Ethiopia: Consultant

LWF World Service invites interested persons to submit their expression of interest for the following assignment as outlined in the Terms of Reference below:

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Short term assignment for mid-term monitoring of UPR projects

LWF World Service

Program Title:

LWF World Service RBA Local to Global

Country programs: LWF Ethiopia, LWF Uganda

Project title

UPR East and Horn of Africa – Achieving Impact - Cycle 2

Type of Monitoring:

Mid-term project monitoring

Project Period to be Reviewed:

18 months : May 2018-October 2019

Date of Monitoring:

Last quarter of 2019 – approx. 10 days per country (including one week of travelling per country)

Geographical area:

Funding agency:

1. Ethiopia (Somali regional state)

2. Uganda (Pader, Adjumani and Kamwenge)

Bread for the World (BfdW)

1.Background

Following the launch of the RBA Local to Global (RBA L2G) initiatives at the end of 2014 by LWF World Service in collaboration with the LWF Office for International Affairs and Human Rights, projects have been funded under these initiatives by Related Agencies as well as institutional donors, along four main thematic areas: land rights, women’s rights, refugee rights and rights of marginalized communities.

These initiatives have included new ways of working for LWF, including through closer join-up between the local, national and international levels, across LWF departments in the Communion Office, and with related agencies and other partners. They have also led to a new positioning of a number of country programs in their national context, as a relevant advocacy actor amongst national civil society. The initiatives include LWF World Service Country Programs in Ethiopia and Uganda.

These projects completed a first three-year cycle in April 2018 and consequently started a second three-year cycle. In October 2019, projects will have reached their mid-term and foresee a monitoring visit around this period of time.

2.Brief description of the project

• Problem description
  In general, rights-holders (e.g. women, vulnerable and marginalized communities, refugees and IDPs) are not able to access their fundamental rights to basics such as survival, food, water, security, livelihoods, education. These basic rights are the focus of much of our current programming in the region, and these are key issues and rights which this project addresses, along with underlying issues which lie behind them.
  These rights-holders are disempowered or marginalized; resources are not allocated to them (or they are denied access to resources they have used for centuries) or legal and policy frameworks do not exist to guarantee those rights. Even where resources and frameworks exist, there is no political will or capacity to implement them. Those who bear a duty of ensuring that communities have access to basic rights are not held to account, nor (sometimes) enabled to have the capacity to deliver.

Each of the countries in the RBA L2G initiative has identified priority issues which they aim to address, in line with their context and existing country programme.
- Overall goal: Key target groups are able to access their fundamental human rights.

- Project objective: Duty-bearers are taking concrete measures to implement UPR recommendations in priority thematic areas, and in target countries and localities, giving strengthened access to fundamental human rights.
- Sub-objectives:

1. Refugees, IDPs, host and post-conflict communities living in the project areas have improved access to their fundamental human rights

2. Local and national civil societies have increased their advocacy engagement with the national legal, policy and institutional mechanisms through the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, depending on contexts

3. Governments fulfil their commitments under the Universal Periodic Review (or other international frameworks) and international mechanisms are used to effectively monitor implementation

Even if the two countries share a common project logframe, activities were contextualized in each country and designed taking into account the UPR calendar for each country.

3.Scope of the monitoring exercise

This monitoring will focus on the local, national and international components of the project in each country, with a focus on the local and national components as the monitoring visit includes travel to the country program headquarters as well as the project locations.

4.Objectives of the mid-term monitoring

• Assess the progress in impact and results achieved by the project at this stage against defined objectives and indicators, as well as other sources of verifiable evidence of impact and results achievement.

• Assess activity implementation

• Report on management issues regarding staffing, work plan,budget consumption, compliance, monitoring and reporting, documentation, transport, visibility, communication, others.

5.Methodology

It is expected that the mid-term monitoring be conducted through face-to-face discussions and interviews and that the findings and conclusions of these processes be compiled by the consultant and included in the visit report, in addition to the other results gathered through desk analysis, focus group discussions and interviews with communities, government authorities, partners, etc.
A LWF standard template will be provided for the visit report.

6.Assignment timeline

This timeline is indicative, depending on the person’s availability.

Action

Recruitment, By September 2019

Conduct monitoring visit (including travels), September - November 2019

Draft reports share, Nov 15^th, 2019

Reports finalized, Nov 30^th, 2019

7.Deliverables

· Two Monitoring Reports (one for each country): draft monitoring reports will be shared with LWF focal points to allow some feedback before finalization. Max 15 pages each in a template provided by LWF, excluding annexes.

Consultant profile

· 3-year experience with programming (humanitarian, development, human rights)

· Familiar with Rights-Based approach in a variety of settings (humanitarian, development, human rights/advocacy)

· Able to articulate key elements of RBA in practice in relation to project design, implementation and impact

· Strong understanding of programming, evaluating impact against outcomes and indicators

· Understanding of how to link grass-roots projects to national and international level advocacy

· Previous experience in the region and/or with the issue of rights of refugees would be an asset.

· Able to work with a mixed team

Please send a CV and cover letter to :

Saname Oftadeh - saname.oftadeh@lutheranworld.org

Ophelie Schnoebelen – ophelie.schnoebelen@lutheranworld.org

Deadline for application : July 3^rd, 2019

Geneva, June 5^th, 2019

Please send a CV and cover letter to :

Saname Oftadeh - saname.oftadeh@lutheranworld.org

Ophelie Schnoebelen – ophelie.schnoebelen@lutheranworld.org

Deadline for application : July 3^rd, 2019