Terms of Reference (ToR) for a consultant to document the impacts of the Local Rights Programme of ActionAid International Somaliland

Terms of Reference (ToR) for a consultant to document the impacts of the Local Rights Programme of ActionAid International Somaliland

1. Background

ActionAid International Somaliland (AAIS) a member of a Global Federation working to end poverty and injustice with thousand of communities and millions of people across the planet. It is committed to putting the active agency of people living in poverty and exclusion to bring about transformative and sustainable changes to their lives. AAIS was established in Somaliland in1990, works in over 200 communities across the country delivering protection and humanitarian services by focusing on Women’s Rights (Gender Base Violence-GBV, Female Genital Mutilation/Cut- FGM/C, economic empowerment, political participation), Humanitarian response, Resilience building, promoting agroecology and access to education for vulnerable children especially girls. Its is implementing its current five-year (2020 2024) Country Strategy Paper (CSP) known as People’s Action Towards Social justice.

In 2009, AAIS introduced Child Sponsorship programme known as Local Right Programme (LRPs) through which it implements a long-term integrated resilience and rights programmes in 33 villages of Hargeisa and Gabiley districts.  Gabiley LRP was established in 2009 followed by Allaybady and Agabar and funded with regular giving individual-child supporters/sponsors from United Kingdom, Italy and Brazil. Gabiley LRP is managed through an AAIS partner SOHA while others are directly managed under AAIS. Donor funded projects also support funding of the LRPs.

Over the period, the programme activities implementation focused on:

• Increasing access to water by improving water infrastructure such as construction and rehabilitation of underground cisterns (berkads), desilting earth dams, inserting concrete rings in shallow wells, constructing sand dams and distributing Low-Density Polythene (LDP) sheets.
• Strengthening livelihood sources through improving agriculture production by providing farming equipment and tools, tillage hours and diverse knowledge transfers.
• Promoting women’s rights through economic empowerment and creating safe space for women social interaction and engagements to enhance protection.

By the recommendation of an ActionAid Country Model Review (CMR), a strategic fit for purpose and sustainability process, the Local Rights Programme is phasing out by December 31st, 2022. Therefore, ActionAid International Somaliland wishes to document the impacts of the programme interventions for record, learning, sharing, reflection and accountability, on the lives of the targeted right holders agro-pastoral communities over the period of the intervention through collections of success stories, quality photos, and a video documentary.

1. The Roles of the consultant

• The Consultant is responsible to AAIS Country Programme Manager.
• ActionAid LRP Programme Coordinator leads of the side of AAIS on the day-to-day contact with the consultant to get an overall understanding of the program
• Review programme and related project documents and guidelines
• Produce an inception report and field data collection tools for the ActionAid program team review before the field visit.
• visit sampled locations and map out key program interventions and also agree on respective respondents before fieldwork.
• In consultation with the program team, the consultant should prepare a comprehensive work plan for the assignment.
• Conduct fieldwork to collect data through interviewing the programmes beneficiaries, right holders, community leaders, women groups, government officials and other key stakeholders, and produce videos and quality photos about the programme outcomes, impact for the stories of change.
• The consult shall prepare draft stories of change, a pictorial booklet and videos and submit them to ActionAid for comments and feedback.
• A final version of at least 7 stories of change, one pictorial booklet and a full video and another compressed video of ten minutes as well as the raw content footage and photos shall be submitted AAIS.

1. Timeline

The consultant shall complete the assignment in 25 days starting from the contract signing date. In the meantime, the consultant shall come up with a detailed work plan for the assignment.