Title: Results Oriented Monitoring (ROM) system for external aid interventions financed by the European Union: Neighbourhood region, Lot 1

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

Contract number: NEAR-COMMON/2019/408-563

Contract duration: 2019 – 2020

Contracting authority: European Commission – Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA)

Budget: EUR 3,474,970

Regions: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine / West Bank & Gaza, Russia, Syria, Tunisia, 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 1 will cover NEAR-funded interventions in the Neighbourhood region. The working languages for this lot are English and French.

Partners:
• Lot 1: 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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