Expression of Interest for Learning & Evaluation Team Localization Initiatives – EAGL Region

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is seeking expressions of interest from firms with demonstrable experience in longitudinal evaluation to serve as a long-term learning and evaluation team for a multi-year programme focused on locally led humanitarian response across Sudan, South Sudan, Chad, Uganda, and Kenya. The selected consulting firm will function as a critical friend, impartial evaluator, and real-time sense-maker, providing developmental evaluation services including short-form real-time learning briefs, periodic developmental evaluation reports, facilitated sensemaking sessions with governance bodies, annual synthesis reports, a mid-term review, and a final exit-phase evaluation. The engagement is structured in phases aligned to the programme’s lifecycle, with standing access to programme governance meetings as an observer. Additionally, the firm will have the option to provide flexible, drawdown-based technical MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning) support for discrete pieces of work outside the core developmental evaluation function.

Proven experience designing and delivering developmental evaluations over multi-year, longitudinal engagements, ideally of localisation initiatives, adaptive governance mechanisms, or programme accountability assignments; substantive expertise in localisation and locally led response, including familiarity with community-based structures; strong conflict sensitivity and remote/hybrid research methods; credibility with, and ideally prior working relationships with, civil society and community-based responders and/or diaspora networks; ability to access a broader technical MEAL bench beyond the core embedded DE team for specific tasks such as MEAL tool design, Theory of Change facilitation, and rapid assessment; bidders must indicate the range of additional expertise available and typical mobilisation timeframes.