Mid-Term Review of the AGIR Programme - Sida

A N N E X 2 – T E R M S O F R E F E R E N C E
Work plan and schedule
The evaluation shall start no later than 2012-08-01. The final report should be submitted
to the Embassy of Sweden no later than 2012-10-15. In their tender, the consultants
should submit a draft overall time plan. A detailed work and time plan should be
presented at the beginning of the assignment.
Reporting
The final report should not exceed 30 pages (excluding annexes) and should be submitted
electronically.
The report should be written in English and should include an executive summary in
English and Portuguese. The final report must be presented in a way that enables publication
without further editing, which means that it must for example be adequately
proof-read.
The format and outline of the report should, to the extent possible, follow the guidelines
in the Sida Evaluation Manual.
The Evaluation team should be available for a presentation and discussion seminar
with the donors and intermediaries (and possibly selected partner organisations) at the
end of the assignment.
Qualifications of the Evaluation team
The assignment should be carried out by a team of one or more international expert(s)
and one or more national expert(s) familiar with the context and fluent in Portuguese
(and possibly other local languages). One of the evaluators should be team leader
with overall responsibility for the whole evaluation. The evaluators should be independent
of the evaluated activities and have no stake in the outcome of the evaluation.
The consultants shall submit CVs that document the following required qualifications:
1. International expert
- Relevant academic background
- Extensive relevant professional experience from development cooperation
in the areas of democracy, accountability, human rights, national resource
management and/or civil society support.
- Extensive experience in evaluating projects/programmes within international
development cooperation in the areas mentioned above. Experience
of Sida evaluations is an asset.
- Fluency in written and spoken English. Knowledge of Portuguese is a
great asset.
2. National expert
- Relevant academic background
- Extensive relevant professional experience from development cooperation
in the areas of democracy, accountability, human rights, natural resource
management and/or civil society support.
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