Provision of Consultancy Services on Livelihood Development Opportunity Assessment and Recommendation of Interventions
SECTION I: LETTER OF INVITATION
RE: Request For Expressions of Interest: Provision of Consultancy Services on Livelihood Development Opportunity Assessment Consultant
Farm Africa seeks to hire two individual consultants for the assignment stated in the subject of this letter as Senior & Junior consultants.
Farm Africa now invites interested Individual Consultants to submit CVs for the assignment as per the Terms of Reference (TORs). Farm Africa policy requires consultants to provide professional, objective, and impartial expressions, and at all times hold the Client’s interests paramount, without any consideration for future work, and strictly avoid conflicts with other assignments or their own interests.
Individual Consultants will be selected under Individual Consultancy in terms of evaluating both the CV and the way he/she understand the assignment up on presentation they will give after reviewing the background document for the assignment plus financial quotation they offer.
Terms of Reference
Assessing livelihood opportunities and options for host and refugee communities around five camps in Dollo Odo area of Somali Regional State
Background:
Farm Africa is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) working to reduce poverty in rural eastern Africa by helping farmers grow more, manage their natural resources better and sell their produces for more. We help farmers to not only boost yields, manage natural resources better but also gain access to markets, and add value to their produce. We place a high priority on environmental sustainability and develop approaches that help farmers to improve their yields and incomes without degrading their natural resources. Our programmes vary hugely, ranging from helping crop farmers to boost harvests, livestock keepers to improve animal health, and forest coffee growers to reach export markets, but core to all of them is a focus on the financial sustainability of the pastoralists and farmers’ businesses, and environmental sustainability.
The project:
The ‘Livelihood Promotion and Resilience Building of host and refugee communities in the Dollo Ado area of the Somali Region’ project is a resilience project initiated by group of NGOs with the objective of reducing food aid dependence and fostering development of a system of sustainable livelihoods and incomes for vulnerable refugee and host communities in Dollo Odo area of the Somali Regional state. It forms part of a bigger project called ‘Innovative Approaches to Building Resilience for Vulnerable Populations in Ethiopia’ led by WFP and funded by SIDA.
While the provision of humanitarian assistance is crucial to meet immediate needs, development partners and global communities are now a days recognize that long term development and resilience building interventions by fostering use of local resources and improved market linkage are essential to reduce heady and sustained dependence on food aid. With this four year resilience programme, interventions implemented will be linked to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) which is to achieve Zero Hunger. This recognizes the need to build food systems that are resilient, including to environmental degradation, climate change and economic volatility. The livelihood component aims to achieve the following result and outputs:
MAIN RESULT:
Outputs:
The project will have also three main cross cutting issues that will be understood, applied and generate lessons from.
These are 1) Capacity building 2) Gender and 3) Environmental Sustainability.
Objective/Purpose of the Assignment:
To enhance the food security and income of refugees and host communities in Dollo Odo area, and subsequently reduce their food aid dependence. The basis for such activities is a thorough and participatory assessment of available natural resources based potentials, capacities, skills, needs, socio-economic factors (e.g. market) and political/legal situations in the area and foster development putting these into practical action.
Specifically the present study will assess the livelihood development opportunities as a system and designed to explore:
Scope of the Work:
A livelihood assessment is a consultative process involving the participation and contribution of a multi-Functional team, representatives of the refugee community, the host community and the public and the private sectors, as well as relevant organizations such as ARRA, UNHCR’s Implementing Partners (from the government side), WFP and Community Organizations (COs), etc.
The study will cover identification of existing opportunities and mapping of factors influencing development of sustainable livelihoods and livelihood strategies. Livelihood strategies are the combination of activities that refuge/host communities undertake to achieve their livelihood goals. A choice of livelihood strategy is determined by both the assets base and the extent to which the use of those assets is constrained by Policies, Institutions and Processes (PIPs). Therefore, the assessment will cover both refugees and surrounding local host communities around the five camps in Dollo odo and it will:-
Detailed Tasks:
Review of secondary information (relevant existing reports/studies and previous livelihoods assessment). The review of previous and existing livelihood projects in Dollo Ado and in similar refugee camp settings, will help to compile lessons learned and key recommendations for consideration in the feasibility study & to avoid redundancy.
Develop coherence field procedure and data collection tools also informed by the review of secondary information in consultation with the project PC, Farm Africa’s head of Programmes and other support system in the organization;
Data analysis - using the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework; and analytical tools such as SWOT analysis.
Opportunities may be found in terms of emerging 'market niches'.
Prepare a summary of key findings and recommendations, and present them in a meeting/workshop.
Draft a comprehensive report; submit for review and incorporate comments into a quality final report.
The present study will documents the livelihood development opportunity as a system and the assets the communities/Refugee/Host draw up to make a living; The strategies they developed to make a living & the context (social, economic political and also environmental) contexts within which a livelihood could develop sustainably.
The current livelihood strategies of refugee and local populations in the target area are documented, including:
The contextual opportunities and constraints for employment/self-employment are documented, including:
Feasible strategies to reinforce and develop displaced populations’ capacities, livelihood assets and outcomes, address capacity gaps, and enhance their access to employment/self-employment opportunities are formulated.
Implementation and partnership arrangements are recommended.
Study document showing the potentials of the area; the needs of the target area/community and the economic opportunities that exist based on the local resources, markets and business environment;
Feasible alternative livelihood development options activities are identified
Organize stakeholder forum/validation workshop
Qualifications (academic, experience):
Skills:
Outputs or Reporting Requirements:
The following reports will be submitted within the implementation schedule:
Duration:
Responsibilities:
Consultant’s:
Client’s:
Deliverables:
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