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The global objective of this evaluation is twofold:
- to provide the relevant services of the European Union and interested stakeholders with an overall
independent assessment of the performance of the intervention: Promove Comercio – Building
Competitiveness for Exports, paying particular attention to its different levels of results measured
against its expected objectives and to the reasons underpinning such results; and
- to identify key lessons learned, conclusions and related recommendations in order to inform
decision makers on how to improve current and future interventions.
The Specific objectives of the evaluation :
The specific objectives for this evaluation are to inform decision-making on possible future support to trade facilitation in Mozambique, and to draw lessons that can be replicated in other EU interventions in similar contexts.
The evaluation will assess the intervention using the six standard DAC evaluation criteria, namely: relevance, coherence, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability and perspectives of impact. In addition, the evaluation will assess the intervention through an EU specific evaluation criterion, which is the EU added value.
The definitions of the 6 DAC + 1 EU evaluation criteria are contained for reference in Annex III. Furthermore, the evaluation team should consider whether gender equality and women’s empowerment9, environment and adaptation to climate change were mainstreamed (when relevant); the relevant SDGs (8 and 17) and their interlinkages were identified; the principle of Leave No One Behind (this includes persons with disability, indigenous peoples, children, and the elderly) and the Human Rights- Based Approach was followed during design, and the extent to which they have been reflected in the implementation of the intervention, its governance and monitoring
Qualifications
Qualifications and skills required for the team :
- Excellent knowledge of trade facilitation for developing countries, backed up with adequate qualifications (Trade, Economy, Law, International Development or similar).
- Good knowledge and understanding of the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement and its provisions for trade safeguards.
- Excellent analytical and reporting skills.
- Excellent communication skills, in particular, liaising with different stakeholders.
- At least two members of the evaluation team will have command of Portuguese at level C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CERF) – both spoken and written.
- At least two members of the evaluation team will have command of English at level C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CERF) – both spoken and written.
General professional experience of the team :
- The evaluation team must have a cumulative experience of at least 15 years in the field of evaluation, in development cooperation.
- The evaluation team must have a cumulative working experience of at least 12 years in developing countries for each of the following two areas: (i) development/strengthening of National Quality Infrastructure services, and (ii) private sector development focussed on SMEs.
- And a cumulative working experience of at least 6 years in (iii) development of Trade Safeguards.
- The team leader must have a minimum of three (3) successfully completed intervention-level or strategic evaluations, of which at least two as team leader related to trade facilitation and/or private sector development.
- At least two of the experts must have at least one (1) relevant previous working experience(s) in Mozambique.
- At least one of the experts must have recent technical/sector knowledge and 10 years of experience in capacity development for MSMEs.
- The evaluation team must have some previous experiences of working with or assessing gender mainstreaming approaches.
- The evaluation team must have at least 3 previous experiences in communicating evaluation results to a variety of audiences through specific presentations and/or webinars.
