Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Assessment
We Seek:
Mighty Earth seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) consultant to assist us in analyzing the effectiveness of our programs and organizational operations in achieving our intended outcomes and provide recommendations for maximizing our impact and achievement of specific outcomes.
About Mighty Earth:
Mighty Earth is a global advocacy organization working to defend a living planet. We are obsessed with impact: Our goal is to protect half of Earth for Nature and secure a climate that allows life to flourish. Through our “perfect storm” model of driving change, we have played a leading role in persuading the world’s largest food and agriculture companies to act against deforestation, land-grabbing, and human rights abuse, driven multi-billion-dollar shifts to clean energy, and helped catalyze major, and helped catalyze major decarbonization commitments.
Background about Mighty Earth:
Read more about our approach and our campaign in the following resources:
Fomenting a “Perfect Storm” to push companies to change (Mongabay).
How Pressuring Corporations Can Save the Amazon from Destruction (Yale Environment 360)
Mighty Earth has made significant progress in our efforts to achieve transformative and systemic change. Mighty Earth uses data and technology to reveal critical threats to Nature, climate, and communities and mobilizes program teams to drive solutions through multifaceted campaigns and policy. Mighty Earth targets CEOs and policymakers with fact-based practical solutions while holding them to account on climate and nature pledges. By deploying global campaigns, Mighty Earth raises visibility and gains necessary commitments to reverse environmental destruction. Mighty Earth fights for the rights of Indigenous communities and local populations on the frontline, threatened by industrial corporations. By collaborating and coordinating Mighty Earth creates global pressure and achieves unprecedented victories.
To ensure continued success and a greater impact, we wish to evaluate our organization and the work, identify opportunities for improvement, and put that learning into practice.
Proposal Requirements:
Mighty Earth seeks firm or individual consultants to develop and design a monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan and analysis framework to evaluate Mighty Earth’s impact. The project should include data collection, monitoring, and analysis of the organization and our programs, followed by a comprehensive report. The evaluation is expected to recommend systems, processes, and approaches that Mighty Earth could put in place to maximize our effectiveness. The evaluation will assist Mighty Earth in developing further work plans and provide information for the organization’s management, staff, Board of Directors, supporters and other stakeholders. The project should include our palm oil, rubber, cocoa, protein, and heavy industry campaigns as well as the organizational elements that support our campaigns.
The Evaluation Will
· Assess the effectiveness of our program
· Identify the most significant changes that occurred because of our program activities.
· Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the program and provide recommendations for areas of improvement.
· Formulate lessons learned from the program’s implementation and recommendations to improve the design and delivery of future campaigns.
· Identify success stories and clearly describe the role of the project activities and partners.
· Analyze our overall operations to suggest additional ways to maximize impact.
Time frame:
We would like the project completed by the end of April 2023.
Contact: Please contact Cindy Schwartz ([email protected]) if you have questions and to submit a proposal. Please also notify her if you are planning to submit a proposal. Proposals must be submitted by Friday, November 19, 2022, by close of business; we anticipate finalizing our decision by December 10. Mighty Earth will evaluate proposals based on the following factors: budgetary feasibility, vendor’s experience and success in similar ventures, and vendor’s knowledge.
Offers will be rejected if any illegal or corrupt practices took place in connection with the award. All contracts executed under the project must state that Mighty Earth may terminate the agreement if it finds illegal or corrupt practices connected to the contract award or execution.
