The terms of reference for a consultant conducting a multi-thematic analysis.

The terms of reference for a consultant conducting a multi-thematic analysis include gender inclusion and protection analysis, do no harm analysis, peace conflict impact analysis, and risk analysis on education in emergencies, food security, WASH, protection, shelter, nutrition, and health.

1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe is a German non-government organization (NGO) that renders humanitarian aid in 31 countries across the world. DKH supports people who are affected by natural disasters, war, and displacement and who are not able to cope on their own in the emergency they find themselves in. DKH focuses on locally-led responses by working through a global network of partner organizations. Fostering localized humanitarian action and an equal partnership approach lies at the very core of our work.

As Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe is not directly implementing humanitarian projects, we are committed to equitable and long-term partnerships, which strengthen local partner organizations’ administrative and technical capacities. Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe constantly seeks to facilitate mutual learning and capacity exchange, identify innovative and tailored models of cooperation, and shift power to partners and communities through the transfer of decision-making opportunities.

DKH’s projects are funded through donations, a percentage of the annual income of sister agency ‘Bread for the World’, collaborations with other aid agencies such as Caritas International, as well as institutional donor funds such as the German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). DKH is also a recognized cooperation partner of the ECHO, the Office for Humanitarian Aid of the European Commission, as well as of Euro Aid, a network of European non-governmental organizations specialized in food aid and food security.

In Somalia, DKH has been running intensive relief programs for more than twenty years. In recent years, DKH and its local partner organizations implemented also transitional aid programs. In close cooperation with its local partner organizations, DKH works across several sectors including WASH, Shelter/Non-Food Items, CCCM, Education in Emergencies, Food Security, and Livelihoods with integrated Cash Voucher Assistance, wherever feasible.

2. THE OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT

The objective of the assessment will cover the following three thematic areas and should clearly provide relevant information based on the project-identified location mentioned above.

Objective 1: Gender inclusion &Protection Analysis

• To Identify and analyze the specific gender inclusion needs and interests of girls, boys, women, and men related to WASH, Livelihoods, food security, protection, GBV, and Education in emergency.
• To Identify unique barriers women, girls, men and boys, face in accessing, and benefiting from WASH, Livelihoods, food security, protection, GBV, and Education in emergency.
• To Examine power relationships and how they influence decision-making processes, societal roles, and the distribution of resources among women, girls, men, and boys.
• To Identify gender & social norms and understanding the root causes that contribute to conflicts and inequality in Boys, Girls, Men and Women.
• To identify institutional and cultural frameworks (legislation, safeguarding mechanisms, supply structures etc) in relation to gender equality and inclusion need to be taken into consideration in the country.
• To identify gender, age and inclusion related data already exists that can be taken into consideration.
• To descript How does the project provide a differentiated account of the specific situations of people of different gender, age and persons with and without disabilities (e.g. local gender roles, access to resources and services in different sectors, participation in decision-making bodies, skills, capacities, needs and interests).
• To identify specially groups might require particular support or protection because they are exposed to or at risk of experiencing sexual or gender-based discrimination, stigma or violence (e.g. forced or early marriage for young girls, people with disabilities)
• To determine how gender equality and inclusion can be integrated in climate change and development interventions in fiscal and budget planning

Objective 2: Do No Harm Analysis

• To identify the main stakeholders and interest groups in the target communities in project target locations in (Banadir region, Galmudug state, Hirshabelle state South, West state and Jubbaland state?
• To map existing conflict dynamics, tensions, drivers of social exclusion and peacebuilding capacities of communities and stakeholders through a detailed analysis of the current context, and the drivers and the available aid programs.
• To determine effect of conflict on women, men, male and female youth separately in terms of equitable participation in governance, power and resource sharing processes.
• To identify potential synergies and opportunities for mainstreaming peace building and conflict resolution within the scope of current programs and approaches, potential entry point/roadmap for mainstreaming peace building in to the DKH Somalia programs.
• To map the current capacity and assess the training needs of the DKH and their implementing partners staff for conflict sensitive program delivery based on the Do NO Harm principle, that can impact positively on the current conflict.
• To Identify the best practices and tools for making conflict analysis an on-going process within reasonable frequency as per-the needs and requirements of the organization.

