Réf.
2022/EFE/7345
Type d'offre
Experts
Type de contrat
Contrat de prestation de services
Secteurs d'activité
Climat et Agriculture ; Suivi et évaluation ; Développement durable
Date limite de candidature
13/02/2022 23:59
Durée de la mission
Court terme
Contrat
Portage salarial / Cabinet d'expertise
Durée
2 Mois (clotûre des activités le 30 avril au plus tard)
Département Développement durable - DD > Pôle Agriculture
Mis en ligne le : 25/01/2022
The final evaluation is a requirement from the donor (European Commission) to ensure transparency and improve future programmes.
The objective of the mission is three-fold:
In order to reach these objectives, the Evaluation expert or team will provide the following services:
Task 1: Inception phase: collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data to inform the endline values of the TA logical framework indicators.
Task 2: Undertake the final evaluation of the TA provided by Expertise France to the RFP sector within the EUROCLIMA+ programme, identified by the TA logframe and TA strategy, since the beginning of TA activities in 2017. The evaluation shall apply the OECD‐DAC evaluation criteria[1] and evaluation questions (Annex 1).
Task 3: Deliver and present the evaluation findings and recommendations along with its objectives, the methodology applied, and its limits to the Evaluation steering group, the beneficiaries of TA activities and members of the EC+ Programme Support Unit and INTPA.
Main users of the evaluation results and recommendations: the entities and organizations that have an interest in the intervention to be evaluated and in the results of the evaluation itself are:
[1]https://www.oecd.org/dac/evaluation/revised-evaluation-criteria-dec-2019.pdf
For more details on methods, deliverables and timeline see detailed Terms of Reference and annex 1 to TdR attached.
The EUROCLIMA + program is a regional cooperation project of the European Commission. It aims to support Latin American (LA) countries in the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions, in terms of adaptation and mitigation of climate change within the framework of COP21, through a) the identification and implementation of innovative projects in six priority sectors identified jointly with the 18 partner countries, and b) the promotion of a political dialogue at national and regional levels.
The Resilient Food Production (RFP) sector is jointly implemented by GIZ and Expertise France[1]. Project funding is led and managed by GIZ while the Technical Assistance is managed by Expertise France in direct coordination with GIZ. Ten projects are currently being funded and implemented in Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay.
Technical assistance (TA) is guided by the TA strategy which was defined in coordination with key stakeholders of the RFP sector (project implementing agencies, EUROCLIMA+ National Focal Points and the RFP Sector Working Group). Communication, visibility and knowledge management at project level and sector level is an important part of the technical assistance. TA is provided through different modalities, including:
The overall objective (impact) of the EUROCLIMA+ programme is to support LA countries to make progress in the implementation of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in order to reduce national emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change, globally and in a specific number of sectors[2]. The results framework is made up of 4 levels: an overarching EUROCLIMA+ Programme Logframe underpinned by sector logframes, themselves underpinned by project logframes and TA logframes.
The specific objective (outcome) of the RFP sector is to improve LA countries’ capacities (for example, with regard to institutions, public policies, regulatory frameworks, monitoring systems) to increase resilience to climate change, the efficiency of agricultural and livestock production systems in relation to carbon and water, as well as interconnected food and agricultural value chains, in accordance with sectoral commitments related to NDCs. The RFP sector has a total budget of 12,5M Euros, including 9.3M Euros from EUROCLIMA+ funds and 3.3 M Euros in projects co-funding.
Seven projects were launched in June 2019 and three projects in January 2020, for an initial period of 24 months. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, projects reduced the scope of and adapted their activities in 2020, and several of those which had begun in June 2019 asked for a 3 to 6 months extension. An assessment of projects’ progress was carried out by GIZ in October 2020 (at project level – project logframes). A mid-term evaluation at sector level (sector logframe) was carried out by EF in April – June 2021.
Monitoring of projects, TA and sectors within the EUROCLIMA+ Programme is performed through an online platform called EUCLIDES (a monitoring database specially designed for the EUROCLIMA+ programme).
In this context, Expertise France is looking for a consultant or a team of consultants to conduct an external final evaluation of the TA provided by Expertise France to the RFP sector within the EUROCLIMA+ programme, based on TA logical framework and its respective indicators:
[1] See http://euroclimaplus.org/alimentos for further details on on-going projects.
[2] Six sectors: FBE (Forest, Biodiversity and Ecosystems), DRR (Disaster Risk Reduction), RFP (Resilient Food Production), UM (Urban Mobility), Water and Energy and energetic efficiency.
General and specific professional experience of expert(s)
The consultant must have all the software licenses needed to perform the assignment, especially regarding virtual environment and tools to be used to perform the remote evaluation.
Expertise France can provide Zoom access for meetings and webinars.
Interested candidates may express their interest by sending the following documents by February 13rd, 2022, 23:59 CET:
The technical offer will be evaluated mainly based on the following criteria:
The other selection criteria will concern the consultant experience (cf. see section “Expertise and profile required” above).
Consulting firms are welcome to apply as well as team of independent consultants.
The application process will occur in two phases:
Le processus de sélection des candidats s'opérera selon le(s) critère(s) suivant(s) :
Document(s) joint(s) : ToR_TA final eval_RFP.pdf - Annex 1_Evaluative questions.pdf
Expertise France est l’agence publique de conception et de mise en œuvre de projets internationaux de coopération technique. L’agence intervient autour de quatre axes prioritaires :
Dans ces domaines, Expertise France assure des missions d’ingénierie et de mise en œuvre de projets de renforcement des capacités, mobilise de l’expertise technique et joue un rôle d’ensemblier de projets faisant intervenir de l’expertise publique et des savoir-faire privés.