12 governorates of Jordan, in line with where activities implemented.

The exercise will harvest outcomes among the following groups, as linked to the specific objectives:

Ø  Youth: young community leaders, grant recipients, and politically active youth within and outside political parties

Ø  Members of Parliament: women and youth MPs, the Financial Committee, and committees involved in Post-Legislative

Ø  Political parties: party leaders, representatives, and youth and women members, including those involved in internal decision-making processes

Ø  Political institutions: the Ministry of Political and Parliamentary Affairs (MoPPA) and the Independent Election Commission (IEC)

Ø  House of Representatives Secretariat: the General Secretariat, the Centre for Strategic and Legislative Studies, the Communication and Outreach Directorate, and staff supporting the Financial Committee

Ø  Media: journalists and media outlets trained or funded by the project

Ø  Civil society: community-based organisations involved in local level dialogues and project-supported community initiatives.

          III.      Methodology and approach

The consultant(s)/consulting firm will use the Outcome Harvesting methodology. The approach collects evidence of what has changed and then works backwards to determine whether and how the project contributed to these changes. It will distinguish observable outcomes from project outputs, assess the project's possible contribution rather than seek to establish direct attribution and remain open to intended and unintended, positive and negative changes.

The consultant(s) is expected to propose a detailed methodology based on this approach in their technical offer. It will be refined and agreed with Expertise France during the inception phase.

The consultant(s) will develop and justify the sample size and sampling strategy during inception. The approach should permit analysis by location/governorate, gender, age, and other relevant programme characteristics. The strategy should ensure balanced consideration of the project's three specific objectives, implementing partners and stakeholder groups, while prioritising the significance and diversity of outcomes over numerical representativeness. The consultant(s) should explain limitations in coverage and potential selection biases if applicable: indeed, where relevant, the sampling strategy should also include perspectives beyond direct project beneficiaries to assess whether reported changes have translated into broader institutional or community-level effects.

The tasks of the consultant(s) will consist of the following steps:

-        Inception Phase / Design the Harvest (December 2026):

Ø Review all relevant project documentation.

Ø Participate in the kick-off meeting to initiate the exercise.

Ø Conduct consultation with EF project team and the implementing partners on the design and stakeholders to be involved.

Ø Produce an inception report outlining the proposed approach and work plan, including the refined harvesting questions, the methodology and criteria for identifying, documenting and verifying outcomes, the sampling strategy, stakeholder engagement plan, data collection approach/tools and detailed timeline, for validation by Expertise France.

-        Gather data, draft outcome descriptions and engage informants (January 2027): Based on the review of existing project documentation and monitoring evidence, the consultant(s) will prepare an initial set of outcome descriptions, which will then be reviewed, refined and complemented through interviews and participatory workshops with change agents (EF and IPs), stakeholders and/or beneficiaries. Each description will specify the observable change, its significance, the project's contribution and available evidence. The consultant(s) will seek divergent perspectives, including evidence of limited, unintended changes, and distinguish stakeholders' perceptions from documented changes in practice. Finally, the consultant(s) may identify additional outcomes from the stakeholders themselves ; if confirmed, the consultant(s) will ensure each outcome is specific, coherent and possibly linked to the project’s interventions.

-        Substantiate outcomes (February 2027): The consultant(s) will select a sample of outcomes, agreed with EF, based on their significance, diversity, relevance to the project's objectives and strength or uncertainty of the available evidence. Verification will involve knowledgeable and independent informants who were not directly involved in the project, complemented, if applicable, by documentary or other independent evidence. The consultant(s) will assess whether the reported change occurred, its significance and the credibility of the project's claimed contribution, explicitly recording corroborating or contradictory evidence and any limitations. Outcomes that cannot be adequately substantiated will be clearly identified as such and will not be presented as verified findings.

-        Analyze and interpret (February 2027): The consultant(s) will classify and analyze harvested outcomes at least by project objective, stakeholder group, type and level of change, and intended/unintended and positive/negative effects; identify patterns across interventions, including whether individual-level changes have translated into organisational or institutional practices – whether newly introduced procedures or mechanisms are effectively applied, particularly within political parties and parliamentary institutions –, enabling and hindering factors, and the likely sustainability of changes as well as possible project contribution, taking account of other actors and contextual developments including the 2024 parliamentary elections, the formation of parliamentary blocs and local administration reform, where relevant. The findings should distinguish verified outcomes from those supported by more limited evidence and explain their contribution to understanding progress against the logframe outcome indicators.

-        Support the use of findings (March 2027): The consultant(s) will present the findings to the harvest users (EU delegation, EF, and Implementing Partners) in a validation session, and propose recommendations for the remaining implementation period, the final evaluation and future programming, clearly distinguishing substantiated findings from emerging observations requiring further monitoring.

Throughout the assignment, the consultant(s) will ensure informed consent, confidentiality and appropriate data protection, with particular attention to politically active participants who may require anonymity. Testimonials and success stories will be linked to substantiated outcomes and collected in accordance with EF's communication guidelines. Their publication will remain subject to prior approval by the EU Delegation.

         IV.      Anticipated deliverables

All reports, presentations, and data collection tools should be in both languages, English and Arabic. Deliverables should be consistent with the agreed methodology, with findings traceable to the outcome database and supporting evidence.

            V.      Coordination

The Outcome Harvesting assignment will be overseen by a steering group composed of three members: the the Portfolio Manager, Project Manager and the MEAL Coordinator. In parallel, the mission will be supported by the project team at headquarters and the Country Director through regular feedback and technical guidance to ensure effective steering and quality implementation of the exercise.

The main timeline for the implementation of the learning exercise is outlined below:

1)      Implementation period: 50 working days

2)      Start date: 8^st December 2026

3)      End date:  20 March 2027

4)      Effective duration per assignment: 10 weeks

5)      Deadline to apply:  20^th November 2026