Organization: Raleigh International
Country: United Republic of Tanzania
Closing date: 17 Jun 2018
Context
Raleigh Tanzania focuses on working through, with, and for youth. We believe that when local communities and young people work side by side it empowers them. And it’s the energy and motivation of empowered people that creates change. Since its foundation in 1984, over 44,000 Raleigh alumni from 92 countries have been inspired to become leaders and role-models in their communities. Raleigh works in support of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. We seek to inspire behaviour change among the youth and communities we work with, reaching for long-term and sustainable impact.
The four-year Social Accountability through Youth (SAY) project, which began on 1st April 2018, seeks to empower young people and excluded groups in 179 rural communities to hold project implementers to account. SAY aims to increase the impact and value for money of development investments in eight predominantly rural districts, improving transparency and services for over half a million community members by 2022.
A substantial number of donor-funded projects are being delivered in the Dodoma, Iringa and Morogoro regions of Tanzania. To maximise the impact of development investments, robust accountability is essential. However, in Tanzania public accountability systems can be inconsistent, with young people’s and other marginalised group’s voices regularly unheard. Current systems in these three regions are not providing communities with a voice through which to hold decision makers to account, resulting in services failing to reach or have maximum impact for those that need them the most. Communities are often unaware of transparent social accountability systems that can maximise the impact of projects, resulting in issues identified remaining unresolved.
The government recognises that strong social accountability systems drive better project results for marginalised groups but has encountered challenges in translating positive policies into local actions. As a result, marginalized and vulnerable groups, including young women and men and young people with disabilities, living in these districts frequently feel unable to affect positive change in their communities.
Project background
Within one of the world’s youngest populations, the mobilisation of young women and men and young people with disabilities is key to solving many development and project governance issues. It is vital to provide young people with the knowledge, skills and social capital they need to lead their communities in improving the transparency, value for money, equity and sustainability of projects taking place in Dodoma, Iringa and Morogoro.
In collaboration with partner Integrity Action (IA), Raleigh is implementing a programme of youth-led, self-sustaining and autonomous social accountability and monitoring in 179 communities. With a focus on ensuring the inclusion of girls, women and young people with disabilities, SAY will empower over 400 Tanzanian youth to lead 179 communities to monitor projects and hold implementing actors to account effectively and transparently.
Feedback gathered by SAY’s Community Monitors (CMs) will be published on an online platform and solutions to issues raised by the community will be agreed in inclusive and collaborative forums known as Joint Working Groups (JWGs). SAY will increase the success rate and value for money among over £30 million of development investments.
The assignment
Raleigh will endeavor to ensure that SAY is implemented with a high level of inclusion, both with regard to the young people directly engaged to deliver the project and to the wider community. We are committed to upholding an approach that incorporates a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) methodology in all aspects of project delivery. To make this possible, we must first understand the barriers faced by people at risk of inclusion.
The Consultant will undertake:
- a context analysis with a gender and social focus to identify and understand the groups at risk of exclusions in the regions where the SAY project will take place, and;
- an assessment of the barriers to participation in their communities and wider society for people at risk of exclusion with a particular focus on people with disabilities and women and girls, and will;
- formulate recommendations and guidance on how the identified barriers can be addressed through SAY to ensure inclusion and increase equity of impact across the beneficiaries.
Responsibilities of the Consultant
The Consultant will assume overall responsibility for the implementation of a coordinated assessment of the barriers to participation for people at risk of exclusion, including but not limited to, people with disabilities and women and girls in Tanzania’s Dodoma, Iringa and Morogoro regions
S/he will undertake the tasks outlined below against the stated timelines.
– Develop, with support from Raleigh as needed, an agreed, context-specific assessment approach and methodology
Deliverable: Document outlining methodology and workplan
Deadline: Monday 23rd July
– Carry out a context analysis to identify the groups at risk of exclusion in the intervention areas. Gather evidence from the excluded groups identified on their perceived barriers to participation in their communities and wider, with particular reference to decision-making and accountability. Formulate recommendations and associated guidelines on considerations and adaptations to the project Raleigh can make to address the identified barriers.
Deliverables: Report including:
(i) assessment findings on the barriers to participation for excluded groups and
(ii) recommendations and guidelines to ensure inclusion through SAY
(iii) key tools (for example surveys, interview questions etc) and data gathered as annexes
Deadline: Full draft report – Monday 20th August
Final report – 31st August
– Presentation to key Raleigh staff (in person or via Skype) on the findings and recommendations
Deliverables: PowerPoint presentation and / or summary of findings
Deadline: First week of September
All reports will be produced in English.
It is anticipated that the assignment should take no more than 15 days to complete in its entirety.
Consultant specification
General criteria
· Demonstrable expertise inclusion
· Familiarity with the CRPD and the disability rights movement
· Thematic expertise on gender and women and girls’ rights
· Geographic expertise in Tanzania
Technical criteria
· Experience in carrying out gender and social analysis for international development projects
· Experience in qualitative methods and analysis and participatory research
· Evidence of use of ethical considerations and methodological measures for conducting research
Track record
· Evidence of successful collaboration with NGOs
· Evidence of client responsiveness, creativity and flexibility of approaches towards clients’ needs and / or challenges in research implementation
· Evidence of producing clear, concise, high quality reports in English
Required language skills
· Fluent / native Swahili (mandatory)
· Fluent / native English (mandatory)
· Tanzanian sign language (beneficial)
How to apply:
Raleigh welcomes Expressions of Interest that propose a suitable methodology to undertake the proposed assessment and complete the required tasks
Raleigh is unable to support international travel and is therefore seeking a local consultant based in Tanzania.
We invite interested consultants to submit the following application documents:
· Expression of interest addressing track record and selection criteria
· Technical proposal including proposed activities schedule / work plan with time frame
· CV(s) of applicant(s)
· Budget (separating core consultancy costs and daily rates of team members and any other costs, and including all taxes)
· An example of previous similar work
The maximum budget available to cover all costs is 17m TSH. Raleigh will look favourably on applications that demonstrate good value for money. 5% of the consultant’s (and any team members’) fee with be withheld and paid to the Tanzanian Revenue Authority.
Please send your applications to: R.Mckenzie@raleighinternational.org
The deadline for applying is by midnight UK time on Sunday 17th June.
We are aiming to select the consultant by Friday 22nd June. Interviews will be arranged if deemed necessary.