The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 (A/RES/70/1), provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity, calling all countries to act with a renewed sense of urgency. At its core are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve natural resources. Integrated and indivisible, the SDGs balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social, and environmental.
Progress against the SDGs’ 169 targets is monitored at country level and reported through Member States’ Voluntary National Reviews, annual thematic reviews, and reports of the Secretary-General to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. Building on available measures of progress against established indicators, evaluations have also played a key role in determining what has worked, under what circumstances, and what factors have affected progress against the SDG targets, to promote learning and inform corrective actions. In 2021, the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) also concluded a first synthesis of United Nations System and Development Bank work towards SDG6, which reviewed key findings of evaluations to inform learning and future programming.
The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is planning to lead, in partnership with other evaluation offices of United Nations agencies and development partners, systematic reviews of evaluative evidence of the SDG’s achievements, organized around the five pillars of the SDGs (People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership). The synthesis reviews are planned to be completed by end-2024.
Considering the ambition and breadth of the exercise, the IEO is seeking to hire an evaluation firm to support the conceptual development of the synthesis reviews, including a clear definition of scope, approach, and methodology for the exercise.
Please refer to the attached RFQ document for more information.
RFQ Cover note and Terms of Reference
Annex 2: Quotation Submission Form (Word)
Annex 3: Technical and Financial Offer Form (Word)
Answers to Questions/Clarifications as of 5 Nov 2021
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