DFID 7685 Monitoring, Evidence, Learning and Review (MELR) Provision to the Saving Lives Programme in Sierra Leone

The actual CPV code is ‘75211200 Foreign Economic-Aid Related Services’.

1. Objectives

1.1. The overall objective of the monitoring, evidence, learning and review (MELR) component is to provide DFID, service providers and Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) with comprehensive, accurate and informative reporting on progress and delivery of the SLISL programme.

1.2. Reporting by the MELR supplier will provide accountability for delivery of partners, inform decisions on the approach and direction of the programme and document evidence and lessons learnt.

1.3. The MELR supplier will work with all suppliers and implementing partners to ensure production of verified results and performance reporting. Programme reporting will be supplemented by additional third party data analysis and limited primary research to provide complete and up-to-date reporting on programme performance against the business case and logical framework.

1.4. The supplier will be responsible for producing monitoring reports for the quarterly steering committee meetings, annual programme reviews, a break report between SLISL programme phases, a comprehensive closure review and other lesson learning and evidence documents as appropriate.

1.5. The supplier will support delivery of the SLISL programme with technical advice and reporting on areas such as results measurement, data quality, value for money, gender and inclusion, and political economy.

1.6. As part of their work on programme reporting the supplier will support the Ministry of Health monitoring department to strengthen their capacity to monitor and analyse the reports from a range health sector projects such as the SLISL; supporting them to use the data they receive to report on progress against the President’s Recovery Plan and the Health Sector Strategic Plans. This will leveraging on support to MoHS in working with SLISL reports to also build wider capacity.

1.7. It is not considered that evidence of performance or impact is required through formal evaluation, previous evaluation work has provided good evidence of what works and does not work in the health sector in Sierra Leone. However the supplier will be required to document lessons learnt, assess the strength of the theory of change and disseminate updated project bulletins amongst stakeholders twice a year.

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