📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: Hedvika Janecková
Country: Developing countries, unspecified Contract type: Contract for work and services Project start: 10.11.2025 Funding amount: € 12.590,00 End: 28.02.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The Peer Review is supposed to enhance the quality of the Strategic Evaluation of ADC's Gender Policy
Expected results
The expected results are:
- Evaluation management is supported in developing a suitable evaluation and technical appproach at the outset of the evaluation
- Quality assurance is enhanced through the peer reviewers contributions
Target group / Beneficiaries
The target group of this peer review is: the Evaluation Reference Group (approx. 8 persons), the evaluation team (approx. 3 persons) and ADA's Evaluation unit (3 persons).
Activities
The Peer Reviewer contributes to the quality of strategic evaluations by commenting in writing on the draft ToR, the selected proposal, the draft inception report and suggested methodological ap-proaches, the reconstruction of a Theory of Change or select pathways (as applicable), case study design, guidelines for interviews, focus group discussions and workshops as well as the preliminary findings and the draft evaluation report. Furthermore she/he will participate in five meetings (including kick-off, presentation draft inception report, Theory of Change workshop (if applicable), presentation preliminary findings, concluding workshop on refinement of the recommendations) as well as ad-hoc virtual meetings related to her/his written feedback pro-vided. One meeting will take place in Vienna, all others will be conducted virtually. Finally, she/he will provide a written input to ADC’s After-Action Review exercise in which the lessons learned from the evaluations process will be shared. All deliverables will be submitted in English unless other-wise agreed in advance with ADA’s Evaluation Unit.
Context
Peer Reviews are an internationally established tool in development cooperation to ensure quality and enhance learning. Other bilateral development cooperation actors integrate elements of peer review into their strategic and programmatic evaluations. ADA’s evaluation unit, together with MFA’s evaluation unit, is responsible for commissioning and managing strategic evaluations. The Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) introduced the in-strument of Peer Review (PR) in 2018 as a tool to enhance the methodical, methodologic or subject level quality of its strategic evaluations. It is meant to supplement the quality assurance process through ADA and FMA evaluation units and the Evaluation Reference Groups. The Evaluation Policy of the Austrian Development Cooperation, which has been developed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BMEIA, VII.4) jointly with the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and in cooperation with other key Austrian ADC stakeholders, makes reference and encourages the use of peer reviews as a useful tool to enhance quality and learn
