External evaluation services

Summative-formative-prospective-forensic evaluations responding to learning, accountability, and/or investigative purposes versus partners, donors and other interested stakeholders inspired by Doing Development Differently principles and including latest evaluation methodological trends (outcome harvesting, systemic angles, principle-based, theory-based evaluations, etc.)

Teams

  • External: external evaluation expert(s) together with local/regional collaborators appointed as field workers + panel of experts external/internal on the thematic area of the project
  • Mixed (internal-external): external expert on evaluations + in-house staff + panel of experts internal/external

ContactsAdded values:

  • Data collection: potential use of advanced data collection techniques (including capacity building workshops or videos to staff). E.g.: most significant change stories, retrospective baselines set up with control group, case studies, etc.
  • Lessons learned and interesting practices: sound assessment of lessons learned and interesting practices produced by the project specifically focused on learning aspects from in-house teams.
  • Monitoring, evaluation and learning system: including capacity building and specific set of recommendations to improve and tailor systems for evidence-based and adaptive decision making (may include workshops on reconstructing/developing theories of change, set up a complete indicators system, etc.)
  • Donors’ feedback: we always include donors as part of the evaluation process to crosscheck interests, doubts or perceived project value to boost client-donors relationships.
  • Partnerships: we foster mutual accountability between project partners thoroughly assessing partnership set up and principles.

DocumentationAverage services

  • Standard evaluation: 30 working days, 1 external expert, remote field work, local field data collectors*, internal panel of experts
  • Evaluation plus: 70 working days, up to 3 external experts, face to face field work + local field data collection**, external panel of experts