Terms of Reference (ToR) for Undertaking
Assessment on Services and Capacity of Public Youth Centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Background:
The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international non-governmental organisation with a mission to accompany, serve, and advocate for the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people. The organisation was founded in November 1980 and has a presence in over 50 countries.
JRS has been functional in Ethiopia since 1982 undertaking projects focused on internally displaced persons, refugees and asylum seekers in the country. Currently, JRS Ethiopia is implementing four projects; Mai-Aini project for Eritrean refugees in Mai-Aini and Adi-Harush refugee camps in Shire of Tigray regional state; Dollo Ado project for Somali refugees in Melkadida and Kobe refugee camps in Dollo Ado district of Somalia regional state; Refugee Community Center (RCC) and Urban Child protection project for urban refugees residing in Addis Ababa of Ethiopia.
JRS’s Refugee Community Center (RCC) was established 1996 in Addis Ababa and functional since then serving the urban refugees and asylum seekers by delivering and availing various services. It was established with the aim to provide a safe community environment for refugees and asylum seekers in the city and avail such services as non-formal education on computer courses, English and Amharic language courses; life skills and vocational trainings; counseling; and recreational and sport activities. Till recently, RCC was the only community center availing such and other related services for refugees in the city.
Over the years, Government of Ethiopia has made positive efforts that improve the protection and overall wellbeing of refugees in the country. Since 2010, it has adopted an Out of Camp Policy for Eritrean refugees. It has reaffirmed its commitment to improve situations of refugees in the country. During the Leaders’ Summit on Refugees, which took place on 20 September 2016 in New York, the government of Ethiopia (GoE) has made nine highly significant pledges to further improve situation of refugees the country including provide work permits, extend out of camp policy to other refugees from other nationalities, increase refugees access to available socio-economic services. To make the country’s refugee proclamation reflective of these significant initiatives, currently the GoE is amending the existing refugee proclamation.
In line with these changes, JRS RCC project is revisiting its interventions and service delivery approaches to urban refugees in Addis Ababa. It wants to facilitate the urban refugees to know available relevant services and facilities, to have access and utilize them. To this end, JRS Ethiopia intends to undertake an assessment on services and capacity of youth centers in Addis Ababa established by Addis Ababa City Administration. Results of the assessment is expected to inform JRS urban refugee programming by providing vital information and inputs to identify services and activities of the youth centers that are appropriate to urban refugee needs and to be accessed by them; institutional and human capacity of the service providers in the centers; possible area of partnership between JRS RCC and some of the centers found in the city.
Therefore, JRS Ethiopia wants to invite and engage national consulting firms or licensed individual consultants with significant relevant experience and skills to undertake the assessment.
Objectives of the Assessment
The assessment will have the following specific objectives:
Methodology:
Assessment Coverage and Sample Size:
The assessment covers selected youth centers within five sub-cities of Addis Ababa such as Bole, Yeka, Nifasilk, Kirkos and Akaki-Kality sub-city. Refugees reside across different Woredas within these sub-cities of the city[1]. Woredas within the sub-cities will be selected based on the availability of functional youth centers and hosting refugees in the area. JRS suggests selecting 3 to 5 youth centers within each sub-city.
Duration of the assignment:
The whole assignment will take 20 (twenty) working days beginning with the date of contract signing and ending with the acceptance of the final report. Tentatively the assessment is scheduled to undertake from mid of August to first week of September 2018.
Minimum Requiring Qualifications from the Consultant:
Key Deliverables
The main deliverables expected from the Consultant include the following:
Report of the Assessment:
The Consultant will produce a written report in English; both in hard and soft form along with relevant annexes. The report should include: