Conducting Employment Impact Assessment for Construction Interventions under MSSRP

TERMS OF REFERENCE

National Consultant for Employment Impact Assessment

Assignment title:

Conducting Employment Impact Assessment for Construction Interventions under MSSRP

Project Title and Code:

Support to the MSSRP to assess, monitor and increase the labour-intensity of its capital investments. JOR/17/02/IBR

Assignment duration:

1 May and 20 June 2024

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

This document outlines the terms of reference for conducting an Employment Impact Assessment for three construction projects under the Municipal Services and Social Resilience Project (MSSRP), These projects are in three different municipalities.

The Municipal Services and Resilience Project (MSSRP 2018-2024, P161465) funded under a World Bank Trust Fund intends to scale up activities which started under the Emergency Services and Social Resilience Project (ESSRP 2013-2018) and which target improvement of infrastructure and service delivery based on the needs of communities hosting Syrian refugees and their municipalities, while providing job opportunities for Syrians and Jordanians. Municipalities are responsible for functions and services including solid waste collection, construction, and maintenance of certain classes of roads, street lighting, slaughterhouses, markets, parks, libraries and urban planning. Grants are provided under ESSRP/MSSRP to municipalities for selected categories of projects to enhance these functions and services.

The objective of MSSRP is to help Jordanian municipalities address service delivery impacts of the Syrian refugee influx and support investments that generate jobs and improve social and economic conditions in host communities. MSSRP therefore also aims to focus on job creation through public investment. As employment-intensive investment strategies are relatively new in Jordan the ILO has been approached to provide technical assistance to MSSRP to assess, monitor and increase the employment generation.

The project will allow ILO to mobilize a small team of local experts and consultants to support and build capacity in MSSRP to assess, monitor and increase the labour-intensity of its capital investment budget. Activities will include the production of technical guidelines, technical assistance and mentorship, training and capacity building of project counterparts and employment impact studies and employment monitoring and reporting.

Under the first outcome, the ILO shall conduct Employment Impact Assessment (EmpIA) for the construction interventions implemented by the projects’ stakeholders. EmpIA will enable ILO and MoLA – PMU to measure the potential or ex-post impact of project interventions on jobs and job-related outcomes. The EmpIA report and findings will guide the agencies’ organizational learning at the programmatic level, allow for necessary adjustments in strategy (scaling up or integrating the EIIP approach), and inform key partners of the direct and indirect impacts of using the EIIP approach. The ILO as the main partner responsible of integrating the EIIP concepts into the project, will provide the overall technical guidance to this consultancy.

Under these TORs, ILO seeks to contract local consultant to conduct an EmpIA within the project construction interventions by accurately collecting, analysing, and reporting data necessary to understand the process and impact on direct and indirect beneficiaries.

ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVES

The main objective of the assessment is to analyse the impact of the project’s interventions that applied the EIIP approach during the execution stage on direct jobs. For the indirect jobs’ estimations, the consultant will provide the inputs required to estimate this metric using the methodology described in Annex 2. This will be achieved through analysing process data, conducting Focus Group Discussions with beneficiaries (contractors, workers, municipalities’ staff, MoLA and PMU staff) and sampled community members, conducting Key Informants Interviews with material supplier/s, and undertaking a post-implementation survey for beneficiaries.

KEY DELIVERABLES AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

1. Analysis of the expenditure breakdown of the following projects:

#

Municipality Name

Type Of Project

1

Ma’adaba Mu.

Lean Park

2

Ramtha Mu.

Roads Asphalting

3

Sahab Mu.

Torustic Road

• Estimation of total labour costs using project documents and information collected from the construction companies (see Annex 1).
• Estimation of the expenditure breakdown using the bill of quantities (see Annex 1). The purchases must be classified using the classification described in Annex 3. It’s also relevant to identify the origin of goods and services, considering if they are supplied domestically or imported, if this information is available.

1. Draft Employment Impact Assessment Report
2. Final Employment Impact Assessment Report
3. Presentation Slides for the inception report, draft and final EmpIA reports.

• All assignment’s deliverables are expected to be delivered to the satisfaction of the ILO by 20-June 2024
• The final report shall include comparison between the observed impact of the current projects using EIIP approach and the traditional construction methods and techniques.
• The selected consultant shall provide a detailed work plan for better coordination, aligned with the ILO requirements.

TOR Can be found on the below link:

[*https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/oaolslklbclkvj6zcqixh/Terms-of-Reference-for-Employment-Impact-Assessment-MSSRP-Final-Version.docx?rlkey=jt1k9di9k8joi7dngkyqskvtb&dl=0*](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/oaolslklbclkvj6zcqixh/Terms-of-Reference-for-Employment-Impact-Assessment-MSSRP-Final-Version.docx?rlkey=jt1k9di9k8joi7dngkyqskvtb&dl=0)

Interested consultants shall submit the below listed documents (in English) by Saturday, 20th of April at 23:59 p.m., 2024 via email to amm-procurement@ilo.org with email subject ILOAMM-MSSRP-Employment Impact Assessment

• CV.
• Brief Technical offer based on ToR.
• Financial offer based on standard format in ToR.