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HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation (Helvetas), Concern Worldwide (CWW) and the local government of the North Gondar Zone, have formed a strategic partnership bringing together complementary competencies to address the complex nature of poverty in the North Gondar zone. The overall aim of the Semien Gondor Resilience Project (SEGORP) project supported by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) is to strengthen household and community resilience to climate change through the development of absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capabilities in North Gondar Zone of the Amhara region.
This will be achieved through actions across the following 3 main outcomes.
In Ethiopia, there is evidence of climate change starting back 50 years, with increasing temperatures and high variability in rainfall. Climate change exacerbates social, political, and economic inequalities and thus tensions. Extreme weather events such as droughts and floods have negatively affected agricultural growth and food security. In Ethiopia, agriculture is the primary employment sector for women. Women face multiple disadvantages, living under harsh conditions, undertaking burdensome duties outside the home, and carrying the responsibility for domestic work and caregiving. During periods of drought and erratic rainfall, women work harder to provide for their families, often leading to girls leaving school to assist their mothers. These hardships faced mixed with harmful social norms, make women and girls more vulnerable to gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence, human trafficking, child marriage, and other forms of violence and violent practices, like Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). These inequalities and injustices, are deeply rooted in cultural traditions and attitudes that define women(girls) as subordinate, resulting in an unequal balance of power between men and women.
Additionally, women and girls spend significant time on unpaid care work including domestic duties, collecting firewood, and fetching water, which negatively impacts ownership over their time, health, and productive resources. Women have less access to natural resources despite depending on them more, even though they bear a disproportionate responsibility for securing food, water, and energy for cooking and heating. They are excluded from decision-making processes and lack the necessary opportunities to participate effectively in decisions related to land, water, food security and disaster risk management, among others. Disasters also disproportionately affect women, and other vulnerable groups such as youth, elderly, and people with disabilities. Gender inequality coupled with the climate crisis and related disasters, is a significant challenge that poses threats to the livelihoods, health, safety, and security of women and girls, youth, and other vulnerable groups in the target woredas.
Future climate change and its impacts in Ethiopia remain uncertain, but it is crucial to address gender and social inequalities and equip, especially women to be able to contribute to mitigation of and resilience to climate and other disasters. It is crucial to ensure a gender lens when designing and implementing resilience projects. The targeted scope of the intervention area is focused on North Gonder Zone of Amhara Region. The zone has one of the highest poverty indices in Amhara, and Ethiopia. All six woredas are food insecure, of which two woredas have very high poverty indices and three have high poverty indices. A large percentage of households is chronically food insecure and are under the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP). The area is culturally very conservative and supports the reinforcement of a set of very traditional social norms that negatively affect women, youth and other left behind and more vulnerable groups.
The SEGORP I project undertook a Gender Analysis and baseline assessment during its first phase. This assessment aimed to critically evaluate the degree and reasons of discrimination and marginalization of women and youth, and how gender norms exacerbate this inequality. The findings of the assessment informed the SEGORP 1 intervention strategy, which placed a strong emphasis on working with, women self-help groups, youth groups and local institutions to address gender gaps. Among key findings, the assessment identified women's limited engagement in decision-making processes at both the household and community levels as significant gender barriers rooted in gender discriminatory social structures and power relations. Furthermore, social analysis and participatory approaches conducted resulted in SEGORP I to integrate womens social and saving groups which enabled these groups to prevent child marriages and other harmful practices in their community.
To address these and emerging risks and disparities more comprehensively and systemically, HELVETAS and Concern Worldwide are launching this call for a consultancy to conduct a more intersectional analysis, including, and going beyond gender, for the second phase of the newly designed SEGORP II project.
SEGORP II will address both practical gender and social needs and more strategic priorities, to rebalance care, decision, and power relations, for more inclusive and transformative social equity, equality, and security in the target woredas.
2. Purpose and objectives of the Consultancy
The main purpose of the consultancy is to design and carry out an intersectional gender analysis, based upon which relevant recommendations will support HELVETAS and Concern Worldwide to address more systemically gender ad social disparities, impacting especially womens, youth and other vulnerable groups food and livelihood security, rights, and safety, increasingly threatened by climate change and disasters, in Debark, Janamora, and Beyeda Woredas in North Gonder.
Some of the key factors in addition to gender that should be assessed in relation to intersectionality, include age, , disability, social and economic status, and other forms of identity.
Specific objectives include:
The consultant(s) will design and conduct an Intersectional Gender Analysis in the target communities of SEGORP II.
Furthermore, the consultant(s) will provide concrete, relevant and viable, short-, mid- and longer-term recommendations on where and how to address gender and other intersectional factors in the intervention strategy of the project, considering the priority sectors, of livelihood, nutrition sensitive and climate smart agriculture, natural resource governance, disaster risk reduction, and emergency response management in Debark, Janamora and Beyeda Woreda, North Gonder.
The recommendations will inform the approaches and adjustments to the planned activities to enhance gender, social, and economic, equality, equity, security and justice for more positive systemic changes and impact of SEGORP II.
The consultant(s) will carry out below specific tasks, in close coordination, consultation and where indicated (pre)agreement with designated SEGOPR II partner representatives:
The consultant is fully responsible to propose and design a suitable methodology and develop tools required for conducting the intersectional gender analysis, data collection, data analysis, interpreting and presenting the results and recommendations in a clear, coherent, systematic, and user-friendly way.
The methodology should include participatory, mixed-method approaches (quantitative and qualitative).
The research should include both a secondary data review and primary data collection (focus group discussions, key informant interviews and quantitative surveys and observations). Stakeholder interviews may be in person or remote, pending accessibility and viability. Stakeholders must be pre-informed and provide written consent, for both written and any audio-visual materials produced with them. In case of minors, a designated adult/guardian must consent.
Data should be analysed using appropriate software and methods, applying personal privacy and data security good practices and protocols.
Do No Harm is integrated into all aspects of the assignment, paying attention to gender and social inclusion, hierarchy and power dynamics, local custom, social and environmental responsibility, laws, and conflict sensitivity.
Job Requirements
In addition to having previous experience with this type of consultancy, an understanding of the nature of this consultancy, and availability at the preferred time of the indicated timeframe, the consultant(s), must demonstrate below essential experience and qualifications, while evidence of desirable experience and qualifications will be advantageous.
The Consultancy service is expected to be rendered between February and March 2024, according to the below table. Detailed work plan to be proposed by the consultants.
Activity | Timeline | Estimated Duration to Complete |
Desk review | fourth week of February | 1 week |
Submission of draft inception report | First week of March | 1 week |
Field work | First half of March | 2 weeks |
Submission of first draft of final report | Third week of March | 1 week |
PowerPoint presentation for validation for written and verbal feedback | End of March | 1 week |
Final report submission | End of March | 1 week |
Orientation workshop for SEGORP staff | Mid of April | 1 week |
3. Administration and logistics
Final payment is dependent on completion of agreed deliverables and timely submission of the agreed final report in English (as detailed in this TOR).
The consultant(s) will sign and be responsible for respecting a code of conduct, including safety and security protocols.
The consultant(s) will be responsible for arranging their logistics according to agreed budget and work plans with SEGORP II partner representatives.
SEGORP II partner representatives will provide relevant documents and materials for the desk review in due time.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are encouraged to apply by sending their Technical and Financial Proposal with the above mentioned documents, and send applications only throughHumanResources.ETH@helvetas.org
Your application must include letter of interest in English, CV(s), sample of similar work done in English language.
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