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Terms Of Reference Work In Progres (WiP!) Learning Production – Somaliland
TERMS OF REFERENCE WORK IN PROGRES (WiP!) LEARNING PRODUCTION.
INTRODUCTION.
Oxfam has been working in Somalia/Somaliland since the 1970s. Oxfam played a foundational role in supporting civil society development and has been called by many current and past partners “the mother of Somali civil society”. Support for women’s rights, women’s advocates, and gender equality has been a steady component of the program and many leading advocates for women’s rights, gender equality, and women’s issues were once partners or trainees of Oxfam. There are numerous examples of unique programming across youth and education, gender and emergency relief, resilience, WASH, and livelihoods. Over the years, the country office has produced an impressive range of policy briefings, reports and working papers that have drawn attention to issues, sparked discussions and influenced policies. Oxfam has three programmatic pillars, which are complementary and interlinked: just economy and economic development, inclusive governance and gender justice, and Conflict-sensitive humanitarian response, resilience to climate and fragility.
On the just economy and economic development, Oxfam works towards equitable economic participation and a fair share of resources across Somalia and Somaliland. It does this through a multiple interconnected projects focusing on skills development, business development services for youth and women, internships, and job creation initiatives for the un-employed youth as well as development of climate sensitive and resilient skills for rural youth. Working closely with Impact SMEs and building their capacities to access investment, scale up their operations and pioneer social development initiatives are part of Oxfam’s long-term commitment to enhancing entrepreneurship landscape in the market. Oxfam also works towards facilitating an enabling environment in the labor and business ecosystem through labor rights campaigns, policy influence as well as working closely and strengthening civil society influence towards equitable economic participation and putting youth and women at the heart of policy discussions.
ABOUT THE PROJECT.
The Work in Progress! (WIP!) the project aims to create employment for young men and women in Egypt, Nigeria, and Somaliland, prompting positive expectations about their future. This overarching objective will be achieved via three complementary pathways 1) increasing the supply of skilled youth by developing young people’s skills and capacities for (self) employment; 2) developing market demand by growing the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector so that it will create more employment opportunities; and 3) cultivating an enabling environment for youth employment. Work in Progress! Alliance partners bring their unique expertise to the project, making it possible to implement the holistic approach towards youth unemployment. The alliance includes Oxfam, Butterfly Works, Hanze University, VC4A and their local implementors partnering to deliver a program that combines service delivery, such as training, influencing interventions to change policies, laws, attitudes, and beliefs. This has proved successful in the last three years. The strategy engages young women and men from diverse backgrounds to be a driving force for social progress and optimism about the future in their respective countries and across Africa.
In Somaliland, the program aimed to mobilize investment, skills training, policies, and action to drive sustainable employment and enterprise development programs for youth and women in Awal, Borama, and Maroodi Jeex Hargeisa. The specific long-term outcomes include more young people finding paid jobs or becoming self-employed, startups seeing their businesses grow, SMEs seeing their businesses grow, and improved policies and changed attitudes stimulating youth employment and the business environment.
The learning production document aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of how the project has affected the lives of the youth and women it serves. The document evaluates the project’s performance, progress, and outcomes using the learning agenda developed during the project design stage. By examining the project’s achievements, successes, and best practices, the document can provide valuable insights into the project’s impact and identify areas for improvement. The learning document also looks at any innovations that the project has introduced and evaluates their effectiveness in addressing the project’s goals. Through this analysis, the learning production document can help stakeholders understand the project’s impact, best practices for youth employment and inform the future programme design.
PURPOSE OF LEARNING:
The purpose of the “Work in Progress! (WiP!) Learning” initiative is to facilitate a series of participatory learning activities that will systematically address each program pathway, with the objective of documenting and reflecting on the implementation, achievements, successes, and impact of the entire program. This will serve as a counterweight to the proposed intermediary and long-term goals of the program, providing a comprehensive learning and analysis of the program’s outcomes.
PATHWAYS LEARNING QUESTIONS AND OBJECTIVES:
The learning activities will focus on answering the learning questions under each of the three pathways of the program, as shown in the below table:
CONSULTANT RESPOSIBILITIES:
Below are the roles and responsibilities of the consultant:
- Undertake a comprehensive desk review of prior program activities and documents such as: program ToC and pathways, mid-term review report, learning event reports and annual program reports.
- Develop a methodology and a work plan for learning activity implementation and share with Oxfam before activity implementation.
- Develop detailed tools for learning documentation based on pathways learning questions and objectives.
- Creating three distinct learning papers, each addressing a particular pathway question while also incorporating the cross-cutting question.
- Should have experience in generating and documenting program learning products for the programme.
- Have knowledge and experience in undertaking analytical research for learning and developing comprehensive learning papers for communication based on project objectives versus outcomes.
- Generate a separate learning papers/document for each pathway separately and one comprehensive synopsis report that compiles all three pathways’ learnings.
- Present the learning paper at the programme learning and closing event in Sept 2023.
- Engage all project partners and participants in the different project locations and collect information for learning documentation.
DELIVERABLES: THE LEARNING PRODUCTS
The consultant is required to produce three different learning papers documents (one per pathway questions) that answer its intended objectives while embedding the cross-cutting question as well. Hence, the final products expected to be produced altogether and respectively from each learning activity/ies are:
- A learning paper/brief for each pathway questions learning activity (i.e., Three (3) separate learning papers).
- A synopsis learning report that encompasses all three pathways’ learnings. The synopsis should capture the learnings from all three pathways by creating three complementary and interconnected learning papers that cover the program’s different pathways.
Skills and Qualifications
ELIGIBILITY FOR CONSIDERATION AND CONSULTANT’S PROFILE
- The consultant should have a minimum of 10+ years’ experience in program implementation, MEAL and program knowledge/learning capturing generation.
- Comprehensive knowledge, experience and skills on employment research, MEAL, communication, private sector, gender equality, employment creation, and partnership models in the private sector ecosystem.
- Experience in a wide range of qualitative and quantitative approaches, methods and techniques specially relating to livelihoods/economic empowerment, social and cultural norms and gender equality.
- Excellent qualitative research and analytical, facilitation and communications skills with the ability to present information succinctly with high details.
- Demonstrable ability in facilitations and effectively enhance information dissemination, coordination, and collaboration with diverse teams from various sector and institutions.
- Previous experience in Somaliland specially in livelihood/private sector, gender equality or economic development.
TIMEFRAME:
The learning activities will be undertaken in the month of May and June 2023.
CONDITIONS:
The Consultant team is expected to sign and comply to Oxfam’s Code of Conduct (non-Oxfam staff). It is expected throughout to adhere to Oxfam’s Responsible Program Data Policy. This includes adhering to all requirements that are relevant in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Act of the European Union, when gathering, processing, using and sharing data. It is expected of Tenderers to make explicit in their proposals how they will ensure compliance in their activities with GDPR, including but not limited to ensuring informed consent, data safeguarding and data sharing. It is expected of tenderers to sign the related Data Processing and Security Agreement, as part of the contracting. All bidders will also sign supplier code of conduct prior to commencing an activity.
How to apply
Qualified candidates both firms and individuals are requested to submit.
- Detailed narrative proposal that clearly defines on how it is fitting to the proposed assignment include methodology and approaches, CV of the researcher and technical reference of previous similar works.
- Financial proposal covering specific costs relating to the assignment including consultancy fee.
Application package should be submitted to: som-consultancies@oxfam.org and indicate in Work in Progress Learning Production the subject line of the e-mail, submission not later than April 30th, 2023.
To apply for this job email your details to som-consultancies@oxfam.org