Results Oriented Monitoring (ROM) System for External aid Interventions financed by the European Union: IPA II region, Lot 2

Programme title: Operational expenditure programme 2018 for Evaluation and Monitoring for the enlargement and Neighbourhood Regions

Tender/Contract awarded: EuropeAid/139806/DH/SER/MULTI

Contract number: NEAR-COMMON/2019/408-611

Contract duration: 2019 – 2021 (24 months)

Contracting authority: European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships (EuropeAid HQ)

Contract value: EUR 3,442,080

Regions: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Libya, Moldova, Ukraine

Description: The Results Oriented Monitoring (ROM) system aims at improving the performance of EU-funded interventions by strengthening monitoring system at intervention and corporate level. The ROM system is part of the overall European Commission’s quality assurance cycle, starting with the design of EU-funded interventions and ending with their evaluation.
The services to cover by this contract include the following aspects:
• ROM reviews: provision of external, objective and impartial assessment on the performance of selected NEAR interventions under implementation on the basis of a methodology provided by the European Commission.
• Quality assurance and support at design stage: provision of technical support to EC services in the formulation of logical framework (logframe) as well as design of monitoring and reporting systems at intervention level.
• Support to results reporting at institutional and intervention level: provision of quality control based on a methodology provided by the European Commission on results data reported by NEAR-funded interventions.
• Assistance in ensuring adequate linkages between monitoring, evaluation and lessons learning: analysis and consolidation of the information collected in order to feed evaluations and improve lessons learning.
The European Commission will sign one service contract per lot.
Lot 2 will cover NEAR-funded interventions in the Western Balkans and Turkey (IPA II region). The working language for this lot is English.

Partners:
• Lot 2: Consortium led by Particip GmbH & INTEGRATION and composed of various European and international consulting firms. DEV4U participated as a technical partner

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