Job Vacancy, Cameroon: IRC needs the services of a Consultant Comprehensive Gender Analysis Cameroon ( North-West & South-West)

Deadline: 24 August 2021

Requisition ID: req19606

Job Title: Consultant Comprehensive Gender Analysis Cameroon ( North-West & South-West))

Sector: Gender

Employment Category: Consultant

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Buea, Cameroon

Job Description

The IRC started operations in Cameroon in 2016 to respond to the increasing concerns for people affected by violence linked to Boko Haram, in the Far North of the country. Assistance to displaced populations extends across the Far North, notably Mayo Sava, Mayo Tsanaga and Logone & Chari, delivering lifesaving programming to increase access to water and improving hygiene practices in vulnerable displaced and host communities, cash programming to enable poor families to meet basic needs and improve food security, and protection programming, including meeting specific needs of women and girls. The Coordination office is located in Maroua, with a field base in Kousseri and a representation office in Yaoundé. 

Following the increasing crisis in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon, the IRC expanded its operations into the South West region in August 2018. The IRC is delivering lifesaving humanitarian assistance to internally displaced populations, with a field base in Buea.

IRC Cameroon is committed in its 2020 Strategic Action Plan, to continue to provide essential humanitarian services, with a focus on safety in communities and ensuring affected populations can meet their basic needs, whilst also building the resilience of beneficiaries, especially women and girls. IRC Cameroon is funded by European and American donors..

Objective of this Consultancy:

In its Multi-Year Strategic Action Plan, IRC has adopted gender equality as a cross-cutting priority result for all programmes (WASH, ERD, Protection, etc.). This is reflected in the development of a performance-based monitoring and evaluation system that ensures the data collected is disaggregated by age and sex. In addition, IRC implements gender analysis in its programming to assess the capacity of projects to address gender issues, and to ensure that barriers related to gender dynamics that prevent women, men, girls and boys from equitably accessing services in communities are addressed.

Thus, as part of its commitment to deliver on its ambitions to driving Gender Equality in its programming, the IRC Cameroon Country Program will work with a consultant to conduct a Comprehensive Gender Analysis (CGA) that will target communities and programs across the different settings that IRC Cameroon operates in. the CGA’s results will be used to inform existing and future program activities and enable IRC Cameroon to implement more gender-sensitive programs that recognize the specific needs of, and risks faced by, women, girls, men and boys – and do not exacerbate inequalities that women and girls face.

IRC aims through this assignment to:

Explore the gender differentiated needs of the host communities and IDPs in a cross-section of the different settings in the North-West & South-West crisis-impacted regions that IRC operates in.

Identify and understand the present gender inequalities, risks and opportunities for women, girls, men and boys and other vulnerable persons.

Gather information to better understand the impact of gender inequalities on individuals’ agency, their relationships, and the ways they interact with the systems & services around them, including access to water, sanitation, and hygiene, healthcare, education, protection and livelihoods opportunities.

Assess how IRC’s chosen operational approaches and program delivery systems affect, and are affected by, gender inequalities.

Assess, and map out a selection of IRC’s available services, and the extent to which they meet the identified needs, as well as the existing GAP to address the specific needs of women and girls, and where specific needs for women and girls remain under-addressed.

Provide recommendations on how IRC’s program activities need to adjust to improve accessibility, safety and appropriateness for women and girls, men and boys.

Provide recommendations on how to implement IRC programs to actively influence the identified inequalities.

Show case examples from each sector where possible transition to gender transformative programming is possible.

Methodology

Using the IRC’s Comprehensive Gender Analysis (CGA) Toolkit, IRC Cameroon aims to get a detailed understanding of the existing gender gaps within the host and IDP communities and review a representative sample of projects across every sector, with the aim of designing and implementing gender-sensitive programs. The Toolkit is designed to collect qualitative information through conducting Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and in-depth Key Informant Interviews (KIIs), to build on existing program data and an initial desk review. This data is used to do a full gender analysis using the Ecological Model, and then facilitate a dialogue on how the analysis informs and impacts the IRC Cameroon’s interventions in a phased approach that takes the current COVID-19 pandemic into account.

To be able to get the needed information for the CGA the consultant will conduct the following:

Phase1: Desk Review

• Background reading to gain a basic understanding of the conflict and context.
• Review of existing program data
• Review of existing research and gendered information about the IDP and host community populations.

