TERMS OF REFERENCE

Stories of Change Collection for

Work in Progress! Project

1. About Work in Progress! Project!

The Work in Progress! (WIP!) the project aims to create more employment for young men and women in Egypt, Nigeria, and Somalia, prompting positive expectations about their future. This overarching objective will be achieved via three complementary pathways (1) increasing the supply of skilled youth by developing young people's skills and capacities for (self) employment; (2) developing market demand by growing the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector so that it will create more employment opportunities; and (3) cultivating an enabling environment for youth employment. Work in Progress! Alliance partners bring their unique expertise to the project, making it possible to implement the holistic approach towards youth unemployment.

The alliance includes Oxfam, Butterfly Works, Hanze University, VC4A and their local implementors are partnering to deliver a program that combines service delivery, such as training, influencing interventions to change policies, laws, attitudes, and beliefs. This has proved successful in the last three years. The strategy engages young women and men from diverse backgrounds to be a driving force for social progress and optimism about the future in their respective countries and across Africa.

1. Description of assignment:

The Working in Progress project performs impact analysis at the end of each year to get a clear understanding of how the project impacts the lives of beneficiaries. In line with that, this assignment's general objective is to prepare Thirty (37) Stories of change representing different program pathways by capturing the changes resulting from the project intervention in individuals and communities during phase I and II.

Tasks include:

• Consultation meetings with the relevant Oxfam team to provide an overview of WIP! Project and its activities to help familiarize the consultant, including project documents to review.
• Review of stories of change collected previously to understand to get foundations on how to kickstart story collection.
• Map out key project stakeholders and beneficiaries associated with the project to identify target groups for case stories. Agree on sampling and selection of respondents with Oxfam Somaliland.
• Conduction of field visits for meetings of program participants and stakeholders to interview and observe. The stories should document the impact on the lives of beneficiaries. Interviews and observations need to be documented in the form agreed on by Oxfam Somalia (e.g., written stories and photographs depicting about the story). All written materials should be in English; photographs should have a caption.
• Generate thirty (37) stories in a narrative with photos format.
• Preparation of draft and submit success stories for initial feedback from the Oxfam team.
• Submit the revised version to Oxfam to review, comments, and suggestions. Oxfam team might require meeting face to face to discuss draft stories submitted.
• After receiving feedback, prepare a final version of stories and other field materials, including photos collected, etc.

1. Duration of the assignment and timeline:

• A total of 20 days equivalent time is estimated for this consultancy work from Oct 01march – march 20th, 2023. The below table shows the timeline during this assignment.

1. Deliverables:

• Detailed work plan
• The first draft of the stories of change collected from program participants, in a format agreed on by Oxfam Somalia
• Final approved stories of change
• An electronic version of photos plus drafts and final version of stories of change