Summary
Date Posted: Monday, December 12, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Purpose of the assignment
• To better influence and engage with the private sector in Kenya, Oxfam in Kenya is seeking the services of a consultant to:
• Explore and analyse the current trends of the private sector work in Kenya, which helps facilitate co-creation of private
• sector engagement strategies and innovative programme ideas including but not limited to the global and national challenge
• and workstreams – valuing women’s work (VWW), climate justice and recovery, renewal and resilience (RRR).
• Identify scopes and key areas of programme design, secure funding, and manage risks within the important sectors/areas
• and selected value chains, including opportunities and approaches to build partnership with the private sector, leveraging
• their investment
• Identify the linkage, the ability and the opportunity to influence UK Government and UK based multinational businesses to
• take action to respect human rights and the planet, in-line with international standards and commitments, and to empower
• women and marginalised communities across their global supply chains.

PS Trend and Priorities
Overall objective of the section:
• Do mapping of current private sector work and key actors in Kenya (key economic dynamics, cross border supply chain
• dependencies, role of informal micro entrepreneurs, SMEs/MMEs and MNCs etc.)
• Identify and analyses specific economic sectors (including food/agriculture, extractives, banking/finance, digital service),
• thematic areas of engagement (e.g gender, workers’ rights, living wage, decent work, climate change, humanitarian, land
• rights) and potential entry points for engagement (e.g local/national/international commitments/ standards in each
• sector/area)
• Distinguish their roles including as advocacy targets, as allies, as interlocutors/brokers/funders and opportunities for Oxfam
• to engage them in their respective roles including in standard/ norm setting, corporate accountability (compliance with
• Business and Human Rights), in providing services and solutions including capital and social services among others
• Identify the linkages/connections with UK-based companies (if any), the British investment trends/priorities in Kenya in
• accordance with the UK government’s partnership strategy and how Oxfam can leverage on the linkages for strategic
• advocacy.

Thematic Deep Dives
Overall objective of this section:
• The thematic questions will be applied across selected sectors/ value chains and companies (focus on UK-based or with relation with UK-based companies)
• Private Sector and Gender Inequality
• What are thematic gender gaps/issues: Gender Pay Gap Reporting, Living Wage / Living Income, Gender disaggregated
• data, Unpaid care/domestic work, Women land rights/women workers’ rights, Women in senior leadership roles, Gender
• Responsive Policies and Practices
• Which UK private sector actors are active in this space? (Either list of companies or sectors/value chains)
• How are private sectors engaging in this space? E.g., what type of initiatives are undertaken, including existing business
• models, good/bad practices and case studies.
• Business and Human Rights or similar rectified frameworks
• What are the key themes and issues in the Business and Human Rights (B+HR) space, particularly the UN

Guiding Principles (UNGPs)?
• Which private sector actors are active in this space? (Either list of companies or sectors/value chains)
• How are private sectors engaging in this space? E.g. what type of initiatives are undertaken, including existing business models, good/bad practices and case studies.
• Private sector and climate change
• What are the main areas of climate work (e.g climate risks, mitigation, adaptation, zero carbon, carbon offsetting, energy, waste management, climate finance, loss and damage, …)
• What are the issues and initiatives in those areas?
• Which private sector actors are active in this space? (Either list of companies or sectors/value chains)
• How are private sectors engaging in this space? E.g. what type of initiatives are undertaken, including existing business models, good/bad practices and case studies.
• Market Systems approaches
• What are the key perspectives of the private sector with regards to their role in reducing inequality and vulnerability in global/national markets as well as within host countries?
• What role are they taking up in influencing systems change?
• Does the private sector do any responsive/inclusive businesses? What are those and how do they do?
• How does the PS create opportunities for women to engage them with upward tiers of the supply chain?

