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  • Health Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring Consultant Consultant – Health Economist

    Health Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring Consultant Consultant – Health Economist

    Options seeks long and short-term consultants who will be responsible for leading on activities in counties, with particular expertise in Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring and Reporting (PBMR) in the Kenyan health sector.
    Responsibilities: 
    Options is seeking to establish a consultancy framework of exceptional health planning, budgeting and monitoring experts to help drive the delivery of a Technical Assistance (TA) project that is focused at the county level of the Kenyan health system.
    The programme will provide TA to build county capacities in planning, budgeting, monitoring, reporting, and promote the use of data for decision making and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) skills more generally. The over-arching goal of the project is to increase the probability of resource allocation matching health sector needs, with a focus on RMNCAH, based on an integration of credible PBMR process with a strong M&E system that supports informed decision making.
    We are seeking long and short-term consultants who will be responsible for leading on activities in counties, with particular expertise in Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring and Reporting (PBMR) in the Kenyan health sector.
    We require both locally-based and international consultants with relevant experience of working in Kenya at county level.
    Person specification: 
    To succeed in this role, you will have:

    Extensive experience providing technical support to similar donor funded health programmes and/or organizations.
    Expertise in Planning, Budgeting Monitoring and Evaluation
    Expertise and experience working in Kenya’s health sector, with in-depth knowledge of health systems strengthening approaches in the context of devolution
    Expertise in Monitoring and Evaluation
    Experience working as part of a remote team as well as delivering high quality work independently.
    Proven ability to represent organisations and programmes at the highest levels internationally, regionally and nationally. Ideally with experience working with the World Bank.
    We are especially interested in hearing from candidates with experience working in or who are located in the following counties; Bungoma, Garissa, Lamu, Mandera, Marsabit, Samburu, Tana River, Wajir, West Pokot, Turkana, Homa Bay, Isiolo, Kitui, Kisii and Machakos

    Other information: 

    Options is an equal opportunities employer
    Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.
    We seek people who are pro-choice, energetic and enthusiastic about Options’ vision.

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  • Consultancy on Training on Modern Beekeeping Techniques in West Pokot, Kenya

    Consultancy on Training on Modern Beekeeping Techniques in West Pokot, Kenya

    Job Description/Requirements
    REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS – Consultancy on Training on Modern Beekeeping Techniques in West Pokot, Kenya
    Please see complete REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS and BIDDING DOCUMENTS at the following link: HERE
    Tender No: REF: WP – CEFA01
    LETTER OF INVITATION TO SUBMIT TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL
    Nairobi
    To:
    (Name of consultant)
    Re: Consultancy on Training on Modern Beekeeping Techniques in West Pokot County
    Dear Madam/Sir:
    The European Committee for Training and Agriculture (Comitato Europeo per la Formazione e l’Agricoltura – CEFA) is an Italian NGO who has worked in Kenya since 1993 transiting through, Humanitarian response interventions, livelihood support, Food Security, Infrastructure Development, Agriculture and Rural Development, during the last 30 years. **
    CEFA invites you to submit technical and financial proposals in accordance with the documents attached to this letter and the annexed Terms of References (TOR). The Client intends to hire a consulting firm or a no-profit organization (the “Consultant”) to provide consulting services on Training on Modern Beekeeping Techniques in West Pokot County
    The Consultant may sub-contract selected activities provided that said services do will not exceed 20% of the total consultancy work.
    A firm will be selected under the *Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) *method **
    TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR) FOR BEEKEEPING INDIVIDUAL/CONSULTANCY FIRM/TRAINER IN WEST POKOT COUNTY *
    TITLE OF THE ACTION:
    TRAINING ON MODERN BEEKEEPING TECHNIQUES IN WEST POKOT COUNTY
    LOCATIONS OF THE ACTION: WEST POKOT COUNTY, KENYA
    DURATION OF THE ACTION: 4 WEEKS
    OBJECTIVES OF THE ACTION: PRACTICAL AND THEORY TRAININGS FOR BEEKEEPING FARMERS IN WEST POKOT COUNTY
    OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT
    The trainer/individual consultancy is part of the EU funded project “Support to Resilience for Sustainable Livelihoods “led by Northern Rangeland Trust with a consortium of other 4 NGOs: CEFA, E4IMPACT, Sominerec and AMREF.
    The overall objective of the action is to contribute towards increased resilience of communities to drought and other effects of climate change in ASAL areas of Kenya. The specific objectives of the action are 1. to enhance food and nutrition security of vulnerable households, especially for women and children in West Pokot County; 2. to generate sustainable livelihoods and protect productive assets in West Pokot County.
    Under this project, CEFA is going to implement a livelihood component with a focus on mango, horticulture and honey production. In order to enhance agricultural productivity with focus on honey production, CEFA plans to train 200 beekeeping farmers. The objective of this intervention will be enhancing their productivity and value chain and thus improving their nutritional status and income generation.

