Strategic management and M&E support to the implementation of the Denmark — Kenya Country Programme
To assist the Royal Danish Embassy (RDE) in Nairobi in monitoring the progress of the Kenya Country Programme and to inform improved cooperation, steering and implementation the RDE plans to implement comprehensive and complementary external monitoring, evaluation and learning activities over the 5-year engagement.
Country programme monitoring is the responsibility of the Embassy. In order to ensure quality monitoring the Embassy has decided to assist partners with the development of, and implementation of adequate monitoring frameworks, collection of data and reporting on progress towards agreed results of the engagements or programmes as a whole, including financial aspects. Furthermore the Embassy has decided that the management information should be structured in systematic and coherent manner.
This contract is for the services of a consulting company, organization or consortium to assist with this.
The main objective of the assignment is to help ensure that Kenya Country Programme results are achieved as planned. This advisory support purpose is 2-fold:
— Provide continuous systematic, structured and strategic management information based on the Kenya Country Program, including the CP Theory of Change (ToC), the Thematic Programmes and the Development Engagements (DE), as well as the M&E systems of the DE partners;
— Increase the capacity of the Embassy DE implementing partners with regards to Results Based Management, including M&E and risk management.
The M&E Support is premised on the monitoring dimensions of the Danida Guidelines for Country Programmes: Results monitoring; to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the programme and whether performance is as expected; Monitoring of assumptions; to assess if the ToC is still valid, or whether the programme must adapt a new intervention Logic; and risk monitoring; to assess to what extent the programme is in danger of being compromised, needing adjustment of ToC or implementation modality
Following the DANIDA Guidelines for Country Programmes, the M&E Support reporting will be structured according to OECD DAC quality criteria of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability. This will be done by assessing the current and continuing programme relevance and design in a changing implementation context, programme efficiency to date and the likelihood of effectiveness and impact as well as the prospects for sustainability. It will function as an early warning system with regards to fiduciary risks and may deepen the analysis through targeted Value for Money (VfM) assessments.
The Kenya Country Programme 2016-2020 is based on the vision of the Denmark-Kenya Partnership Policy 2015-2020 and will support the objective of Kenya's Vision 2030 ‘Contributing to a globally competitive and prosperous nation with a high quality of life by 2030’. The Country Programme consists of three thematic programmes:
— Governance with 225 000 000 DKK will support the constitutional reforms with essential change processes in three intervention areas:
(i) Democratic practices;
(ii) Public sector effectiveness; and
(iii) Peace, security and stability.
— Green Growth and Employment with 500 000 000 DKK will support transition to a greener growth path through support in two intervention areas:
(i) Sustainable growth and jobs from investment and trade; and
(ii) Sustainable use of natural resources and community resilience.
Health with 245 500 000 DKK will support provision of equitable access to quality health care through two intervention areas, namely:
(i) Support to the devolved health sector in the form of operational support for primary health care facilities and for health systems strengthening at county and national government levels; and
(ii) support for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
The scope of services will include:
— Support (during the initial programme phase) to the refinement and revision of the results framework, in close association with programme partners. This includes factoring in the Sustainable Development Goals;
— Political economy analysis for Embassy programme management staff on the opportunities and constraints in Kenya and the region that are likely to effect the achievement of the country programme objectives;
— On an annual basis, assessment of the Country Programme, including the Thematic Programs, in relation to the OECD DAC quality criteria of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability;
— Information on emerging good practice in development cooperation from other countries/donors that may benefit the country programme;
— Provide quality assurance oversight of the M&E information generated by engagement partners for each of the development engagements under the programme;
— Provide strategic and technical advice to Embassy programme management staff and partner staff;
— Facilitate workshops targeting both DE partner and Embassy staff;
— Provide training to partners linked to Results Based Management, including risk management;
— Review and consolidate M&E information from development engagements, and prepare and present focused M&E reports to the Embassy programme committee in its quarterly meetings;
— Prepare the draft Annual Kenya Country Programme Report on country programme results and development in risks and other factors impacting on successful country programme implementation;
— Contribute to the Embassy work on communicating results through case stories and an annual report for use by media in Kenya and Denmark;
— Provide technical follow up on specific issues/problems identified through M&E reports, as requested by the programme committee and subject to resource availability; such follow up would for example include value for money assessments; investigation and analysis of under-performance; mentoring of partner staff in M&E techniques.
The contractor will as requested share information and cooperation with a Real Time Evaluation team which Danida Headquarters as a pilot exercise, will do on the Denmark Kenya country programme.
The contract is expected to include an equivalent of 2-3 full time staff input annually, and a number of short term inputs, over the 5 year Country Programme cycle. The maximum budget for this contract is 20 000 000 DKK.
Deadline
Fristen for modtagelse af bud var på 2016-01-15.
Indkøbet blev offentliggjort på 2015-12-15.
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| 2015-12-15
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| 2016-04-29
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