IRC Internmational Rescue Committee Safe Programming Audit Consultancy in Kakuuma and Dadaab Camps Job in Kenya

Consultancy for a Safe Programming Audit in Kakuma and Dadaab Refugee Camps

Sector: Program Management 

Location:  Kenya

Employee Type: Consultant 

Employee Category: Not Applicable
 

Terms of Reference for the Safe Programming audit

Program: Safe Programming

Location: Kakuma and Dadaab

Duration: 37 days

Consultancy Dates: May - July 2015

Introduction: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the largest humanitarian agencies in the world, providing relief, rehabilitation and post-conflict reconstruction support to victims of oppression and violent conflict since 1933. 

 

The IRC has been present in Kenya since 1992, providing essentials like clean water, health care and shelter to tens of thousands of refugees escaping conflict and natural disaster in Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and other neighboring countries. 

The IRC also supports Kenyan communities that host refugees, more so in urban areas and those in Kakuma and Daadab areas. In the camps and among host communities, the IRC runs heath, nutrition, governance and protection, women empowerment and HIV/AIDS programs.

To ensure quality programming, protection and promotion of rights of the people with whom the IRC works, the organization employs a protection mainstreaming approach to its programming. 

Through protection mainstreaming, also referred to as Safe Programming, the IRC seeks to incorporate human rights principles, such as non-discrimination, “do no harm”, participation, meaningful access, risk reduction, and safety and dignity into its work in all sectors. 

Actions such as facilitating access to health services for special needs groups such as persons living with disabilities and ethnic minorities; deliberate actions to safeguard safety and dignity of beneficiaries in service delivery for instance having private consultation and examination rooms at the health facility; ensuring camps are planned to minimize the potential for violence against women and girls; enabling women and children’s meaningful participation and representation in community decision-making; or constructing gender-specific latrines in safe locations all contribute to improving the protection of rights.

In Kenya, the IRC undertakes protection mainstreaming in Kakuma, Hagadera and Kambioos refugee camps. 

The core features of safe programming include a Complaints Response Mechanism (CRM) made up of mechanisms of collecting protection complaints and concerns from beneficiaries, employing remedial measures to the complaints and feeding back to the community on the remedial measures. 

Some of the complaints collection tools in the CRM include sector specific checklists, exit interviews, help desks and suggestion boxes.  

Other components are sensitization of agency staff and community leaders on principles of Safe Programming and implementation of Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) that enhance Safe Programming. 

Another core feature of is the Safe Programming inter- agency coordination mechanism, found in both Kakuma and Daadab. 

This brings together agencies working in the different camps into a regular forum which is able to collate various protection concerns, devise remedial measures and implement them, monitor progress of implementation and ultimately report back to the community and other stakeholders. 

In both camps, IRC coordinates this protection platform.

Purpose of the Consultancy.

In order to regularly track the state of safe programming across IRC’s Programs, regular thematic assessments are undertaken, usually on a quarterly basis and used to fine-tune ongoing programming. 

Periodically however, the IRC undertakes comprehensive protection audits with the following objectives;

• Identify barriers to meaningful access to services by community members, across various segmentations including gender, disability groups, age, nationality/ethnic etc;
• To highlight ways through which the safety and dignity of beneficiaries can be enhanced in relation to service delivery while adhering to the “do no harm” principle;
• To assess whether needs and capacities of vulnerable groups are taken into account in all stages of the program cycle;
• To identify ways through which the beneficiary communities can be effectively engaged in programming;
• To discuss ways through which the self protection capacities of beneficiaries can be enhanced;
• To critically assess the complaints response mechanisms and feedback loops in the camps, identifying ways in which they can be enhanced;
• To provide baseline data against which programmatic achievements are benchmarked.
• To provide recommendations on how safe programming can be enhanced to respond to beneficiary needs.

The IRC intends to hire the services of a consultant to undertake a comprehensive audit with the above objectives. 

The target population for the audit will be the entire population in Kakuma, Hagadera and Kambioos camps and specifically in the sectors where the IRC implements it programs which include health and nutrition, HIV/AIDS, women empowerment and protection.

Methodology

• Desk Review of existing Safe Programming documents. Specifically, the consultant will review at least three proposals developed in the last one year using the Design Stage Assessment Promms tool to determine how aligned they are to key safe programming principles.
• Primary data collection from the camps using appropriate tools including Promms tools.  Data will be collected among beneficiaries and agency staff in Kakuma, Hagadera and Kambioos.

Expected Deliverables

• Inception report outlining the methodology, detailed work plan, study report outline and assessment tools for the study;
• 1st draft of the final report
• A professionally edited final report

Suggested Timeframe

The consultant will be required to develop a detailed work plan. 

The study will be conducted in a period of 37 consultancy days. Below is a suggested breakdown, to be confirmed prior to start of the work:

• Safe Programming Training for the consultant - 1 day
• Desk Research, Development of the inception report and approval by the IRC -7 days
• Travel to the field and data collection: Kakuma - 7 days,
• Dadaab (Hagadera and Kambioos) -8 days.
• Reports writing- 9 days
• Validation workshop and finalization of the reports -5 days

Reporting: The consultant shall write and produce 3 precise final reports (maximum 40 pages excluding annexes) written in simple and clear English language. 

The draft reports shall be shared with IRC for comments and inputs for inclusion in the final reports by the consultant.

The reports should have the following format:

• Cover page
• Acknowledgement
• Table of contents
• List of figures
• Chapter One: Introduction (background, methodology, scope and limitations)
• Chapter Two: Findings
• Chapter Three: Synthesis of the findings
• Chapter Four: Conclusion and Recommendation
• References
• Annexes

1. Data collection tools
2. List of literature and documents reviewed
3. List of locations visited
4. List of the key informants interviewed

• Submit 2 hard and a soft copy of each of the final reports to IRC

Qualifications Required

• A degree in Political Science, Sociology/community development, International relations, development, Peace and security, Forced Migration or any other area of study related to the terms of reference;
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in refugee issues;
• Track record on consultancies/ research on refugee and IDP protection/conflict and peacebuilding;
• Experience in writing/editing/formulating evidence based research, preferably with INGOs, governments or academia;
• Good understanding of legal and socio-economic dynamics of refugees in the camps;
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills;
• Fluency in written and spoken English;
• A Kenyan national. 

Expression of Interest

Any person interested in undertaking this research should send an Expression of Interest consisting of:
 

a) Technical proposal; (maximum 3 pages) including methodology and work plan for the exercise

b) Financial proposal to include the Consultant’s daily rate and other expected costs

c) CV of the researcher

d)  A sample of previously written work.

 
IRCs Responsibility

• Pay consultancy fees at a mutually agreed rate.
• Mobilize the interviewees and support the data collection process
• Organize for interpretation where need be.
• To cater for accommodation and transport to the field.

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