NGO Job Opportunities in Kenya - International Rescue Committee

Consultancy:
Cataract Surgeon
 

Employee

Type: Consultant 

Employee

Category: Not Applicable

Term

of Reference for Consultant Cataract surgeon

Introduction: The International

Rescue Committee (IRC), has continued to be a health service provider in

Hagadera and Kambios within the Dadaab Refugee Camp complex, since January

2009.

To

avail this services to the beneficiaries, IRC has under its jurisdiction, 1

major camp hospital and 5 health posts within its implementation area, whose

cumulative population is 141,649,  ( Hagadera-107,679 and Kambios- 

21,093 refugees respectively,  with 12,877 of the host community).

IRC has 5 main programs which include; Health, Nutrition, Protection,

Reproductive Health with HIV/AIDS and a Women Empowerment program, that are

overseen by a manager who in turn reports to the Field Coordinator.

The eye program is an integral part of the Health services provided and has a

full-fledged static eye clinic that also provides outreach services to all the

camps across the larger Dadaab. It provides comprehensive integrated primary

eye care services together with quarterly cataract surgical eye camps.

IRC aims to engage the services of two cataract surgeons/consultants for the

surgical eye camp to be conducted within the last week of the Month of August,

2016 with previous experience of working in hagadera especially with refugee

communities.  

The

patients to be operated will be drawn from across the entire Dadaab and all

those eligible will have been screened and prepared by the IRC eye care team

personnel that are on the ground.  

Objective of the consultancy

• To
  
  provide consultation services to IRC, for the benefit of all such booked
  
  patients.


• To
  
  perform cataract surgical operations at the IRC hospital, to all eligible
  
  patients with operable cataracts in order to restore vision.

Expected

Outcome: All

the pre booked eye patients and those with operable cataracts will be attended

and/or operated by the specialists and specific treatment provided.

Tasks to be performed

In liaison with the Health Manager, the specialist’s/consultants will be

required to:

• Conduct
  
  special clinics for all listed patients for review by the consultant.


• Perform
  
  surgical operations for all pre-screened patients with operable cataracts.


• Prepare
  
  and submit a concise report with a summary of patients seen/
  
  attended/operated, to the Health Manager at the end of the 6 day camp
  
  period.

• IRC
  
  Hospital eye staff will undertake to ensure the ready availability of a
  
  comprehensive list of the pre-screened patients with operable cataracts
  
  for the consultants.


• IRC
  
  will bare the transport and freight charges of the cataract surgeon from
  
  Nairobi to Hagadera and back upon completion of the consultancy.


• The
  
  IRC will ensure adequate stock of all drugs and other allied supplies,
  
  including requisite theatre staff.


• The
  
  IRC will provide free accommodation for the specialist cataract surgeons
  
  with their team during the camp. However, the surgeons will be expected to
  
  contribute to the catering kitty for lunch, breakfast and dinner @ 1,250
  
  per day.

Consultancy

Venue: At the

IRC hospital in Hagadera.

Duration of consultancy: The

engagement of the consultancy shall be for 6 days; commencing on 22nd to 27th,

August, 2016.

Terms of Payment and Utility

• The
  
  IRC shall pay the consultants’ fee at K.sh. 15,000.00 per day per
  
  consultant for the 6 days of the activity.


• The
  
  ophthalmic theatre nurse accompanying the consultants shall be paid K.sh.
  
  5,000.00 per day for the 6 days of the activity.


• Payments
  
  shall be made after completion and submission of a concise activity report
  
  to the Health Manager.

International

Rescue Committee
 

Durable

Solutions Research Consultant
 

Employee

Type: Consultant 

Employee

Category: Not

Applicable
 

Background

& Rationale: Violent

internal conflict broke out in the Republic of South Sudan in December 2013

when long-standing tensions within the country’s ruling party, the Sudan

People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), boiled over into armed conflict in the

nation’s capital, Juba and spread. 

Since

December 2013, the number of South Sudanese refugees in the region has grown

almost five times over, with a total of 727,607 now seeking refuge in

neighboring Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda [2]. 

There

have been several attempts to negotiate and implement cessation of hostilities

– the latest of which was signed in August 2015 – but these efforts have

largely proved ineffectual as they have been broken by both parties. 

