Gender Analysis Consultant at Action Against Hunger USA 42 views0 applications

1.0General Information**

Title of the consultancy: Gender Analysis of SPERC-NK Projects.**

Duration of the assignment: 25 working days

Areas of coverage: Isiolo, Marsabit, Samburu, Turkana and Mandera Counties

Supervisor: Gender Manager, Action Against Hunger International.

Gender Manager, Action Against Hunger International.

Anticipated presence at AAH Nairobi Offices: Only for short meetings as necessary.

2.0 Introduction

Acting Together Differently – Strengthening Preparedness and Emergency Response Capacities by Vulnerable Communities in Northern Kenya (SPERC-NK) is a consortium of 5 national and international Non-Governmental Organizations, who work together towards building sustainable and resilient livelihoods for vulnerable communities in Kenya. The member organizations include 3 key implementing partners (VSF-Germany, ACTED and Action Against Hunger,) and 2 technical support partners- Transparency International Kenya (providing support on accountability and transparency) and REACH (focusing on development of information tools for humanitarian decision making and planning), respectively. The consortium is one of the main actors in disaster risk management, emergency response and resilience building in Kenya, implementing multi-sectoral programs on CMDRR, surge model and early warning. Its projects build on previous initiatives on early warning, preparedness and early action to shocks and stresses, with a principal aim of enhancing communities’ capacity to anticipate, absorb, adapt and respond to shocks for increased resilience to recurrent shocks. To achieve its objectives, the consortium draws on the specific technical expertise and diverse experience among its three key implementing partners across Marsabit, Isiolo, Turkana, Samburu and Mandera counties. Each partner provides a technical lead within the consortium in their thematic areas to develop innovative methodologies of ensuring that the project makes maximum impact. In Turkana and Marsabit, VSF-Germany collaborates with Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries in strengthening livestock diseases surveillance through an innovative surge model in livestock disease surveillance in coordination with Concern Worldwide. This also involves capacity enhancement of the communities represented by the Community based Disease Reporters (CDRs) to monitor livestock diseases and to provide timely reports to county veterinary authorities, including strengthening the linkages between Community Disease Reporters and Veterinary Services with an aim to transferring the responsibility of supporting the CDRs to the county structures. Action Against Hunger (AAH) – takes lead in nutrition resilience, gender integration and facilitating adoption, replication and scale up of the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) Surge capacity model, for early detection of and timely action against malnutrition cases in health facilities, in collaboration with Ministry of Health in Isiolo county, and through her local partner – RACIDA in Mandera and IMC in Samburu counties respectively. ACTED on the other hand provides technical lead on Early Warning Systems and preparedness and Community Managed Disaster and Risk Reduction in Samburu and Mandera counties. Through its sister organization REACH, ACTED also works to support NDMA to strengthen County and National Early Warning Systems and in close co-ordination with other organizations providing similar support.

In implementing these interventions, all partners apply a gender transformative approach with an aim of ensuring equitable capacity enhancement and participation among vulnerable communities, in early identification of hazards, preparedness, timely action and risk reduction, to increase their resilience to recurrent shocks.

3.0 Rationale of the Gender Analysis

The ASALs are prone to multiple challenges including demographic pressure, environmental degradation; extreme poverty coupled with high level social-cultural and gender inequalities, internal tensions, institutional weaknesses, weak social and economic infrastructures, and insufficient resilience to food crises and other shocks. Consequently, Women and men in the ASALs experience vulnerability differently as a result of different roles they play in society. Several studies have shown that women and children in the ASALs are more vulnerable to recurrent climate change and external shocks than men. This is primarily as a result of their limited capacity to counter these challenges, based on socially constructed gender roles which have contributed to gender inequalities and acts of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV.) However, women are not just victims of climate change and disasters; they also have extraordinary powers in constructing change and adaptation within their communities thus powerful agents of change in the society. Studies have further shown that, women and youth are more open to discuss and actually try out innovations or new ways of addressing their needs, for example by exploiting new options to mitigate against hazards and improving their livelihoods. As such, promoting women’s rights and redressing gender inequalities is key to promoting resilience through empowerment of women as key agents of change.