Private sector & finance/investment:
• What are the main areas of work (issues, initiatives, sources, cause and effect, including finance access) around the private
• sector in finance/investment, including sectors prioritised by the WB/IFC?
• Which private sector actors are active in this space? (either list of companies or sectors/value chains)
• How are private sectors engaging in this space? E.g. what type of initiatives are undertaken, including existing business
• models, good/bad practices and case studies.
• Opportunities for co-financing and securing finance from the private sector?
• Private sector & COVID/pandemic
• What does PS’s behaviour in the post-pandemic look like?
• What is role of private sector in practising pandemic recovery, including the support to value chain actors and how they are
• affected by the recent political unrest globally?
• Any initiatives undertaken, including existing business models, good/bad practices and case studies
• Private sector & digitalization
• What are the main areas of work (issues, initiatives, opportunities and challenges) around the private sector in digitalisation,
• including potential impact of global taxation in digitalised business by global companies in Kenya1?
• Which private sector actors are active in this space? (either list of companies or sectors/value chains) and how they are
• supporting other actors in supply chains.
• How are private sectors engaging in this space? E.g. what type of initiatives are undertaken, including existing business
• models, good/bad practices and case studies.

 Future of Work: Innovation/PS partnerships
• What are the key trends in corporate responsibility? And role of PS as intermediaries?
• What are the main themes and value addition issues areas when it comes to creating partnerships with NGOs? Or engaging
• with them in general?
• What are platforms where the PS is participating? How are those platforms playing their roles to advocate on policy issues
• (e.g responsible tax practices, gender inclusion and transformation, inclusion of marginalised groups, SDGs, Carbon
• offsetting etc.)?
• What are the underlying drivers of the PS to seek partnerships with NGOs in the sectors that relate to Oxfam and selected
• areas of work?
• What does the future space for partnering look like in response to inequality and poverty reduction, climate justice, circular
• economy/ green economy in relation to managing excess stock, and gender equality (expanding, contracting?)
• What development issue areas receive the most corporate funding? And what broader consequences are there to these
• priorities?
• Provide an alternative policy prescription, primarily targeted at the government, to make the existing value chains fair and
• sustainable, beyond preferential tax treatment/rate, deduction, exclusion or exemption, credit, deferral…

Methodology
• Inception report to demonstrate the understanding of ToR, proposed methodology and budget. List of questions provided/agreed by Oxfam. Consultants confirm sectors/value chains selected with Oxfam before further analysis. Consultants confirm company and interviewee list with Oxfam before proceeding. Interviews with key informants, one from each sector/value chain. Verbal check-in with Oxfam to present top-line findings.

Timelines and Deliverables
• The consultant shall deliver the following within 20 consultancy days between January 2 – February 15, 2023

Expected outputs:
• Inception report within five days of contract signing comprising research tools and questions, target populations, research
• itinerary and literature review
• A verbal update/ status update of all the field work within 10 days after the inception meeting
• A first draft within five (5) working days of the status update meeting comprising no more than 16,000 words (equivalent to
• not more than 30 pages). This should include:
• Section 1: Excel spreadsheet with data and short write up explaining methodology, literature review list, secondary data
• collection, primary data. Value chain mapping presented in graphs or figures
• Section 2: Write up on questions and desk top research/interview Section 3: Write up on questions and desk top
• research/interview
• Recommendations for Oxfam Private Sector Strategy
• A final draft within five (5) working days of feedback from Oxfam on the first draft including a summary report less than 3000
• words
• Presentation of the final report at the launch of the report

Consultancy responsibilities and management arrangements
• The consultant shall work under the supervision of the Tax Justice Strategist and Programme Officers.
• Consultant qualifications, skills and competencies needed
• The desired specification and qualities of the consultant(s) are as hereunder:
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of the private sector and their intersection with development issues
• At least 8-10 years experience in research, analysis, policy development and advocacy
• High quality skills and demonstrated experience in similar pieces of work
• Strong communication (verbal and written) skills in English
• Excellent research, analysis and strategy development skills

Process of the selection of the consultant and expectations for the proposal
• The consultant who meets the above requirements should express their interest by submitting the following:
• Suitability statement, including a CV and commitment to availability for the entire assignment in the months of January and February, 2023
• Examples of previous similar work
• A technical and financial proposal
• Contacts of three referees that have recently contracted the consultant to carry out similar assignments.
• N/B: The entire bid should be a MAXIMUM OF (10) PAGES inclusive of the above.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Consultant is expected to submit their bid by December 21, 2022 to KPConsultancyServices@oxfam.org.uk 


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