Objective 3: Risk Analysis

• To identify potential hazards, threats, or vulnerabilities that could adversely impact the organization’s operations, assets, or stakeholders in the project target locations mentioned above.
• To analyze the likelihood and potential impact of these identified risks.
• To evaluate the risks to determine their significance and prioritize them based on their severity.
• To develop strategies and controls to mitigate, transfer, or avoid the most critical risks.

Objective 4: Resilience Analysis

• To identify the risks and crises in the context (recurrent stress situations, impending shocks, chronic stress factors) affecting people’s lives, including IPDs and host communities, in the project target locations. and how they impact the target group, in particular girls, boys, young women and men and caregivers?
• To identify the existing strengths and competencies that individuals can leverage, and what needs/possibilities are there to strengthen them? What coping strategies do communities engage in, and how do these mitigate, or the opposite, compound risks and vulnerabilities by age and gender?
• To define what does resilience mean to the affected communities and how it is articulated differently according to age and gender?
• To list and map the networks of support are communities relying on most and how do these contribute to shape decisions and opportunities, including how social norms contribute to this? What are the boundaries of individual agency (by age and gender) versus socially defined choices?
• To identify who are the affected and duty-bearing actors and structures as well as their strengths and competences (resilience capacities) to deal with risks and crises, including their resilience capacities for stabilization, adaptation and transformation?
• To list what are the needs and possibilities to further strengthen these capacities, with a particular focus on economic & livelihood opportunities and integration, WASH, protection, shelter, education in emergency and social cohesion spaces.
• To identify the capacities needed and how should be strengthened?
• To develop Resilience-Capacity-Matrix

Objective 5: Peace conflict impact Analysis

• To determine the needs regarding the promotion of social cohesion (peace pillar) in the local context, and what are the possibilities to strengthen social cohesion? What is the potential for synergies with peacebuilding actors?
• To examine how does the project have concrete potential for cooperation and/or synergies with humanitarian, development, and/or peacebuilding actors?
• To examine the needs and drivers of conflict and related issues by locations as well as the key stakeholders and structure for conflict resolutions in program areas.
• To examine the enablers of peacebuilding to inform designing conflict-sensitive program in such context of Somalia.

3. TARGET BENEFICIARY

The target beneficiaries of this assessment should include the following: 1. pastoralists, 2. agro-pastoralists, and 3. agriculturalists in both urban and rural areas.

4. METHODOLOGY

The evaluation methodology will be proposed by the evaluator after a thorough study of TOR’s requirements. Therefore, the study is expected to involve mix-methodology of structured questionnaire, including GESI and Washington Group Disability Questions, and qualitative data collection methods such Key Informant Interviews and Focus Group Discussion will be implemented. The study should use both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Qualitative tools need to capture voices of all target categories of the study including women, men, boys, girls as well as people with and without disabilities in target locations. The evaluation will be conducted in Banadir, Galmudug, Hirshabelle, Jubaland, South-West, and Puntland in Somalia. The consultant will carry out the analysis according to the ToR and will include necessary tools and exercises to meet assessment objectives. some of these tools and areas of enquiry include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) secondary literature review, (b) key informant interviews, and (c) focus group discussions. Detailed methodology, including the design of data-collection tools and formulation of specific questions will be developed by the consultant. Consultant and DKH Somalia team will further discuss and agree on the methodology and data collection approach as well as tools before the commencement of field activity.

5. DURATION OF DATA COLLECTION

All primary data collected during the study must facilitate disaggregation by gender, age, disability, and vulnerability status. The data collection exercise will continue for 20 days in Banadir, Galmudug, Hirshabelle, Jubaland, South-west in Somalia. The exercise will start on 5-Nov 2024 and will continue on 25-Nov-2024.