    OBJECTIVES OF TRAINING FOR BEEKEEPING FARMERS IN WEST POKOT COUNTY
    The specific objectives of the consultancy are to:

    Prepare comprehensive training material (including manuals and handouts).
    Prepare and organize training sessions.
    To train 200 beekeeping farmers on effective equipment handling, bee management, honey harvest and processing.
    Train 30 community inspectors on beehive handling, follow up and harvesting.
    Provide modern beekeeping equipment demonstration sessions for effective usage for safety and improve honey production line.
    Build the capacity of the beekeeping farmers on hygiene practices, consumer education sessions and product marketing advertisement techniques.
    To conduct continuous monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the beekeeping training for the farmers.
    Offer any technical assistance required even after the expiry of the contract

    METHODOLOGY
    The training will utilize a wide range of methods blended with demonstration and practical sessions to ensure knowledge is imparted, learners remain interested and enhances knowledge retention for participants with low literacy skills and relevant to the context.
    The training organization will therefore consider different methods to improve the capacity and skill of trainees through:

    Short lectures
    Slide shows and videos
    Questions and answers
    Open discussions
    Individual & group exercises
    Field visits, tours and practical sessions.

    EXPECTED OUTCOME

    200 beekeeping farmers be trained for beekeeping techniques including bee management, effective handling of equipment, processing and preserving bee bye-products
    200 beekeeping farmers be trained on modern beekeeping equipment, usage and handling
    Increased skills on theory and practical knowledge, self-engagement and as well improve local beekeeping farmers livelihoods
    Expansion of local and external markets for honey products
    Support and uplift the capacity of the beekeeping farmers on consumers approach, marketing and sensitization of the importance of honey and other bee bye-products.
    Enhance the capacity of the farmers to follow up and monitor the entire apiculture value chain for sustained production
    Formation of a community beekeepers’ group or Identify and train one entrepreneur who will manage the processing unit and help in collective marketing and sustainability of the beekeeping activity.

    SCOPE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
    The local consultant will be responsible in preparing training Programme on beekeeping for the trainees and conduct trainings, particularly:

    Organize class lectures on different topics of beekeeping management and development
    Arrange tours and visits to the different beekeeping fields
    Organize practical works on different beekeeping kits/tools
    Organize practical works on different beekeeping fields
    Management of bees in different seasons: –
    Process of pollen
    Process of Royal jelly
    Process of Honey
    Bee Package
    Queen Rearing
    Hygienic properties
    Pest and Diseases control

    DELIVERABLES
    The consultant is expected to:

    Submit an inception report detailing training content and methodology (including theory, practical and kit usage)
    Submit a detailed work plan and estimated budget of the beekeeping training
    Share detailed training modules and curriculum
    Field level theoretical training for 200 beekeeping farmers
    Final completion report of the beekeeping training.

    Qualifications

    University degree in agriculture/apiculture or related field such as zoo technician, veterinary, forestry etc.
    At least 4 years of working experience and qualification with background on apiculture related activities.
    Experience in facilitating trainings on beekeeping and participated in study tours about the beekeeping and apiculture in West Pokot.
    Experience on marketing and promotions of beekeeping products;
    Competent and possess practical skills in bee handling abilities in all situations, colony reading, Preparation and assessment of honeybee products and Disease diagnosis and knowledge of the correct remedies
    Excellent communication and writing skills in English and Swahili languages.

    Submission Procedure: Please submit your Technical and Financial Proposal using the forms provided for this purpose within this Request for Proposals (RFP). Your proposal should comprise one (1) original and one (1) copy of both the technical and financial proposals to the address provided below.**The Technical and Financial proposals shall be submitted no later than 5.00pm EAT of 26 Jan 2021 to the address below:**CEFA Regional Office in NairobiBrookside Close, off Brookside DriveAttn: Mohamed Bare – CEFA Project ManagerOr alternatively to the following email address: procurement@cefakenya.com

    Apply via :

    procurement@cefakenya.com

  • Consultancy to Conduct Cross Border Health Policy and Practice Analysis in Mandera Triangle

    Consultancy to Conduct Cross Border Health Policy and Practice Analysis in Mandera Triangle

    Background

    The tri-border area where Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia converge, also known as the Mandera Triangle, is almost entirely inhabited by Somali communities with close cross-border social, economic and development connections. The significant portion of the population is considered cross-border mobile populations (CBMPs) which are composed of: mobile pastoralist looking for pasture; refugees; seasonal cross-border laborers, persons engaged in cross-border economic activity; undocumented migrants; internally displaced persons (IDPs) and communities hosting refugees and IDPs. CBMPs face major barriers to access of basic healthcare needs due to the complex socio-political dynamics of the public health system in the context of migration and cross-border mobility. While it is easy for clinical and public health workers to provide healthcare needs to a static population, the health outcomes for CBMPs are often difficult to monitor and implement.

