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This project supports the European Union in the implementation of the EU4CSOs in Ukraine – Call for Proposals 2025, financed under the Ukraine Facility. It focuses on the recruitment and deployment of experienced external assessors to carry out the technical and financial evaluation of grant applications submitted by civil society organisations (CSOs) across Ukraine. The initiative contributes to strengthening democratic resilience, inclusive governance, and civil society participation in the context of Ukraine’s ongoing war of aggression and its EU accession process.

Civil society plays a critical role in Ukraine’s recovery, reform, and European integration efforts. Through this call, the EU aims to support medium-sized, small, and grassroots CSOs—particularly those operating outside Kyiv—working in key priority areas such as women’s rights and gender equality, media and freedom of expression, human rights, social cohesion, and youth engagement.

General objective:

The general objective of the project is to ensure a high-quality, transparent, and policy-aligned selection of civil society actions funded under the EU4CSOs in Ukraine – Call for Proposals 2025, thereby contributing to the strengthening of a resilient, inclusive, and democratic Ukrainian society in line with EU values and accession requirements.

Specific objectives:

The specific objectives of the project are to:

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Provide independent, impartial, and methodologically sound technical and financial assessments of concept notes and full grant applications submitted under the call, in accordance with EU guidelines and evaluation grids.

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Support the Evaluation Committee and Contracting Authority by delivering clear, coherent, and well-substantiated assessments that enable informed funding decisions.

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Ensure consistency, accuracy, and quality control across all evaluation outputs through effective coordination by a dedicated Team Leader.

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Contribute to the selection of projects that demonstrate strong relevance, feasibility, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with EU priorities, including civil society development, democratic governance, gender equality, human rights, media freedom, social cohesion, and youth participation.

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Uphold the principles of transparency, confidentiality, and absence of conflict of interest throughout the evaluation process, reinforcing the credibility and integrity of EU external assistance mechanisms.

Scope of activities:

Assessors work remotely and independently evaluate concept notes and full applications using the EU’s PROSPECT system. Each proposal is assessed by at least two experts, while the Team Leader coordinates the process, performs quality checks, consolidates results, and prepares summary tables and methodological notes. The outputs directly feed into the decision-making process of the Evaluation Committee and support the effective allocation of EU funding to civil society initiatives across Ukraine.

This independant Corporate Emergency Evaluation of WFP’s Response in the State of Palestine assesses WFP's emergency response strategy and interventions since the corporate scale up activation in 2023 until 2026.

The evaluation serves the double purpose of accountability (performance and result assessment) and learning (why certain results occurred or not, lessons and evidence for decision-making). It is envisioned that the evaluation will inform the design of the future engagement in the State of Palestine, which is scheduled for Executive Board consideration in June 2027.

Key sectors and activities include:

• Emergency preparedness and response, including cash-based transfers
• Nutrition and school feeding
• Social protection
• Livelihoods activities
• Institutional capacity strengthening
• Logistics, supply chains and on-demand services

Cross-cutting themes included: Gender equality and empowerment of women (GEEW), inclusion, accountability to affected populations (AAP), protection, conflict-sensitivity, and humanitarian principles.

The evaluation employs a mixed-method approach that triangulates qualitative and quantitative data from a variety of sources. For this purpose, the evaluation team is conducting interviews and focus group discussions with different stakeholders including WFP staff at HQ, regional and country level, WFP cooperating partners, donors, UN agencies, government entities and final beneficiaries.

The main purpose of the BSMA is to ensure that funds of the two World Bank-financed projects, namely the Sudan SANAD – Emergency Crisis Response Safety Nets Project and the Sudan Primary Education Emergency Project (P504621), are used for the intended purpose.

The BSMA will carry out its support and monitoring activities consistent with the terms of the grant agreements concluded by the World Bank with WFP and UNICEF, respectively, including the terms of personal data protection. The BSMA consultancy assignment is additional to the normal monitoring and evaluation (M&E) functions that will be carried out by WFP and UNICEF, respectively, and will monitor and review the following:

• Monitor the progress of project activities in accordance with their overall plans. This includes data collection, field visits, and progress reporting.
• Monitor that results are being achieved in accordance with each projects’ results framework. This includes confirmation of the projects targets in the Results Frameworks.
• Monitor the implementation of the environmental and social risk management instruments as set out in the Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP), and provide recommendations to address the challenges, if any. Provide recommendations for continuous improvement, relevance, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of activities.
• Monitor the mitigation and management of risks outlined in the project documents and provide recommendations to reduce or manage potential risks or constraints identified through the BSMA.
• Provide evidence-based, credible, and useful information to enable the incorporation of conclusions, lessons, and recommendations into the future decision-making processes of the World Bank projects.
• The BSMA will utilise the World Bank’s Geo-Enabling Initiative for Monitoring and Supervision (GEMS) to enhance transparency and accountability of the BSMA services, where possible, given the Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) context.

