Somalia: Conduct Capacity and training needs assessment for groups, institutions and committees in line with resilience in SomRep Target locations, Badan distr

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Conduct Capacity and training needs assessment for groups, institutions and committees in line with resilience in SomRep Target locations, Badan district, Sanaag Region (assignment includes developing of tailored training materials and undertaking of actual training)

CARE International is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty and providing lifesaving assistance in emergencies. Its programs go beyond meeting basic needs at the onset of an emergency to helping affected communities recover and rebuild their lives long after the crisis ends. To this end, it is implementing a variety of longer-term development activities aimed at supporting the Puntland Government in the achievement of its development milestones. CARE works in partnership with the government, international NGOs, civil society, leaders and local authorities in order to bring effective and lasting change to the most vulnerable communities in Puntland.

1.0 PROJECT BACKGROUND & SUMMARY

CARE International is a member of SomRep consortium working in various districts in Somalia together with DRC, WVI, ACF, and ADRA. CARE received funding from SIDA with the aim of building resilience in peri-urban, agro-pastoralist and pastoralist community in Sanaag region. The project implemented in the model of Somalia Resilience Programme (SomReP) will take a multi-year commitment to the same vulnerable households and communities with a package of integrated interventions to address multiple shocks that compound or are a result of the impacts of droughts. The resilience approach concentrates on securing what people have against predictable shocks, while building local adaptive capacity to deal with uncertainty and change. The SIDA funding is intended to support the implementation of project activities for a three-year period within which it should cover proposed activities.

The project activities entail supporting peri-urban, agro-pastoralists and pastoralist male and female- headed households and youth through capacity building to establish sustainable enterprises. The basis will be on vocational skills support, informed by marketable assessment to identify available opportunities. Further, groups or individuals may be supported to set up business initiatives through the provision of business skills training and guidance.

Peri-urban female and male-headed households and youth will be supported through capacity building are able to establish sustainable enterprises to strengthen their resilience to future shocks. The emphasis for peri-urban households will be on sustainable and marketable skills informed by a vocational skills and market assessment to identify opportunities for increased income. Rural agro-pastoralist livelihoods will be supported to function effectively during harsh dry seasons and to consistently secure minimum household needs, with women in particular reporting increased meaningful participation in productive agriculture activities. These would be through training rural ago-pastoral households to increase income and productive assets through promotion of ‘Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)’ and income diversification; provision of inputs and grants for tools, equipment, seeds/seedlings with training on multiplication, mulching, and manure techniques to vulnerable households; supporting formation of active farmer/pastoral field schools. There will be efforts to link agro-pastoral households and communities to early warning systems including weather services and climate change information to allow them to process and interpret the data and respond appropriately and establish linkages with peri-urban and pastoral communities to ensure comprehensive approach to disaster risk management. Increasing fodder production through training on fodder production, hay harvesting and construction of storage facilities and supporting households with productive and compensated work opportunities targeting rehabilitation efforts such as environmental conservation measures

2.0 CONSULTANCY BACKGROUND

In each location, committees, groups and institutions are the main ones that took the lead when it comes to building community resilience. To strengthen the groups or committees for better achievement, capacity needs assessment focusing more on rangeland, natural resources, conflict resolution tailored towards resilience building within the context of Sanaag is essential. CARE identified groups, institutions and also formed early warning and rangeland committees and successfully started pastoral field schools.

3.0 OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSULTANCY

The objective of the consultancy to undertake a capacity and training needs assessment of groups or institutions identified as key to community management, community-to-community relations, rangeland management, natural resource management, social inclusion, conflict resolution, or other parameters important to resilience building in SomRep targeted locations. The consultancy aims at developing tailored modules in future from the outcome of the capacity/training needs assessment conducted in order to build the resilience of the community and reduce the impacts of shocks when natural disasters strike.

4.0 SC**OPE OF WORK**

CARE is seeking the services of an experienced, reputable, Somali-speaking consultant with vast skills in conducting capacity assessment at community level, with proven competencies and qualifications in natural resources and rangeland management sciences. The consultant should ideally have experience in assessing community capacities in conflict resolution, resource governance, institutional accountability and management. The consultant will be required to conduct the assessment at village level, which includes interactive sit-in sessions with the community groups/committees and administration of training tools developed prior to sit-in sessions and translated into the Somali language.

The consultant is expected to:

1. Review relevant existing studies and project documents on Sanaag community-based natural resources stewardship institutions and which have key roles in enhancing the resilience of the community.

2. Undertake needs assessment exercise at village level, during which time he/she will identify scope and characterize existing community NRM groups/institutions on their operational frameworks and document existing knowledge and institutional management gaps.

3. Develop appropriate training modules and tools on identified needs and gaps in English and Somali languages.

4. Conduct highly interactive training sessions for selected officials and members of the community-based NRM institutions, with focus on targeted competence gaps and using both classroom- and field-level knowledge dissemination methods

5.0 METHODOLOGIES AND APPROACH.

The consultant is expected to undertake the following tasks:

• Facilitate consultations with community management committees such as village councils, and district councils and relevant stakeholders t**o gather information on their key functions.** The consultant should examine the internal governance structure of the groups, their external working relationships with partners.
• Assess the knowledge, skills and capacities of the community groups and how suited they are to perform their roles and responsibilities in relation to community resilience (conflict resolution, early warnings, disaster preparedness and mitigation among others)
• Facilitate consultations with key individuals who are outside the groups but are conversant with their activities in order to gather relevant information on the functions, skills and capacities of community management committees (third party view).
• The consultant must facilitate the active engagement of community management committees in the capacity and training needs assessment process.
• Adopt a combination of participatory tools and methodologies (e.g. desk research, self-assessment, SWOT, stakeholder analysis, force field analysis) and group facilitation techniques (technology of participation, etc.) to promote participation and buy-in
• Coordinate and work closely with CARE throughout the entire capacity assessment process
• Analyze, consolidate and identify skills, capacity and knowledge gaps of the community management committees.
• Finally, based on the results of the capacity assessment, formulate a Capacity Development and Training Plan including relevant content that will help community groups fill the identified capacity/skills gaps and undertake the training.

6.0 CONSULTANCY PERIOD**

The consultancy duration will be for a period of 60 days (22 days of TNA and 28 days of training in respective villages and district level) including field days and reporting writing for the training needs assessment. Consultants are required to quote days required for preparation, field work, analysis of data collected and final reporting. CARE will cover all travel, accommodation and meal expenses while at field.

7.0 DELIVERABLES

(i) A report covering information on current and potential functions of community management committees in relation to community resilience (conflict resolution, early warnings, disaster preparedness and mitigation, level of their capacities and skills in relation to tasks listed above and identified skills/capacity gaps (if any).

(ii) An annexure documenting the tools and processes that can be used by the community groupings and associations for improve resource governance and enhanced community resilience

(iii) The report should have a capacity development and enhancement plan to help community groups fill the identified capacity/skills gaps.

The report should capture the information generated from the activities highlighted in the scope of work above. Deliverables will be submitted to CARE in soft by the consultants.

8.0. Application

Interested consultancy firms should send technical proposal, cover letter and resume of individuals to undertake the assignment to somconsultants@care.org with subject line “**TNA For groups, institutions and committees in line with resilience in SomRep Target locations Sanaag Region.** The closing date of application is Thursday 24^th December 2015; 5:00pm. All application after this date will not be considered.

Interested consultancy firms should send technical proposal, cover letter and resume of individuals to undertake the assignment to somconsultants@care.org with subject line “**TNA For groups, institutions and committees in line with resilience in SomRep Target locations Sanaag Region.** The closing date of application is Thursday 24^th December 2015; 5:00pm. All application after this date will not be considered.