Professional Services to Conduct Evaluations and Evaluative Studies for UN Entities

⁠⁠⁠Project Tender details: Summary for Request for EOI: Identification of roster of vendors to conduct evaluations and evaluative exercises for the United Nations Peace building Fund (PBF); the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS); and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

OIOS is the internal oversight body of the United Nations Secretariat and has an Inspection and Evaluation Division (IED) based in New York which conducts independent thematic and programmatic evaluations of the United Nations Secretariat Offices, Programs, Departments and Peacekeeping Operations. Evaluations are conducted by teams of OIOS-IED staff members under the overall supervision of a Chief of Section with review by advisory panels, as necessary. The evaluations involve as part of their methodology, the collection, compilation, analysis and presentation of data from a variety of qualitative and quantitative sources. Final evaluation reports are publically available.

OCHA conducts evaluations of OCHA's own policies and responses, and Inter Agency Humanitarian Evaluations (IAHE) on behalf of the Inter Agency Standing Committee. OCHA also conducts scoping, inception, synthesis and meta-evaluations. OCHA evaluations are mandated by the IASC or requested by OCHA's Senior Management as independent evaluations of specific issues and humanitarian operations. Their main objective is to provide findings and recommendations on these key issues, for OCHA's Senior Management and IASC consideration and action. They will also serve as relevant inputs to policies and guidance, and other reviews. Evaluations are conducted by independent evaluators and managed by OCHA's Evaluation Unit that is located in the Strategic Planning Evaluation and Guidance Section (SPEGS) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary General's office. An Evaluation Unit staff member may be part of the evaluation team. OCHA evaluations and IAHEs are typically guided by a management / advisory group.