End-of-Project Review of Policy Impact, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, and

BackgroundThe Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) is an independent civil society organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with a globally dispersed Secretariat working across 42 countries. Founded in 2013, GI-TOC brings together a global network of more than 750 independent experts and a team of over 130 staff dedicated to understanding and responding to organized crime. Through research, analysis, policy engagement and support to civil society actors, GI-TOC works to deepen understanding of organized crime and strengthen effective, rights-based responses. In 2024, GI-TOC produced 167 publications and reached more than 713,000 website users worldwide.The GI-TOC works to:Identify, analyse and map criminal trends and patterns of regional instability, and their impact on illicit flows, governance, development, security, conflict and the rule of law.Connect and support civil society actors working on organized crime and corruption, and on their links to instability and conflict.Strengthen local monitoring and analysis of national, regional and international organized crime and insecurity trends.Job SummaryThe Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) is seeking proposals from qualified consultants, organizations or consortia to support an end-of-project review of a project implemented under its Asia-Pacific Observatory. The assignment will focus specifically on how the project has contributed to policy influence, stakeholder engagement, learning and broader impact within the Asia-Pacific Observatory’s area of work.The assignment is intended to generate a practical understanding of what the project achieved, how its activities and outputs contributed to policy relevance and influence, and what lessons can be applied to future Asia-Pacific Observatory programming. It is not intended as an organization-wide review of GI-TOC, but as targeted support to the Asia-Pacific Observatory and the specific project under review.The assignment is intended to generate a practical understanding of what the project achieved, how its activities and outputs contributed to policy relevance and influence, and what lessons can be applied to future Asia-Pacific Observatory programming. It is not intended as an organization-wide review of GI-TOC, but as targeted support to the Asia-Pacific Observatory and the specific project under review.The assignment will support the Observatory in three interrelated areas:reviewing the project’s achievements, results and contribution to intended outcomes, including for monitoring, evaluation and learning purposes;assessing how the project generated policy relevance, stakeholder engagement, uptake and influence in the Asia-Pacific context;co-producing practical tools and recommendations that can help the Asia-Pacific Observatory strengthen impact-oriented project design, implementation, monitoring and learning in future work.The selected consultant or organization will be expected to review the project as a whole, while also examining selected activities, outputs or workstreams as case studies. These may include research products, convening activities, stakeholder engagement processes, communications outputs, or other project components identified in consultation with the Asia-Pacific Observatory team. The review should assess both project-level results and wider learning for the Observatory, including the extent to which existing MEL systems captured meaningful signs of policy influence, stakeholder uptake, contribution to debate, changes in practice, strengthened relationships or other relevant forms of impact.The assignment should be practical and collaborative in nature. It should not only produce an external assessment of the project’s success, but also support the Asia-Pacific Observatory team to reflect on what worked, what was less effective, what evidence exists of impact, and how future projects in the region can be designed and monitored more effectively.Phase 1 : End of project review and evidence assessment This phase will provide a structured review of the project’s implementation, achievements and available evidence of results. It should assess what the project set out to achieve, what was delivered, what outcomes can reasonably be identified, and how well these were captured through existing MEL and reporting systems.Activities may include:review of the project’s objectives, theory of change, logic model, workplan, performance measurement framework, MEL plan, donor reports and other relevant documentation;assessment of project delivery against planned outputs, activities and intended outcomes;review of available quantitative and qualitative evidence, including output data, engagement records, feedback, event participation, dissemination data, stakeholder responses, reporting materials and internal learning documents;targeted interviews or consultations with relevant Asia-Pacific Observatory staff to understand implementat