Phase 2: Data Collection

• KIIs with IRC clients and/or community members and local decision makers and local authorities across field locations:
• KIIs with IRC program staff across program sectors, and across levels (officers, managers, coordinators, SMT)

Phase 3: Data collection (in the field, taking into consideration COVID-19 SOP to avoid or minimize infection)

• FGDs and KII with IRC clients and/or community members and local decision makers and local authorities in locations identified by the IRC team in North-West and South-West regions  

Phase 4: Gender Analysis Workshop and Program Review

• In Yaoundé, Maroua, Buea (joined remotely as well)

Phase 5: Sensitization of implementing staff

Data Collection

The distribution of the FGDs will be as follows for each location:

Deliverables:

• The consultant will be responsible for the following deliverables:
• Inception report covering the consultant’s understanding of the mission, detailed work plan, tools, structure of the final report before field work. start for review and feedback
• Synthesis of the key findings of the initial desk review
• Training workshop for data collectors on gender equality and data collection tools
• Conducting all focus groups and key informants interviews with the support of at least 12 IRC staff and investigators.
• Conducting interviews with PAIS project staff and key stakeholders (Ministry of Education etc..).
• Providing a clean Excel version of the database with all raw data and translated data
• Conduct a two-day analysis and recommendation workshop with the following people: 

• Program Coordinators and Managers
• Technical advisors.
• Field coordinator/manager, senior field staff.
• Data collectors.
• M&E staff.
• Grants staff.
• DDP

• Draft report for review in English
• Final report including an executive summary, results and interpretation of results, conclusions, recommendations, and illustrative photos.
• Final Report in PowerPoint format.
• Summary of final report for external publication.
• Design material (agenda, powerpoint) about “why” we are doing these programmatic changes and have discussions about what common practices they can change and how they can begin to implement programs in a gender-sensitive way.

Role of IRC :

• IRC will be responsible to:
• Provide the complete gender analysis toolkit and technical guidance on its use (supporting GE unit)
• Provide an overview of the programs and activities implemented by IRC in Cameroon in general.
• Organize and attend the analysis and design workshop
• Provide timely feedback on the draft and final reports.

Information and Data Management

All data and information received in the course of this assignment shall be treated confidentially and shall only be used for the mission activities. All intellectual property rights arising from the execution of this mission are attributed to IRC. The contents of the written materials obtained and used herein may not be disclosed to third parties without the prior expressed written permission of IRC.

Timeframe:

Detail workplan will be developed in consultation with the consultant. Phases 1-5 should be completed by September 31, 2021, including the draft report. 

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

• Consultancy Manager: Daniel Martin, Deputy Director of Programs

Madina Dia, Regional Gender Equality Advisor, West Africa based in Dakar, Senegal for the quality control of the technical aspects.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate university degree relevant to gender or women’s studies, social sciences or development.
• 5 years relevant experience in qualitative research and qualitative sexist and ethical analysis on gender issues (essential).
• Proven experience in conducting in-depth gender training.
• Proven experience in humanitarian projects, preferably in West Africa. 
• Fluent in French, written and spoken, and good knowledge of English.
• Significant experience in conducting focus groups and key informant interviews on sensitive topics specifically related to GBV with diverse populations. 
• Experience analyzing and coding qualitative data (using Dedoose, ATLAS.ti or other software) for various audiences an asset.
• Excellent writing skills and ability to articulate the link between the results, analysis and recommendations of the program.
• Proven experience in the timely and high quality completion of assignments.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Flexible attitude towards receiving feedback.

REQUIRED PERSONAL SKILLS :

• Ability to listen to and understand the needs of others and to contextualize them.
• Ability to immerse oneself in detail without getting lost in it.
• Proactive and motivated approach to work.
• A high level of organization and time management, as well as an ability to learn quickly and produce high quality work within tight deadlines.
• Can discern the difference between confidential and public information, and can de-identify sensitive information

Note: The list of responsibilities, professional and personal competencies are considered indicative and not exhaustive; actual duties may differ or change depending on the priorities of the office and the period of the mission.

 For more information contact:

• Sylvaine Lempereur, Acting Deputy Director for Programs, Mobile: +237 664 687 176; Sylvaine.Lempereur@Rescue.org
• Edwige Flore Leba-Tchuenkam, HR Coordinator; Edwige.Leba@rescue.org   

Submissions  

• Send your technical and financial proposals to the above contacts.  
• Applicants must include: their CV
• References from past missions for similar assignments.
• Sample of consultancy final reports; sample of an evaluation/analysis report you have worked on.
• Proposal cost, including all costs necessary for the mission detailing at least
• The number of consultancy days and the daily rate.

Apply through the link below: Consultant Comprehensive Gender Analysis Cameroon ( North-West & South-West)

NB: your financial proposal must take into account all of the costs of the consultancy/service The number of consultant days and the daily fee.

The IRC is an Equal Opportunities Employer. The IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.

IRC and IRC employees must adhere to the values and principles contained in the IRC WAY (Standards of Professional Conduct). These are Integrity, Service, Accountability and equality. In accordance with these values, IRC operates and enforces policies on the protection of beneficiaries from exploitation and abuse, child protection, workplace harassment, financial integrity, and retaliation.