National Individual Consultant
Development of a Communication Strategy for the Standards and Labelling Programme
The Standards and Labeling Programme is a 5 year initiative designed to remove barriers to market transformation of energy efficient products and services in Kenya with replication effect to 4 other East African Community (EAC) countries of Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
The main objective of the project is to remove the barriers to rapid and widespread uptake of energy efficient motors in the industrial sector; refrigerators in the residential; display refrigerators in the commercial sector; air-conditioners in the commercial and residential sectors and lighting in the three sectors.
The overall objective of the assignment is to develop a communication strategy that will guide the implementation of a countrywide awareness campaign targeted at the project stakeholders, importers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, end users (consumers) of the targeted products.
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their application which should include the following:
2. UNDP Personal History Form (P11) ( template provided)
3. Proposal for implementing the assignment (template provided)
Please quote “Communication Strategy for the S& L Programme - EECCU” on the subject line.
Applications should be emailed to consultants.ken@undp.org to reach us not later than Thursday, 27 December 2012 at 12 Noon Kenya Time.
Please see the detailed Terms of Reference, the P11 form, the Individual Contract Proposal form and the Terms and Conditions of Individual Contracts by visiting the UNDP Kenya Website:
http://www.ke.undp.org/index.php/procurements

UNDP Kenya reserves the right to accept or reject any application

SSA to develop a Strategy for Teacher Development and Management for Dadaab

UN Children's Fund

Background:

During 2011 Somalia was severely affected by drought, and famine leading to mass migration towards and across the border to Kenya with an influx in refugees in Dadaab refugee camps. With the majority of refugees being young people or children, the education sector saw a drop in enrolment rate from approximately 60% to 30%. This resulted in partners agreeing on the importance of a long term strategy for improving of the education services and access to education for children and young people in the camps.

An Education Strategy for Dadaab was developed and finalized towards the end of 2011. 

This strategy emphasizes on the importance of continuous professional development of the teaching forces and training of teacher to improve the quality of education offered at ECD, primary and secondary education levels. UNICEF has agreed to fund the development of this teacher training sub-sector strategy as a component of the overall Education Strategy for Dadaab refugee camps.

Justification: 

The consultancy proposed in these terms of references is in line with the commitment UNICEF made to implementation of the education priorities identified in the Dadaab Education Strategy Document. It is also in congruent with the commitment that UNICEF has made to take on the technical lead of the education sector in Dadaab.

Scope of Work

The deliverables proposed by this consultancy involves the development of a strategy that looks at not only training of teachers but also goes beyond the regular approach to in-service training that is usually applied in similar contexts and looks at the longer term professional development opportunities that will both build the capacity of teachers and provide an incentive for career development.

The work will include close collaboration with all Dadaab based partners as well as the Ministry of Education both at national and local level, and possibly consultation with selected teacher training institutions in Kenya.

RWPPCR/IRs areas covered

PCR

National and sub-national, systems and policy frameworks and implementation capacity strengthened to improve access to quality basic education and skills development for marginalised children and youth, including in emergencies

IR 3:

Disaster Risk Reduction in education sector is mainstreamed and the education emergency cluster responds to human and natural disasters

Expected Deliverables

Costed Teacher Development and Management Strategy document with accompanying work plan on continuous professional development for teachers developed and endorsed by all partners in Dadaab. 

Identified viable strategic issues in teacher development, in teacher management, strategic principles, strategic goals and strategic objectives, coupled with log-frame and activities with time frame,

Duration: 8 weeks from September, 2012

Desired background and experience

Masters in Education/Social science related degree; Relevant knowledge on Core Commitments for Children and INEE; Experience of teacher training and professional development of teachers Excellent command of the English language, with proven writing skills; More than five (5) years of working experience in teacher education, research and development with a focus on quality issues, training and continuous professional development (CPD); Analytical and excellent writing skills; and Proficient in computer skills.How to apply:

Interested and suitable candidates should ensure that they forward their applications along with their curricula vitae, to; 

Email address: kenyahrvacancies@unicef.org

Please indicate Reference No. “KCO/SSA/ED/2012/018” in the email subject. Interested candidates should also complete the Personal History (P11) form, which can be downloaded from the UNICEF Kenya website (http://www.unicef.org/kenya).

“Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply”

Zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse

UNICEF is a smoke-free environment

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Consultancy to Develop a Results Oriented Information Management System
Turkana and Garissa districts are affected by recurrent natural disasters, conflict and are among the poorest regions in Kenya.
Additional pressure from refugees on existing natural resources such as water, pasture and firewood, which are at the bare minimum due to recurrent droughts, often increase tension and lead to conflict between refugees and communities hosting them. The exposure to diseases outbreak is heightened as health and sanitation facilities are stretched to the limit with women and children being the most affected.
To address this, UNDP together with GOK have developed a project as a medium term measure to support recovery as well as build resilience of communities especially youth and women’s groups affected by the drought and to strengthen institutions responsible for recovery and disaster risk reduction work. The interventions address short term livelihoods economic recovery needs of youth and women while establishing in the process the capacities and building blocks of sustainable local long-term development.
The project “Restoration and Stabilization of Livelihoods for Drought affected and Host Communities in Turkana and Garissa Districts” seeks to develop a results oriented information management system to ensureGreater accountability for resources allocated and efforts made in promoting sustainable livelihoods in the targeted communities.Greater opportunities for management decisions informed by reliable data.Greater opportunities to learn lessons (almost on real time) and influence policy with evidence based information.Capacity development of government and other national actors on sound program and project management including soft (project management tools, learning, knowledge, etc.) and hard (M&E system) components.Sealed proposal documents comprising two technical proposals and two financial proposals in separate sealed envelopes clearly marked “UNDPKEN/007/2012 – Results oriented information management system for UNDP Kenya project ‘restoration and stabilization of livelihoods for drought affected and host communities in Turkana and Garissa districts” should be dropped at the UNDP TENDER BOX placed at the main entrance reception of UN Complex in Gigiri and addressed to:
Deputy Country Director – Operations,
UNDP Kenya
P.O. Box 30218-00100 Nairobi
Block N Third Floor.
A pre-bidding Conference will be held at The United Nations Complex on Wednesday, 18th July 2012 at 2.30 pm in the UNDP Conference Room, located in Block N Ground floor.
Tuesday 31st July 2012 by 16.00 noon Kenya Time Zone (EAT)
UNDP Kenya reserves the right to accept or reject any submissions.

(A Constituent College of Moi University)
Request for Proposal for Consultancy Service to Develop the University College Master PlanKabianga University College is a Constituent College of Moi University established under Kabianga University College order of 29th May, 2009. The facility was initially used as a Farmers Training Centre until May 2007 when it was changed to a Campus of Moi University.In this regard, the University College Master Plan (UCMP) is crucial for the University College’s development in the next decade and beyond.
Through the Master Plan, the University College aims to maintain the beauty of the Campus so that it serves as a tranquil setting for the academic pursuits for the present and future generations.
It is on this basis that the University College has decided to engage qualified firms to develop a visionary and sustainable UCMP.
Interested eligible bidders may examine and download the bid documents from Kabianga University College website (http://www.kabianga.ac.ke/), print, then fill it before submitting the same to Kabianga University College.

Tender No: KUC/RFP/001/2012/2013

Description: Development of a Master Plan

Closing Date: 26thJuly 2012 Time 2.00 p.m

Tender Fee: Ksh.1,000

Interested firms are required to pay a non refundable fee of Ksh 1,000 in the Co-operative Bank of Kenya, Kericho Branch A/C no 01129046214700 and present the original bank- in slip to Cash Office before or on the closing date.

Completed Request for Proposal documents should be enclosed in plain sealed envelope (Separate Technical and Financial) marked with the Tender number and tender description should be deposited in the Tender Box situated in the entrance of Administration Block and addressed to:
The Deputy Principal (Administration, Planning and Finance)
Kabianga University College
P.O. Box 2030-20200
Kericho
so as to reach the above address not later than 26th July, 2012 at 2.00 p.m.
Submitted bids will be opened publicly in the University College Boardroom soon after the above stated closing date and time in the presence of the tenderers or their representatives who choose to attend. Late bids will be returned unopened.