In

June 2016, renewed fighting erupted in several locations across the country, and

reports suggest that the opposing sides are preparing for a return to war [3].

In a region that has been marred by recurrent and protracted displacement in

the last decade, the quest for durable solutions for refugees and other

displaced persons is increasingly high on the agenda for donors, governments

and key stakeholders. 

Displaced

persons have often times found themselves depending entirely on emergency

assistance and humanitarian aid that falls short of delivering long-term

solutions. 

Current

studies and literature, supported by both humanitarian and development actors

have argued that strategies for solutions should, in principle, start at the

onset of displacement. 

While

the focus and priority in the first stage of a displacement crisis is to uphold

basic minimum standards for saving lives and ensuring protection, efforts

should also be invested in identifying how the immediate response impacts

future prospects for durable solutions. 

Yet,

there is a noticeable gap in such strategies at a practical, regional and

policy level.

To advance the learning agenda on the urgent topic of solutions, the Regional

Durable Solutions Secretariat (ReDSS) has commissioned a series of research

initiatives and has developed a capacity building toolkit for solutions

programming. 

The

most recent research which came out in summer 2016, “Review of Durable

Solutions Initiatives in East and Horn of Africa: good practices, challenges,

and opportunities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Somalia,” reviews 14 on-going

initiatives on durable solutions in these countries and highlights best

practices, bottlenecks, and recommendations for ways forward to improve

coordination, providing opportunities and entry-points into an actual durable

solutions system. 

This

report asks: Is it possible to aim for a coordinated durable solutions system

in the East and Horn of Africa? 

The

Theory of Change presented in this review recommends a sequencing, layering and

integrating of activities, geographical approaches, advocacy, capacity and

coordination to the widest range of stakeholders, including – and with a

stronger focus on – academia, civil society organizations, private sector and

local governments. 

ReDSS

has also piloted the capacity building toolkit to build a common language and

understanding of durable solutions, as well as strengthen the capacities of

humanitarian and development practitioners as well as policy-makers &

donors on how to address durable solutions for displacement affected

communities in the East and Horn of Africa region.

Building on these two pieces of work, there is still a gap in understanding how

to best support solutions from the onset of displacement.  

How do

national and local policies in these three contexts enable or restrict response

actions for solutions at the start of a displacement crisis?

Objective of the study: To

begin to answer the aforementioned question, the International Rescue Committee

(IRC) along with the Regional Durable Solutions Secretariat (ReDSS) will

undertake this study to  explore the response to the South Sudan Refugee

crisis since 2013 in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia; analyze the policy

environments and how they have shaped the response actions; analyze how

operational and strategic decision making has impacted future prospects for

solutions; and make recommendations on how durable solutions can be taken into

consideration while formulating response plans at the onset of

displacement. 

The

study will identify the gaps and challenges that stakeholders have or would

potentially face, while identifying comprehensive and innovative

approaches. 

The

study recommendations will primarily target operational organizations to inform

advocacy and programming. 

Following

this study, a second could go on to make concrete programming and coordination

of recommendations for refugee operations. 

The

recommendations will also be used in engagements with a range of actors – from

development actors, host governments, UN agencies, donors, and IGAD – to

advance discussions about the roles that each play in promoting durable

solutions. 

The

study may also make recommendations for enabling funding and coordination

mechanisms, as well as capacity for state and non-state local actors.

Key Questions  

Component 1: what

has been done to date?

• What
  
  are the current response actions/strategies and how do they address
  
  prospects for durable solutions for South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia,
  
  Kenya, and Uganda to date?

1.   
How have response actions for solutions been shaped by national,

local or international policies? What are the incentive structures that

motivate these policies?

2.   
What are the opportunities or barriers to addressing each of the

three durable solutions across contexts?

Component

2: what

can be done differently?

• What
  
  are the key policy solutions at country and regional level to address
  
  prospects for durable solutions at the onset?

1.   
What could be done (and what would be required) at the onset of

a refugee influx towards operationalizing durable solutions.

• What
  
  is or should be the role of humanitarian and development actors,
  
  governments and local authorities in early onset solutions planning and
  
  programing? What is or should be the role of the displaced host
  
  communities, community-based mechanisms and community base organizations
  
  (CBO)? What kinds of coordination structures should be in place and what
  
  can be learned from the resilience agenda (ex. Somalia).