Against this background, the SPERC consortium continues to make deliberate efforts to integrate gender at all levels of its programming. This is with an ultimate goal of ensuring that women’s and men’s priorities, concerns and experiences remain an integral part of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of its policies and programmes, so that women and men can equally participate and benefit and inequality is not perpetuated.

4.0 Scope and Objectives of the Consultancy

The consultancy will entail the following objectives:

1. To document existing gender equality measures in the SPERC-NK projects.
2. To identify gender equality gaps in the SPERC-NK projects.
3. Make recommendations on strengthening existing gender equality measures in the SPERC-NK projects.
4. Propose new strategies for strengthening gender equality responsiveness of the SPERC-NK projects.

5.0 Target Locations

The exercise will be conducted in Isiolo, Marsabit, Turkana, Samburu and Mandera counties.

6.0 Main Tasks

1. Conduct a desk-review of relevant project documents and develop an inception report, detailing the gender analysis and assessment design, methodology and tools to be used in carrying out the exercise across the five counties.
2. Develop a detailed work plan and budget to carry out the assignment
3. .Review the available SPERC-NK’s draft gender analysis reports to identify information gaps.
4. Collect relevant additional data based on the five key gender analysis domains, to fill in the identified information gaps for more comprehensive gender analysis reports on gender relations and issues within the counties of coverage for the SPERC project.
5. Conduct a gender assessment preferably through a project cycle analysis to determine how well the SPERC’s projects have considered the elements of gender equality, in the respective counties of coverage.
6. Establish best practices, lessons learnt, existing gaps and recommendations that the SPERC consortium can apply for more gender-transformative and sustainable SPERC’s projects results.
7. Analyze and interpret the findings.
8. Develop the first draft of the gender analysis and assessment reports for each county and share through the Gender Manager for debriefing and inputs by the consortium staff.
9. Develop final comprehensive gender analysis and assessment reports for each county, including best practices, lessons learnt, existing gaps, recommendations and proposed strategies that the SPERC projects can apply for more gender-transformative and sustainable projects results.

7.0 Deliverables for the consultancy

1. Inception report including a detailed gender analysis and assessment design, methodology, tools, work plan schedule and budget to carry out the assignment across the five counties.
2. Submission of first draft of the gender analysis and assessment report through the Gender Manager for debriefing and inputs by the consortium staff.
3. Submission of final gender analysis and integrated assessment report for each county highlighting best practices, lessons learnt, existing gaps, recommendations and proposed strategies.

8.0 Qualifications

• A degree in Sociology, Political Science, Gender/Women Studies, Public Health or related field. Master’s degree in any of the above field will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional working experience in research, conducting baseline studies, data collection and analysis in the area of human rights, conflict and gender based violence.
• Solid experience in gender issues with a specific focus on SGBV, conflict and disaster management and Gender mainstreaming.
• Proven experience in monitoring and evaluation.
• Outstanding oral and written communications skills with proven ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent teamwork, consensus building and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in English and Kiswahili language.
• Advanced computer literacy.
• Proven past experience working in one or more of the targeted counties on similar assignment will be an added advantage.

9.0 Monitoring Progress & Control Required

Timely submission of draft reports and final reports within the stipulated timelines.

10.0 Terms and conditions for the consultancy

The consultant will work closely with the AAH Gender Manager together with the consortium’s partner staff at the field level. He/she will also be provided with the required guidance and support by the consortium partner staff in their respective counties as follows:

• Documents for reference relevant to the assignment including background information of the relevant target stakeholders earmarked for the exercise.
• Guidance on logistics and facilitation of consultant’s entry into the target communities while undertaking the assignment.
• Identification of interpreters and community guides including assisting in mobilization of the targeted participants for the exercise as required.
• Support in the review of the proposed consultancy approach, work plan, process and final deliverables of the consultancy in addition to ensuring quality – both by the Gender Manger and SPERC consortium partners as applicable.
• The consultant will not be permitted to publish or disseminate contents of the reports or any related work to this consultancy, to any unauthorized audience as they will remain the property of the SPERC Consortium.
• The consultant shall be responsible for their own insurance and medical cover, including that of accompanying colleagues, while travelling and during the assignment.