The overall objective of this contract is to strengthen environmental governance and the sustainable management of natural resources in the Republic of Congo, by aligning national policies with international commitments and promoting the participation of all stakeholders.

Specific Objectives:

• SO1: The Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of the Republic of Congo is revised
• SO2: The implementing regulations of the Wildlife Law are developed and validated through a participatory process
• SO3: Steering and monitoring committees (COPIL) for the national components of ODEBAC and NaturAfrica are organized

LIFE is the main European Commission funding mechanism for improving the state of the environment in the European Union.

Particip GmbH is responsible for the management of the ELMEN EEIG. Particip provides the Administrative Team, the financial management, and one of the two Managing Directors of ELMEN EEIG, and is therefore responsible for ensuring an effective operation of business activities and the compliance with contractual requirements. The overall management tasks include budgeting, accounting and controlling, as well as guaranteeing high team performance and quality assurance.

The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental and climate policy and legislation by co-financing projects with European added value. The general objectives of LIFE shall be pursued through four sub-programmes:

• Nature and biodiversity
• Circular economy and quality of life
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Clean energy transition

The specific objectives of LIFE are:

• To contribute to the transition towards a resource-efficient, low-carbon and climate resilient economy, to the protection and improvement of the quality of the environment and to halting and reversing biodiversity loss, including the support of the Natura 2000 network and tackling the degradation of ecosystems;
• To improve the development, implementation and enforcement of Union environmental and climate change policy and legislation, and to act as a catalyst for, and promote, the integration and mainstreaming of environmental and climate objectives into other Union policies and public and private sector practice, including by increasing the public and private sector’s capacity;
• To support better environmental and climate governance at all levels, including better involvement of civil society, NGOs and local actors;
• To support the implementation of the 7th Environment Action Programme.

The ELMEN EEIG provides about 130 long-term experts specialised in monitoring and evaluation and in thematic fields related to EU environmental policy. The experts monitor more than 1000 projects that are financed via the LIFE instrument.

The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to improve access to basic services and food security of Select Communities in the Republic of the Sudan. The project is designed to complement the current humanitarian aid to Sudan by laying a foundation for medium and longer term development support in areas with high concentration of IDPs. It builds for the future of Sudan by restoring access to basic services and food, protecting human capital, and enhancing communities’ resilience using a bottom-up approach. It is sequenced to first meet immediate basic service needs of vulnerable groups in areas of high IDP concentration and relative safety and accessibility, followed by community-led planning and implementation of medium-term basic services.

Project M&E efforts will be supplemented by BSMA to ensure WB oversight on the ground, given limited access for Bank personnel. To support the WB to fulfil its monitoring and supervision obligations in areas where its staff are unable to access project sites, the Bank engaged with BSMA with the objective of providing a monitoring layer to complement the monitoring activities of the Implementing Entities and ensure that Bank funds are utilized for the purposes specified in the grant agreement and project documents. The BSMA ’s services will include monitoring of all aspects of Project implementation, including:

• Implementation progress or completion status (including community selection and fund allocations, verification of stakeholder engagement activities, timeliness of implementation, physical verification of infrastructure and goods including quality, quantity, sizing/dimensions, etc. prepared as part of small-scale climate-resilient infrastructure development), and compliance that the physical implementation of projects (including physical verification of works/construction) is in accordance with signed contracts and approved safeguards instruments which are prepared based on the requirements of the WB safeguards policies, UNICEF/WFP policies and procedures and relevant laws and regulations of Government of Sudan.
• Monitoring of the Implementing Agencies’ implementing partners’ fiduciary compliance within the limits focused on site assessments as outlined below.
• On the environmental and social risk management (ESRM) side, the BSMA shall carry out verification of the degree of compliance with ESRM requirements as per the site ESRM instruments including site visits to construction sites, waste disposal sites aided, GMV Centres to comply with WB requirements. This will include monitoring compliance with the Environmental and Social Commitment Plan and more specifically the ESF instruments used in the project.
• Monitor functioning of the project’s grievance redress mechanism (GRM).
• Carry out physical verification with digital photographs of ongoing works and goods supplied, through geo-tagged information and support of smart technology, alerting the Bank and relevant Implementing Agency to deficiencies in quality and implementation and following up on the correction of these deficiencies.
• Compile lessons from activity verification, challenges faced and output monitoring to generate reports on lessons learned and recommendations for improving monitored projects.

The BSMA will also be responsible for monitoring any project activities to develop the capacity within the lowest level of governance structures to enable delivery of basic services – at the community and Locality level.

The project provides independent Third-Party Monitoring and Evaluation (TPME) services for the AICS funde multi-sectoral programme to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable populations in Afghanistan (013073/01/0). In a context marked by political uncertainty, economic decline, acute food insecurity, and strained health systems, the assignment ensures accountability and adaptive management of humanitarian interventions in health, nutrition, agriculture, and food security.