The Kenya Episcopal Conference-Catholic Justice and Peace Commission seeks to recruit a consultant to consolidate and develop an observation report on the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission activities. The Catholic Justice and Peace Commission having interest in Transitional Justice in Kenya, has been observing the TJRC processes and activities since 2008 when the Parliament enacted the Act of Parliament that spelled out the TJRC mandate to date.

Terms of Reference

The purpose of the consultancy is to lead in compiling the observation report of the TJRC activities for use by CJPC and its partners for information on how to engage in the Transitional Justice Process, beyond the TJRC. The overall aim of recruiting a Consultant is to:
Establish if the TJRC fulfilled its mandate as spelled out in TJRC Act of 2008 by evaluating their activities;
Find out if the Commission met Kenyans’ expectations in reference to  Agenda 4 of the National Accord, Recommendations by CIPEV (Waki) Report, Report of the Task Force on the Establishment of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, and other recommendations that led to the establishment of TJRC.
To establish if the TJRC met the international standards of a truth commission
The Contract between the Consultant and KEC-CJPC will be signed for a period of 1 month within which the consultant is expected to deliver a report both in hard and soft copies.
 Review documents that informed the formation of TJRC; Review CJPC reports and data on TJRC, including analysing the observation questionnaires from the respondents on TJRC activities;Conduct Focused Group Discussions in sampled counties with different groups including women, men and children;The consultant will seek feedback from CJPC on various drafts and will present a final draft before; and Development of the final observation report Make a presentation at Validation meeting and at the Launch of the reportObservation report on the TJRC activities by July 27th  2012.The consultant  should demonstrate the following experience and competencies: Substantive knowledge and experience of transitional justice in Kenya and in particular understand the mandate of TJRC;Ability to develop documentation in the area of transitional justice, human rights or any other related field; andExcellent written and oral communication skills in EnglishApplication process

Interested candidates are invited to submit a bid, before or on 27th June 2012 at 10.30 a.m. The application should include the following elements:

Addressed to

Secretary General
Kenya Episcopal Conference
P.O. Box 13475-00800
Nairobi.

Email: hr@catholicchurch.or.ke

Consultancy to Develop a Gender Strategy for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

Terms of Reference

November, 2011

Background:

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is a dynamic African-led organization that is working to catalyze a uniquely African Green Revolution, one that puts smallholder farmers first, while protecting biodiversity, promoting sustainability and advancing equity.

The organization works in partnerships to achieve a food secure and prosperous Africa through the promotion of rapid, sustainable agricultural growth driven by smallholder farmers.

AGRA aims to ensure that smallholders have what they need to succeed: good seeds and healthy soils; access to markets, information, financing, storage and transport; and policies that provide them with comprehensive support.

In working to accomplish its goal of catalyzing an agricultural revolution, AGRA is placing gender relations between men and women in households at the heart of its integrated seeds, soil health, markets, innovative finance and policy advocacy support.

In line with this commitment, AGRA is seeking the services of a Consultant or Consultancy firm to support the development of a gender policy and strategy to guide the effective inclusion of gender concerns and issues in the implementation of the priorities highlighted in AGRA’s strategy to catalyze a green revolution in Africa.

The objectives of the consultancy:

Conduct a robust consultative review of gender issues in agriculture as they relate to AGRA’s programs to identify the relevant issues, constraints and opportunities in smallholder agricultural production;Based on qualitative and quantitative results generated from consultations and secondary data review, develop a robust gender policy and strategy across AGRA’s programs – Africa seeds systems, soil health, markets access, policy and partnerships and farmer organizations support to strengthen gender responsiveness of programming at local, national and regional levels;Conduct a thorough review of AGRA’s organizational practice and culture, and recommend strategies for enhancing gender and diversity responsiveness in workplace practices and policies;Develop a substantive operational framework and gender plan of action to support implementation of proposed actions aligned with AGRA’s overall strategy;Develop a gender monitoring and evaluation framework detailing quantitatively and qualitatively measureable, reportable and verifiable gender disaggregated data and indicators to complement AGRA’s overall M&E framework.Scope of Work

Specifically, the consultant (or firm) will:

Prepare a letter of interest outlining their understanding of the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the consultancy. This should include a work plan and a discussion of methods to be used to collect, analyze and present the information, including a detailed budget;Produce an inception report together with data collection tools following an initial process of consultations with the AGRA staff and key stakeholders;Submit the first draft of the strategy and facilitate a validation meeting with stakeholders to review and capture comments and feedback from the wide variety of stakeholders with recommendations derived from the analysis;The assignment is expected to take 180 working days from the date of signing of the contract.

