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Tenders are invited for Consultancy Building Resilience and Supporting Solutions to Displacement in Central Darfur Closing Date: 23 Apr 2026 Type: Consultancy Annex X Terms of Reference (TOR) for Building Resilience and Supporting Solutions to Displacement in Central Darfur 2022 - 2025 1.Who is the Danish Refugee Council? Founded in 1956, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a leading international NGO and one of the few with a specific expertise in forced displacement. Active in 40 countries with 9,000 employees and supported by 7,500 volunteers, DRC protects, advocates, and builds sustainable futures for refugees and other displacement affected people and communities. DRC works during displacement at all stages: In the acute crisis, in displacement, when settling and integrating in a new place, or upon return. DRC provides protection and life-saving humanitarian assistance; supports displaced persons in becoming self-reliant and included into hosting societies; and works with civil society and responsible authorities to promote protection of rights and peaceful coexistence. DRC has been operational in Sudan since 2004, initially responding to displacement in Central Darfur and subsequently expanding its presence across multiple conflict- and displacement-affected states. Since the escalation of conflict in April 2023, DRC has significantly scaled up its response to address acute humanitarian needs arising from large-scale internal displacement and protracted insecurity. Furthermore, DRC is one of the key partners to national authorities to address needs for risk education, demining, and removal of explosive remnants of war. In Sudan, DRC currently implements Protection, Emergency Response, Shelter, Food Security and Livelihoods, Disaster Risk Reduction, Camp Management, and Humanitarian Mine Action sectors of work. 2. Purpose of the consultancy The Danish Refugee Council based in Sudan seeks proposals from a consultancy firm (hereafter referred to as the consultant) to measure the outcomes of the project Building Resilience and Supporting Solutions to Displacement in Central Darfur in order to measure key impact outcomes in addressing barriers to durable solutions outlined below. During the 39-months consortium project, led by DRC with consortium partners; Save the Children (SC) and Mercy Corps (MC), the project consisted of five outputs to reach five overall project outcomes. The purpose of the consultancy is to measure the projects impact according to the following outcomes and outputs: Outcome 1: Improved access to sustainable livelihoods Output 1: Improved access to sustainable livelihoods through increased physical access to markets, support of income generating activities, and agricultural opportunities created. Outcome 2: Increased equitable access to social services Output2: Infrastructure developed to reduce service gaps (e.g. water, health, education). Outcome 3: Improved protective environment (incl. promoting protection of civilians) Output3: Improved protective environment through increased access to civil documentation, community assistance projects, and advocacy and strategy through ongoing monitoring and evidence. Outcome 4: Increased community-based peacebuilding capacity Output 4: Support of local peacebuilding structures, representation of key marginalized groups in local peacebuilding structures, and strengthening of community-based mediation and conflict resolution capacity Outcome 5: Improved efficacy of community-level natural resource management and early warning systems) Output 5: Support of local negotiations on land use as well as increased access to improved water sources In measuring outcomes, the evaluation will assess the projects contribution to building community resilience and advancing durable solutions to displacement. Applying a durable solutions lens, it will specifically examine disparities in how displaced and host communities have benefited from the project, and the extent to which it has promoted social integration and cohesion. NB: DRC subject matter specialists will provide technical training, guidance, and approval on all material developed to ensure technical validity, relevance, and quality. 3. Background Before the conflict, Sudan was already facing deep-rooted economic, social, and institutional challenges, including chronic underinvestment in basic services, weak governance of land and natural resources, and limited livelihood opportunities. These structural deficits, compounded by recurrent crises, resulted in persistent vulnerabilities, particularly in conflict-affected and displacement-hosting areas. Following renewed conflict and large-scale internal displacement, pressures on already overstretched services and resources intensified. Displaced populations and host communities faced increased barriers to accessing livelihoods, essential services, land and water, and safe living environments, while social cohesion and community-based conflict resolution mechanisms were further strained. In this context, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), through an award from SIDA/SDC, implemented an area-based, evidence-driven intervention across selected locations in Central Darfur state, Sudan. The project aimed to support displacement-affected and host communities by addressing key recovery needs and reducing barriers to durable solutions. Interventions focused on improving access to livelihoods and services, strengthening the protective environment, enhancing community-based peacebuilding capacity, and promoting improved management of natural resources. The project applied a participatory and conflict-sensitive approach, grounding implementation in community needs assessments and ongoing context analysis to ensure relevance, equity, and adaptability in a volatile operating environment. 4. Objective of the Evaluation Under the guidance of the Consortium Management Unit (CMU) and the DRC Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Team, the objectives of the Evaluation are to: 1. Measure five project outcomes: a. Improved access to sustainable livelihoods b. Increased equitable access to social services c. Improved protective environment (incl. promoting protection of civilians) d. Increased community-based peacebuilding capacity e. Improved efficacy of community-level natural resource management and early warning systems) 2. Prepare recommendations for further strategic integrated programme development between DRCs work in Sudan, its monitoring and evaluation, as well its partners MC and SC. 3. Conduct additional research and provide recommendations for DRCs programming in the same areas: DRC and its partners are implementing the second phase of the same intervention with funding from the same donors in the same areas of intervention. Therefore, recommendations stemming from this evaluation are required to inform continued programming. 4. Assess the overall governance, management efficiency, and operational capacity of the consortium structure in delivering integrated, multi-sectoral programming. 5. The consultancy firm is specifically required to: a. Conduct a participatory external evaluation on the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability of the action; through a mixed method approach (quantitative and qualitative methodologies), including household-level questionnaires, key informant interviews and focus-group discussions with beneficiaries, community members and stakeholders. b. Prepare an analytical report compliant with DRC Design Guide, which should include key findings, good practices, lessons learnt and recommendations for further programme development and M&E of such programmes based on the collected data in the research areas. c. Collect, clean, analyse, and hand over the entire raw evaluation data plus cleaned database of the evaluation. d. Develop and present the evaluation via a PowerPoint presentation, compliant with DRC Editorial Manual and inclusive of evaluation results, key findings, and recommendations for the attention of the programme and MEAL team. 6. The consultancy shall conduct the evaluation in accordance with the OECD/DAC evaluation criteria (Relevance, Coherence, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Impact, and Sustainability) and adhere to the OECD/DAC Quality Standards for Development Evaluation. In addition, the consultant should refer to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons (2010) and the ReDSS Solutions Framework to analyze the projects contribution to durable solutions. The consultant shall ensure methodological rigor, transparency, independence, and ethical compliance throughout the evaluation process, in line with Sidas General Conditions (Annex A, §3.2) 5. Scope of Work and Methodology The evaluation will be conducted using a mixed methodology of face-to-face and remote (pending on the security situation at the point of data collection) in Um Dukhun locality, Nertiti locality, and Golo locality, in Central Darfur. A gender and age balance will be sought, as well as the inclusion of displaced and non-displaced persons and persons with disabilities to the extent possible. Under the scope of this evaluation, the consultant will fulfill the following tasks: 1. Develop a mixed-method project evaluation methodology, this includes evaluation questions as well as their criteria and definition; 2. Evaluate the achievement of the project outcomes in selected communities and project stakeholders as well as the projects relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability; 3. Collect, clean, analyze, and hand over the entire raw evaluation data plus a cleaned database of the evaluation. 4. Prepare an analytical report compliant with DRCs guidelines, which should include key findings, good practices, lessons learned, and recommendations for the improve Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4206807/consultancy-building-resilience-and-supporting-solutions-displacement-central-darfur
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