    The health and nutritional status of the populations in the Mandera Triangle, which is marked by chronic malnutrition as well as disease movement and morbidity, is influenced by several factors. These include limited access to healthcare, poor socio-economic and civil security, food insecurity, poor childcare practices, population, limited water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure. These factors are compounded by and influence persistent cycles of conflict and insecurity in the region.

    Addressing these challenges requires thorough understanding of the unique needs of CBMPs as well as the interconnections between the health challenges and conflict drivers; effective cross-border coordination between key health and political actors in the three countries and developing and implementing policies and approaches that expand access to and provision of health care services while contributing to building sustainable peace in the region.

    Interpeace, in partnership with the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) seek a consultant/policy expert to analyse existing cross-border health policies (and their responsiveness to peace and conflict dynamics), identify gaps that limit effective health service provision and access, and provide recommendations for strengthening cross-border health policies to render them more responsive to the specific health and peace needs of the CBMPs. The analysis will inform the development and revision of IGAD policies designed to boost household and community health security and resilience while contributing to overall peacebuilding efforts in the region.

    Service Or Assignment Description And Objective(s)

    The main objective of this assignment is to analyse existing and established cross border policies and platforms in view of improving these policies to foster effective cross-border coordination of health actors and enhance provision of health services to address the specific health and peace needs of the Mandera Triangle populations. More specifically, the consultant/policy expert will be expected to:

    Conduct a desk review of existing health protocols, analysing the gaps in responsiveness to the needs of CBMDs and the conflict dynamics in the Triangle
    Analyse the gaps between the existing protocols and practices in service provision by health actors in the Triangle
    Consult key stakeholders on how policies on cross border health can be developed or refined to respond to the specific health and peace needs of the Mandera Triangle populations, particularly the CBMPs.
    Develop a draft situation analysis report including policy options for strengthening Cross Border Health Policies to be more responsive to the health and peace needs of CBMPs

    Scope of work

    The anticipated duration of the evaluation is 25 days with a minimum of 10 days to be spent in the Mandera Triangle (Mandera County of Kenya, Dholo and Mubarak zone of Ethiopia and Belet Hawa and Elwak District of Somalia). The anticipated start date is 25 January 2021 with submission of the final draft by end of February 2021.

    Activities, Deliverables

    The Consultant Will Carry Out The Following Duties

    1: Development of the protocol for the assignment : the consultant will develop a checklist for the collection of relevant documents and information. This protocol will be reviewed by Interpeace and the cross-border health technical team prior to the implementation of activities.

    2: Documents review and field visits:

    The Consultant Will Carry Out The Following Activities

    Desk review : The consultant will collect and review the relevant documents for the assignment through the developed tool
    Country visits : The consultant with the support of staff seconded from the ministry of health of the three respective countries and through our partner IGAD will conduct interviews with key stakeholders in the health sector, relevant government institutions and the communities. These visits will focus on collecting relevant country documentation for review and information that will enable in identifying the gaps between the existing policies and practices in service provision by health actors in the Triangle

    3: Development of Draft situation analysis report:

    Based on the desk review and findings from the field, the consultant will draft a situational analysis report which will be discussed and enriched through a regional validation workshop.

    4: Validation workshop : The consultant will facilitate a 2 -day workshop that will bring together member states ministries and partners to present the findings/outcome of the situation analysis and desk review and to refine the recommendations developed by the consultant.

    5: Preparation of final report : The consultant will incorporate comments and contributions from participants and develop the final report including specific policy options.

    Key Deliverables

    The consultant is expected to produce the following deliverables:

    Inception report including situation analysis tools and checklist for document collections
    Draft Situation analysis report
    Final report with the policy options

    Qualifications

    General professional experience

    Solid knowledge and understanding of health sector policies and key health challenges in the Mandera Triangle region
    Knowledge of peacebuilding
    Minimum of 7 years’ experience in policy analysis and development
    Graduate degree in Law, public health, or any other relevant health related degree.
    Sound understanding and application of policy concepts, methodologies and tools
    Willingness to travel to the regions
    An ability to work within tight deadlines
    Good analytical and report writing skills
    Good communication and facilitation skills
    Good interpersonal skills
    Good computer literacy

    Specific Professional Experience

    The consultant should be a highly knowledgeable person in policy analysis and development

    For consideration for this opportunity, please submit an expression of interest (no longer than 5 pages and inclusive of the proposed budget and CVs for the proposed consultant to recruitment@interpeace.org no later than 18 January 2021 (midnight Nairobi time).“Health Policy and Practice Analysis – Mandera Kenya” MUST BE included in the subject line of the application email to be considered.Applicants, if shortlisted, will be required to subsequently submit work samples, in English.Interpeace values diversity among its staff and aims at achieving greater gender parity in all levels of its work. We welcome applications from women and men, including those with disabilities.