6. SAMPLING FRAMEWORK

A sample of respondents will be randomly selected in each target area for the quantitative survey. The sample will be statistically representative of the populations living in each target area based on acceptable statistical sampling techniques. This should be in line with various contextual factors and the proposed project site

7. SAMPLING APPROACH

DKH expects the consultant to employ a sampling framework that utilizes a two-stage cluster sampling with a probability proportionate to size (PPS) design.

8. DATA ANALYSIS AND QUALITY ASSURANCE

All the quantitative data should be analyzed using software such as SPSS, R, or Excel; the consultant is expected to use a descriptive and inferential representation of the data. Qualitative will be analyzed using narrative and thematic methods. This helped to identify information relevant to the research questions and objectives. The consultant should clearly explain how data quality shall be ensured throughout the assignment.

9. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

All interviews should be undertaken in full confidence and anonymity. The final assessment report will not assign specific comments to individuals. The final methodological approach including meeting with key stakeholders, field visits, and data to be used in the evaluation will be clearly outlined in the inception report and be fully discussed and agreed upon between the consultant and DKH teams.

10. GENDER AD HUMAN RIGHTS.

The evaluator should incorporate human rights, gender, and equity perspectives in the evaluation process and findings, particularly by involving women and other disadvantaged groups subject to discrimination. All key data gathered must be disaggregated by gender and age grouping and included in the draft and evaluation reports.

11. DELIVERABLES

The main output of this assignments upon which payment should be based are the follows.

• Finalization of the inception plan, including the evaluation matrix, methodology, and data collection tools, was done in consultation with the evaluation team.
• Conduct a field mission (data collection meeting, consultation, and interview with the stakeholders) and prepare a draft report.
• Appropriate, validated draft data collection tools (e.g., methodological guidelines, group interview questions).
• Data analysis and presentation of preliminary findings
• PowerPoint presentation of the main findings
• Executive Summary of findings, analysis and recommendations.
• Submission of the final evaluation report incorporating all the observations and comments from the key stakeholders.
• Raw data in any of the following statistical packages (Stata, SPSS) and also transcribed qualitative scripts.
• Detailed description of findings by assessment objectives, including graphs, visuals and tables; A maximum45-page draft and final evaluation report comprise (A detailed report on Gender inclusion &Protection Analysis, Do No Harm Analysis and Risk Analysis, Resilience analysis) based on the objectives) in MS Office and PDF for final, excluding annexes, and in English
• Resilience capacity matrix (required by BMZ).

Locations: The requirements evaluation will concentrate on the following Somalia project locations, as listed below:

• Banadir (Kahda & Dayniile district)
• Galmudug state (Galkacyo, Hobyo, Dhusamareeb, Adado districts).
• Hirshabelle state (Baladweyne and Jowhar).
• Jubbaland state (Dolow & Elwak districts).
• South West state (Baidoa and Afgoye districts).

12. CONSULTANT COMPETENCIES

The consultancy assignment is open to individual National/ International or a team of National and International expert consultants, with specialist knowledge and research expertise in conflict analysis and peacebuilding, and experience working on gender issues, gender and development, gender equality, gender mainstreaming, policies analysis and capacity building and well understanding of project and organizational risk assessment as well as development practice and theory. The consultant will have the following experience and qualifications:

• At least a Master’s degree in in social science, gender / women studies, conflict management and peacebuilding, Public Policy, International Development, Development Economics/Planning, Economics, International Relations/ Diplomacy, or any other relevant university degree.
• Sound theoretical knowledge of development theory and/or experience of project management for an NGO or UN agency in delivering development projects.
• Previous experiences of practicing participatory methods for conducting research and planning;
• Considerable professional experience of working in Somalia at the community, village and district levels, with a clear understanding of traditional forms of social organization and systems of local governance, as well as official systems of local administration.
• High level of competence in the English language,
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to communicate detailed concepts clearly and concisely both in writing and verbally.