A ripple in development? - Channel Research

Within two weeks prior to commencing the actual work the consultant
shall produce a brief Inception Report where the approach, data
collection methods and time plan are outlined sufficiently well for the
Management Group to be able to judge the appropriateness of these
issues and likely quality of the planned evaluation. The Inception
Report shall concentrate on step one, the documentary study, but
include planning for step two as well. The Inception Report shall later
be updated regarding step two in view of findings and conclusions from
the documentary study (see section 3.2 above).
The evaluation process and reports shall, whenever applicable, follow
DAC’s Evaluation Quality Standards.
7 Organisation of the Evaluation
In order to secure involvement by the relevant authorities in the three
countries and the organisations sponsoring the evaluation the management
of LRRD2 has the following organisation:
• a Joint Steering Committee (JSC)
• a Management Group (MG) with four members selected by the
JSC
• an Advisory Group providing advice and quality assessment
The Joint Steering Group consists of the international organisations
and national agencies in the three countries, which have decided to join
the evaluation. Sida’s Department for Evaluation is lead agency and
chair of the JSC and the MG.
The tasks for the JSC are to endorse the Terms of Reference for
the evaluation, give advice on criteria for the selection of consultants,
decide on the final design of Step two of the evaluation, and comment
on draft reports.
The Management Group will handle the on-going preparations
and day-to-day management of the evaluation. It comprises four members:
one member from the evaluation departments of the sponsoring
agencies, two members from the concerned organisations in the region
plus a member from Sida’s Department for Evaluation, who is also the
executive member and chair. The decisions by the Management Group
are documented and shared with the members of the JSC. The MG
takes the final decisions regarding approval 9 of the reports after consultation
with the JSC.
A team of independent consultants will be recruited to carry out
the evaluation. Since Sida is the lead agency for LRRD2 Swedish procurement
rules will be adopted. This entails an open, competitive tendering
procedure, where at the end all bids and the assessment of the
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Criteria for approval will be acceptable quality of the reports and the way findings and conclusions
are substantiated.
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