    Apply via :

    recruitment@interpeace.org

  • Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant

    Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant

    About the job
    Project Summary
    This position is for Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Advocacy and Knowledge Management project. The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Consultant will establish and manage the overall activity system to track progress towards meeting contract results, indicators and targets.
    Primary Responsibilities

    Ensure that performance monitoring, action research, and evaluations are consistent with program results and track activity progress towards achieving targets and results;
    Ensure that the methodologies proposed by the contractor to measure the program impact, are being consistently and systematically tracked and reported;
    Manage and coordinate program effectiveness evaluation, including quality implementation.
    Manage and coordinate field-based monitoring and evaluation specialists, and any other staff responsible to performance monitoring, oversight, and data collection and reporting.

    Required Skills and Experience

    Master’s Degree or higher in education, research methods or another relevant social science is required. Training in qualitative and quantitative analysis is required;
    At least eight (8) years of experience with design and M&E for programs required.
    Demonstrated success and experience in monitoring results and indicators of community engagement required;
    Prior experience with monitoring and reporting requirements for USAID programs highly desired;
    Demonstrated excellence in communications and interpersonal skills;
    Professional proficiency and fluency in written and spoken English

     
    How to Apply
    If this sounds like you, send us your CV to: consultancy@sidinstitute.com
    Application Deadline: 25th January 2021
    Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

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  • Individual Contractor to provide support on COVID response: Knowledge management, monitoring and events

    Individual Contractor to provide support on COVID response: Knowledge management, monitoring and events

    TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTORS/ CONSULTANTS

    PART I

    Title of Assignment

    Individual Contractor to provide support on COVID response: Knowledge management, monitoring and events

    Section

    Education section, ESARO

    Location

    Remote, no travel required

    Duration

    Full time (equivalent of 112 days) over 5 months

    Background and Justification

    As all countries in Eastern and Southern Africa have started to fully or partially reopen their schools after months long closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ESARO Education section is fully engaged in the process by providing technical assistance and expertise to Country Offices’ work with governments, especially on: ensuring a safe and inclusive reopening and monitoring COVID-19 in schools, monitoring re-enrolment of all children and advocating for a full reopening.

    In order to tailor this support to the situation and needs of countries in the region, Education section collected country documents, cases studies throughout the long processes of school reopening, undertook studies/rapid assessment as well as conducted a series of bilateral calls with countries to collect qualitative and quantitative data on the situation of school reopening in their context. This allowed to gather a significant amount of information and documents focusing on national measures and UNICEF support to ensure a safe reopening, track re-enrolment and drop-out, ensure equity and inclusion in the process, adjust to lost learning and finance education in a post-COVID-19 context. To be relevant, shareable and impactful for countries and partners, the collected information needs to be processed, analysed and visualised into a streamlined regional report outlining the country responses to COVID-19, highlighting the challenges and needs for school reopening and showcasing promising practices. The purpose of such analysis is to document the education response to the Covid-19 crisis and particularly the reopening of schools in ESAR and share experiences from countries, which meets a high demand from COs. By visualizing data on the region, displaying evidence on the education response to the crisis, sharing countries good practices and lessons learned, this report will aim at informing and strengthening the development of strategies at country level, supporting advocacy and resource mobilization for a safe and inclusive reopening.

    The ESARO education section, in close collaboration with Health and other sectors is also expanding partnerships around Covid 19, children and schools to foster evidence sharing, collaboration and joint, action-oriented planning on safe reopening among Ministries of Education, Ministries of Health and other national partners throughout the region. In close collaboration with WHO Africa, CDC Africa and GPE, UNICEF ESARO will organize, co-lead and document a regional, virtual event bringing together key stakeholders of the 21 countries to share the latest evidence and guidance on C-19 transmission and mitigation measures in schools, and to develop joint action plans, based on good practices at national, sub-national, school and community level to keep learners and teachers safe. The intersectoral dialogue and resulting country roadmaps will provide UNICEF country offices with country roadmaps for follow up action with Ministry counterparts.

    The ESARO education section is involved in the advocacy on girls return to school. Evidence shows that girls have been and continue to be particularly vulnerable to prolonged school closures. School closures have been found to worsen the situation of girls, particularly because of the limited time available for learning at home, but also because the COVID-related quarantines have exposed many girls to gender-based violence, including sexual exploitation and early and unwanted pregnancies, while denying them access to some essential social services. UNICEF ESARO is joining forces with UN Women and the Council of Traditional leaders of Africa (COTLA) to co-organze a webinar aiming to discuss how to work together, traditional leaders, educational authorities, development partners to facilite girls return to school, create a more egalitarian and inclusive education system and give more chance to girls to get education and break the cycle of poverty.

