Monitoring And Evaluation Provider For The Exiting Poverty In Rwanda Programme

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is looking for a Supplier to deliver a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Services to support FCDO and the Government of Rwanda (GoR) to monitor and assess progress against the implementation of key areas of the Social Protection-SSP and the overarching outcome and outputs of the Exiting Poverty in Rwanda (EPR) programme.

The expected start date of the contract is March 2023. The contract will run until the end of March 2026. It may however be extended by up to 1.5 years.

The contract will be composed of three phases:

• Inception Phase - three months (3)
• Implementation Phase - thirty four months (34)
• Close-out Phase - three months (3)

Contract Value excluding extension is up to £1.2 million. The maximum value of the contract, including the optional up to 1.5 years extension is up to £1.8 million.

The objective of the MEL project is to support FCDO and GoR to monitor and assess progress against the implementation of the national Social Protection Programme, to assess its effectiveness in reducing poverty and vulnerability in Rwanda, and to generate evidence and learning that will help improve the Programme and strengthen social protection policy and programming in Rwanda.

There are 4 outputs for this programme include:

1. DLI verification - The MEL provider will develop a verification manual and conduct independent verification of the of disbursement-linked indicators (DLIs)at regular intervals throughout the duration of the EPR programme. The objective of the verification is to ensure independent monitoring of the DLIs, that will enable disbursement of results-based financing.
2. EPR Mid-term Review - At the half-way point of the EPR programme (2023), the MEL provider will conduct a mid-term review (MTR) of the programme. The objective of the MTR is to establish recommendations that will inform programme implementation and adaptation for the second half of the programme.
3. The MEL provider will conduct a qualitative and quantitative impact evaluation of VUP.

The objective of the VUP evaluation is a two-fold:

to estimate the impact of the national social protection programme on poverty dynamics.

to provide the contextual analysis and deepen the evidence base around how and why outcomes differ by programme intervention (as well as gender, disability, poverty levels etc.).The Supplier will support the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) to collect consumption data as part of their VUP over-sample, collected through the household living standards survey

4. The MEL provider will allocate £100,000 of the contract value for small scale and strategic research and evidence work, to plug emerging evidence gaps in the sector and strengthen the evidence base for social protection. The objective of this research is to generate evidence that will build support for the most effective programming options and inform on-going programme implementation, and the design of future programming.

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