TOR for consultancy – GenderMarketingAnalysis

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Background

Medair is an international humanitarian organization that provides emergency relief and recovery services in health, nutrition, shelter, and water and sanitation.

Medair has been working in diverse regions of Somalia since 2008 to improve the quality of and access to life-saving primary health and nutrition services for the vulnerable host and IDP population. Medair works in the Banadir, Middle Shabelle, Lower Shabelle, and Lower Juba regions, offering an integrated health, nutrition, and WASH program through Primary Health Care facilities and community-based interventions.

Medair requires a gender analysis to identify local and programme-related gender constraints and opportunities. Equal access to opportunities, resources, rights, protection, participation and decision-making among women, men, boys and girls is essential to ensuring inclusive peace and politics, sustainable growth, and a fair and just society.1 The gender analysis aims to examine differences in roles and norms for women, men, boys and girls. This includes the different levels of power they hold, their access to and control of resources, their differing needs, constraints, and opportunities as well as the impact of these differences in their lives.

Purpose

The purpose of the gender analysis is to provide an understanding of the gender dynamics in Somalia, and more specifically in Medair’s areas of operation, and the implications at project level for enhancing equal and equitable access. The gender analysis will inform project design and adaptions to promote social justice, inclusiveness and equality, and assess how Medair Somalia programme has contributed to change for women and men, boys and girls.

Objectives

Based on the Good Practices Framework2, the gender analysis will answer 3 main questions3,

1. What are the gender dynamics in Medair’s Somalia project locations, and how do they impact the following: cultural norms and values, laws and policies especially related to women’s rights (including marital rights, consent, polygamy, child marriage, divorce), access to information and education, literacy, income and livelihood, mobility, workload, health and nutrition and violence?

• The gender analysis will explore the experiences, attitudes and opinions of stakeholders in Somalia project locations, and their relations with one another as well as with groups of women
• Identify positive outcomes and areas where gender dynamics have improved for women, men, boys and girls who participate in or engage with Medair programmes

1. To what extent are Medair projects informed by these gender dynamics?

• How has Medair Somalia programming addressed sector needs (HEA, MHPSS, NUT and WASH) and constraints of women, men, boys, and girls, including those living with disability?
• How do projects promote equal and fair participation and representation, and distribution of resources to women, men, boys and girls in the project and to what extent is this successful?
• What differences are noted between women, men, boys and girls in decision making at the community level and in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Medair Somalia programmes?

1. How can Medair improve gender mainstreaming through multisector programming in Somalia and develop/expand gender responsive programming? Recommend gender sensitive and/or responsive indicators to follow reduction or increase in gender disparities in decision-making, resource control and leadership, alongside routine age and sex disaggregated health and nutrition indicators.

Methodology

• UN Somalia gender equality strategy 2018-2020 Special Representative of the Secretary General and Deputy Special Representative
• Good Practices Framework – Gender Analysis CARE May 2012
• Gender Analysis toolkit for health systems JHPIEGO

The gender analysis process will collect, identify, examine and analyse information on the different roles of women and men, boys and girls. The consultant is expected to employ a combination of approaches to conduct the assignment including,

1. Desk review of literature and background information, including secondary qualitative and quantitative data on gender relations in Somalia to enhance understanding of the project and operating context.

• Project documents and reports (project proposal, plans, reports, training manuals and updates from the beneficiary partners as well as policy documents)
• Literature from HEA, MHPSS, NUT and WASH sectors and at the country/state level

1. Primary data collection

• Preparation of detailed methodology and share with Medair team for review and approval
• Development of manual and digitalized data collection tools. The tools shall be shared with Medair for review, concurrence, and contextualization. The tools shall be developed as per target group, i.e. KIIs, FGDs and assess,

1. Gender awareness levels – among staff, target community and partners
2. Gendered programming – extent/degree that interventions are sensitive and not gender blind

• Gender mainstreaming – level to which gender programming is incorporated within the project cycle (design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation).

1. Data analysis to determine and prioritize gender-based constraints and opportunities and their implications for the achieving health/ MHPSS/ nutrition/ WASH objectives and equal status of women and men
2. The study and analysis shall be carried out in a multi-disciplinary manner and cover relevant cross-cutting issues. The consultants will work in a collaborative manner and engage relevant stakeholders.

Scope of work

The analysis will cover the overall Medair Somalia programmes across all the sectors. The Gender Analysis should provide qualitative information, sex-age disaggregated data and analysis on the gender situation in programme areas. The study will be conducted in the following areas:

Outputs

The consultancy will take place in November 2022. The expected outputs of this consultancy include:

1. Secondary data collection plan
2. Review and analysis of secondary data sources
3. Identification of critical information gaps
4. Develop and implement primary data collection plan and tools including:
   1. Design and program the ODK forms for all quantitative tools.
   2. Develop and provide an online data collection tracker
   3. Provide final questionnaire tools to be used in the survey in both paper and ODK form
   4. Completed database, formatted in preparation for data entry and appropriate indicator analysis
5. Data analysis and constraints analysis (gender-based constraints and opportunities)
6. Final report

Activities

1. Conduct inception meeting with Medair Somalia team to discuss and agree on the requirements for each of the outputs, with focus on the data analysis framework.
2. Design methodology – analysis framework
3. Share preliminary findings in a one-day online workshop with MEDAIR Somalia country office (MEAL, Health, Nutrition/WASH and senior management team).
4. Prepare the report, incorporating the feedback from Medair’s Senior Health & Nutrition Advisor, WASH Advisor, regional MEAL Advisor, in-country Health & Nutrition Advisor and MEAL team.

Deliverables

Timeframe / Schedule

The assignment is expected to commence on 1st November 2022 and is expected to take a maximum of 35 working days, which includes preparation time, data collection in the field and report writing. The final report must be submitted no later than 10th December 2022.

• Submit proof of registration as Consultant to Medair before the starting date of the contract. (Only required if such registration is normal practice in Consultant’s country of residence.)
• Fulfil the above listed outputs within the timeframe stated.
• Acknowledge all data and results produced by the consultancy is Medair’s property and seek approval from

Medair for any utilization of the result out of the defined TOR.

• Sign and abide by Medair’s relevant policies including data protection policy.

Medair Responsibilities

• Provide project proposal and project reports to support the informed context analysis.
• Provide details of programme and secondary data, and data collection process
• Provide a full list of indicators to guide the data analysis.
• Organize the workshop for sharing the preliminary findings

Proposal Content

Proposals from Consultants should include the following information (at a minimum):

• Technical proposal with clear Proposed design methodology related to the analysis framework.
• CV(s) of key consultant(s) attached to the technical proposal.
• Proposed budget.
• Proposed timeline

• Postgraduate university degree or equivalent with relevant work experience in development studies, social development, gender studies, or equivalent.
• In-depth knowledge of Somalia context and community level service delivery structures.
• A minimum of five years’ work experience in social development and/or gender and development
• Specific experience and expertise in the use of the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Toolkit.
• Previous similar work with gender analysis. Having conducted gender analysis in Somalia is desirable
• Professional efficiency in English and Somali, fluency in both preferred.

Interested consultants -individuals/firms who meet the requirements are requested to submit an expression of interest including consultancy proposal, consultancy fees (budget), CVs, references and details of published works [email protected] .

Application deadline-16/10/2022