    In addition, the education section is producing a digital interactive product to advance programme and partnership developments around ‘learning to earning’ across the region. There is a timely and strategic opportunity, especially within the Covid-19 context for ESARO to innovatively position its work. With many relevant initiatives underway and increasingly new partners engaged in across the organization and region the various programmatic pieces are not yet well-connected within sectors or well-known by all stakeholders. The proposed idea is to have multi-faceted and user-friendly interactive on-line product for use by country and regional teams that would serve to improve knowledge management, learnings, technical assistance, programme development and partnership.

    Thus, to respond to the above identified priorities, an individual contractor with the below knowledge, experience and skills is required to i) review collected data and produce and edit a regional report on school reopening in ESAR in the context of COVID-19, and to ii) support the organization, preparation, documentation and follow up to a large, virtual, multi-partner and multi-country event on knowledge sharing, exchange and planning on COVID-19, children and schools and to iii) co-organize a webinar with UN Women and COTLA on facilitating girls return to school and inclusive education more broadly iv) support the development of a digital interactive programme and partnership tool on adolescent ‘learning to earning’ for the region.

    Knowledge of the Covid 19 context as it relates to education and relevant responses to the situation in ESA countries,
    Proven skills in knowledge management and the drafting of quality reports, concept notes, presentations and other documents
    Demonstrated experience in organizing, preparing and documenting large regional events with multiple partners, stakeholders and audiences
    Knowledge of UNICEF regional partnerships and relevant priorities in the Covid context
    strong communication and interpersonal skills

    Scope of Work

    Goal and Objective: Under the supervision of the Regional Education Adviser, the individual contractor will support the organization, documentation and follow up to two multi-partner regional events – one regional planning event on Covid 19, children and schools and one webinar on girls’ education. The individual contractor will also produce a regional analysis of the school reopening processes in Eastern and Southern African countries and an innovative ESAR interactive programme and partnership tool on adolescent ‘learning to earning’ This means processing, visualizing and putting into a narrative the collected data as well as all the pieces of work produced by ESARO in order to write and edit a regional report on school reopening in ESAR that can be shared with COs, other ROs and relevant education partners.
    Provide details/reference to AWP areas covered: This contract is to provide quality technical assistance to the Education section to strengthen its support to country offices in promoting sharing of experiences, lessons learnt and good practices, and further enhances the development of partnerships for risk-informed programming and financing. In the ESARO 2020-2021 workplan, it comes under ‘Output 2: Enhanced capacity of COs to design, implement, monitor and evaluate risk informed education programmes that ensure that girls, boys, including those with disabilities, complete early learning, primary and secondary education with grade level learning outcomes’, Education in Emergencies/technical assistance (‘New Covid-19 activities), activity 24 ‘Development of tools/research’.

    Activities and Tasks:
    I. Regional Analysis

    Review the raw data and documents shared by countries or generated by ESARO
    Draft a regional analysis on school reopening in ESAR drawing from the data collected during the bilateral calls with COs and any other documents shared by countries or produced by ESARO. It will:

    Outline the situation of schools, children and teachers in the context of school reopening in ESAR in times of COVID-19 pandemic (including visualisation of the quantitative data)
    Summarize and analyse the strategies adopted by governments for school reopening based on the qualitative data (measures to implement a safe reopening, policies to ensure equity and inclusion, to ensure continuity of learning, to support teachers) highlighting good practices and the support of UNICEF COs in the implementation of inclusive safe school reopening
    Pull out lessons learned from the school reopening processes to take on for building back better

    Revise the draft regional report by incorporating the inputs and comments from the ESARO Education Section
    Finalise and edit to a high-quality report adhering to UNICEF style guidelines with a one-pager summary

    II. Regional Virtual Events (regional planning event on Covid-19, children and school ; continental webinar on girls return to school)

    Draft, manage and track invitations ensuring fluid communication with co-convenors, 21 COs and invitees across 21 countries
    Finalise the event agenda, develop interactive PPTs/polls and user-friendly templates for working groups and incorporate co-convenor’s feedback in final versions (for the Covid-19 event), ensuring synergies between co-convener’s presentations
    Support the contracting of an external facilitator for the event
    Support event facilitation and the management of break out groups
    Document event and draft a high-quality workshop report
    Initiate event follow-up with COs and organize follow up calls with co-conveners and COs based on workshop report and country action plans (for the Covid-19 event)

    III. The development of the innovative ESAR interactive programme and partnership tool (product) on adolescent ‘learning to earning’ opportunities

    Draft/finalise, manage and provide content to the contracted and external designers to develop the tool. A framework and draft concept will be provided with content details for the designers to adapt/create the tool.
    Manage the communications/liaise directly with the design team and COs to plan and finalise content, proofs and design concept, as needed; coordinate and participate in design and planning meetings accordingly.
    Lead the development and finalisation of the tool/product.
    Provide suggestions for the roll-out/usage of the tool, with the support of the design team (e.g. CO webinar, RO briefing session)

    IV. Support the Regional Education Adviser

    Support the Regional Education Adviser in all tasks required. This may include drafting briefing notes, concept notes, presentations, communications and supporting meetings.

