Beschreibung der Beschaffung
GIZ's evaluation system is facing a number of challenges, which include increasingly diverse types of commissions and projects, the growing complexity of implementation contexts and projects, and new information requirements on the part of policy-makers. In addition, there are the new evaluation requirements arising from the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
This EU-wide tender ‘Central project evaluations — Framework Agreement Lot 5 — Urban and regional development’ (Framework Agreement 5/12) is carried out in order to implement the second portfolio of the GIZ central project evaluation system. The goal is to enter into altogether 12 Framework Agreements with pools of evaluators who will carry out evaluations from 2012 up to 2022. Bidders may be freelance/self-employed persons or consulting firms.
Central project evaluations generally concern projects that GIZ carries out on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) as our main commissioning party, together with our partners in order to support their change projects. The current evaluation portfolio covers a broad thematic range worldwide:
1) Economic development and employment;
2) Education;
3) Health;
4) Governance and democracy;
5) Urban and regional development;
6) Security, reconstruction and peace;
7) Displacement and migration;
8) Climate, environment and management of natural resources;
9) Rural development, agriculture and food security;
10) Water, sanitation and waste management;
11) Energy;
12) Mobility and transport.
The purpose of a central project evaluation is to provide a critical, analytical review of the results and implementation of a project. They can be carried out as final evaluation or as mid-term evaluation. Both mid-term and final evaluations consider predecessor projects (where relevant) in order to draw conclusions regarding long-term results and sustainability.
The different types of evaluation are designed to provide a robust insight into the outputs, outcomes and impacts of approaches in partner structures. To ensure the comparability of project evaluations in German development cooperation and at the international level, GIZ applies the 5 evaluation criteria agreed by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability. The particular challenge lies in verifying a causal relationship between measures and results up to impacts, and in plausibly substantiating the contribution of those measures to the results. To address the challenge of verifying a causal relationship, a theoretically sound, transparent and robust methodological approach is required. All evaluations must be carried out by a team consisting of one international and one local/regional evaluator.