Innovative Metrics and Methods for Cost-effective Agriculture and Nutrition Programming.

Descriptions

Tender relaunch DFID (Research and Evidence Division) is seeking a Service Provider or Consortium to establish a new research programme on Stimulating Innovative Metrics and Methods in Agriculture, Nutrition and Health.This programme aims to contribute to the goal of a step change in the generation of high quality evidence linking agriculture, nutrition and health, by stimulating innovations in robust methodological approaches to impact assessment in agriculture and human nutrition/health, including the development of novel indicators metrics and tools. The Service Provider or Consortium will be required to manage a grant fund to support the development of innovative evaluation Metrics, establish a network of expertise in this interdisciplinary approach to impact assessment, and build capacity and future capability in this area through career fellowship schemes. As a minimum, suppliers will be expected to demonstrate expertise in the management and delivery of high quality applied and operational research, ideally in the field of agriculture and nutrition. Experience of capacity building and managing research networks is also required. DFID is relaunching this competition on basis that we can now clarify the eligibility requirements of bidding organisations for this specific contract. Both lead organisations and consortium partners/sub-contractors may also bid for the research grants, as long as robust management of Conflict of Interest is demonstrated and the selection, peer review and QA processes for research are independent. The contract is scheduled to commence in January 2014 and will run for a period of up to 5 years until December 2018. A further extension of up to 2 years may be granted subject to resources and need.