External Evaluation Service Consultant Tender in Belgium - 18812940

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Country: Belgium

Summary: External Evaluation Service Consultant

Deadline: 12 Dec 2017

Posting Date: 05 Dec 2017

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TOT Ref.No.: 18812940

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Financier: United Nations Secretariat

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Tenders are invited for External Evaluation Service Consultant.
The ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme is a three-year €13.1 million capacity building program that aims to build the profile, and improve the management, of Development Minerals (industrial minerals; construction materials; dimension stones; and semi-precious stones). The Programme is contributing toward the ACP Framework of Action on the Development of Mineral Resources Sector, endorsed by the ACP Committee of Ambassadors in 2011, the African Mining Vision (AMV), and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The initiative also aims at supporting the development of a competitive local private sector in ACP countries, in line with the EU communication "Increasing the impact of EU Development Policy: An Agenda for Change". This intra-ACP program was initiated by the ACP Secretariat, financed by the European Commission and UNDP, and is being implemented by UNDP at the request of ACP Group of States.
`Development Minerals` are minerals and materials that are mined, processed, manufactured and used domestically in industries such as construction, manufacturing, infrastructure and agriculture. Development Minerals are economically important - close to the location where the commodity is mined and include industrial minerals, like gypsum and salt, construction materials, like sand and gravel, dimension stones, like marble and granite, and semi-precious stones, like garnet and tourmaline. In comparison to the metals sector, Development Minerals have closer links with the local economy, and have the potential to generate more local jobs, with a greater impact on poverty reduction. This is partly because the sector is dominated by small and medium scale domestic businesses.
Programme implementation
The ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme is focused on developing the capacity of the small-scale private sector by targeting individual miners, their professional associations, and the public institutions that support them. The programme is under implementation at both regional and country levels. Regional level activities such as training involve forty (40) countries from the 6 ACP regions; while in-depth support at country level is provided for 6 countries namely: Cameroon, Fiji, Guinea (Conakry), Jamaica, Uganda and Zambia. Training and support is provided in the following thematic areas of importance to the sector: 1) mine and quarry management; 2) environment, health and safety; 3) entrepreneurship skills; 4) market analysis and investment promotion; 5) geo-data and maps design; 6) community relations and addressing grievances.
The programme has completed 24 months of programme implementation, with 12 months of programme implementation remaining. In March and April of 2017, the EU undertook Results Orientated Monitoring (ROM) of the Programme, which consisted of monitoring in five (5) countries, with seventy (70) interviews conducted and thirty-four (34) programme documents analysed. The ROM report was complementary of the implementation of the programme and strongly endorsed continued capacity building in the sector, citing the “large volume of demand and high expectations of various stakeholders”. The report recommended the design of a second phase of the programme.
The purpose of this consultancy is to build on the results and recommendations of the ROM review to undertake a mid-term evaluation of the ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme. The review will attempt to understand what worked, what did not, and to document the performance, results and impact. The review will be both backward and forward-looking. It will consider the design and thematic areas of focus, including partnerships to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of the activities for a potential second phase of the ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme.
The objective of the consultancy is to:
Review the achievements, performance, results and impact of the ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme;

Based on the review of the first phase of the programme, conceptualize and formulate programme design principles and draft thematic areas of focus for a potential second phase.

Specifically, this consultancy will focus on the: (1) Programme Strategy and Design, (2) Relevance, (3) Assesment of progress towards results, achievements, lessons learnt, (4) Efficiency, (5) forward-looking analysis of lessons learnt and best practices to inform future programming, (6) Recommendations for the design and focus of a potential second phase of the programme.
The program is therefore seeking to recruit an External Evaluation Consultant to conduct this activity.
Duties and Responsibilities
Scope of work
The evaluation will result in the production of a comprehensive evaluation report with findings, recommendations and lessons learnt, including partnerships in the delivery to enhance programme implementation effectiveness and efficiency, and recommendations for the design and focus of a potential second phase of the programme.
The main questions to be addressed in this evaluation exercise include the following:
Were the programme-s actions to achieve the outputs and expected outcomes effective and efficient?

To what extent has the programme managed to achieve a development impact through the targeted capacity building of public, private, business development and social stakeholders?

To what extent the development impact achieved can reasonably be attributed to, or be associated to the programme?

To what extent has the programme managed to engage the Country Working Group to provide implementation guidance and advice on the delivery of the focus country activities?

To what extent has the programme managed to encourage policy dialogue on Development Minerals among policy-makers at regional, subregional, national and local levels?

To which extent has the programme managed to encourage South-South cooperation within and across the three ACP regions to facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas as well as knowledge sharing?

To what extent have lessons learnt from the program at the regional and country-level been synthesized and fed into program implementation activities?

To what extent is the experience, impact, best practices and lessons learnt at the country and regional levels fed into national and international dialogue on the Development Minerals sector for an enhanced global impact of similar programmes on Sustainable Development?

To what extent the envisaged partnerships in the implementation of the programme have been effective in the expected achievements in the focus countries?

To what extent are the results sustainable? Will the outputs lead to benefits beyond the lifespan of the first phase of the programme particularly in the focus countries?

How has the programme been able to build sustainable capacity in focus countries in ways that would outlast the programme?

How could programme results be further sustainably implemented and expanded, having in mind the contribution of Development Minerals for local, as well as broader country, regional and global development?

What are possible future priority interventions and general recommendations, which could further ensure sustainability of programme-s achievements?

Which best practices have been identified that need to be considered for a potential second phase of the programme?

What aspects of the programme need redesigning and reshaping for a potential second programme phase?

Which new outcomes and result areas need to be considered in the formulation of a potential second programme phase?

What is the proposed programmatic and geographic scope of a potential second phase of the programme?

How can the programme effectively be able to leverage existing partnerships with relevant continental institutions in ways that better coordinate efforts, minimize duplications and scale up impact?

The consultancy will take a broad overview of programme implementation by gathering perceptions, aspirations, feedback and data from relevant program partners and stakeholders for objective analysis and conduct of the evaluation. The evaluation will look to underline the key factors that have either facilitated or impeded programme implementation; and the continued need for knowledge transfer and skills to maintain the momentum of activities already set in motion.
To this end, the evaluation will examine the overall performance and impact of programme components at the mid-point of programme implementation and use the results of the evaluation to inform the design of the potential second phase.
Proposed Methodology
The proposed methodology consists of a preliminary desk review of programme materials and deliverables; a review of existing information relevant to the programme context, followed by two field visits and final evaluation report write-up.
The Consultant is required to assess the ACP-EU Development Minerals Project Document, progress and annual reports, key programme deliverables and other relevant documents including European Union communications and strategy documents as well as the ACP secretariat-s Framework and strategy documents. A complete document list for review as well as the briefing kit will be prepared by the ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme implementation team.
The Consultant is also expected to meet representatives of the programme partners i.e the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Secretariat and the European Commision (EC) as well as the UNDP programme implementation team in Brussels for an initial briefing, as well as a debriefing at the end of the assignment. This is in addition to the field visit to two (2) of the focus countries implementing the programme.
For this assignment, the Consultant is expected to interview the UNDP programme implementation team, technical specialists of the programme partners (ACP and EC), and the UNDP Country Co

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