Title: Support to programming, monitoring, evaluation and knowledge sharing in the EU external action (MELDEA)

Tender/Contract awarded: INTPA/2022/EA-RP/0143

Contract duration: 2023 – 2027

Contracting authority: European Commission, DG for International Partnerships (INTPA)

Budget: 26,929,500 €

Regions: Africa, Asia, ENI, Latin America & Caribbean, Oceania, Western Balkans

Description: The purpose of this contract is to support DG INTPA and DG NEAR in improving quality of performance, institutional learning, and accountability for a better targeted and more sustainable impact of EU external action.

The project comprises 7 different services:
1: provide methodological support to EU staff to plan, design, implement, monitor, and evaluate EU interventions in a coherent, efficient and effective manner.
2: assist requests of methodological screening and quality assurance related to programming and design.
3: assist to the enhancement of the internal monitoring and results reporting systems of the Commission services.
4: support and contribute to the revision of the results-oriented monitoring (ROM) system and provide operational and coordination support to the ROM contracts.
5: assist Commission staff in their mandate to steer, coordinate, monitor and report on evaluation activities.
6: support the two units of the DGs to enhance the quality of EU external action by ensuring the quality of the different evaluation deliverables.
7: provide methodological support on knowledge management for INTPA.D4 and NEAR.A4 by developing a set of tools and techniques and responding to requests of support.

Main staff provided for 1 year of contract:

• Key Expert 1 (Team Leader): 220 WD
• Key Expert 2: 220 WD
• Key Expert 3: 220 WD
• Key Expert 4: 220 WD
• SNKE: 1650
• MNKE: 950
• JNKE: 850
• ST Pool of experts: 1309

Partners: SQuaRE by MEL (Managed by Particip) (Lead), DEV4U, Espes, Meliorate, Particip

Tender/Contract URL: link

Project URL: siembra.dev4u.it