Terms of Reference for the Review of World Bank /Government of Kenya Development Response to Displacement Impact Project (KDRDIP) Labour Intensive Public Works (LIPW) Operations and Technical Manuals
1. Background
The International Labour Organization (ILO) one of five agencies including the International Finance Corporation (IFC), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United National High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Bank that have recently signed up to a partnership with the Government of Netherlands for a major new initiative to move from a purely humanitarian response to forcibly displaced persons and host communities to approaches that address the humanitarian to development nexus and result in inclusive and sustainable medium to long-term socio-economic development. The initiative seeks to “transform the way governments and other stakeholders, including the private sector, respond to forced displacement crises” in refugee-hosting countries.
As stated in the partnership Vision Note, access to employment and livelihoods provides the bridge between humanitarian action and development cooperation. As such, ILO will support critical response programmes anchored in its comprehensive policy framework, namely its Guiding Principles on the Access of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons to the labour market and the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205). The ILO’s vision within the Partnership is: “To strengthen decent work in countries impacted by forced displacement to mitigate stress factors at all levels and support inclusive socio-economic enablers for access to labour markets and empowerment of host communities and of forcibly displaced populations”.
An assessment of the employment intensive investment strategies for creating jobs and improving infrastructure, the environment and community assets in refugee hosting communities in Kenya was conducted in March – April 2019. The assessment identified strategic entry points and interventions to promote the application of employment intensive investments within the comprehensive refugee response framework in Kenya. This included interventions to build the capacity of national and local implementing bodies (local governments and technical training institutions), contractors, host communities and refugees; as well as strategies to leverage and complement the investments and activities of the other member agencies of the partnership to expand the creation of decent work opportunities targeting the host and refugee communities in the target areas.
Notably, the World Bank/Government of Kenya Development Response to Displacement Impact Project (KDR-DIP) is a USD 100 million project directed towards community-driven projects to address the impacts of hosting refugees and targeting the refugee hosting counties in Kenya, Garissa, Turkana and Wajir. It is a five-year project and part of a broader programme covering four refugee hosting countries in the Horn Area including Uganda, Ethiopia, Djibouti. In Kenya, the project forms part of the broader North and North Eastern Development Initiative (NEDI). KDR-DIPs development objective is to improve access to basic social services, expand economic opportunities, and enhance environmental management for communities hosting refugees in the target areas of Kenya. The project beneficiaries include a total host population of 1,041.436 and a total refugee population of 439,461 in Turkana, Wajir and Garissa counties – with 50% being women and youth.
The project became effective in July 2017 but preparatory activities started in January 2018, KDRDIP is hosted in the Cabinet Office and is coordinated by a team of experts in the National Implementation Unit (NPIU). Preparatory work have been concluded including creating awareness, establishment of the project implementation structures, recruitment, preparation of operations and implementation manuals, and the signing of Memoranda of Understanding between the National and County governments.
The project applies a community-driven approach. This means that communities will identify and prioritize their needs, with support of technical experts develop appropriate interventions and develop sub projects to implement the proposed interventions. The same communities will implement the subprojects and funds will be transferred directly to the established community groups meeting the eligibility requirements and following capacity building.
The project has five components: (i) Social and economic infrastructure and services component (USD 48.94 million); (iii) Livelihoods program (USD 29.44 million) (ii) Environmental and natural resource management component (USD21.75 million) (iv) Project management, and monitoring and evaluation (USD 8.05 million); and (v) Support to return areas in Somalia (USD 3 million)
Two of which will employ a Labour-intensive Public Works (LIPW) approach i.e.
(i) Social and economic infrastructure and services component: Focusing on improving social infrastructure and access to education, primary and secondary health care services; water supply, sanitation and hygiene and all-weather roads. This component has two sub-components: a) community investment fund (USD 46 million) to fund community prioritized projects to expand/improve social service infrastructure and delivery, together with community contributions. The project will employ a labour-intensive public works (LIWP) approach engaging the local target communities in the construction, maintenance, rehabilitation and management of the infrastructure assets; b) Capacity support for local planning and decentralized service delivery targeting the host county governments (USD2.94).
(ii) Environmental and natural resource management component (USD21.75): Support activities to a) enhance sustainable management of environment and natural resources. The primary implementation modality will be through LIPW with specific focus on integrating women (USD 18 million); and b) improving access to alternative environmental-friendly energy sources with a focus on solar energy and developing enterprises along the value chain (USD2 million).
The project’s LIPW approach under component 1 and 2 targets the most vulnerable households, “the poorest of the poor”, and offer them a means to immediate short-term incomes through employment in the labour-intensive construction, rehabilitation or maintenance of community infrastructure assets (where applicable), build community resilience and offer a bridge to other forms of livelihood. The target is to create 3,600,000 person days within the five-year period. The approach is to organize the identified individuals from the target households into groups (between 15-25 persons); these groups will be trained and engage in labour-intensive works with technical assistance provided by the Project Implementation Support Team (PIST).
