ABOUT SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL
Solidarités International (SI) is a French humanitarian organization providing lifesaving assistance to populations affected by armed conflict, natural disasters, and epidemics for more than 40 years. Independent of political or religious affiliation, SI specializes in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH); food and livelihood security; emergency shelter; and integrated multisectoral responses.
SI operates in over 23 countries, with 2,400 staff working to restore access to essential services and strengthen community resilience.
ABOUT THE MISSION
SI has been operational in Sudan since 2020, initially responding to the Ethiopian refugee crisis in Gedaref. In 2022–2023, SI expanded to West Darfur with emergency WASH operations in Geneina.
Following the April 2023 conflict, SI temporarily evacuated but rapidly became the first INGO to resume operations, reopening bases in Geneina, Gedaref, and North Darfur.
SI and its consortium partners continue delivering critical assistance despite severe access constraints, insecurity, and disruptions to basic services affecting millions of vulnerable people across Sudan.
PURPOSE OF THE CONSULTATION – ABOUT THE MARKET
The United States Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) funds a multisectoral emergency response implemented through a consortium led by SI with Première Urgence Internationale (PUI), Mercy Corps (MC), and Triangle Génération Humanitaire (TGH).
The project covers key humanitarian sectors including:
Food Assistance, Health, Nutrition, Protection, Shelter & Settlements, WASH, and Economic Recovery and Market Systems across Darfur, Gedaref, Khartoum, and Al Jazirah.
The consultancy aims to conduct a Final Performance Evaluation to:
- Assess achievement of project objectives, outcomes, and targets;
- Evaluate performance against OECD-DAC criteria (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, sustainability);
- Document lessons learned, good practices, and recommendations for future programming;
- Analyze consortium added value and contextual adaptation strategies.
CONSULTANCY DELIVRABLES AND TIMELINES
The evaluation runs for approximately 50 working days between 1 February – 16 April 2026 and includes the following phases:
- Inception Phase
- Kick-off meeting
- Comprehensive document review
- Inception Report (methodology, sampling, DAP, tools, timeline, limitations)
- Presentation and validation by consortium teams
- Data Collection Phase
- Tool development, translation, KOBO programming
- Enumerator training
- Field data collection (FGDs, KIIs, surveys, observations) across targeted locations
- Quality assurance and preliminary analysis
- Reporting Phase
- Presentation of preliminary findings
- Draft Final Report
- Final Evaluation Report (≤30 pages + annexes)
- Lessons Learned document (max 5 pages)
- Two case studies
- Two-page infographic
- Submission of cleaned datasets and codebooks
Full deliverable dates, milestones, and responsibilities are detailed in the ToR.
REQUIRED PROFILE
Applicants (individual consultants or firms) must demonstrate:
- Strong experience (at least 5 years) conducting major research exercises in support of major development programs – preferably in emergency and resilience programming – in challenging operational environments, previous experience in Sudan is desirable.
- A strong approach to assuring quality assurance of data collected.
- A strong ethical approach to data collection – while still being able to meet the objectives of the consultancy.
- Knowledge of strategic and operational management of humanitarian operations and proven ability to provide strategic recommendations to key stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to synthesize and present findings, draw practical conclusions, make recommendations and to prepare well-written reports on time.
- Demonstrated experience in both quantitative and qualitative data collection and data analysis techniques, especially in emergency operations.
- Data visualization skills are highly desirable and required (Tableau or Power BI).
- Strong skills in survey form design for mobile data collection (ODK, Ona etc) – Required.
- Experience providing result-oriented conclusions and recommendations to local, national and international stakeholders.
- Experience, knowledge, and clear understanding of Sudan’s humanitarian context (preferred).
- Experience with evaluating USAID/BHA-funded projects.
- Good interpersonal skills and understanding cultural sensitivities.
- Readiness to travel to Sudan via Tchad and conduct direct standard evaluation activities as well as field visits to program sites. Having a presence in North Africa or Sudan is desirable but not essential.
- Fluency in English and Arabic (at least for field team members) is required.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested applicants must first request the Terms of Reference (ToR) by emailing: tender@solidarites-sudan.org no later than the 28th December 2025.
Please include “SUD – BHA3184 Final Evaluation” in the email subject line.
Applicants may submit any questions or requests for clarification related to the ToR or the assignment until 28th December 2025 using the same email address.
Final applications must be submitted by email to tender@solidarites-sudan.org no later than 08 January 2026 at 04:00 PM (Sudan time).
For all communications including ToR requests, clarification questions, and proposal submissions, please clearly indicate “SUD – BHA3184 Final Evaluation” in the subject line.
Applications from interested parties should include but not limited to:
- A – A cover letter – one-page maximum
- B – A technical bid including but not limited to:
- Understanding of the study issues and the ToR (full version);
- The Methodology: This section should include the methodological framework, references to the data collection methods, and the sampling approach.
- A timeline showing the details for the completion of each evaluation phase. (Refer to 6: Evaluation Schedule)
- Approach to data collection, cleaning, analysis, iterations.
- Composition of the evaluation team, their CVs, and roles/responsibilities during the evaluation
- C – Profile/CV of the consultant(s), including but not limited to:
- Training and qualifications
- Professional experience (specific skills or relevant contexts of intervention)
- Experience in evaluation or research in similar contexts: A complete list of all evaluations conducted with the details of donors, type of evaluation, the theme of the projects (WASH, FSL, etc), and region is a must.
- Knowledge of the country/area of intervention
- Languages
Solidarités International will consider both individual and team applications.
- D – Two examples of an evaluation report in English for a similar work preferably with BHA funding (max 20 pages)
- E – Two References: Provide references for the last two Evaluations conducted (Name, position, organization, email, and phone number). Proposals that do not include at least two references for consulting or research work will not be considered.
- F – The financial proposal should outline:
- Total Cost (all costs should be in USD)
- Cost per day of each contributor;
- Additional costs (additional services and documents);
- Transport costs (international and local), logistics costs;
- Proposed schedule of payments.
The evaluation criteria for the proposal are:
- Price / Financial proposal and terms of payment: 25%.
- Quality of the methodology / Technical proposal / Skills/ References: 75%.
Bids that do not include at least one reference for consulting or research work will not be considered.
Please note that only short-listed candidate(s) will be contacted/interviewed.
Solidarités International will consider both individual and team applications.
TIMETABLE FOR THE APPLICATION
Withdrawal of offers is from 9 December 2025 – 8 January 2026 (Deadline included)
Clarifications for bidders: last day is on 28 December 2025
Opening session is on the 9 January 2026
Evaluation of bids is to be finalized by the 18 January 2026
and finally the contract is expected to be signed by the 25 January 2026