Background

During the last decade, Somalia, which has been recovering from civil conflict and political instability, was hit twice by severe droughts – one in 2011, and the other in late 2016. According to a poverty and vulnerability analysis in Somalia’s Ninth National Development Plan (NDP-9), poverty is pervasive (or widespread), with the daily income of an average poor Somali being only 71% of the international poverty line of $1.90. Such extreme poverty represents great vulnerability among the majority of Somalis to recurrent shocks such as droughts, floods, displacement, poor health, loss of income or assets.

In October 2017, the World Bank, European Union and the United Nations led by MOPIED initiated an assessment of the drought. Within a timeframe of three months, the Drought Impact and Needs Assessment (DINA) was conducted. DINA was launched in January 2018, and is a comprehensive assessment of the damages, losses and the needs for recovery that Somalia needs in the medium term. Translating the DINA findings into action, in late 2018, the Government of Somalia developed a Recovery and Resilience Framework (RRF).

The purpose of the RRF is to enable and inform Somali Government and international partners programming and financing responses to the needs identified in the DINA. In doing so, the RRF which is scheduled over a 3–5-year timeframe, will build on ongoing humanitarian efforts and align with the national development planning process, thereby helping to set Somalia on a trajectory towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It establishes a collective vision and strategy for enabling recovery and resilience building by breaking the vicious cycle of vulnerability and humanitarian crises. Using evidence-based analysis and a bottom-up consensus building methodology, it identifies recovery and resilience building priorities and proposes a financing approach and institutional arrangements by which these can be acted on by the Government of Somalia and its international partners.

The RRF priorities and strategies have been mainstreamed into the NDP-9as policy imperatives that cut across the 4 pillars. This allows national institutions and resilience stakeholders to build consensus around approaches and interventions, which subsequently inform the core principles of resilience.
The guiding principles of the RRF include ensuring short to medium term institutional capacity building to efficiently implement, monitor and evaluate both large scale investments in key sectors and small-scale investments on the community level in a sustainable manner. As a multi-sectoral issue, resilience building requires enhanced collaboration between stakeholders. The establishment of a Resilience Technical Secretariat addresses this

requirement by enhancing institutional stakeholders’ capacity at the federal and member states levels, and is critical to ensuring harmonization amongst the multi-sectoral stakeholders in the resilience sphere.

Position Overview

A key aim of the Resilience Technical Secretariat (RTS) will act as a coordination platform to coordinate and oversee the implementation of resilience programming both national and sub-subnational levels. In this regard, it will also assist the PWG, SDRF Steering Committee and NDC to provide strategic leadership to the RRF in order to ensure that government and partner programming is both aligned with the country’s NDP-9 and recovery and resilience needs. In addition, the secretariat will advise the government and implement agencies on resilience programming in Somalia using the existing national frameworks.

Under the immediate supervision of the Resilience Technical Secretariat Lead (RTS Lead) and the oversight of the Ministry of Planning, Investments and Economic Development (MOPIED) chair, the M&E Specialist will be embedded in MoPIED and will perform the following tasks

1. Assist the Resilience Technical Secretariat (RTS) to Develop its Monitoring and Evaluation Framework:
   1. a)  Assist to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework in consultation with the secretariat chair, RTS Lead, Federal Member States (FMS) Focal Points (FPs) and other stakeholders
   2. b)  Based on the framework, develop a simple and user category wise monitoring format and its guidelines to be used in the monitoring process.
   3. c)  Assist RTS Lead in using evidence-based feedback and results of M&E to advise and recommend secretariat members on resilience program planning for effective joint implementation and policy formulation
   4. d)  Ensure linkages between M&E processes and larger secretariat operations are coherent and clearly communicated.
   5. e)  Coordinate the implementation of the M&E framework, guidelines and other tools, as well as oversee compliance to the M&E system (reports, data collection, advising of lessons learnt etc.)
   6. f)  Assist RTS to develop process, output, outcome and impact level indicators for secretariat progress monitoring
   7. g)  Assist secretariat to prepare annual monitoring and evaluation plan that is consistent with M&E Framework
2. Develop Recording and Reporting Forms and Formats for the secretariat
   1. a)  Assist the secretariat to develop and modify recording and reporting templates in a format that meets the reporting requirements of the MOPIED Chair and secretariat.
   2. b)  Help FMS Resilience Focal Points and RTS Lead to use the recording and reporting forms and formats
3. Capacity Building FMS Resilience Focal Points on Monitoring and Evaluation
   1. a)  Conduct M&E need identification survey among FMS Resilience Focal Points and identify M&E capacity gaps
   2. b)  Develop appropriate training package in consultation with RTS Lead and other relevant stakeholders
   3. c)  Organize capacity building training to all relevant stakeholders in the secretariat to minimize M&E capacity gaps
   4. d)  Facilitate secretariat dialogue on lessons learnt to ensure platform of technical advising from stakeholders is shared across sectors, sub-groups and built into institutional knowledge management
4. Manage M&E ​content in the Resilience Portal component of MOPIED web portal (in development)
5. 1. a)  Maintain and manage web portal content tracking the outputs, outcomes and impacts for the various resilience projects under the secretariat.
   2. b)  Ensure content is up-to date
6. Assist as a resource point to clarify the M&E guidelines of the secretariat with other resilience coordination stakeholders if necessary

1. Prepare Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Reports of the secretariat
   1. a)  Assist FMS Resilience Focal Points to compile periodic progress data
   2. b)  Compile monthly, quarterly and annual progress reports as required, and finalize theevaluation report and disseminate it at appropriate levels and channels

Education and Experience

●  Master’s degree in social science preferably in development planning, economics or management;

●  Academic degree in Monitoring and Evaluation would be an added advantage;

●  Sound knowledge in Somalia’s development planning process and development plans;

●  Knowledge and experience in designing M&E systems and conducting evaluations;

●  At least six (6) years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, results-based management;

●  Excellent writing and analytical skill in drafting concept notes and reports; Understanding and

knowledge of basic computer applications such as MS Words, Excel and data base management;

and

●  Experience working within the Development agencies preferably in government system;

4. Language Requirements

●  Proficiency in Somali is critical

●  Proficiency in written and spoken English is critical