Consultancy for Donor Mapping for Humanitarian Response in Mozambique 57 views1 applications

Background

Mozambique faces multiple, overlapping humanitarian crises driven by climate disasters, food insecurity, and regional conflict. In 2024, Tropical Storm Filipo impacted Inhambane and Maputo provinces, while Tropical Cyclone Chido severely affected Nampula, damaging infrastructure and displacing communities. These climate disasters have exacerbated food insecurity, with over 3 million people nationwide experiencing acute food shortages. In Inhambane Province, approximately 55,000 people have reached IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) or above due to persistent drought conditions.

The humanitarian landscape has shifted dramatically with changing donor priorities and funding constraints. Traditional funding sources, particularly from the United States, have become increasingly limited, creating an urgent need to diversify humanitarian partnerships and funding streams. This situation demands strengthening local response capacity and developing more sustainable humanitarian systems.

To effectively respond to the ever-increasing complex humanitarian situation in Mozambique, ChildFund in collaboration with We World seeks increase their efforts in humanitarian response. However, increasing our efforts in emergency response would require engaging with more relevant donors to provide the required critical assistance and funding. In preparation for increased role in humanitarian response, ChildFund seeks to engage an expert to conduct a comprehensive donor mapping that would identify and engage potential partners that can support its humanitarian response in Mozambique.

Purpose and objectives for the Consultancy.

***Purpose:***The purpose of the consultancy is to conduct a comprehensive humanitarian response donor mapping exercise in Mozambique. The assignment will include identifying key humanitarian sector donors, analysing their funding priorities and exploring potential avenues for partnership and funding.

Objectives: The objective of this assignment is for the consultant to:

1. Identify international and local donors (multilateral, private foundations, corporations and philanthropists) that support humanitarian response in Mozambique.
2. Analyse and map their funding priorities and geographical focus.
3. Assess the identified donor funding modality preferences including type of grants, technical partnerships and other innovative financing mechanisms.
4. Undertake an analysis of the alignment of ChildFund priorities in children in crisis, with those of the donors.
5. Approach some of the potential donors to cultivate relationships and where possible enter into signing of letters of agreement or memoranda of understanding.
6. Recommend practical strategies for engaging identified potential donors and cultivating long term partnerships for humanitarian emergency response programs.
7. f. Develop practical donor engagement tools and resources that can be utilized by ChildFund and its partners for ongoing fundraising efforts.

   Scope of Work

The consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:

1. Donor Identification: Compile a complete list of all potential donors in the humanitarian sector, including multilaterals agencies, Embassies, UN Agencies, foundations, corporate and individual philanthropists.
2. Analysis of Donor Priorities: Undertake detailed desk research and analysis of their areas of funding, particularly in humanitarian assistance. The analysis should clearly bring out the priority areas such as child protection, WASH, ECD, Health and Nutrition, Education etc. in emergency. The analysis should also their geographical areas of focus within Mozambique.
3. Funding Modalities: Examine the donors preferred approach to funding projects, their funding cycles (calls for proposals), application requirements etc. Identify the organisations they are currently funding or partnerships with other donors and the levels of their grants.
4. Alignment with ChildFund’s Priorities: provide an overview of how the donor priorities are aligned to ChildFund’s mission, vision and global goal of ensuring children grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe. Also, analyse the alignment with the ChildFund country strategic plan and program priorities in Mozambique.
5. Engage with potential donors: where possible, approach selected high potential donors to cultivating possible immediate and future funding opportunities for ChildFund’s humanitarian response in Nampula, Cabo Delgado, and Inhambane.
6. Consortium Approaches: Identify donors that prefer or require consortium approaches and analyze potential strategic partnerships, including with WeWorld-GVC, that could strengthen funding applications.
7. Practical Tool Development: Create practical resources such as a donor contact database, funding opportunity calendar, concept note templates aligned with donor requirements, and briefing materials for donor meetings.

Methodology

The consultant should carry out the assignment through:

• Desk based Research – reviewing available public resources from documents, donor websites, reports and publications.
• Key Informant Interviews – conduct interviews with specific selected key informants, including key donor representatives, NGO partners, government the humanitarian response agencies officials, ChildFund staff and WeWorld representatives
• Donor analysis: Analysis of donor landscape, funding trends and priorities, including current funding opportunities.
• Participation if relevant humanitarian coordination platforms/clusters etc.

Deliverables

The consultant is expected to deliver the following:

1. Inception Reports: outlining how the consultant will undertake the assignment, the tools to be used, and list potential donor that will be analysed and the work plan for completing the exercise.
2. Draft Donor Mapping Report: a comprehensive report that will provide a list of the donors, including contact information, funding priorities, geographical coverage, their funding approach and modalities, alignment to Child funding priorities etc. The draft report should also provide some recommendations and a donor engagement strategy.
3. Validation of Findings: Organise a virtual meeting with ChildFund, WeWorld and other interested stakeholders where the draft report will be submitted for validation, review and feedback.
4. Final Donor Mapping Report: The report will be the finalised draft report incorporating comments and feedback from ChildFund and other stakeholders, and the feedback from the validation presentation.

   Duration

The assignment is expected to commence immediately the consultant is identified and be completed within a period of 5 weeks.

Consultant Qualifications

The consultant must possess the following qualifications, skills and experience:

1. A degree in a relevant field. An advanced degree will be an added advantage.
2. Minimum of 5 years’ experience in undertaking similar assignments including donor mapping, funding raising/business development and donor relations in the humanitarian sector.
3. Practical experience and knowledge of humanitarian response landscape preferably in Mozambique.
4. Previous experience in formulating resource mobilization and donor engagement strategies.
5. Strong analytical, research and report writing skills.
6. Excellent communication and presentation skills. He should be excellent in public relations.
7. Fluency in English and Portuguese a must.