Qualifications and Experience:

A minimum of a Master’s degree in an agriculture/natural resource management/rural development related field with demonstrated professional practice in gender analysis during the last five years.

Application procedure

Interested and qualified consultants (or consulting firms) should submit an application which should include the following;

1. CVs of consultant(s)

2. Proposal for implementation of the assignment, including detailed methodology and indicative budget.

Please submit applications to: gender@agra-alliance.org on or before close of business, December 31, 2011.

The full Terms of Reference (TOR) and requirements can be viewed by visiting the AGRA website: http://www.agra-alliance.org/

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Consultancy to develop urban legal knowledge, (Nairobi)

ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-HABITAT
DUTY STATION: Nairobi
FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Consultancy to develop urban legal knowledge
POST DURATION 3-4 months spread over 9 months

BACKGROUND
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. More information is available at: www.unhabitat.org. UN-HABITAT aims to increase current knowledge in regard to legal frameworks for urban development, human settlements, slum prevention and upgrading. Legislation and the practice of law are critical to attaining sustainable urban development and the goals of the Habitat Agenda, as outlined in the Istanbul Declaration of 1996.
Objective and Scope of the Consultancy
The objective of this consultancy is to develop urban legal knowledge for UN-HABITAT to be able to better respond to the needs of Member States and local authorities. By urban legal knowledge, we mean the following: laws, acts, regulations, by-laws, governing various aspects of urban management, human settlements development, slum prevention upgrading, land management, etc; ; instruments of implementing and enforcing.. This includes the holding of an initial scoping workshop, the development of a methodology to document good practice and lessons learned, identification of in-country target groups and in-country approaches to assist Member States and local authorities, the identification of good cases, the documentation of a number of these cases, among other things. This excludes undertaking an assessment of the existing capacity of the agency, assessment of its institutional structure and communications systems in regard to the objective, the development of a project proposal for a potential urban legal unit, which will be undertaken as a separate stream of activities. This consultancy is intended to be separate from, but linked to, and build on, the separate institutional reform work.
Special attention needs to be given to:-
• Issues related to developing countries and countries in transition
• Legal issues pertaining to land re-adjustment, re-parcellation/consolidation, land valuation and taxation, land use/spatial planning, land use zoning codes and development control, urbanism law, and decentralization of urban local government
• Using the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) approach as a potential model, see www.gltn.net
• The production of a methodology and report/s on good cases from different countries in different regions.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Below, an indicative list of activities and outputs is provided which the consultant should carefully review and produce a technical proposal of no more than 10 pages, to be sent with the application, outlining:-
• How they would approach this work.
• Detailed specification of activities and corresponding methodologies.
• Budgets and fees.
• The names of 3-6 potential reviewers of the outputs of this consultancy who would cover different regions and different schools of legal thought (e.g. Roman, Islamic, Civil Code, Common law etc) and their envisaged roles.
• If different consultants are used, clarifying roles and responsibilities of the different consultants with respect to the TOR requirements.
The time frame for this project will be 3-4 months spread over 9 months. Emphasis in the technical proposal should be on the workshop, development of the methodology for documentation and most of all on the documentation of 3-4 countries.
The activities and outputs required are:-
Phase 1: Scoping
1. Review and analyse the current capacity and knowledge in UN-HABITAT: This is important to build on the existing knowledge of UN-HABITAT staff. This review would include:-
• The creation of an inventory of UN-HABITAT/staff experience with urban laws, regulations (national) and bye-laws (local authority) in general and in particular with regard to land re-adjustment, re-parcellation/consolidation, land valuation and taxation, land use/spatial planning, zoning and development control, urbanism law, land use zoning codes. This should include a list of projects with these kind of legal components and an assessment of whether these are good cases. The work of the Regional Offices would be important for this;
• The compilation of a list of publications which the agency has produced on urban law focusing on the legal priorities in areas indicated;
