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SAC-27-010 International Engagement Requirement
SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LIMITED
The Satellite Applications Catapult (the Catapult) is seeking to identify organisations with the capacity, expertise, and relevant international experience to support the development and delivery of its international engagement. The requirement is expected to focus on strengthening market insight, market push and priority country selection, overseas partner development, routes to market for UK companies, and practical implementation planning. The Catapult is particularly interested in hearing from organisations that can provide one or more of the following capabilities: International strategy, trade, and market-entry expertise: Organisations with experience helping technology, innovation, space, defence, or advanced engineering businesses understand overseas markets, identify routes to market, assess commercial demand, and prioritise countries based on evidence of opportunity and accessibility. Space sector or technology commercialisation and development expertise:...
Research, Evaluation and Surveys Technology and Innovation Organisations and Management Consulting
EU-UN joint courses – Plan, organise and support the delivery of training courses in cooperation with JET, WHO, WFP and OCHA/INSARAG
DG ECHO
The purpose of this call for tender is to select the contractor that will plan, organise and support the delivery of training courses in cooperation with JET, WHO, WFP and OCHA/INSARAG
Education and Skills Development and International Programmes Health Organisations and Management Consulting Media, Communications and Creative Workforce, Employment and HR Services
Fellowships Evaluation Services
UKRI
UKRI-MRC, are seeking a supplier to carry out an external evaluation to provide an independent and expert assessment of the RoI/SRoI of investment Fellowships. The evaluation findings will be used by MRC to demonstrate to the public the value Fellowships bring to our economy and society; inform the strategic programme offer and future investments ...
Liverpool City Region Active Travel Maps
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) is looking to create a new active travel map (walking, wheeling and cycling), primarily concentrating on cycle routes and facilities across the city region. The supplier will work with the LCRCA and the six constituent authorities (Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral) to develop a map that is both clear and easy to use. The result of the contract will be six maps (1 for each local authority area) of active travel facilities such as segregated cycle lanes, off road cycle networks and on road quiet routes. The mapping data that is created by the successful supplier will be owned solely by the LCRCA. This is so that when new routes and facilities are built, the maps can be easily updated by the internal personnel using a standard specification. The maps will need to include key destinations, safety information, key landmarks, bike shops, repair stations, and links to public transport hubs. These will be...
Urban Planning, Infrastructure and Transport Organisations and Management Consulting Technology and Innovation
Thematic Evaluation - Community Connection
The National Lottery Community Fund
Our Evidence and Impact Strategy sets out an ambition to increase the proportion of our funding supported by independent impact evaluations. A key way for achieving this is through commissioning and publishing cross-Fund impact evaluations on themes linked to our missions (e.g. environmental sustainability or community connection). To support this ambition, the Impact & Evaluation (I&E) Team is undertaking a project designed to: a. develop an approach for carrying out cross-Fund thematic evaluations b. test this approach through a pilot thematic evaluation c. make recommendations for embedding thematic evaluation into future practice. While the Fund regularly commissions evaluations for specific programmes, undertaking an evaluation focused on a theme cutting across multiple portfolios is new. This pilot evaluation will therefore generate both impact evidence on a theme, and methodological learning from the process to support in decisions about rolling this approach out more widely.
Research, Evaluation and Surveys Organisations and Management Consulting Environment and Energy
Advancing Climate Finance for Global Transition Pathways Towards Carbon Neutrality and Climate Resilient Development
European Commission, DG CLIMA - Climate Action
Achieving the transition towards carbon-neutral and climate-resilient development necessitates a comprehensive understanding of the financial needs, targeted investment areas, and the deployment of effective financial instruments on a global scale. Moreover, reforming the international financial architecture is crucial to facilitate and support this transition. The action should explore these critical dimensions of climate finance, including the identification of tools to monitor climate financial flows (public and private, international and domestic) as a foundation for evidence-based decision-making. The action should cover the following elements at global level with differentiation by geographic area with a focus on SIDS and LDCs: 1) Identification of Financial Needs for Climate Transition 2) Targeted Areas for Investment 3) Financial Instruments and Mechanisms 4) Reforming the International Financial Architecture 5) Monitoring Climate Financial Flows 6) Mobilizing Private Sector...
Open call: quasi-experimental impact evaluations
Youth Futures Foundation
We find out What Works to support marginalised young people secure and thrive in good work and share those insights to drive change in policy and practice. With increasing access to UK administrative data there are new opportunities to generate strong causal evidence retrospectively about existing youth employment interventions using quasi-experimental designs (QEDs). We’re interested in partnering with evaluators to build the UK-specific evidence base – particularly where international evidence is strong but domestic evidence is thin – using QEDs. This opportunity is an options-generation exercise and subject to funding.
Nature-based interventions evidence review: ecosystem function, benefits, and nature-related risks
Natural England
Natural England's Natural Capital Team is seeking to commission an evidence review that examines the confidence with which nature-based interventions deliver specific ecosystem services and benefits from nature, and reduce nature related risks. The nature-based interventions used will build on the evidence on priority actions for nature recovery from the State of Natural Capital Report for England 2024: Risks to nature and why it matters. The review's objectives are to: - Assess confidence in the ecosystem service/benefit outcomes for the framework of nature-based interventions. - Support a clearer, evidence-led relationship between interventions and ecosystem function, services, and benefits. - Offer decision-useful evidence on nature-based interventions acting as nature-based solutions (NbS), which can be used by a large suite of sectors including, but not limited to: environmental practitioners, business, planning, and green finance.
Research, Evaluation and Surveys
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Evaluation Consultancy Services Framework
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Trádála
Framework valued at 1.5 million Euro The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is issuing this request for tenders inviting tenders from economic operators for appointment to a multi-supplier framework agreement. In summary, the Services required comprise: i) senior technical advice at different stages of a DFAT evaluation, or evaluation-type exercise such as a reviews; ii) the development and delivery of training, learning events, and the provision of relevant guidance on contemporary evaluation best practice to the Department, and iii) delivering alone, or as a member(s) of an evaluation team along with the Department’s Evaluation and Audit Unit (“EAU”), evaluations and evaluation-type exercises in response to DFAT’s needs, including planned evaluations such as of DFAT Mission Strategies in partner countries. The framework agreement will be divided into three (3) lots: Lot 1. Senior technical advisory services, including quality assurance Lot 2. Building evaluation capacity and...
Research, Evaluation and Surveys Trade, Export and Investment Support Technology and Innovation EU Institutions and Programmes Organisations and Management Consulting Government, Regulation and Public Administration