The services comprises of conducting a formative evaluation of Irish Aid’s Programme Grant II (PGII) and Humanitarian Programme Plan (HPP) so as to provide the Department’s management with an independent, evidence-based assessment of funding to civil society organisations for humanitarian, development and development education and assess whether the funding mechanisms are fit for purpose to deliver on the policy commitments in Ireland’s 2019 Policy for International Development ‘A Better World’ and assess the operation of the current PGII and HPP programmes, in order to inform the design of the next round the funding mechanisms, including to analyse the extent to which the programmes should be combined.

The services comprises of conducting a formative evaluation of Irish Aid’s Programme Grant II (PGII) and Humanitarian Programme Plan (HPP) so as to provide the Department’s management with an independent, evidence-based assessment of funding to civil society organisations for humanitarian, development and development education and assess whether the funding mechanisms are fit for purpose to deliver on the policy commitments in Ireland’s 2019 Policy for International Development ‘A Better World’ and assess the operation of the current PGII and HPP programmes, in order to inform the design of the next round the funding mechanisms, including to analyse the extent to which the programmes should be combined.