COAST MEL

Description

The purpose of this contract is to deliver an independent monitoring, evaluation and learning component for COAST. The Supplier will implement a suite of activities, set out in the published ToR  involving close collaboration with and support to other COAST tier-1 delivery partners to support the following objectives for the component:

i)	Monitoring and Oversight: Ensure the COAST portfolio of activities across its components are monitored accurately, effectively and efficiently to support programme-level oversight, performance monitoring and results aggregation and reporting, including to support COAST's BPF portfolio reporting requirements;

ii)	Evaluation: COAST's activities are evaluated to understand what is working and what is not (and for who - with a focus on gender, economic, social and inclusion);

iii)	Learning to inform Decision Making: Lessons from COAST's delivery and emerging evidence are effectively captured and acted upon by the COAST programme team and tier-1 delivery partners to support effective decision making leading to impact and VfM, as well as to inform the global evidence base, and;

iv)	Coordination: COAST partners effectively coordinate and collaborate to ensure COAST achieves more than the sum of its individual components.