Consultant to support development of baseline report

GNDR is seeking a consultant to support GNDR and its partners to set out a baseline report for our new Local Leadership for Global Impact (LLGI) project. The baseline aims to set out descriptive benchmarks indicating our starting point towards measuring the outcomes of the project. Given that the project will be delivered by GNDR members in countries within our network, the aim of the baseline is to focus on capturing current understanding of various topics and policy environments through focus group discussion. We hope that from this we will be able to then harvest outcomes at milestones throughout the project period.

GNDR seeks consultancy support to deliver the following for the LLGT project:

1. Facilitate online group conversations in order to capture project expectations, as per Outcome Mapping and Harvesting Methodology
2. Facilitate online group conversations in order to define key terminology that will be used to measure outcome progress, via a rubrix/scorecard method
3. Analyse current policy environment in selected countries or international sectors
4. Assess information gathered from existing surveys to mark key baseline benchmarks (output level)
5. Contribute findings to a baseline report for the Local Leadership to Global Impact Project alongside the Project Coordinator

All applicants must:

1. Demonstrate previous experience in monitoring, evaluating and learning including Outcome Mapping and Harvesting
2. Be able to confidently facilitate workshops gathering information and content ideas online, and communicate with a mix of organisations that make up the GNDR membership
3. Ensure work reflects, considers and includes input from different genders, ages and abilities
4. Effectively synthesize information to produce key results
5. Be fluent in English, with other language ability (french, arabic, portuguese or spanish) desirable

This assignment will be home-based. The assignment needs to be completed by 31 August 2021, with approximately 10 working days available.

Local Leadership for Global Impact - Project Overview

The nature of risk is changing, with its frequency, intensity and complexity increasing. Local actors, including Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), local government and community leaders, are at the frontline. Despite their critical role, 84% of local actors report not being included in assessing threats, preparing policies and plans, and taking action to reduce threats. Women in particular are not systematically leading DRR despite having specific needs and knowledge on how they can be addressed. As the COVID-19 global pandemic highlighted, risk is now intertwined in all aspects of society and requires ‘whole of society’ engagement to be able to respond to pending crises.

Barriers severely hinder local inclusion. For CSOs’ to play their critical role of working with communities and local governments, they require access to appropriate capacity strengthening to be able to plan in evolving risk contexts and leadership capacities. They need funds to innovate and trial new approaches. National and international systems need to make space for these local roles to come to the forefront.

Working in partnership across 50 countries, GNDR & Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe are scaling up the use of approaches by local actors which enable them to more effectively utilise their knowledge and skills which contribute to increased community resilience to complex disasters. This initiative aims to achieve this by strengthening the capacity, innovation, and influence of local actors to amplify the perspectives and priorities of most at-risk communities to decision-makers.

Enabling communities, local leaders and civil society organisations to overcome challenges in three dimensions of planning are seen as key ways forward for more effectively engaging with the multiple dimensions of risk, by:

1. Utilising local data to inform holistic development actions to ensure that all development considers the underlying drivers of disaster risk
2. Down-scaling climate projections for use by local actors to effectively plan to reduce the risk of future disasters
3. Utilising local contingency planning to support planning for locally-led anticipatory action and community-led crisis response

How to apply:

If you meet the applicant criteria, please submit an expression of interest detailing:

• How your experience matches the consultant profile;
• A one-page methodology of how you would undertake the assignment;
• A projected total cost for the assignment;
• Your CV (no more than 2 pages);

For more information or to submit an expression of interest, please contact Elise Belcher, Project Coordinator, at GNDR: elise.belcher@gndr.org by midnight (BST) on Sunday 11 July 2021