Particip designs and implements a robust Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) framework that includes a baseline study, periodic monitoring on a four-monthly cycle, spot checks, and an end-line study. The monitoring system validates whether humanitarian goods and services are delivered as planned, assesses outcomes at the community level, and generates evidence-based recommendations for programme adaptation.

Target groups include beneficiaries (women, children, IDPs, returnees, persons with disabilities, and host communities), local service providers, implementing partner staff, and community leaders. Monitoring activities combine quantitative and qualitative methods, employing participatory approaches to capture lived experiences and ensure inclusivity, particularly for vulnerable groups.

Through regular monitoring reports, infographics, and learning loops, the project supports AICS Islamabad in strengthening oversight, ensuring compliance with humanitarian principles, and promoting transparency in hard-to-reach areas where direct donor access is limited

The Forests for the Future Facility (F4) provides strategic and technical support to the European Commission and to partner countries, to contribute to healthy forest ecosystems able to create decent jobs and to enhance economic growth in partner countries. F4 has a demand-driven approach to improve the number, quality and effectiveness of EU interventions in the forest-relevant sectors. F4's main themes are linked to sustainable forest management, private sector investment, policy reforms and sustainable value chains.

The F4 serves as a platform for dialogue and exchange as well as practical cooperation to address the interlinkages between development, poverty reduction, trade, climate change, biodiversity and forest.

F4 is based on two mutually reinforcing pillars: on the one hand a platform for policy dialogue and knowledge exchange and on the other hand a source of technical and financial support to implement forest-related programmes.

Specifically, the F4 Facility constitutes a team of experts that provides technical assistance to the Commission staff (Commission Headquarter in Brussels and EU delegations, as appropriate) and partner countries to improve the quality of forest-relevant programmes or activities at any stage of their cycle (negotiation, programming, identification, formulation, implementation and evaluation).

The Facility is able to address the full spectrum of the forest sector from legal and sustainable forest management and conservation to trade and consumption aspects, by developing sustainable value chain analysis through a holistic approach, looking extensively at economic, social and environmental indications.

In this context, the Facility promotes the concept of Forest Partnership, integrating programming documents, Team Europe Initiatives and additional policies, which may arise.

Particular attention is given to the role of private sector (smallholder farmers, MSMEs) as a driver of inclusive and sustainable forest sector growth and to enhance civil society ability and capacity to participate in the decision-making and monitoring process.

The Facility also has to be able to assess and develop policies/strategies (reforms, governance, legal framework, institutional strengthening, financing plan, fiscal incentives) within the forest sector as well as sectors that may have an impact on forests, like agriculture, infrastructure, mining.

The overall objective of the assignment is to support the EU Delegation to Nigeria in the full operationalisation and implementation of the Country Level Implementation Plan (CLIP) for Nigeria in the framework of the EU Gender Action Plan III (2021-2025) and provide strategic advice to the EU Delegation in Nigeria on gender mainstreaming.

The specific objectives are:

• To advance EU efforts in ensuring that at least 85% of all actions in the programming 2021-2027 have gender equality as a significant (Gender Marker 1) or principal objective (Gender marker 2) in each priority area of the Multi Annual Indicative Programme (MIP).
• To produce and update existing sector analyses to integrate a gender-sensitive approach into the priority sectors of the MIP for Nigeria.
• To support the formulation of the EU Delegation’s new G2 Action.
• To provide technical support to assist the operational sections of the EU Delegation to Nigeria with the strengthening of a gender sensitive approach in the development of action and contractual documents.
• To support the Organisation of key events with government and non-government stakeholders, policy and political dialogues in relation to Gender Equality and Women’s empowerment.
• To support targeted initiatives and advocacy on women’s empowerment with government institutions and non-governmental organisations.
• To support increased cooperation and synergies with Member States during key events and public diplomacy campaigns including the International Women’s Day and the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
• To provide specific capacity development for EU Delegation staff as required.
• Support the EU Delegation in reporting on the implementation and progress in the CLIP.

The programme seeks to protect biodiversity and improve the livelihoods of rural communities through four main components: (i) strengthening institutional governance, policy dialogue and financial sustainability of natural resource management; (ii) promoting sustainable, community-based livelihoods and alternative economic opportunities; (iii) improving biodiversity conservation, ecosystem management and monitoring through community participation; and (iv) supporting applied research and participatory studies to inform evidence-based planning and policymaking.

Its specific objectives are to (i) assess the achievement of expected outputs and outcomes and emerging impacts; (ii) analyse factors influencing implementation and performance, including constraints, risks and enabling factors; (iii) generate evidence and lessons learned to inform future EU biodiversity programming, particularly under the Global Gateway Strategy and in synergy with the SADC NaturAfrica Programme; (iv) assess the effectiveness of EU resource utilisation and the added value of EU support; and (v) ensure transparent, evidence-based reporting on achievements, challenges and priorities for future cooperation.

The evaluation will apply the OECD-DAC evaluation criteria and EU added value, while integrating cross-cutting considerations such as gender equality, social inclusion, human rights and climate change adaptation.