Selected References

The tables below shows a sample of our MEL engagements, organised by theme, ordered by timeframe (newest to oldest), including those profiled on this capability statement and others. This is just a selection – there are many others.

Climate change, energy and sustainable land use

Assignment
Geography
Client
Timeframe
Value (€)
Evaluation of the implementation of Global Water Partnership (GWP) Strategy 2020-2025
Global
Sida (Sweden)
2025
73,770
Mid-term evaluation of the project Capacity Development in Land Management in Rwanda
Rwanda
Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority
2025
59,890
Evaluation of Sida’s Helpdesk for Environment and Climate Change 2022-2025
Global
Sida (Sweden)
2025
36,841
MEL and Research Partner for the Clean Energy Innovation Facility (CEIF) Platform
Global
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) (UK)
2024-2031
1,115,349
Ex-post evaluation of Access to Sustainable Energy in the Philippines (ASEP) project
Philippines
EU
2024-2025
140,234
Independent Verification of the Clean Cooking Services for the Modern Cooking Facility for Africa (MCFA)
DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Nordic Environnemental Finance Corporation (NEFCO)
2024-2029
1,500,000
Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) MEL
Global
Defra (UK)
2023-2026
2,148,883
Mid-term evaluation of the Pacific - European Union Waste Management Programme (PacWaste Plus)
Pacific region
EU
2023
112,720
MEL for Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP)
Global
Rockefeller Foundation (US)
2022-2026
1,965,953
Final evaluation of EU support to the water sector in the Gaza Strip
Palestine
EU
2022-2023
199,540
Evaluation of water diplomacy in the context of Finnish development cooperation – lessons for the future
Global
MFA Finland
2021
200,000
Climate Public Private Partnership Monitoring and Evaluation Phase II
Global
FCDO (UK)
2020–2026
1,863,000
Knowledge, Policy and Implementation Support Manager (KPISM) for Building Resilience and Adapting to Climate Change (BRACC)
Malawi
DFID (UK)
2020-2022
1,154,000
Monitoring and Evaluation Support for a National Project for Kenya: Enhancing access to weather and climate information for Kenya’s coastal region
Kenya
UK Met Office
2018–2019
111,131
Impact Evaluation of the Climate Smart Agriculture Zambia (CSAZ) Programme
Zambia
FCDO (UK)
2017–2022
779,500

Forestry, landscape and biodiversity

Assignment
Geography
Client
Timeframe
Value (€)
MEL services for Achieving sustainable forest management through community managed protected areas in Madagascar
Madagascar
Defra (UK)
2022-2023
822,619
Evaluation of the Blue Forests programme of Blue Ventures
Madagascar and Indonesia
Blue Ventures (UK)
2021-2025
118,971
Evaluation mi-parcours Programme d'appui pour la préservation de la biodiversité et les écosystèmes fragiles – phase 6 (ECOFAC 6)
Gabon
EU
2021-2022
97,640
Evaluation Manager for the Partnerships for Forests (P4F) programme
Global
FCDO (UK)
2017–2021
1,527,420

Agriculture and food security

Assignment
Geography
Client
Timeframe
Value (€)
Final Evaluation of the current engagement of the EU in the Fisheries Sector in Cambodia – CAPFISH-CAPTURE PROGRAMME
Cambodia
EU
2025-2026
303,535
Mid Term Review of Climate Resilient Agribusiness for Tomorrow (CRAFT)
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
SNV (Netherlands)
2022-2023
76,898
MEL support to the Just Rural Transition (JRT) Initiative
Global
The Meridian Institute (US)
2021-2022
96,356
Evaluation of Sida’s support towards food security as part of a wider food system
Global
Sida (Sweden)
2021-2022
Approx. 200,000
External Monitoring of the Programme for Improved Nutrition in Sindh (PINS)
Pakistan
EU
2020-2023
490,630
Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) - Components A and C (leading programme MEL and wider evidence and learning alongside wider implementation)
Ethiopia, Malawi, Nepal, Rwanda, Uganda
FCDO (UK)
2019-2024
20,469,512
Independent M&E of the Northern Uganda Transforming the Economy through Climate Smart Agribusiness (NU-TEC)
Uganda
FCDO (UK)
2016-2022
51,214

