Kenya - Foreign economic-aid-related services

Description

The Strategic Framework Denmark-Kenya Partnership 2021-2025 (Strategic Framework) constitutes the basis upon which Denmark provides bilateral assistance to Kenya. The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is in a process of adjusting its approach to development cooperation. The focus is on enabling a more holistic, coherent, flexible and adaptive approach under the heading Doing Development Differently (DDD).Against this background, it is important for the Royal Danish (RDE) in Nairobi to ensure high quality processes of monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) in the implementation of the new Kenya Bilateral Programme 2021-2025 (KCP II), which will start implementation in January 2021. The present assignment aims at supporting the RDE to respond adequately to these ambitions. The assignment is planned to start at the beginning of 2021 and run until end of June 2026 (6 months after KCP II is finalised).
The objective of the assignment is to:1) supplement and strengthen Programme Officers (POs) at the RDE and DE partners in capturing results from DEs in formats that can be used both for internal annual reporting as well as for external communication purposes;2) supplement and strengthen POs at the RDE and DE partners in adapting their approaches and sometimes result frameworks, to generate results more effectively and efficiently. Such adaptation can be necessitated by changes in the context as well through insights into which approaches that work well for their purpose and which that do not;3) facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration between DEs and with other RDE funded instruments to create results more effectively and efficiently;4) support the RDE in setting up a RDE wide MEAL architecture to improve the capacity at management level to monitor overall program effectiveness in relation to implementing the strategic framework;5) support the RDE in developing an architecture to measure progress in relation to working under the heading of DDD.The services to be delivered by the consultant are the following, and are to be carried out under the guidance of the RDE and in close consultation with the concerned DE partners.1) Support the RDE in the organisation and implementation of an annual light review to take stock of how the RDE is doing in terms of working under the headings of DDD (i.e. improving coherence, synergies, monitoring and evaluation capacity and processes as well as accountability). This support can involve the establishment of a baseline and indicators for DDD at an RDE level and prepare a system/set-up for how and when to monitor progress.2) Support the management at the RDE to update and implement the ‘Operational Management Document’. This work can include a go-through of the existing MEAL processes at the RDE as well as settling the ambitions and necessary processes for the future MEAL system/set-up. It can include development of new formats, standards and guidelines for the RDE related to monitoring, capturing results as well as inputs for learning from the DEs that can be measured/captured in the Annual Light Review. it can also involve development and descriptions of processes, internal training, etc.3) Support to POs related to core M&E tasks. This task should take point of departure in the level of ambition for MEAL set out in the operational management document. This task could include an assessment of the PO and of the DE partner in terms of MEAL capacity and an annual support plan with clearly defined outputs for the support. Such a support plan can regard monitoring of DE result framework, strengthening of indicators, strengthening the MEAL capacity in the partner organisation, including processes of learning and adaptation, and integration of follow-up on recommendations from technical studies and Mid-Term Reviews (MTR).4) Undertake ad-hoc technical studies, review type activities, evaluations, etc. These studies can be for a specific DE or focusing on specific themes or geographical areas across a number of DEs. The purpose would often be to see how end-users are impacted by the activities of one or more DEs.5) Support to RDE related to accountability/communication tasks to the Kenyan and Danish public. Support to knowledge management will harness, organise, and disseminate the knowledge gained from monitoring, evaluation, and learning to institutionalise information for use across the RDE. Tasks include supporting RDE staff and DEs on the use of the performance management database to record, extract, and analyse performance data.

Opportunity closing date

18 December 2020

Value of contract

£1m-5m