The Terwilliger Centre, for the past five years, has been implementing interventions on housing construction labour, housing construction materials, housing behavior change and housing finance. These interventions have been geared towards catalyzing the housing market system in Kenya to address the 250,000-unit stock annual deficit yet the market can only produce about 50, 000 units per year.
2. Background of housing construction services.
Low-income households mostly avoid relatively high costs associated with formal housing construction processes by engaging unskilled artisans which often result to low-level workmanship, wastage of materials, poor management of labour and time and ultimately poor housing quality.
The Terwilliger Centre, is currently implementing a Market Systems Housing Construction Services Programme aimed at stimulating improved access by households to quality housing construction labour services and improving the job quality of construction workers through 2 interventions:
I. Alternative Certification and Accreditation Schemes that aims at partnering with Technical Training Institutions, state agencies and suppliers of new technologies and materials to design, pilot and uptake alternative certification & accreditation schemes by enrolling Housing Construction artisans (fundis) to gain certification and accreditation through recognition of prior learning, onsite training and upskilling on new technologies and materials.
II. Linkage of Construction Labourers to Markets that works with labour aggregation platforms to support linkage of skilled and experienced construction labourers to Owner Driven Construction (ODC) markets.
3. Purpose of the outcome assessment
The Terwilliger Centre seeks to conduct an outcome assessment for interventions on alternative certification and accreditation schemes and linkages of construction laborers to construction markets. To understand.
i. The job path of certified artisans (fundis) benefiting from the Housing Construction Labour Programme and those not benefiting.
ii. Factors influencing fundis employment by formal employers, homeowners among other employers.
iii. The incentives influencing homeowners to seek services from certified and experienced fundis, and how to enhance quality housing construction services accessed by homeowners.
iv. The impact of activities conducted to support market linkages of housing construction labourers and how this affects the labourers’ income, job quality, quality of houses built, and contributes to systemic changes.
v. Document lessons learned and effective strategies in implementation of the construction services.
4. Scope of the work
The consultant will be expected to cover the following.
i. Conduct desk literature review on construction services in Kenya focusing on the policies that support construction labour services and professional development.
ii. Conduct interviews with professional construction services providers, government officials, artisans, developers, technical training institutions, HFHI staff, among other housing construction services sector actors.
iii. Prepare presentation slides and facilitate stakeholder workshop to disseminate the results.
iv. During the inception, in consultation with the selected consultant, Habitat will agree on the specific geographic locations/cities in Kenya for the study.
5. Expected Deliverables
The consultant will be responsible for ensuring data integrity and study completion within agreed timeline. Key expected deliverables include:
I. An inception report elaborating the study design methodology and data collection tools.
II. A field report that presents the success of the data collection process.
III. Two draft reports on study Key findings.
IV. A validation session of key findings with key TCIS and construction labour sector stakeholders.
V. A summary insights report of the validation session.
VI. A detailed final full & abridged versions of the report.
VII. Electronic version of the raw data collected from the assessment.
6. Consultancy Management
The main contact for this assignment will be the Housing Construction services lead supported by the MEAL Senior Specialist in Kenya. The project logic and other programmatic information will be shared with the successful consultant.
7. Timelines.
The successful consultant and Habitat will agree on the schedule of assessment and implementation. This assessment will be for 12-weeks.
8. Eligibility
The selected consultant(s) will have:
a) A Masters degree in social sciences, research, behavior change or labour related field.
b) A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in research and evaluation work in development sector.
c) Demonstrated experience in conducting studies and evaluation of construction labour workforce and programs and exposure working with affordable housing programmes.
d) Understanding of the construction labour landscape in Kenya and experience of market-based systems.
e) Demonstrated experience conducting qualitative and quantitative study approaches.
f) Experience and capacity to convene strategic housing labour stakeholders in Kenya.
g) Company/Consultant (s) has presence in Kenya.
9. Safeguarding and Data Protection
Safeguarding: HFHI requires that all employees take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities, and all those with whom we work. Managers at all levels have responsibilities to support and develop systems that create and maintain an environment that prevents harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, safeguards the rights of beneficiaries and community members (especially children), and promotes the implementation of Habitat for Humanity’s code of conduct.
Data Protection: The consultant will be required to abide by Habitat for Humanity International’s data protection and security policy during the assignment period.
10. Application Process
Interested consultants should send their application with the following documents.
i. Technical proposal
ii. Financial proposal
iii. Supporting documents
a. Curriculum vitae of the lead and all consultants to be involved in the study.
b. Examples of previous work.
c. Reachable reference for previous work done in similar area.
All the documents to be submitted to TCIS@habitat.org by 29th of April 2024 1700hrs EAST AFRICA TIME via email on with subject line: AFR/TOR/050424/Consultancy to Conduct Assessment of Housing Construction labour service in Kenya.
Applications received after this time will not be considered. HFHI will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
How to apply
All the documents to be submitted to TCIS@habitat.org by 29th of April 2024 1700hrs EAST AFRICA TIME via email on with subject line: AFR/TOR/050424/Consultancy to Conduct Assessment of Housing Construction labour service in Kenya.
Applications received after this time will not be considered. HFHI will only respond to shortlisted candidates.