    Work relationships: The individual contractor will be supervised by the Regional Education Adviser in close collaboration with the Education Specialist for Equity and Access, the Education Specialist for Education in Emergencies, the Education Specialist on Adolescent Skills & Employability and may be expected to work with other members of the ESARO Education section.

    Apply via :

    secure.dc7.pageuppeople.com

  • Drip Irrigation Survey

    Drip Irrigation Survey

    Project: Integrated Climate Resilience Project (ICReP
    Location: Garashi, Kilifi County
    Time: December, 2020.
    Reporting to: Project officer
    Background information
    Islamic Relief is a humanitarian and developmental organization inspired by the Islamic Faith envisages a caring world where communities are empowered, social obligations are fulfilled and people respond as one to the suffering of others. Islamic Relief started operations in Kenya in 1993 on orphan’s sponsorship Programme. Over the years Islamic Relief has implemented various development and relief activities in Northeastern Kenya tailored towards sustainable development, emergency response, recovery, DRR & livelihood support. Moreover, Islamic Relief’s programmes are aligned to respond to & comply with government developmental policies (such as Vision 2030), community focus, regional vision as well as global sustainable development goals.
    In 2017 Islamic Relief Kenya has reached over 500, 000 persons in its programme and will continue supporting the communities to ease their suffering and contribute to the improvement their living standards.
    For Islamic Relief (IR), there is no greater priority than ensuring our work has the greatest positive impact on the people we serve. Inspired by our Islamic faith and guided by our values, we envisage a caring world where communities are empowered, social obligations are fulfilled and people respond as one to the suffering of others. Children are the heart of every community, and have been at the core of Islamic Relief’s work over the past 30 years. In working with vulnerable children around the world, Islamic Relief takes seriously its responsibility to uphold the protection of children, uphold children’s rights and promote Islamic teachings, national and international frameworks to provide safeguards from harm.
    Islamic Relief believes that all children have a right to personal dignity and protection from abuse and recognizes the special responsibility and duty of care it bears to create a safe environment for children within the projects and programmes it manages and supports. The interest of child safety and protection should be paramount to any other interest that might compromise it
    Currently IRK is currently implementing a post drought emergency project in Kilifi County, This is a two-year Integrated Sustainable Development Project targeting two locations, Aresa and Garashi in Mandera and Kilifi Counties respectively. The project seek to build resilient model villages over a period of 24 months using both need and right based approaches in socio-economic strengthening. The project will work directly with 5535 households including smallholder farmers, fishers, traders, pastoralists, youth and women in the 2 locations. It will also support school children with an aim to improve enrolment, retention and transition. Communities in target locations are vulnerable to climatic shocks, specifically drought, which combined with low productivity and a lack of access to markets and financial services has resulted in low income security and widespread poverty. IRK collaborate with various stakeholders and government department while working with the local communities across various thematic areas including; food security and livelihood, WASH, Education, advocacy, environment and DRR.
    To ensure long-lasting and sustainable economic empowerment, the project will heavily focus on creating market linkages and networking communities with private sector players. Further, the project will offer specific set of business trainings to vulnerable community groups, in addition to explicitly promoting women’s participation in all project activities.
    Activities and output

    Activity
    Persons involved

    Output

    Drip irrigation 25acre farm survey.
    Survey of the two schools drip irrigation
    Technical Agronomist / Irrigation expert
    Drip irrigation site map
    Drip irrigation requirements and estimated cost

    Deliverables

    iTopo Survey the 25 acres and establish the drip requirements.
    Survey the two acres in the two schools and establish. Drip requirements
    Drip Irrigation design system
    Drip irrigation lay out

    Time Frame
    The engagement is planned to run for 2 weeks.
    Qualifications

    Have experience in drip irrigation systems.
    Should agronomist / irrigation expert
    Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
    Ability to pay attention to details.
    The candidate should be available immediately.

    Apply via :

    Procurement.Irk@islamic-relief.or.ke

  • Counsellor or Counselling Psychologist

    Counsellor or Counselling Psychologist

    What Tushinde can offer you?

    Working with a friendly team in a young and growing organisation delivering real change. 
    A monthly salary of 38,000 – 50,000 kshs, depending on experience.
    21 days of paid holiday plus public holidays. 
    The opportunity to work flexibly.
    Individual private health insurance.
    Training and development with the opportunity for progression and further qualifications.

    What would you be doing?

    He or she will work alongside a passionate, professional and supportive team to help deliver the Tushinde family support programmes.

