WWF-UK Consultancy: FCDO funded Forest Governance Markets and Climate (FGMC) Project Evaluation

The Forest Governance, Markets and Climate ('FGMC') programme is a global programme of UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office ('FCDO') with the broad aim of bringing about governance and market reforms that reduce the illegal use of forest resources and benefit people who depend on forests for their livelihoods. As part of global efforts to improve forest management and tackle deforestation, FGMC supports international policy processes which tackle illegal logging in timber-producing developing countries and the trade in illegally produced timber products. The programme focuses on policy and legal reforms that eliminate illegal logging and illegal deforestation, establish transparency, promote legal trade and ensure rights and benefits for people from lower socio-economic backgrounds, local communities and indigenous people. The FGMC approach enables local interests (government, private sector and civil society) to come together to address and settle long standing grievances and injustices through a formal, inclusive, facilitated and reasoned process of deliberation, that bestows legitimacy on legal reforms. Legal and policy reforms that have been reached and legitimised through a process of deliberation are more likely to be regarded as fair and, therefore, enforced. The focus of the final phase of the programme is about securing and institutionalising these gains. 3. CONSULTANCY PURPOSE The purpose of this consultancy is to conduct an evaluation of the projects' relevance, design, effectiveness, impact, sustainability and value for money. It should also review gender issues and governance arrangements and all these aspects will inform new project design. Specifically, this consultancy seeks to: a) Understand whether the project has achieved its intended outcome and outputs, as outlined in the project's logframe and theory of change b) Review the project's management and governance arrangements, including the link between country partners, network offices, WWF China and WWF-UK c) Provide WWF-UK with recommendations on what should be retained in future FGMC projects and if any, how arrangements to managing the grants should be changed in future. The evaluation will be used to validate results for inclusion in the project completion reports (due late January 2023 - tbc) and recommendations will also be used to inform the design of the next phase of work as well as any applications to the next round of FGMC funding (expected mid 2023). Please see attached word document for further information. Those wishing to be considered for this consultancy should submit their CV along with their daily consultant rates and an estimated number of days needed to meet the requirements specified above, by sending an email to John Dodsworth (JDodsworth@wwf.org.uk) and Deborah Mackay (DMackay@wwf.org.uk) by Wednesday 12th October 2022.