The Department of Foreign Affairs commissions external expertise where highly specialised skills are not available internally and in particular where ongoing independent evaluation of programmes and projects is required. During the course of their engagement, these consultants and experts may prepare reports and other documentation for the Department.
In-depth analysis of issues by external experts has informed, and continues to inform, the Department’s policies, allowing for a more targeted use of resources and greater accountability in the allocation of budgets.
These services are procured by open competitive tendering processes in accordance with EU and national rules and comply with the overall value for money objectives.
The following reports were finalised and received by my Department from 27 June 2020 to date in 2023:
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Year
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Name of Company
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Title of Study/ Research/ Report
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Finalised and presented to the Department that have yet to be released
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Total Cost
|
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2020
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Gumfoot Consultancy Ltd
|
Process review of Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) systems.
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€16,335
|
|
2020
|
Southern Cross Consulting
|
IDEAS Programme Review (Vietnam)
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€11,150
|
|
2020
|
IOD Parc
|
Formative Evaluation of the Programme Grant II (2017-2021) & Humanitarian Programme Plan (2019-2021)
|
N/A -Published August 2021
|
€136,925
|
|
2020
|
Fergal Ryan
|
Programme Grant monitoring Sierra Leone
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€11,347
|
|
2020
|
Fergal Ryan
|
Programme Grant monitoring Tanzania
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€3,000
|
|
2020
|
Dave Oldroyd
|
Strategic Review of ESP funded organisation Haringey ICC
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€1,974
|
|
2020
|
Fitzpatrick Associates Economic Consultants
|
Tokyo Ireland House Strategic Assessment (1/3)
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€10,861
|
|
2020
|
University of Otago, New Zealand
|
Irish in Aotearoa: Mapping the Irish Community and People of Irish Heritage in New Zealand
|
N/A - Published December 2020
|
€7,206.06
|
|
2021
|
Bankhawk
|
Provision of Banking Services, including Electronic Banking
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€8,364
|
|
2021
|
Dr. Rachel Widdes
|
Review of Access to Remedy in Ireland
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€17,000
|
|
2021
|
Tina Poyzer
|
Report Identifying the Needs of the Irish Community in the London Borough of Haringey
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€5,870
|
|
2021
|
Pham Thai Hung
|
Mission Strategy (2017-2020) Results Review Report
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€3,375
|
|
2021
|
William Langslet
|
Independent review of Ireland’s support to Mine Action in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam 2017-2020
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€7,500
|
|
2021
|
Fitzpatrick Associates Economic Consultants
|
Tokyo Ireland House Preliminary Business Case (2/3)
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€25,761
|
|
2021
|
Pham Thai Hung
|
Review of the Ethnic Minority Partnership for Resilience and Development (EMPRO)
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€1,315
|
|
2021
|
Pham Thai Hung
|
Programme Approach to Reach the Furthest Behind in Vietnam
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€4,760
|
|
2021
|
Arab World for Research and Development
|
Gender Equality Review of the Palestine Programme
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€11,800
|
|
2021
|
European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
|
Adopting a food systems approach – Implications for Ireland’s ODA programming and policy influencing
|
N/A - Published January 2021
|
Part of a service delivery component of a larger contract with ECDPM
|
|
2021
|
ECDPM
|
3 papers on EU’s Gender Action Plan
|
N/A -Published October 2021
|
Part of a service delivery component of a larger contract with ECDPM
|
|
2021
|
Anne Nolan, Consultant
|
Technical review, Ireland’s support to O3 programme
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€6,125
|
|
2021
|
Gumfoot Consultancy Ltd
|
Programme Grant Monitoring in Malawi, Nepal, Tanzania & Ethiopia
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€44,128
|
|
2021
|
Claire Dijoux
|
Programme Grant Monitoring in Guinea and Malawi
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€23,991
|
|
2021
|
Gumfoot Consultancy Ltd
|
Review of the Civil Society Fund
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€28,413
|
|
2021
|
Charles Derek Poate
|
External Quality Assurance – Draft Malawi Mission Strategy, 2021-2026
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€1,696
|
|
2021
|
Lynne Elliot
|
External Quality Assurance-Draft Malawi Mission Strategy, 2021-2026
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€1,380
|
|
2021
|
Mary Ann Brocklesby
|
Review of Draft Mission Strategy 2020-2025
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€1,950
|
|
2021
|
Mary Ann Brocklesby
|
EQA Gender Support to Mission Addis
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€20,100
|
|
2021
|
Charles Derek Poate
|
External Quality Assurance – Draft Mission Strategy 2020-2024, Embassy of Ireland, Ethiopia
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€1,696
|
|
2021
|
Claire Dijoux
|
Programme Grant Monitoring in Guinea and Malawi
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€23,991
|
|
2022
|
Conan McKenna
|
Review of Domestic Implementation of Restrictive Measures (sanctions)
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€2,914.45 Note this was a shared cost between DFA. D/ETE and D/FIN
|
|
2022
|
Richard Collins
|
Consultancy services to support an assessment of the Antarctic Treaty System
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€11,250
|
|
2022
|
Clare Duignan
|
Strategic Review of ESP funded Crosscare Migrant Project
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€9,600
|
|
2022
|
Arab World for Research and Development
|
Gender Equality Review of the Palestine Programme
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€4,300
|
|
2022
|
Fitzpatrick Associates Economic Consultants
|
Tokyo Ireland House Final Business Case (3/3)
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€27,675
|
|
2022
|
Fitzpatrick Associates Economic Consultants
|
Consultancy – Preliminary Business case London and Washington (1/2)
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€54,520
|
|
2022
|
Martin Rose
|
Global Citizenship Education Strategic Partner Evaluation
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€16,538
|
|
2022
|
Vanessa Sheridan & Deirdre Farrell
|
Global Citizenship Education Strategic Partner Evaluation
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€18,000
|
|
2022
|
Anne Nolan, Consultant
|
Technical review, Ireland’s support health sector, Mozambique
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€15,375
|
|
2022
|
Graham Shaw Consulting
|
Technical support exercises, RCSI & Frontline AIDS
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€20,045
|
|
2022
|
Public Good
|
Disability Mapping
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€21,789.89
|
|
2022
|
Institute for Social and Environment Transitions (ISET International)
|
Review of Ireland's Humanitarian demining programme
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€21,709
|
|
2022
|
Policy and Market Options Limited
|
Evaluation of Our Shared Interest: Ireland Kenya Agri-Food Strategy (IKAFS) 2017-2021
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€34,140
|
|
2022
|
IOD Parc
|
Management Review of the International Development Assistance Programme
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€110, 863.13
|
|
2022
|
Lynne Elliot
|
External Quality Assurance Review of the Internal appraisal of ICSP
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€3,750
|
|
2022
|
Bernard McLoughlin
|
External Quality Assurance Review of the internal appraisal of ICSP
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€4,920
|
|
2022
|
Gumfoot Consultancy Ltd
|
Review of the Civil Society Fund
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€1,722
|
|
2022
|
Gumfoot Consultancy Ltd
|
Misean Cara Systems Review
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€23,228
|
|
2022
|
Aisling Swaine
|
Strategic Approach to WPS at African Union
|
N/A - for internal use
|
No Cost incurred
|
|
2022
|
IOD PARC
|
Review of The Embassy of Ireland, Uganda’s Programme in Karamoja 2016-2020
|
N/A -Published 21 December 2022
|
€56,716
|
|
2022
|
Charles Derek Poate
|
External Quality Assurance – Draft Pretoria Mission Strategy, 2022-2026
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€1,746
|
|
2022
|
MAB Associates
|
External Quality Assurance – Draft Tanzania Mission Strategy 2022 -2026
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€3,750
|
|
2022
|
Bankhawk
|
Discussion Document (Banking/ Card Payment Services)
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€24,108
|
|
2022
|
Irish Centre for Diversity
|
Department of Foreign Affairs – Investors in Diversity (Silver) Report
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€4,495
|
|
2023
|
Fitzpatrick Associates Economic Consultants
|
Consultancy – Strategic Assessment Report - London and Washington (2/2)
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€47,560
|
|
2023
|
Irish Centre for Diversity
|
Investor in Diversity Bronze re-assessment
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€2,453.85
|
|
2023
|
Adrienne Boyle
|
Global Citizenship Education annual grant partner review
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€5,855.78
|
|
2023
|
Anne Nolan, Consultant
|
Options paper, support for health sector, Mozambique
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€15,748
|
|
2023
|
Anne Nolan, Consultant
|
Technical review, health sector strategy, Zimbabwe
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€3,075
|
|
2023
|
Graham Shaw Consulting
|
Technical support exercises, RCSI and HSE
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€18,885
|
|
2023
|
Graham Shaw Consulting
|
Scoping Report, Kenya Nursing
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€11,875
|
|
2023
|
ODI
|
Strategic Partnership producing a series of thematic or technical reports for Irish Aid
|
N/A - for internal use
|
N/A produced as part of on-going strategic partnership with ODI
|
|
2022/ 2023
|
DemocraShe
|
Mid-Term Review of Ireland’s 3rd National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€10,000Excl VAT
|
|
2023
|
Mary Ann Brocklesby
|
External Quality Assurance of Uganda Mission Strategy 2023-2027
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€1,625
|
|
2023
|
Lynne Elliot
|
External Quality Assurance – Draft Embassy of Ireland, Mission Strategy Zambia 2022-2027
|
N/A - for internal use
|
€1,500
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