    More detail can be found in the job description here: https://tushinde.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Tushinde-Job-description-Counsellor.pdf

    What is Tushinde looking for?

    Ideally, applicants should have 3 years’ experience in a similar role and have an honors degree, minimum, in a related subject.

    Applicants should have experience of working with a team of qualified professionals and serving the public.

    Please send a CV and a cover letter to info@tushinde.org.uk or visit our website for more details. In your cover letter you must demonstrate that you have researched the work of Tushinde, analysed what you think the challenges of the position may be and what your priorities will be if you are successful in your application. Applications with letters that have not done this will not be considered. Unfortunately, we only have the resources to contact those candidates who are shortlisted.

    Apply via :

    info@tushinde.org.uk

  • Health Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring Consultant Consultant – Health Economist

    Health Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring Consultant Consultant – Health Economist

    Options seeks long and short-term consultants who will be responsible for leading on activities in counties, with particular expertise in Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring and Reporting (PBMR) in the Kenyan health sector.

    Responsibilities: 

    Options is seeking to establish a consultancy framework of exceptional health planning, budgeting and monitoring experts to help drive the delivery of a Technical Assistance (TA) project that is focused at the county level of the Kenyan health system.

    The programme will provide TA to build county capacities in planning, budgeting, monitoring, reporting, and promote the use of data for decision making and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) skills more generally. The over-arching goal of the project is to increase the probability of resource allocation matching health sector needs, with a focus on RMNCAH, based on an integration of credible PBMR process with a strong M&E system that supports informed decision making.

    We are seeking long and short-term consultants who will be responsible for leading on activities in counties, with particular expertise in Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring and Reporting (PBMR) in the Kenyan health sector.

    We require both locally-based and international consultants with relevant experience of working in Kenya at county level.

    Person specification: 

    To succeed in this role, you will have:

    Extensive experience providing technical support to similar donor funded health programmes and/or organizations.
    Expertise in Planning, Budgeting Monitoring and Evaluation
    Expertise and experience working in Kenya’s health sector, with in-depth knowledge of health systems strengthening approaches in the context of devolution
    Expertise in Monitoring and Evaluation
    Experience working as part of a remote team as well as delivering high quality work independently.
    Proven ability to represent organisations and programmes at the highest levels internationally, regionally and nationally. Ideally with experience working with the World Bank.
    We are especially interested in hearing from candidates with experience working in or who are located in the following counties; Bungoma, Garissa, Lamu, Mandera, Marsabit, Samburu, Tana River, Wajir, West Pokot, Turkana, Homa Bay, Isiolo, Kitui, Kisii and Machakos

    Other information: 

    Options is an equal opportunities employer
    Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.
    We seek people who are pro-choice, energetic and enthusiastic about Options’ vision.

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  • Consultancy on Training on Modern Beekeeping Techniques in West Pokot, Kenya

    Consultancy on Training on Modern Beekeeping Techniques in West Pokot, Kenya

    Job Description/Requirements

    REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS – Consultancy on Training on Modern Beekeeping Techniques in West Pokot, Kenya

    Please see complete REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS and BIDDING DOCUMENTS at the following link: HERE

    Tender No: REF: WP – CEFA01

    LETTER OF INVITATION TO SUBMIT TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL

    Nairobi

    To:

    (Name of consultant)

    Re: Consultancy on Training on Modern Beekeeping Techniques in West Pokot County

    Dear Madam/Sir:

    The European Committee for Training and Agriculture (Comitato Europeo per la Formazione e l’Agricoltura – CEFA) is an Italian NGO who has worked in Kenya since 1993 transiting through, Humanitarian response interventions, livelihood support, Food Security, Infrastructure Development, Agriculture and Rural Development, during the last 30 years. **

    CEFA invites you to submit technical and financial proposals in accordance with the documents attached to this letter and the annexed Terms of References (TOR). The Client intends to hire a consulting firm or a no-profit organization (the “Consultant”) to provide consulting services on Training on Modern Beekeeping Techniques in West Pokot County

    The Consultant may sub-contract selected activities provided that said services do will not exceed 20% of the total consultancy work.

    A firm will be selected under the *Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) *method **

    TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR) FOR BEEKEEPING INDIVIDUAL/CONSULTANCY FIRM/TRAINER IN WEST POKOT COUNTY *

    TITLE OF THE ACTION:

    TRAINING ON MODERN BEEKEEPING TECHNIQUES IN WEST POKOT COUNTY

    LOCATIONS OF THE ACTION: WEST POKOT COUNTY, KENYA

    DURATION OF THE ACTION: 4 WEEKS

    OBJECTIVES OF THE ACTION: PRACTICAL AND THEORY TRAININGS FOR BEEKEEPING FARMERS IN WEST POKOT COUNTY

    OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT

    The trainer/individual consultancy is part of the EU funded project “Support to Resilience for Sustainable Livelihoods “led by Northern Rangeland Trust with a consortium of other 4 NGOs: CEFA, E4IMPACT, Sominerec and AMREF.