11.0 Duration of consultancy.

The assignment will take a maximum of 25 working days including 4 days of report writing, broken down as follows:

• The consultant will do the necessary literature review including review of relevant project documents, develop and submit an inception report, detailing the gender analysis and assessment design, methodology, tools, a detailed work plan and budget to carry out the assignment.
• A brief preparatory meeting (discussion, submission of the inception report, detailed work plan, budget and signing the consultancy contract) will take place before the commencement of the gender analysis and assessment exercise involving the consultant and AAH team.
• Data collection in the 5 counties of coverage by the consultant (20 days)
• Consultant will prepare a draft report and share it with AAH Gender manager/ Consortium partners for feedback – and will then submit an acceptable final report (4 days total)
• Dissemination of final findings to the consortium technical team and stakeholders (1day) An acceptable final gender analysis and integrated assessment report should be shared with AAH Gender Manager after incorporation of AAH/ Consortium partners’ feedback both in hard and soft copy by 24^th March, 2017.

The proposed consultants must commit to undertake the assignment and its deliverables within the proposed timelines.

12.0 Payment Terms

Payment is in Kenya shillings (KES) and based on outputs approved, and as indicated in the annexed table.

Annex 1: Deliverables and Payment schedule

Schedule of payments and amount: 30% on submission and clearance of the inception documents.

Tentative dates/ No. of working days : 3

Outputs/ Deliverables

• Inception report including a detailed gender analysis and assessment design, methodology, tools and a work plan.
• Finalization of desk review and relevant literature and review of the available draft gender analysis reports.

Schedule of payments and amount: 20% on completion of field work and submission of first draft reports.

Tentative dates/ No. of working days: 20

Outputs/ Deliverables

• Data collection, analysis and interpretation of the findings.
• Submission of first draft of the gender analysis and integrated assessment report for each county

Schedule of payments and amount: 50% on submission and clearance of the final documents and dissemination of the final findings.

Tentative dates/ No. of working days: 2

Outputs/ Deliverables

• Submission of acceptable final Gender analysis and integrated assessment reports for each county and dissemination of the key findings to the consortium technical team and stakeholders.

13.0 Your technical and financial proposal should at minimum include

Consultants who meet the above requirements should submit their proposal that include the following:

1. A capability statement (not exceeding one page), including a firm commitment to be available to undertake the entire assignment.
2. Consultant’s understanding of the Terms of Reference and detailing the methodology and design to be used in undertaking the assignment. · Specify and elaborate on the tools to be used to facilitate the active participation of all relevant target groups including community members, relevant partners and ACF staff.
3. Time and activity schedule · Propose an implementation time schedule and prepare a detailed Gantt chart and any other relevant illustrations. The schedule should detail how the consult intends to cover all the 5 counties within the stated period. 4. A detailed financial proposal, including consultant’s fees per day, travel and accommodation costs needed to meet the objectives of this assignment.

At minimum the financial proposal should include:

• An itemized line by line budget proposal for consultancy fees as well as administrative costs such as travel, accommodation, meals, stationary and any other required support items.

Copy of registration certificate, VAT and PIN.

• Currency quoted should be in Kenya shillings.

1. Up-to-date curriculum vitae or consultancy firm portfolio with CV(s) of lead consultant/s and other staff who will be involved in the exercise, that clearly spells out qualifications and experience
2. Executive summaries or copies of 2 institutional capacity technical assistance reports of previous work conducted in similar assignments.
3. Names, addresses and day time telephone numbers of at least three referees representative of organizations for whom the consultant has previously supported on similar assignments.

How to apply:

Submission of Expression of Interest

Interested candidates who meet the above criteria are kindly requested to submit their proposals to [email protected] by Monday 20^th February, 2017, clearly indicating ‘Gender analysis exercise – SPERC’** on the email subject line.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applications sent after the closing date will not be considered.

ACF KENYA reserves the right to accept or reject any application, in whole or in part and is not bound to give reason(s) for any of its decisions.