• Identification of potential international legal partners, champions, networks and organisations, which staff know of, and/or have worked with;
• An inventory of the different methodologies used by UN-HABITAT to document urban law, current and previous (e.g. best practices, enabling policies and legislation, template for decentralization, upcoming planning review of 3 countries, 8 country study of law, land tenure and gender review, upcoming workshop on urban planning legislation and a review of methodology);
2. Review and analyse GLTN for learning lessons for replication: This is important to be able to use GLTN as a potential model to be able to replicate and adapt GLTN approaches for the production of legal tools. A range of lessons can be learned such as how GLTN:-
• Identifies partners;
• Achieved agreement on a shared agenda;
• Set criteria for identifying good cases;
• Works as a global network, with international partners;
• Documents at country level and develops tools;
• Builds and advocates global knowledge;
• Engages with professional bodies;
• Works with stakeholders at country level.
• Other as appropriate.
3. Identify and review potential key international legal partners, champions, organisations, institutions which also cover urban law. This is important for identification of participants at the planned workshop, identification of potential partners, knowledge management and for the creation of the planned urban legal network. In addition to the existing knowledge of the consultant, the review would include:-
• People and organisations identified by UN-HABITAT staff (e.g. UCLG, Urban Planning Network, IALTA, UINL, LGA of England and Wales, ISOCARP, Commonwealth Association of Planners, Institut Francais d’Urbanisme, African Centre for Cities, Practical Action, Oxford Brooks University, HafenCity University, Habitat Parliamentarians); Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme (BLP) network; Local Government Training Academy, Philippines.
• A web search;
• Stakeholders ranging from academia, development agencies, civil society, networks, professional organisations;
• A review of current communities of practice in regard to international players working at national level in this thematic area;
• Information gathered during the planned workshop;
4. Review and analyse some experiences/good practices about influencing urban legal issues and management at national and local authority level. This is important to the development of a strategy for UN-HABITAT to better assist Member States and local authorities in regard to the specified urban law aspects (land re-adjustment, laws related to urbanism etc). The review should include:-
• A gap analysis;
• An identification of key target groups;
• Key activities and outputs;
• Type of knowledge required and packaging;
• Entry points (e.g. policy process, emergency etc)
• Issues related to the methodology of undertaking documentation of existing laws, adaptation of existing laws, piloting new laws.
• Learning lessons about: importing foreign laws and how to do it successfully; how different legal schools of thought are influenced (e.g. Roman, Islamic etc); the political economy of legal change (e.g. length of time, move to administrative processes etc); the gap between law, its implementation and rule of law issues and ways to address this; the relationship between law and policy development and implementation, and the role of international human rights law in post-conflict environments.
5. Coordinate a workshop on the issues. This is important in order to get a range of views of what issues should be covered to attain the objective to get buy-in from key partners and champions, to identify gaps, and to get ideas on the way forward. The workshop should include:
• Development of a strategy for the workshop and programme with UN-HABITAT. Key aspects of the program to include:- the development of a methodology to document urban legal issues, the scope of the area of focus and what sorts of laws should be examined, the identification of potential countries with good experiences in the practice of the specific urban law, identification of potential international partners and champions, issues related to setting up a Global Network, how best to communicate with non-lawyers, way forward to document experiences of a number of countries represented by a range of regions;
• Identification of key partners and champions to attend. A proposed list should be part of the technical proposal;
• Preparation for roadmap of Phase 2 to document 3-4 countries representing at least 3 regions;
• Commissioning of papers to be presented at the workshop, if considered useful;
• A workshop report outlining the major findings as preparation for strategy report and Phase 2 roadmap;
6. If required, hold discussions with the UN-Habitat institutional reform team/s. This is important to be able to mainstream the urban legal knowledge and practice obtained in UN-HABITAT to assist Member States and local authorities in regard to this aspect of sustainable urban development. UN-Habitat will advise in due course.
Phase 2: Development of Strategy and Road Map
7. Develop Strategy for Way Forward. This is important in order to ensure that all the required outputs are identified and their sequencing and timing outlined. The strategy would need to cover, among other things:-
