ToR POLICY REVIEW – YOUTH & ADOLESCENT RELEVANT POLICIES IN ETHIOPIA

Job Description

POLICY REVIEW – YOUTH & ADOLESCENT RELEVANT POLICIES IN ETHIOPIA

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR CONSULTANCY

Name of the Project:                USAID Integrated Youth Activity - Kefeta

Period of Performance:                 10 -15 days (between Aug 10^th – Sep 5^th, 2022)

Background

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Ethiopia’s Integrated Youth Activity – Kefeta, is a five-year, $60 million Activity recently awarded to Amref Health Africa (Amref) and its consortium partners. The Amref-led consortium’s vision of success for Kefeta is Ethiopian youth who are game changers: empowered to advance their own economic, civic, and social development; resilient in the face of shocks; actively promoting development within their communities and contributing to the country’s peace and prosperity. Kefeta will benefit the lives of at least two million Ethiopian youth in 18 cities, building their agency and capacity for advocacy, linking them to economic opportunities, and improving their access to youth friendly services (YFS).

Kefeta’s Advocacy Vision

Our overall vision for our policy advocacy work is to have young people becoming more engaged in exercising their voice, agency, and leadership constructively, and this can be done through youth-led advocacy that ensures meaningful engagement of youth every step of policy development and implementation processes. Key outcomes of our advocacy efforts will include: youth-informed policy formulation and implementation, law enforcement, budget allocation, and establishing youth-led social accountability systems for policy commitment.

Scope of Work for the Policy Review

Policy review and analysis of existing youth & adolescent related policies and their effectiveness in Ethiopia

The policy review and analysis will have a literature review component which contains mapping of all available youth and adolescent related policies and major strategies related to youth and adolescent (i) Health (focusing on Sexual Reproductive Health and Family Planning), (ii) Employment (including job creation and employment, as well as self-employment and entrepreneurship), (iii) Education, (iv) Civic Engagement in Governance, peacebuilding, volunteerism and/or Service learning; and (v) Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in their chronological order.

The review will also entail conducting the analysis of these policies and strategies including assessing their relevance and effectiveness - whether the policy implementation plans are on track, and their relevance to local needs and linkages to regional/global policies. The main focus of this analysis will revolve around the key themes of the project under the major sectors mentioned above and there will be an effort towards aligning the review with the overarching focus and vision of the integrated youth activity project.

The analysis will also include opportunities and barriers (if any) in policy implementation. The findings of the analysis will serve as an evidence base to help USAID integrated youth activity effort towards advocating for policy change or improvement.

Stakeholder feedback workshop: effectiveness of the youth relevant policies and meaningful youth engagement in policy development and implementation in Ethiopia

The process will include a review/feedback meeting with youth and adolescents, policy makers, relevant sector leads and other key stakeholders to provide feedback on:

·         Extent to which the youth relevant policies are up-to-date and being implemented as intended and if the desired effects are being met: if implementation plans and targets are being achieved.

·         Extent to which the youth relevant policies are current and relevant to the changing country context (considering the youth bulge, current social and economic needs and political sphere)

·         Areas within the existing youth relevant policies that might need amendment (if any) (providing hands on experiences and recommendations)

·         The extent of meaningful youth engagement (MYE) in the development, implementation and review of relevant youth policies on health, employment, education, good governance, peacebuilding, volunteerism and/or service learning, GESI and existing opportunities for MYE.

Deliverables of the consultant

a)                   A short inception report (following consultations with the Kefeta team) detailing the priorities for the policy review, the scope of work, timeline and draft outline of the report.

b)                  Literature review report outlining youth and adolescent policies on health, education, employment, Gender and social inclusion, volunteerism, and peacebuilding in Ethiopia, implementation effectiveness, with referrals to and interlinkages with similar regional and global policies and opportunities/barriers to implementation of the policies.

c)                   Facilitate one stakeholder workshop with policymakers, youth and adolescents, relevant sector leads and other key stakeholders on effectiveness of the youth relevant policies and meaningful youth engagement in policy design, implementation and review.

d)                  Policy review report (including a summary on major finding in power point presentation): outlining comprehensive recommendations to USAID Integrated Youth Activity – Kefeta project and the Government for each policy: if the policies do not need review, if the policies need minor or major revisions and what revisions are needed. This is the major deliverable of the policy review and it will include the inputs from the stakeholder workshop and the annexed literature review.

Inputs from the Kefeta Team

Kefeta team will provide:

         i.            Kefeta’s relevant documents including the formative assessment and the post conflict assessment reports;

       ii.            Technical comments and feedback on each of the outputs of the consultancy work;

      iii.            Logistical arrangements for convening the stakeholders’ workshop such as invitations to participants and covering their costs, venue and related arrangements;

      iv.            General oversight in the roll out of the consultancy;

v. Effective utilization of the analysis reports in the context of the project’s youth advocacy and youth engagement interventions.

Job Requirement

·         A highly experienced consultant with a minimum of post graduate degree in a related field, at least 10 years’ experience in Public Policy in Ethiopia and policy review and implementation frameworks.

·         Robust understanding of the national/international developments in relation to civic engagement and accountability for youth and adolescents.

·         Evidence of critical analytical skills and experience.

·         Excellent policy analysis skills and experience.

·         Good communication and interpersonal skills.

·         Previous experience working in gender and youth programming.