Niger: Protection/Conflict Analysis Consultancy

Requisition ID: req1897

Job Title: Protection/Conflict Analysis Consultancy

Sector: Protection and rule of law

Employment Category: Consultant

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Niger

Job Description

IRC Overview:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the world's leading humanitarian relief and development organizations. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC responds to the worlds' worst humanitarian crises and helps people survive, recover and regain control over their lives. Working in more than 40 countries, the IRC is helping to restore hope and opportunity to millions of people.

The routes-based integrated migration program is designed to making migration safer and more orderly, resulting in fewer deaths and less suffering along migration routes by taking into account the actual profile of different migrant groups in mixed flows and the diversity and interconnected drivers of migration while paying particular attention to migration routes and their variability. As part of this program, the IRC will deliver targeted GBV, child protection and general protection activities, strengthen capacities of migration stakeholders in order to improve access to services, alongside building responsive modes of information transfer to migrants in the Agadez region in Niger. As part of the inception phase of this project, the IRC wants to conduct an in-depth conflict and protection analyses to inform its programming.

Task Scope:

The consultant will be leading on the implementation of a protection assessment and a conflict/gender analysis in two locations in the Agadez region, specifically Agadez and Arlit. The protection assessment as well as the conflict/gender analysis will help to collect updated information on the protection situation on the ground to inform the migration programming. The consultant is expected to work independently and efficiently over the course of the consultancy but in close collaboration with the Protection Project Coordinator and the Violence Preventions and Response (VPR) Technical Advisers. This assessment will be elaborated in close coordination with upcoming assessments from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNICEF.

Objectives of the task

Overall objective:

• Gain a better understanding of the conflict-related context and protection situation of migrants/people on the move in the targeted areas in the Agadez region.

Specific objectives:

• Better understand the specific protection problems, threats and vulnerabilities of key demographics, inclusive of root causes, and contributing factors of tension and conflict;
• Identify positive and negative coping mechanisms across key demographics and determinants such as nationality, age, gender and abilities;
• Clarify and outline the different capacity building initiatives (including the Agadez area) on migration targeting state, humanitarian actors ,civil society as well as defense and security forces;
• Improve the IRC's understanding of the gender dynamics driving migration as well as gendered realities of the migration experience; and
• Strengthen the IRC's protection strategy based on lessons learn from previous IRC migration project in Agadez.

Methodology:

The assessments will use the following IRC institutional tools:

• IRC Conflict Sensitivity Analysis tool-kit;
• IRC PRoL, CP and GBV assessment tools; and
• IRC Gender Analysis Toolkit.

The consultant shall adhere to the following policies:

• IRC's Child Safeguarding Policy
• IRC's Code of Conduct

The assessment process will include at the minimum the following steps:

• Conduct in-depth desk review to establish an overview of the available information on the protection and conflict situation (5 days);
• Refining assessment questions based upon the desk review and final decision on assessment tools to be used (2 days);
• Train enumerators on basic assessment principles, methodologies and the different assessment tools (3 days);
• Plan and organize the actual data collection as well as active and regular data collection review and 'cleaning' to ensure no information is missed and the information collected is detailed and comprehensive + allow for the possibility to conduct a follow-up data collection mission if there are gaps in data collection (2 weeks - TBC);
• Hold meetings with key local authorities and local leaders (KII) in Agadez, if necessary;
• Map out the preliminary findings on the protection situation, stakeholder analysis, conflict drivers, and mitigation/coping systems (3 days);
• Participatory workshop with team members/key stakeholders to discuss the preliminary findings and brainstorm about program implications and tangible suggestions to inform the protection monitoring system and potential modification of program interventions, including the development of particular conflict indicators to facilitate monitoring (2 days);
• Data analysis and final assessment report (5 days).

Deliverables (to be discussed and reviewed/approved by the IRC)

1. Presentation of desk review

2. Updated assessment tools, if needed, and refined assessment questions (in French and English)

3. Data collection work plan

4. Oversee data collection (data cleaning/verification) and lead on data analysis

5. Preliminary report with key findings

6. Final assessment report

A. Stakeholder mapping including a summary matrix highlighting each stakeholders influence, power and leverage

B. Summary of the protection problems, threats, and vulnerabilities (including a risk matrix) and conflict drivers and triggers for the target area

C. Summary of the capacity and coping mechanism for the different vulnerable groups

D. Mapping of knowledge/information gaps

E. Summary of program implications and tangible program suggestions to inform the protection monitoring system and for potential modification of program interventions, including the development of particular conflict indicators to facilitate monitoring

Timeline:

• Expected start date: Mid-May 2018
• Final Report due date: end of assignment

Location:

Niamey and Agadez region, Niger: The consultant is required to travel to Niger and to Agadez for the field work; the desk review can be conducted out-of-Niger. Note that due to security reasons the actual field work/data collection will need to be conducted by local individuals and the consultant might need to travel back and forth between Agadez and Niamey.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Master degree in political science, human rights, anthropology or any conflict related field of study
• Demonstrated experience in conducting protection assessments/conflict analyses
• At least 5 years protection experience in conflict-affected contexts
• Experience working with NGO's on program design/evaluation
• Excellent interpersonal communication, presentation and training skills
• Excellent M&E and analytical skills
• Practical experience in administrative and logistics management for undertaking similar assessments
• Fluency in French and English is mandatory
• Familiarity with the context/region is an asset

Application Process:

§ Illustrative Work plan

This position is pending funding confirmation

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