Reall is an investor and innovator in affordable housing in Africa and Asia. We develop, refine and share innovative housing models that unlock the political will, capital investment and end-user finance needed to create the conditions for hard-working families to secure homes.
Reall seeks to procure a consultant to lead the mid-term evaluation of the delivery of our affordable housing programme, to report to our 2019-2023 funders, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
The purpose of this mid-term evaluation is to help Reall, Reall’s downstream partners and Sida to assess progress in this on-going Programme and inform decisions on how Programme implementation may be adjusted and improved in the second half of the programme. The evaluation is expected to build on previous evaluations and reviews, utilising annual reports to Sida, Reall’s Country and Corporate Strategies, and the newly embedded MEL Framework, to review performance against the Results Framework (see Appendix). As a contractual external evaluation, it is expected to support Sida’s ongoing monitoring of the Programme’s performance.
Using the document review and remote discussions, the evaluator is expected to undertake the following:
- Review Reall’s performance to date, its relevance in addressing the challenges of affordable housing in Africa and Asia, and its ability to meet the end of programme targets:
a. Assess Reall’s performance against the Sida Results Framework to date, and Reall’s ability to meet the end of programme targets.
b. Review any delays in the programme’s start-up and implementation, identify the causes and examine if they have been resolved and learnt from.
c. Assess the programme’s development and leveraging of necessary and appropriate partnerships with direct and indirect stakeholders, including public, private and third sectors, whether any potential key partnerships have been overlooked, and to what extent these partnerships have contributed towards the achievement of programme objectives.
d. Assess Reall’s success in reaching its determined target group, including people on lower income’s perspectives (bottom 40%), and the impact of Reall’s work in addressing poverty within this group.
e. Assess Reall’s success in expanding its brokering work, and how this complements the outputs of other sector actors.
f. Assess Reall’s success in communicating and sharing evidence on the programme’s work, and how this is contributing to planned project impacts.
g. Assess the success in embedding cross-cutting issues within the Programme, most notably climate, gender and disability. - Review the programme’s finances and risks, with a particular focus on value for money:
a. Assess the Value for Money of Sida’s investment into the Programme.
b. Review Reall’s approach to, and success in, managing risks, and highlight any gaps in this approach. - Identify the wider value Reall offers Sida in its global thematic priorities.
- Based on the topics detailed above, make specific, measurable and achievable recommendations on how the programme could be improved to support Reall’s mission.
All further information can be found in the accompanying Terms of Reference found here: Consultancy Reall’s Affordable Housing Mid-Term Evaluation ToR
How to apply
Submissions should be sent to [email protected] by 9am GMT on the 20th August 2021.
Key points for inclusion in this submission are:
- A detailed response to the brief, that demonstrates clear understanding of the key issues and objectives
- Evidence of credible track record and capacity to deliver
- Proposed project workplan
- Detailed budget including all relevant assumptions and at what milestones payments would be expected
- CVs of consultants who would be involved in the evaluation
All further information can be found in the accompanying Terms of Reference.
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