Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 09, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Terre des hommes is the leading Swiss child relief agency. We are committed to improving the lives of millions of the world's most vulnerable children. Children are the first to suffer in times of war, natural disasters and as a result of poverty. At Terre des hommes, our goal is to steadily improve the conditions of the most vulnerable children worldwide. Sexual Gender-based violence (SGBV) or violence against women and girls (VAWG), is a global pandemic that affects 1 in 3 women in their lifetime. 35% of Women World wide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. This issue is not only devastating for survivors of violence and their families, but also entails significant social and economic costs. In some countries, violence against women is estimated to cost countries up to 3.7% of their GDP – more than double what most governments spend on education. All persons suffer disproportionately from SGBV, in an emergency, post emergency and in settled host communities contexts. Failure to address this issue also entails a significant cost for the future. Purpose of the Consultancy TdH-NL intends to contribute to improved general coordination and delivery of service delivery to Child Survivors of SGBV, a plan has been laid down to conduct an assessment on risks to SGBV, prevalence and service based mapping assessment with emphasis on accessibility and delivery mechanisms in Turkana West Sub County in 2 Wards of Letea and Songot. Interest services include medical, legal, psycho-social, rehabilitation along with service providers locations, addresses, contact details, etc.The assessment will be done in line with specific indicators of the project and will go a long way in identifying the legal and policy framework in place at county and Country level to address SGBV meted against both boys and girls in the entire Sub County. By this assessment, TdH-NL strongly believes that the mapping will not only identify the required services to the survivors, but also can identify the gaps or limitations that exist therein thereby informing responsive capacity building initiatives of key actors in the target project locations. .

  Main Tasks of the Consultancy
The consultant is expected to undertake the following tasks:
• Conduct inception meeting for the assignment and preparing an inception report
• Gathering and reviewing of all necessary documents mentioned in section
• Design the mapping in consultation with TdH-NL staff in a meeting with appropriate methodology, timing, roles and responsibilities of the team members, etc.
• Develop and finalize the tools based on consultation with TdH-NL staff, and conduct field testing
• Recruitment and implementation of the training for Data Collection Assistants
• Data collection of the available services and service providers offering medical, legal, psycho-social and rehabilitation services to the survivors, and the existing referral mechanisms/linkages
• Data cleaning, validation, entry, analysis and synthesis
• Develop a database containing all the relevant information about the identified service providers (both government and non-government organizations) including their names, location, offering services, contact details, etc.
• Develop and submission draft mapping report
• Organize a findings sharing workshop with the TdH-NL staff, Government representatives, UN agencies in the region and other relevant stakeholders to seek their input on the findings
• Incorporate feedback and finalize the report, and submit to TdH-NL

  Skills and Competencies
• Strong and sound analytical skills on gender analysis in overall aspects of mapping designing and conducting
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills as well as fluency in English
• Ability to work collaboratively with multiple individuals and groups
• Ability to produce high quality work under tight timeframes
• Proof of having undertaken similar assignments
• Ability to develop high quality research/survey/assessment/mapping reports in English

Job Qualifications: Not Specified
Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Experience
• Minimum ten (10) years experience in designing, implementing, managing and coordinating of SGBV service mapping, stakeholders mapping/ analysis, assessment, survey/research, etc.
• An advanced degree in a relevant field is compulsory and Technical background in Child Rights programming, a strong background in Social work, Social Science and/or Project Planning and Management, with solid experience in conducting social research.
• Excellent academic and research background and have proven track record in conducting similar assignment
• Research experience on SGBV, Rights, Service Provision, etc. issues and previous working experience with Victims and survivors of SGBV and other forms of violence will be a strong advantage
• Knowledge and experience of using research/survey/mapping concept, approaches, tools, techniques, methodologies, sampling, etc.
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection, validation, entry and analysis using statistical software and drafting skills.
• Experience of working with local communities and non-governmental organisations.
• Knowledge of and interest in the national and international provisions on child protection as well relevant policies on child protection/ child exploitation.
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili, both orally and written.

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Job application procedure
Interested applicants should submit Technical and Financial proposals electronically in PDF format, addressed to “The Selection Committee”, with subject line clearly marked “Consultancy for mapping, learning and best practices assessment on existing SGBV

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