Sustainable economic growth, trade, employment and private sector development

Assignment
Geography
Client
Timeframe
Value (€)
Final Evaluation of the 11 EDF Integrated Capacity Building for the SADC Secretariat and National Stakeholders (ICCB)
Southern Africa
EU
2023-2024
145,679
Audit of AfDB’s Management of Climate Change and Green Growth
Africa
African Development Bank (AfDB)
2022-2023
88,576
Assessing MAHKOTA's contribution towards Indonesia's national poverty data system
Indonesia
DFAT (Australia)
2022-2023
90,460
Evaluation finale stratégique et prospective des projets « Population »
Burkina Faso
EU
2022-2023
162,150
Prosperity Fund: Programme and Fund Level Evaluation and Learning Services
Global
FCDO (UK)
2017–2021
7,786,500
M&E Services to the Market Opportunities in the Somali Region of Ethiopia (MORE)
Ethiopia
DFID (UK)
2015-2016
127,400

Governance, democracy, gender and human rights

Assignment
Geography
Client
Timeframe
Value (€)
Independent Evaluation of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
Global
Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
2025
29,508
Final Evaluation of WWF-Norway’s Civil Society Portfolio
Global
WWF
2025
69,467
RBM support to Action Aid, Transparency International and NLACW in Zambia
Zambia
Sida (Embassy of Sweden in Lusaka)
2024-2025
112,061
Evaluation of the Sustaining Action for Gender Equality (SAGE) Portfolio
Global
Gates Foundation
2024-2028
1,324,530
Evaluation finale du projet pilote d'amélioration du système de l'État Civil Guinéen (Digitalisation)
Guinea-Conakry
EU
2024
49,485
Programme d'Appui à la Réforme de la Police - PARP phase III: Evaluation à mi-parcours
Democratic Republic of Congo
EU
2024
108,260
Evaluation of Sida´s approaches to democratisation
Global
Sida (Sweden)
2023-2025
276,638
Longitudinal Evaluation of the Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD) Initiative
Global
Ford Foundation (US)
2022-2025
2,074,064
Evaluation on the EU Engagement with Civil Society in Nepal
Nepal
EU
2022-2023
150,000
Mid-term evaluation (MTE) Promoting the rule of law, enhancing security and countering terrorism
Lebanon
EU
2021-2023
109,860
Evaluation of Norway’s inclusion of persons with disabilities in development cooperation
Global
Norad (Norway)
2021-2023
2,085,557
Impact Evaluation of the Community-Based Psychosocial Support sub-programme
Global
Church of Sweden
2021-2022
100,000
Evaluation of Sida’s support to the African Organisation of English-Speaking Supreme Audit Institutions (AFROSAI-E)
Regional Sub-Saharan Africa
Sida (Embassy of Sweden in Addis Abeba)
2021- 2022
115,000
Evaluation of the Reform Cooperation with Eastern Europe, Western Balkans and Turkey 2014-2019
Eastern Europe, Western Balkans and Turkey
Sida (Sweden)
2019–2020
146,719
Developmental Evaluation of the Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD) Initiative
Global
Ford Foundation (US)
2018–2021
3,021,600

