Project Name: Enhancing Community Resilience and Local Governance Project (ECRP-II)
Position Status: Consultant- short term (6 Months)
Duration: Effective from contract signing up
Reports to: TBA
Nature of consultancy: Technical Assessment of government institutions
Classification: International Ungraded
Type of contract: Individual contract
Based on the lessons learned from the first phase of the Enhancing Community Resilience and Local Governance Project (ECRP-I), the second phase, ECRP-II, has been designed to run from 2023-2027. ECRP-II aims to build upon the achievements of its predecessor and promote government ownership, youth engagement, gender inclusion, flood risk reduction, and institution strengthening for disaster risk management. It also includes an Operation & Maintenance (O&M) component tailored to each locality and infrastructure type and introduces performance-based grants to incentivize behavioral change among communities and county governments. ECRP-II places the government in charge of key activities such as measuring the performance of county governments and community institutions and determining performance grant allocation. To achieve this, the capacity of critical state and national government ministries, including the Project Management Unit of ECRP-II, the Ministry of Finance and Planning (MoFP), the Local Government Board (LGB), the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management (MHADM), and the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, among other relevant government entities at the national and state level, needs strengthening.
Therefore, ECRP seeks to conduct Institutional Capacity Needs Assessment (ICNA) of these critical government institutions to generate recommendations to ensure relevant and appropriate capacity-strengthening efforts. ICNA will be required to identify, understand address institution’s capacity assets and needs. This will involve identifying capacity that is already in place to determine opportunities and constraints to the achievement of clearly identified results. Institutional Capacity Building Plans (ICBP) will be developed based on findings from the assessment. The plan should provide a clear pathway to achieve the expected results.
IOM is seeking the services of individual consultant or a firm who will work in close collaboration with the selected national and state level institutions/organizations to undertake CNA, Training need assessment identify gaps (training); develop long/short term capacity Building/training plan. Consultants are needed in the following specified areas:
Overall Objective TCA of National and State level government institutions
The overall objective of the assessment (TCA) is to examine and identify the key capacity gaps and desired capacity needs by national and state level institutions to deliver their mandate focusing on program and operations management. The key capacity domain area of national and state level institutions includes:
The assessment will help to clearly understand and identify current capacity gaps, including the desired/future capacity needs in achieving institutional goal of targeted institutions in key technical capacity domains mentioned above or other capacity areas at national and state level.
The domains have sub-domains as listed below:
Assessment objectives:
Scope of Work:
The scope of the technical assessment is limited to national ministries whose mandates fall within the objectives of ECRP. These include but are not limited to MoFP, LGB, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management (MHADM), Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MoWRI), Commission for Refugee Affairs, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Commission, Health, Education, Gender, youth, and sports.At the state level, the assessment will cover two Administrative Areas in South Sudan (Pibor and Ruweng) and three states (Unity, Upper Nile, Jonglei, and Bar El Ghazel). Consultations will be conducted with each key state and national ministry to determine the list of those participating in the assessment. The assessment will deliberately embrace participatory methodologies to enhance ownership of the process, collective learning, and commitment to implement the recommendations from the assessment.
3. METHODOLOGY OF THE CAPACITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT
The capacity assessment will use a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, including:
The consultant should conduct the assessment using a methodology developed in consultation and under the guidance of IOM and relevant experts. The proposed methodology to be used will be submitted for review together with the inception report. It is expected that the process will be built around self-assessment processes as well as broad consultation to help validate, expand, and improve the range of information collected across three technical capacity assessment areas.
The assessment framework should recognize the multiple dimensions of technical capacity focusing on institutional capacity (organizational strategy, structures, processes, etc.) than individual competency/skills capacity assessment.
In consultation with IOM, design the assessment tools to conduct capacity needs/gaps assessment.
Submit inception report and proposed assessment tools.
Identify capacity gaps, desired capacity needs for national/state level institutions.
Draft report of the technical assessment outcomes including solutions themes that includes findings, recommendations, and a capacity-strengthening training, validated by state and national government ministries.
Develop capacity building/training road map i.e. short/long term in alignment assessed capacity gaps and desired capacity needs.
Submit different reports including inception, ICA Report against established the timeline.
Conduct one day validation workshop to the state and national governments officials.
Compile and submit final report maximum of 15 pages summary report incorporating feedback from state and national government ministries submitted as outlined in the inception report.
The consultant will cover all costs associated with the consultancy, including travel, accommodation, and other expenses.
IOM Roles/Obligation
1. Review the proposed methodology and assessment tools.
2. provide logistics and coordination supports, including internal travels, mobilization of participants, coordination with national and state ministries, organization of venues, materials, and related facilitation.
3. Guide and manage the consultant work including the approach, methodology, reports, and monitoring the delivery of milestones.
4. Provide promptly feedback on the draft report, ICA report including the final report.
5. Ensure implementation subsequent action following technical capacity assessment in targeted national and state government institutions.
PMU Roles/Obligations
Expected Deliverables: The Key deliverable under the given assessment includes inception report, mapping of /Report on TCA domain, workshop/consultation report, capacity assessment report including, Situational Analysis report, Training Needs Assessment Report (TNA), Validation workshop, and Final Report.
Timeline:
The consultancy is expected to be completed within 6 months, with the following timeline:
Key Activities and Deliverables Timeline with Payment Schedule
Qualification:
Experiences:
Desirable Competencies
Behavioral
Technical
Languages:
Fluent knowledge of the English language is required. Knowledge of local languages is an added advantage.
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