• What
  
  funding mechanisms and funding sources are required to encourage planning
  
  and programming for solutions, and how can these mechanisms be integrated
  
  into or replace existing?

• Desk
  
  Review of relevant policies and responses to inform interview and data
  
  collection tools.


• Key
  
  Informant Interviews with officials, policy makers, donors, etc. Minimum
  
  30 interviews.


• Focus
  
  Group Discussions with displacement affected populations on local level
  
  opportunities and constraints. 6 total – 2 per country gender separated.


• Analyze
  
  component parts of a durable solution per the ReDSS Framework definition
  
  and indicators.

1.   
Remain consistent with and build on previous and planned ReDSS

work i.e. learning agenda

2.   
Applying the framework will support the consultant to

systematically consider all parts of a solution- particularly pushing the legal

side which will be the most difficult.

• Inception
  
  Report (with power point presentation) outlining the consultant’s
  
  understanding of the TOR, methodology, ethical considerations, outline,
  
  work-plan and a list individuals and/or types of organizations the
  
  consultant will be interviewing for presentation to the study’s steering
  
  committee.


• An
  
  initial first draft report (35 pages maximum without annexes) including:

1.   
Table of contents, glossary of key terms, list of acronyms,

2.   
An executive summary, introduction highlighting the objectives

of the study, the rationale, methodology used, scope and limitations, theory of

change

3.   
Outline of literature review and country context analyses

4.   
Key findings and countries specific case studies

5.   
Conclusions, recommendations and way forward

6.   
Annexes including but not limited to list of key interviews,

field visits, bibliography, documents reviewed, etc.

• Validation
  
  workshops with key stakeholders and steering committee.


• A
  
  final revised report based on the inputs. The final report should include
  
  an executive summary (maximum 4 pages) and a short Power Point
  
  presentation highlighting the key questions, research methodology, key
  
  findings and recommendations, to be presented to the steering committee.

Management

and timeframe: The

consultant will report to the IRC Deputy Regional Director-Horn & East

Africa and ReDSS Coordinator, and be guided by the study’s steering

committee. 

As

part of the consultancy, the consultant will present an initial layout

(inception phase) and the final draft at consultative workshops. 

The

final report will incorporate the feedback received at the validation

workshops.

Duration of assignment: The

study will be conducted in a period of 35 consultancy days. To be completed by

October 28, 2016.

• Available
  
  to start immediately;


• An
  
  advanced degree in Law, Social Sciences, Forced Migration or related area
  
  of study;


• Demonstrable
  
  experience on matters relating to forced migration locally and regionally
  
  and knowledge of the Tripartite Agreement;


• Proven
  
  qualitative research skills and experience in the area of forced
  
  migration, at least 3 years;


• Track
  
  record working on issues of displacement and durable solutions preferably
  
  in an operational capacity;


• Experience
  
  working with civil society;


• Good
  
  understanding of legal and policy frameworks, economic development in the
  
  Horn and East Africa;


• Good
  
  understanding of socio-economic dynamics in the Horn and East Africa;


• Excellent
  
  analytical and report writing skills;


• Fluency
  
  in written and spoken English; familiarity with Swahili and/or Amharic
  
  desirable.

• The
  
  Consultant must be available to commence the desk review immediately and
  
  provide the final report within 35 days from date of commencement.


• The
  
  consultant must complete work within the stipulated time frame


• The
  
  consultant must operate within the budget allocated.

Application

process

Interested applicants who meet the required profile are invited to submit an

expression of interest (EOI) including:

• A
  
  suitability statement including CV of participating consultants with
  
  details of qualifications and experience.


• Financial
  
  proposal providing cost estimates and consultancy fees.


• Contacts
  
  of three organizations that have recently contracted you to carry out
  
  similar assignment.

Interested

parties should forward the expression of interest in English no later than

Friday, 12 August 2016

[2] http://data.unhcr.org/SouthSudan/regional.php[3] South

Sudan: ”The Cost of War, An estimation of the economic and financial costs of

ongoing conflict”

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of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual

orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other

characteristic protected by applicable law.

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Acquisitions at IRCrecruitment@rescue.org. As required by law, the IRC will

provide reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with a

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