This Request for Proposals aims to identify one or more service provider(s) capable of carrying out the final evaluation of the project “Support for independent Burmese media outlets and journalists in exile or in the country”. This Request for Proposals does not constitute, for any applicant company, a promise of award of the future contract.

The contract concluded between CFI and the selected service provider(s) will be a service contract subject to the provisions of the Public Procurement Code

The services entrusted to the service provider will be to conduct the final evaluation of the project “Support for independent Burmese media outlets and journalists in exile or in the country”. This final evaluation will cover the four components of the project throughout the entire implementation period (30 months, from June 13, 2023, to December 13, 2025).

Thus, the final evaluation should enable:

1. To provide a critical and objective analysis of the project design, its objectives, the planned and implemented activities, as well as its implementation over the entire execution period;
2. To evaluate the project according to the OECD DAC criteria of relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, results, impact, and sustainability, addressing the evaluation questions presented in Annex 1;
3. To measure the level of achievement of the general and specific objectives initially set for the project, as well as its contribution to the targeted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
4. To assess the short- and medium-term results of the project on direct beneficiaries;
5. To contribute to learning and capitalization by identifying the factors that enabled the achievement of these results and/or those that created obstacles to their achievement;
6. To assess the needs of media outlets that applied to the call for applications but were not selected, in order to understand their motivations;
7. To draw lessons and propose to CFI, IMS and the donor, the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, strategic and operational recommendations (notably regarding objectives, operating methods, and fields of intervention) with a view to capitalizing on best practices and improving future projects supporting independent Burmese media outlets and journalists in exile.
8. To assess the integration of gender issues across all dimensions of the Project (selection of experts and direct beneficiaries, implementation of activities, themes addressed in the outputs, etc.).