    The overall objective of the action is to contribute towards increased resilience of communities to drought and other effects of climate change in ASAL areas of Kenya. The specific objectives of the action are 1. to enhance food and nutrition security of vulnerable households, especially for women and children in West Pokot County; 2. to generate sustainable livelihoods and protect productive assets in West Pokot County.

    Under this project, CEFA is going to implement a livelihood component with a focus on mango, horticulture and honey production. In order to enhance agricultural productivity with focus on honey production, CEFA plans to train 200 beekeeping farmers. The objective of this intervention will be enhancing their productivity and value chain and thus improving their nutritional status and income generation.

    OBJECTIVES OF TRAINING FOR BEEKEEPING FARMERS IN WEST POKOT COUNTY

    The specific objectives of the consultancy are to:

    Prepare comprehensive training material (including manuals and handouts).
    Prepare and organize training sessions.
    To train 200 beekeeping farmers on effective equipment handling, bee management, honey harvest and processing.
    Train 30 community inspectors on beehive handling, follow up and harvesting.
    Provide modern beekeeping equipment demonstration sessions for effective usage for safety and improve honey production line.
    Build the capacity of the beekeeping farmers on hygiene practices, consumer education sessions and product marketing advertisement techniques.
    To conduct continuous monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the beekeeping training for the farmers.
    Offer any technical assistance required even after the expiry of the contract

    METHODOLOGY

    The training will utilize a wide range of methods blended with demonstration and practical sessions to ensure knowledge is imparted, learners remain interested and enhances knowledge retention for participants with low literacy skills and relevant to the context.

    The training organization will therefore consider different methods to improve the capacity and skill of trainees through:

    Short lectures
    Slide shows and videos
    Questions and answers
    Open discussions
    Individual & group exercises
    Field visits, tours and practical sessions.

    EXPECTED OUTCOME

    200 beekeeping farmers be trained for beekeeping techniques including bee management, effective handling of equipment, processing and preserving bee bye-products
    200 beekeeping farmers be trained on modern beekeeping equipment, usage and handling
    Increased skills on theory and practical knowledge, self-engagement and as well improve local beekeeping farmers livelihoods
    Expansion of local and external markets for honey products
    Support and uplift the capacity of the beekeeping farmers on consumers approach, marketing and sensitization of the importance of honey and other bee bye-products.
    Enhance the capacity of the farmers to follow up and monitor the entire apiculture value chain for sustained production
    Formation of a community beekeepers’ group or Identify and train one entrepreneur who will manage the processing unit and help in collective marketing and sustainability of the beekeeping activity.

    SCOPE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

    The local consultant will be responsible in preparing training Programme on beekeeping for the trainees and conduct trainings, particularly:

    Organize class lectures on different topics of beekeeping management and development
    Arrange tours and visits to the different beekeeping fields
    Organize practical works on different beekeeping kits/tools
    Organize practical works on different beekeeping fields
    Management of bees in different seasons: –
    Process of pollen
    Process of Royal jelly
    Process of Honey
    Bee Package
    Queen Rearing
    Hygienic properties
    Pest and Diseases control

    DELIVERABLES

    The consultant is expected to:

    Submit an inception report detailing training content and methodology (including theory, practical and kit usage)
    Submit a detailed work plan and estimated budget of the beekeeping training
    Share detailed training modules and curriculum
    Field level theoretical training for 200 beekeeping farmers
    Final completion report of the beekeeping training.

    Qualifications

    University degree in agriculture/apiculture or related field such as zoo technician, veterinary, forestry etc.
    At least 4 years of working experience and qualification with background on apiculture related activities.
    Experience in facilitating trainings on beekeeping and participated in study tours about the beekeeping and apiculture in West Pokot.
    Experience on marketing and promotions of beekeeping products;
    Competent and possess practical skills in bee handling abilities in all situations, colony reading, Preparation and assessment of honeybee products and Disease diagnosis and knowledge of the correct remedies
    Excellent communication and writing skills in English and Swahili languages.

    Submission Procedure: Please submit your Technical and Financial Proposal using the forms provided for this purpose within this Request for Proposals (RFP). Your proposal should comprise one (1) original and one (1) copy of both the technical and financial proposals to the address provided below.**The Technical and Financial proposals shall be submitted no later than 5.00pm EAT of 26 Jan 2021 to the address below:**CEFA Regional Office in NairobiBrookside Close, off Brookside DriveAttn: Mohamed Bare – CEFA Project ManagerOr alternatively to the following email address: procurement@cefakenya.com

    Apply via :

    procurement@cefakenya.com