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IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network)
Deadline for Proposals: 31 January 2025
Final Date to Express Interest: 15 January 2025
Brief outline of Project:
International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) is looking for consultants to evaluate our 5-year support from the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida). The evaluation should be conducted in late February – mid June 2025. A detailed RFP is attached.
IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network), is a global network of public interest NGOs working together for a toxics-free future for all: a world in which toxic chemicals are no longer produced or used in ways that harm human health and the environment. Today, IPEN is comprised of over 650 Participating Organizations (POs) in 127 countries, primarily in countries with developing and transitional economies. As an advocacy network, IPEN works at the local, national and global levels, to achieve change.
IPEN has been supported with core funding from the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) since 2016. For the current period, 2021-2025, IPEN has developed a five-year plan with defined outcomes and results for the network. The overall goal for IPEN’s plan is Safer Chemicals Management: Strengthening and Implementing International and National Regulations, Policies and Plans that Reduce and Eliminate Harm from Chemical Pollution. The work focuses on four main objectives, three focusing on the programmatic work of IPEN and one focusing on the institutional strengthening of the network:
- Reduce and Eliminate the World’s Most Hazardous Chemicals
- Halt the Spread of Toxic Metals
- Advance Strategic International Policies & Initiatives (including the Plastics Treaty process)
- Strengthen the Global Movement and Capacity of Public Interest Actors
IPEN now seeks a consultant to conduct an evaluation of Sida core support. The support continues until the end of 2025; thus, the evaluation will include activities and results from the first four of the five years of the grant.
The evaluation should:
- Evaluate the level of achievement of the planned results.
- Identify changes in context or implementation that have promoted or prohibited successful results.
- Assess to what extent the activities have been relevant to the IPEN POs.
- Review the IPEN Theory of Change and provide recommendations for the development of future strategic plans and results matrixes.
- Assess the sustainability of results achieved.
- Assess how IPEN’s work has contributed to Sida’s overall goal of poverty reduction and to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), using Sida’s definition of Multi-dimensional Poverty Analysis (MDPA).
- Assess the efficiency and cost effectiveness of IPEN’s work and to what extent IPEN has managed to secure future funding from donors other than Sida.
- Provide recommendations for IPEN’s development relating to areas of work and objectives, organizational structure and operations.
See RfP for full details