International call for MEAL consultancy - Outcome Harvesting Evaluation

NOTE: only organisations registered outside of Denmark are eligible for this consultancy opportunity.

Opportunity: ActionAid Denmark (AADK) is seeking a consultant, or team of consultants, to complete an Outcome Harvesting Evaluation. This is a MEAL consultancy to support AADK to assess the impact of its programming and partnership with local organisations.

About SPAII: Since January 2022, AADK has implemented the Strategic Partnership Agreement II (SPAII) in partnership with 17 ActionAid countries as well as with partners at the international level. AADK made a significant change in programming strategy from SPAI to SPAII to align with the overall AADK strategy as well as the AA strategy, and the overall objective of the SPAII programme is ‘Societies are transformed to become more just, feminist, green, and resilient.’ The thematic priorities are expressed through the following three strategic objectives:

• Strategic Objective 1: Democracy Deliver – young people, especially young women and those facing marginalisation or fragility, enjoy their rights to an open and enabling democratic space and access to well-resourced programmes and public services.
• Strategic Objective 2: Resilient livelihoods and just transition – young people, especially young women and those facing marginalisation or fragility, enjoy a just transition and their right to climate resilient livelihoods.
• Strategic Objective 3: Youth Leadership in Crises – young people, especially young women and those facing marginalisation, are resilient to shocks and enjoy their right to protection in fragile contexts, disasters, and protracted crises.

Objectives of the Outcome Harvesting Evaluation:

1. To provide AADK with a robust evaluation and verification of the breath of impact and outcomes, as ascertained from harvested outcomes and complementary desk research.
2. To provide data, evidence and impact pathways for a set number of in-depth, substantiated and verified harvested outcomes.
3. To provide a set number of case studies, derived from harvested outcomes, for external communication.
4. Identification of opportunities and strategic lessons for future outcome harvesting, outcomes and impact learning.

These objectives will support AADK in demonstrating accountability to right-holders, partners, donors, and other stakeholders in terms of evidence of results achievement as well as to contribute to evidence-based decision-making, fundraising, and support learning processes internally and with partners.

Based on the objectives above, the scope of this evaluation is a comprehensive review of outcomes harvested throughout the duration of SPAII and complementary desk research of SPAII evidences, case studies, etc. This should be completed for all outcomes harvested across the three strategic objectives, as well as cross-cutting outcomes.

The evaluation should draw lessons relating to the effectiveness, relevance, scalability and impact of the harvested outcomes. Attention should be given to principles of participation and inclusion, equality and non-discrimination, feminist leadership principles, feminist research principles as well as accountability and reciprocity as addressed in the programme interventions. Findings should be structured to inform the SPAII Final Narrative report and communicate both programme achievements and strategic learning.

Evaluation Team:

• Experience of outcome harvesting.
• Experience of feminist leadership processes, intersectional feminist analysis and understanding of decolonial and anti-racist approaches to evaluation.
• Proven experience in leading exercises similar in scope to the present task.
• Extensive experience in evaluations, reviews, and assessments or other formative exercises particularly for large-scale complex programmes, with evidence of understanding of global standards, theories, models, and methods related to assessing results achievements, effectiveness, and value-add of different actors.
• Experience of online group facilitation
• Experience and ability to communicate complex projects to a range of audiences.
• Experience with results assessing of human rights-based, policy-influencing and advocacy interventions and the work of NGOs, CSOs and social movements to influence change at various levels.
• Specific thematic experience in youth-led change, climate justice, humanitarian response and/or gender responsive public services.
• Ability to conduct participatory and inclusive collaborative processes across different organisations and countries – including the ability to engage with, listen to and learn from a broad range of stakeholders.
• Experience from working in context covered by the SPAII programme.
• Strong communication skills, both in writing and orally in English, and ability to produce high-quality products underpinned by rigorous critical analysis of collected data and assembled evidence. French and Arabic is an advantage.

This is a global competition open to bidders from all geographic areas except for Denmark, and following the technical review, the financial proposal will be reviewed for the best overall comparative value. The evaluation is expected to take place from October to December 2026.