Bangladesh - Belgium

Citizens’ Voice and Accountability Evaluation – Bangladesh Country Case Study
• Regional/country knowledge and expertise including awareness of the
political context of development interventions in this area;
• Knowledge of the country lingua franca (indispensable). In the case of
Bangladesh, it is required the knowledge of English. Moreover, at least one
team member should speak Bangladeshi.
31. All team members should be sensitive to issues relating to working with the
poor, marginalised and vulnerable members of society.
32. A consultancy company will be appointed on the basis of the quality and the
concreteness of the proposal, the skills demonstrated in the team composition, costs,
availability and access to in house expertise and reach back.
33. The reporting language is English. Consideration will be given to translating
each report and the follow on synthesis report into the most common languages used
by donors and beneficiaries.
34. The successful bidder is expected to assure a quality control of its own work
prior to submission to SDC and the QA Panel.
35. Consultants will be responsible for making their own logistics and
accommodation arrangements in Bangladesh but introductions to relevant
development offices and embassies will be made by the Swiss Cooperation Office in
Dhaka.
36. The start date for this work will be October 1 st , 2007. The first mission to
Bangladesh should take place in Week 40-41 starting October 7 th , and the second
mission in the period November 5 th -21 st . The draft evaluation report should be ready
by December 7 th and the final evaluation report should be submitted no later than
January 11 th 2008.
37. Evaluation Management: The various roles of the ECG, Evaluation Theme
Leader, commissioning donor, QA Panel, and the local donor representatives, are as
outlined below:
The Evaluation Core Group provides overall endorsement of, and direction to,
the key components of this initiative e.g. Terms of Reference, timing, reports’
publication and dissemination decisions etc. Chairmanship of the Group is
shared, rotating as per the location of ECG meetings. ECG members are the key
interlocutors between consultancy teams engaged in the work and donor
colleagues in both capitals and country offices.
The Evaluation Theme Leader: DFID provides the management and
administrative support for this initiative through its nominated Evaluation Theme
Leader.
Commissioning donor is the donor which undertakes to commission, fund and
manage a specific component of CV&A work. In the case of the CCS
Bangladesh, the commissioning donors is SDC.
The Quality Assurance Panel (see TORs attached) has been commissioned by
DFID on behalf of the ECG to ensure that the DAC Evaluation Quality standards
are adequately reflected in the final Evaluation Framework, Methodological
Approach, Country Case Studies and Synthesis Report; and, that reporting
standards are uniformly observed as per the TORs for CCS. It has an advisory
role and it reports through the Evaluation Theme Leader to the ECG.
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