Evaluation of the Building Resilience in Catchments (BRICs) Project

Descriptions

PLANED wishes to appoint an independent, professional, external evaluator for the employer and funders to assess how the BRICs project has performed against its forecast outcomes and activities and to learn any lessons that can be applied to the project or elsewhere. The appointed evaluator will be expected to audit the operation’s delivery against the aims and objectives of the operations, cross cutting themes, governance and delivery processes as required and in line with the Welsh Government (WG) Sustainable Management Scheme (SMS) requirements. This will include ensuring that the monitoring and evaluation methods and parameters are adequate and appropriately targeted and to audit the success of the project upon its completion. The following specific tasks are proposed (although Tenderers are invited to submit alternative proposals for tasks provided the WG SMS criteria are satisfied):-Task 1:Effectiveness of achieving projects aims & objectivesTask 2:Effectiveness of delivering the agreed delivery profileTask 3:Effectiveness of delivering key outcomes/indicatorsTask 4: Effectiveness of evolving to accommodate changeTask 5: Effectiveness of partnership workingTask 6:Assessing the wider environmental & social benefit of projectTask 7: Review and production of a final reportThis project is being funded through the Sustainable Management Scheme which is part of the Welsh Government Rural Communities Rural Development Programme 2014-20.For full details see "BRICs - ME ITT Final" and "81162 - PLANED SMS - BRICs - Part Two - Project Plan FINAL" in additional documents.