A LIPW Operations and Technical Manual have been prepared. While these manuals detail the operational procedures and technical specifications for the sub-projects, in discussion with National Project Implementation Unit (NPIU), the Bank recognized ILO’s comparative advantage as technical lead agency in employment-intensive infrastructure development and jointly the following areas were identified for potential collaboration and ILO technical support:
- ILO’s technical review of the KDR-DIP manuals with a focus on strengthening the labour-based technical approach to the design, procurement, contracting modalities, contract management and implementation and technical supervision of the labour-intensive public works, and incorporating labour management issues – productivity norms, labour management, standards and norms considerations and procedures to ensure decent and sustainable work creation.
- Risk analysis, mitigation, human rights and workman compensation.
- Offering institutional technical and management training targeting the KDR-DIP Project Implementation Support Teams (PIST) on LIPW which includes the county and sub-county administration where residual capacity would remain for future application in the operations and maintenance and potential new public works.
- Supporting the design and delivery of training of the community groups/community-based enterprises, emerging small-scale contractors, along the value chain on LIWP, labour standards and decent work principles.
- Skills, Enterprise and Cooperatives interventions targeting the community-based groups graduating them towards other areas/productive sectors based on value chain assessments and opportunities
- Green jobs: Awareness on the concepts, approaches, existing tools and good practices to apply towards the creation of “green-jobs”; identification and promotion of green jobs, skills and related enterprise training (component 2).
2. Scope of this assignment
The ILO seeks to recruit a consultant to focus on the first area above to review the Kenya RD-DIP LIPW Operations and Technical Manuals. The consultancy assignment involves thorough review of the KDR-DIP LIPW Operations and Technical Manual with the objective of ensuring that the principles and technical approach of the ILO’s employment-intensive investment programme as well as the ILO decent work standards and norms and are in alignment with the national technical and labour standards, norms and practices.
3. Proposed Summary of Activities
i. Desk review on national and regional publication on labour-intensive infrastructure works as well as their relevance in the context of Dutch partnership programme
ii. Review both manuals and determine the areas for strengthening.
iii. Hold initial consultation meetings with the KDR-DIP NPIU and PIST technical lead managers.
iv. As necessary hold interviews with key government institutions responsible for policy development, coordination and regulations of refugee affairs as well as the other partners in the Netherlands’ partnership, in particular UNHCR and other relevant key partners that are involved in refugees and host community labour-intensive works projects to learn from current practices and contextualize as necessary.
v. Conduct interview with the ILO social partners and incorporate their inputs.
vi. Prepare content and revisions to the manuals. Incorporating into the operations manual the following (but not limited to): definitions, issues to consider in contracting modalities – community contracting, contracting labour-based and small-scale contractors, contracts and contract clauses, labour management, recruitment, setting wage rates, labour standards and norms, OSH, equality and equity, inclusion – marginalized groups and gender issues, managing labour, work ethics and discipline, labour market and skills issues, workers association and employers issues. For the technical manual possible areas include but not limited to technical design issues for LIPW, task setting and productivity norms, labour/work organization.
vii. Consideration could be made of a separate complementary manual/guideline that focuses on EIIP policy and practice issues for LIPWs in refugee hosting counties in Kenya.
viii. Share draft with ILO CTA, EIIP Technical Adviser for comment and incorporate.
ix. Hold workshop with the World Bank KDR-DIP NPIU on the proposed changes and validate.
x. Refine and submit final revised manuals and complementary materials developed.
3. Organization of the Assignment
The consultant will work directly under the CTAs of the Dutch Partnership in Kenya and report to the EIIP DWT specialists in Pretoria as well as the EIIP team in Geneva. The location of the assignment is in Nairobi (Kenya) with travels to the selected refugee-hosting area of Turkana and Garissa in Kenya.
The ILO will facilitate the consultant to access all the necessary information and materials that are relevant to the study. The ILO will also facilitate access to all the relevant authorities and development partners in Kenya. The consultant is, however, expected to collect and use relevant data/information and literature from other sources.
4. Qualification
Senior Civil Engineer with at least ten (10) years’ experience and proven experience on employment intensive approach. Knowledge and experience in working in the infrastructure construction sector in Kenya or the east African region, experience in working in development; knowledge and experience with modus operandi of refugee programmes and experience in environmental protection and eco-solutions is an added advantage.
5. Assignment Duration and Level of Effort
Level of effort: 20 days
The consultant payment will be comprised of:
i. Fee: Payment to cover for the services provided to carry out this assignment as per the TOR. The payment of the fees will be upon presentation of final outputs.
ii. Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA): To cover the consultant’s daily expenses in case of travel. DSA shall be paid at a standard UN rate upon signing of the contract.
iii. Local travel: Consultant will be paid in advance upon signing of the contract an agreed amount based on ILO travel agency estimates and as per ILO standards. Consultant will have to submit proof of travel and travel receipts.
Consultant(s) who meet the above requirements should submit bids, which at minimum should include the following:
· Suitability statement, including commitment to availability for the entire assignment.
· Brief statement of response to the proposed methodology including a detailed work plan (max 5 pages)
· Detailed financial proposal, including daily costs.
· Contacts of two organizations that have recently contracted the consultant for a similar assignment.
Candidates interested in this consultancy are invited to submit their bids to [email protected] no later than 19th December 2019.
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