Monitoring and Evaluation platforms tasked with managing and evaluating donor organization's multiple projects are now on the rise.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Research and Evidence Division (RED) is seeking to appoint a Supplier to oversee and manage The Evidence Fund. FCDO will invest £72,000,000 in managing and running an Evidence Fund Project over 6 years starting late 2021.
The Evidence Fund, a single coordinated, research and evidence platform that supports urgent, mid- and longer-term knowledge generation, synthesis, translation and engagement. There are many different types of evidence that FCDO needs to provide and use in order to ensure that its programs and policies are effective in achieving intended development impacts and that the maximum value is returned for every pound spent.
The expected overall outcome of the program will be accessible high-quality research, evaluation and evidence products targeting policy, country-specific and regional priorities available for use by FCDO and the international development sector.
The primary responsibility of the Supplier will be to
- Manage procurement competitions for research and evaluation projects
- Conduct due diligence assessments on prospective sub-contracted Research -Pool providers
- Program manage research projects implemented by sub-contracted research organizations.
- Production of high-quality, policy, country and regionally relevant evidence products demanded by FCDO country program teams in the priority regions
- Well planned and executed research uptake strategies of individual research projects that ensure that this new evidence contributes to policies and programs in the region and globally
- High-quality, evaluation products which address key priorities
- Peer reviewed research products, such as academic papers
- Knowledge management and dissemination
- Establishing a technical assistance facility for additional administrative and program management support to FCDO and wider-RED activities in East Africa, South Asia, and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) .
Research and Evidence Division leads a portfolio of outcome-led Official Development Assistance (ODA) research and development. It aims to:
- Develop and deliver high impact research
- Develop and deliver new technologies and innovations that can help solve pressing development challenges
- Test high potential interventions
- Support the delivery of UK government objectives, including for prosperity, climate mitigation and resilience, global health security, education conflict and security and global influence