Individual Consultant: Team Leader for Project Final Evaluation

The Monitoring and Evaluation Policy at the project level in UNDP/GEF has four objectives: i) to monitor and evaluate results and impacts; ii) to provide a basis for decision making on necessary amendments and improvements; iii) to promote accountability for resource use; and iv) to document, provide feedback on, and disseminate lessons learned.

The final evaluation is intended to assess the relevance, performance and success of the project. It looks at early sign of potential impact and sustainability of results, including the contribution to capacity development and the achievement of global environmental goals. It will also identify/document lessons learned and make recommendations that might improve design and implementation of the national policy as a follow-up to the UNDP/GEF project initiatives.

 

The evaluation is to be undertaken in accordance with the “GEF Monitoring and Evaluation Policy”(see http://thegef.org/MonitoringandEvaluation/MEPoliciesProcedures/mepoliciesprocedures.html).

 

Evaluations in the GEF explore five major criteria:

The key product expected from this final evaluation is a comprehensive analytical report in English that should, at least, include the following contents:

 

Please note that some of the categories in the findings and conclusions need to be rated in conformity with the GEF guidelines for final evaluations.

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

The financial proposal will specify the daily fee, travel expenses and per diems quoted in separate line items, and payments are made to the Individual Consultant based on the number of days worked.

 

All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.

 

In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the Cumulative analysis (detailed information is given in the ANNEX 1):

UNDP applies the ‘Best value for money’ approach - the final selection will be based on the combination of the applicants’ qualifications and financial proposal. Maximum obtainable score is 100, out of which the total score for technical criteria equals to 70 and for financial criteria – to 30.

Total for technical qualification: 50 points. Candidates who will obtain 70% or more out of maximum obtainable (i.e. 50 x 70% = 35) points will be considered as qualified

Interviewing of the short-listed candidates.

Evaluation of financial proposals and cumulative evaluation

A maximum of 30 points will be assigned to the lowest price offer. All other price offers will receive points in inverse proportion, using the formula: Financial score offer X = 30 x (lowest price/ price offer X).

Applicant with maximum combined scores calculated as (Scores _{technical qualification} + Scores _interview + Scores _{financial proposal} ) will be granted a contract.