Evaluation of Danish Development Cooperation with Tanzania 1962-2022

Description

The evaluation of the Denmark-Tanzania development cooperation is commissioned in the context of the planned phase-out of Danish bilateral development cooperation managed by the Royal Danish Embassy (RDE) in Dar es Salaam and closure of RDE in July 2024. Tanzania is Denmark’s longest standing development partner. The end of such a historic bilateral cooperation calls for an evaluation that takes stock of Denmark’s contribution to Tanzania’s development journey. While accountability is a primary intention, the evaluation represents a unique opportunity to harvest learning from a long-standing partnership and experiences built over decades. The evaluation also represents a chance to learn from its own experience and contribute with methodological reflections for the conduct of future evaluations with a long-term perspective. Lot 1: The evaluation is tasked with assessing Denmark’s longest-standing development cooperation partnership. Recognising the opportunities and methodological challenges of such a long-term perspective, the purpose of this evaluation is to establish what difference the 60 years of Danish development cooperation has made for Tanzanian institutions, organisations and people. More specifically, the objectives of this evaluation are threefold: Objective 1: To investigate and establish whether, how and for whom Danish development cooperation has contributed to change in Tanzania. Objective 2: To explore and demonstrate whether/how different types of partnerships established over time have strengthened the capacities and role of Tanzanian actors in the country’s development process. Objective 3: To extract lessons and best practices on partnership approaches/modalities conducive to localisation, and methodological lessons for future evaluations with a longer-term perspective. Given the wide variety of sectors covered by the Danish development cooperation over the span of 60 years, and the shift in sector focus during this time span, the scope of the evaluation will be defined by themes of interest. These represent overarching themes based on sectors that Denmark has been working with under the latest bilateral country programme and/or had worked with over a longer period of time, where key results and credible contribution to change are likely to be possible to harvest and trace. The themes of interest will allow the evaluation to look at a given theme in a 360-degree perspective irrespective of aid and partnership modalities. This should ensure that the evaluation’s explorative process of key results, credible contribution to change and lessons is looked at in a more systemic and coherent manner within each theme. These overarching themes should form the basis for higher-level synthesis to meet the objectives and purpose of the evaluation. Concurrently, the themes are expected to provide a rich space for diving deeper into specific dimensions within a given theme and producing a set of case stories. The evaluation is expected to have three themes of interest with areas of enquiry as a basis for harvesting results and establishing credible contributions to change. The themes of interest will include: Theme 1 - Social development: In the context of the evaluation, social development will pertain to the provision of social services with primary health care services and SRHR as the primary focus area. As Denmark had historically supported education, and water and sanitation (WASH) in a wide-ranging manner, these two areas will be of secondary focus. Theme 2 - Economic development: For the purpose of the evaluation, economic development will have its primary focus on opportunities for improved business performance, employment, including self-employment, and income generation and expansion within agriculture/agribusiness development, and access to financial and non-financial services. Given that Denmark substantially supported infrastructures in the past, the secondary focus will be transport infrastructure supporting economic development. Theme 3 - Democratic governance: While work within this field started later in the history of the Danish bilateral cooperation with Tanzania, Denmark’s work with good governance and human rights has not been reviewed or evaluated previously. The evaluation is therefore an opportunity to take stock of and explore what results and change Denmark has contributed with for Tanzania. The primary focus will be on civil society development. The secondary focus will be on state and independent structures protecting human rights. The evaluation is expected to cover the whole period of Danish development cooperation with Tanzania from 1962/63 to 2022. This longer-term perspective of 60 years entails methodological challenges that must be carefully considered and weighed against what is credible and feasible. The contracting authority has a maximum budget of DKK 4,500,000.00 net of VAT in relation to the procurement. Tenders will be rejected if they exceed the contracting authority's maximum budget.