Tor: Conflict Sensitivity Analysis, Mapping And Risk Assessment job at Act Change Transform

REF: ACT-CMRA-22-2022

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Specific objectives of the consultancy
Specific Objectives
• Analyze the post-election environment and identify threats to peaceful co-existence from an electoral conflict perspective (as contra-distinguished from other conflicts).
• Develop a comparison analysis on electoral/political dynamics in 2022 and 2017 with a focus to but not limited to what contributed to the favourable result in 2022, roles played various conflict management players, challenges, and the lessons learnt.
• Understand the effectiveness of the electoral conflict mitigation and peace building interventions and approaches employed in 2022 by Act! and other actors and document the lessons learned and which should be replicated.
• Identify potential synergies and opportunities for mainstreaming peace building and conflict resolution approaches for planned year 2 (two) interventions.
• Determine status of ECCES program custom indicators in the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning plan. (to be discussed at the inception stage)

Proposed Approach
The approach will involve among others desk research and field visits/research. The draft report will also gain from the input of stakeholders at a validation workshop.
The detailed approach will be as follows:
• Desk research: The consultant will undertake literature review of various studies conducted by actors in government, CSOs and the international community on the 2022 elections and the peace intersections therein. This will include studies carried out by Act!, K-IGAPP Partners, NCIC, KNCHR, among others. For comparison purposes, various reports on the 2017 election and other elections will be reviewed.
• Field research: Based on the justification above, and other electoral environment considerations contained in ECCES reports, the consultant will suggest a list of at least 9 counties and will collect data using a variety of methods including questionnaires, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, sample survey, observation and photography among others. The data will be collected from national and county government institutions and officials (including those related to security), CSOs, community leaders, women, youth, PWDs among others. The suggested 9 counties and selection criteria should be included in the expression of interest.
• Validation workshop: The consultant will produce a report and present it to stakeholders in a validation meeting and the feedback used to finalize the report. This is without prejudice to the requirement by the funding partner that the consultant present the findings at a related forum.
Reporting and Supervision
The consultant will work under the overall supervision of the ECCES Chief of Party with support from M&E Specialist and other ECCES program staff. The deliverables will be assessed against the provisions of the scope of work set for the assignment.

Deliverables of the consultant(s) and timeframe
Inception report, will include the methodology, data collection tools and detailed workplan by 9th January 2023.
Draft Report: This report will contain all the components of the study by 31st January 2023.
Facilitation of Stakeholder Review Validation Workshop: The draft report will be reviewed by Act! and subjected to stakeholder review during a validation workshop to be facilitated by the Consultant by 15th February 2023.
Final Conflict Sensitivity Study Report: A final report incorporating comments from both the Act! reviewers and the validation workshop will be submitted to Act! by 28th February 2023

Qualification of the applicant
The applicant or Team should have a minimum of a Master’s degree in social science especially political science, law, monitoring and evaluation or related courses and at least 10 years’ experience in research and/in managing and evaluating Governance programs.

Payment Plan
• 1st payment upon submission of the inception report -30%
• 2nd and final payment upon submission of the final report-70%

How to apply
Submission on the Expression of Interest/Responses to TORs
Suitable qualified consultants/ firms are requested to submit their expression of interest of not more than 8 pages interpreting their understanding of the Terms of Reference, elaborating the proposed methodology, and a work plan including qualifications of the team that will undertake the task with CVs of lead consultant/s. The financial proposal should indicate both the cost of logistics and the consultant(s) fees. The proposal should be submitted electronically to hr.admin@act.or.ke quoting the reference number ACT-CMRA-22-2022 with the title Conflict Sensitivity Study Mapping & Risk Assessment on the e-mail subject line not later than 5.00 pm (East African Time) Friday 25th November 2022. The applications must include three recent references.