Peace and security

Assignment
Geography
Client
Timeframe
Value (€)
Africa Observatory
West and Francophone Africa
French Ministry of Defense
2024-2026
585,000
Mid-term Evaluation of Regional Programme for Maritime Security in the Red Sea Area
East Africa and Middle East
EU
2025
160,780
Assessment of Sida’s strategic partnership for Humanitarian Assistance
Global
Sida (Sweden)
2024-2025
424,067
Third-Party Monitoring in the Liptako-Gourma Region
Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali
GIZ (Germany)
2023-2024
784,999
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) under the Climate Change, Conflict, Displacement and Irregular Migration Programme in the Sahel
Region West and Francophone Africa
DANIDA (Denmark)
2022-2025
1,878,755
Knowledge monitoring platforms in Lake Chad and Liptako-Gourma
West and Francophone Africa
World Bank (US)
2021-2023
303,350
Suivi-évaluation sensible au conflit pour le programme Capitales Régionales 2 (CR2) au Cameroun
Cameroon
AFD (France)
2021-2022
250,000
Global Evaluation of the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
Global
FCDO (UK)
2019–2023
5,561,800
Evaluation finale du Programme FED/2006/20696 ‘Réhabilitation et réintégration socio-économique après la guerre, dans les régions de l’Est de la RDC (LRRD), Programme Est Congo 9ème FED (PEC)’
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
EU
2019
105,514
Services de consultants pour études de base ou de référence et groupes de discussion du projet de stabilisation et de relèvement de l’est de la RDC dans la province du Sud Kivu
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
STAR-EST project team, Government of the DRC / IDA-World Bank Group
2024
99,320
Services de consultants pour études de base ou de référence et groupes de discussion du projet de stabilisation et de relèvement de l’est de la RDC dans les provinces du Nord Kivu et Ituri
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
STAR-EST project team, Government of the DRC / IDA-World Bank Group
2025
287,255

Education, skills development, digitalisation and research-for-development (R4D)

Assignment
Geography
Client
Timeframe
Value (€)
Final Evaluation of Asi@Connect
Asia
EU
2024
64,975
Final program evaluation of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at University of Edinburgh
Global
Mastercard Foundation / University of Edinburgh (UK)
2022-2023
43,173
Management of the Facility Investing for Employment
Ethiopia, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal, Tunisia, Egypt
KfW Development Bank (Germany)
2020-2025
1,850,535
Mid Term Review of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at University of Edinburgh
Global
Mastercard Foundation / University of Edinburgh (UK)
2020
38,735
Skills Development Fund II - Danish Support to Private Sector Development in Ghana (fund management role, including M&E)
Ghana
DANIDA (Denmark)
2016-2021
2,398,347
Evaluation of IDRC’s Think Tank Initiative II
Global
IDRC (Canada)
2015–2019
731,542
Evaluation of the United Nations University (UNU) Programmes in Iceland
Iceland
MFA Iceland
2016–2017
331,120
Right to Education, Right to Learn – Finland’s Development Cooperation in the Education Sector
Global
MFA Finland
2022-2023
409,714
Enhancing the Quality of Secondary School Education, Zanzibar, Tanzania (EQSSE-Z) (MEL Services)
Tanzania
KOICA
2019-2024
693,198

Other / Cross-cutting

Assignment
Geography
Client
Timeframe
Value (€)
RBM support to improve performance reporting for Sida’s Europe Department
Global
Sida (Sweden)
2025
46,089
Meta-evaluation of MFA's projects and programme evaluations in 2018-2020
Global
MFA Finland
2021-2022
280,000
Evaluation of country programme support to UNFPA, UNICEF and UN Women
Global
Sida (Sweden)
2021-2022
200,000
Evaluation of the Transition of Finnish-Vietnamese Cooperation (2008-2020)
Vietnam
MFA Finland
2020-2021
300,000
Evaluation of Sida’s Resource Base Programmes
Sweden/Global
Sida (Sweden)
2019-2020
150,000
Evaluation of Swedish Leadership for Sustainable Development
Sweden
Sida (Sweden)
2018–2019
103,800
Evaluation of Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) in Finland’s Development Policy and Cooperation
Global
MFA Finland
2022-2023
522,574
Portuguese-speaking African countries and Timor-Leste cooperation (PALOP-TL) Support Measures - Provision of Technical Assistance
Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste
EU
2024-2028
667,345