: Independent Evaluation of ILMpact Programme funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)

Background and context about the project

ILMpact is a multi-year education programme operating across fifteen districts in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with the goal of improving foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) for marginalised children, particularly girls. The programme's primary intervention is a Remedial Learning (RL) model adapted from Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approaches, targeting children in Grades 3–5 enrolled in schools, and out-of-school children (OOSC) aged 8–12 through Catch-up Learning Camps (CLP) camps. The programme is also implementing other interventions as well including life skills training, STEAM club formations, accessibility, and rehabilitation in schools to differently abled children and safeguarding trainings to make schools safe and inclusive. With a whole school approach, the programme has targeted children from ECE to Grade 10 under different interventions.

In FY 2025–26, the programme reached 48,471 learners across remedial learning and 15,207 OOSC through CLP camps. Overall, the programme benefitted more than 200,000 children in 400 schools. The midline assessment results are encouraging and showed an average 14% improvement in learning outcomes across English, Urdu, and Mathematics after approximately 90 days of intervention at the midline assessment and anticipates an increase at the endline planned in April 2026. Likewise, ILMpact achieved its output level targets for all other components with first cohort of students. As the programme approaches it closure in September 2026, British Council desire an independent evaluation to assess the effectiveness and scalability of the remedial learning model and generate evidence to inform stakeholders on scale-up decisions, continuity and design challenges while implementing at scale.

About the role of the specialist contractor 

The contractor will provide credible and actionable evidence on the performance of the ILMpact remedial learning model. Guided by the OECD-DAC evaluation criteria of Relevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Impact, and Sustainability, the assessment will examine the results achieved and validate the reliability and robustness of existing programme and assessment data. The contractor will assess the learning gains attributable to the programme by analysing available pre and post learning data of treatment and control groups and will also examine the robustness of data collection processes, frequency, quality and consistency of the reported data. The contractor will conduct value-for-money analysis using programme financial data and existing VfM approach adopted by the programme. 

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Interested consultants or firms should submit the technical and financial proposal to two following emails atif.naveed@britishcouncil.org and Rizwan.mahmood@britishcouncil.org. For any queries, please contact Rizwan Mahmood (Senior MEL Lead) through email.

• Technical proposal: understanding of the assignment, proposed methodology, and workplan.
• Financial proposal: itemised budget with daily rates and estimated costs.
• CV of key personnel and at least two relevant evaluation samples.

Following Criteria would be used for Evaluating the proposals:

• Professional qualification relevant to the assignment (30%)
• Relevant experience of Education Programme Evaluations (20%)
• Technical Approach to carry out the assignment (20%)
• Responsiveness to GESSI in technical proposal (10%)
• Financial Proposal (Value for money) (20%)