Final Performance Evaluation of Protect Wildlife Activity

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Philippines seeks to commissioned SEARCA to conduct an external final performance evaluation of the Protect Wildlife (PW) Activity. The evaluation shall serve the following purposes: (1) to validate PW’s Theory of Change (ToC), programmatic assumptions and implementing strategies; and (2) to document and measure PW’s actual outputs (deliverables) and outcomes (key results).

Purpose of the Evaluation

Final performance evaluation is deemed important as  the Protect Wildlife Activity draws to a close. The evaluation results could help inform similar  natural resource conservation activities  currently or in the future, contribute to the growing body of  evidence on good practices and a better understanding of the enabling and hindering factors in biodiversity conservation and anti-wildlife trafficking.

Lessons from the Activity may also have particular utility to ongoing programs of the Department of  Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) of the Philippines and may also be of  importance to USAID E3/Forestry and Biodiversity Office, USAID contractors, and the broader biodiversity conservation and forestry community including donors, civil society organizations, academe, and the private sector (USAID request for quotation, 2020).

Evaluation Questions

The evaluation will focus primarily on validating  PWA’s theory of change (ToC), programmatic assumptions and implementing strategies as well as document and measure the actual outputs (deliverables) and outcomes (key results). To achieve this, the evaluation will provide empirical answers to the following key research queries: