GIZ's  energy projects in Ethiopia supports the improvement of access to modern  energy services in Ethiopia. The EnDev Global Partnership, which is currently  financed by six donor countries: the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, United  Kingdom, Switzerland and Sweden is among the largest projects but in recent  years, additional energy projects have been added to the portfolio. The  energy program in GIZ Ethiopia aims at implementing transparent monitoring,  evaluation and verification system that delivers reliable and traceable  numbers for EnDev. In addition, the other energy access programs is  increasingly requiring qualitative monitoring and evaluation of sector-wide  impacts.    

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The program saw the need to organise and document the monitoring,  evaluation and verification processes adjusted to the specific approaches of  each of the programme's components by intervention area and the respective  donors.The Consultancy therefore authorised to make a risk assessment  for the monitoring, evaluation and verification process to propose better  ways and tools to optimise the existing monitoring, evaluation and  verification process as well as produce a guideline manual with the details  of procedures for each intervention area.    

The overall objective of the consultancy contract was to prepare and  produce a structured guideline manual for the monitoring, evaluation and  verification processes customised to the different project’s context.    

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Under the supervision and overall guidance of the GIZ M&E coordinator  and advisors, and in close collaboration with the relevant team of the  project, DEM performed the following services: Evaluation of existing M&E  systems including the indicators and areas within the M&E systems that  can have downsides, comprehensive situational and risk analysis of the  proposed Monitoring, evaluation verification processes including interviews  with project managers, present the guideline manual for GIZ energy projects  in Ethiopia adapted to the current portfolio of projects. As the portfolio  continously evolves, the manual has been developped as a living document that  is easy to update by GIZ's M&E Team.