• What an adapted form of GLTN should look like for the network;
• Key urban legal issues that should be considered as the focus of the network’s work;
• Proposed partners and how to build partnerships;
• How to get agreed agenda by partners for legal tools;
• Proposed country level target group and approaches to engaging with national and local governments;
• A proposed methodology for documenting existing laws (see Phase 3 below);
• How the agency and partners should work with Member States and local authorities to introduce new appropriate urban law;
• How to engage with law globally but being regionally, and country level relevant, given the different country experiences and bodies of law that exist;
• Framework for documenting 3-4 countries in 3 regions;
• Suggestions for use of the material documented from the planned 3-4 countries.
8. Development of a roadmap to describe and explain how the country case studies will be carried out. This is important to ensure that the planned 3-4 case studies are comparable and will follow a sound methodology. At the minimum, the roadmap should highlight the following:
• The chosen countries and the criteria for the choice of countries;
• The thematic area which will be addressed;
• The entry points which will be used in country;
• Identification and potential sub-contracting of national consultants
• If available, the targeted laws which will be analysed
• The methodology which will be used to document the laws in the country;
• The expected range of activities and outputs;
• The potential national consultants who will be used;
Note: Once UN-HABITAT has accepted all the reports including the roadmap for piloting into 3-4 countries, only then should the country case studies be started. In that UN-Habitat may adjust the consultant’s contract as per the UN rules and regulations.
Phase 3: Piloting and Documenting the Case Studies
9. Pilot the methodology (as specified in item 7 bullet 6 above) in 3-4 countries. This will test the robustness of the proposed country case studies roadmap.
10. Review and finalize methodology based on experience lessons learnt of the pilot. If necessary undertake some modifications to improve on the methodology and to incorporate lessons learnt.
11. Document the methodology piloting experience and make recommendations for sharing the same.
12. Provide recommendations for upscaling more cases studies.
Methodology for Undertaking the Assignment
The aforementioned outputs should be undertaken through a range of methods as suggested below:
1. A review of the literature in regard to urban related law in regard to case studies of how countries change their urban legal systems.
2. Interviewing staff, partners, champions and potential partners and other potential stakeholders.
3. Compiling information from email questionnaires sent to staff.
4. Reviewing and analysing reports already produced by UN-HABITAT such as GLTN documents, examples of best practices, enabling policies and legislation, template for decentralization, upcoming planning review of 3 countries, 8 country study of law, land tenure and gender review.
5. Coordinating a workshop. This involves preparation and presentation of the background paper and identification of participants. It does not involve funding the workshop.
6. Two missions including flights and per diem (as per UN rules and regulations) to Nairobi will be required and will be funded as part of the work. This will include the costs of attending the Nairobi workshop.
7. Presentation of final strategy report and summaries of country studies, through power points to UN-HABITAT staff.
8. The final strategy report including the roadmap should not be longer than 60 pages. It should include an Executive Summary of not more than 10 pages and a list of all those interviewed as well as key references as annexes.
9. The workshop results will provide guidance regarding the preparation of the methodology and roadmap for the documentation of the case studies.
10. The written outputs will be peer-reviewed by a panel of reviewers and UN-Habitat staff.
Outputs / Deliverables, Reporting and Payment
Payments will be paid in three installments based on the following output delivery schedule:
First installment (20%) - one month into the consultancy
- Inception report - of 15 pages outlining the work plan, annotated table of contents, possible options
Second installment (30%) – timing to be agreed based on inception report
- Preparation of workshop strategy, program and list of participants
- Workshop
- Submission of workshop report
- Submission of interim strategic report
- Submission of strategic report with preliminary findings
- Submission of the draft roadmap

Third installment (50%) – timing to be agreed based on inception report
- Submission of all final reports including the country reports (3-4)
- Presentation of final strategic report and summaries of the documented countries in Nairobi
- Power point of final strategic report
- Power point of final country reports

The successful candidate will report to Clarissa Augustinus (clarissa.augustinus@unhabitat.org), Chief, Land, Tenure and Property Administration Section, and to Human Settlements Officer Solomon Haile (solomon.haile@unhabitat.org).
Summarized List of Activities and Indicative Timetable

Activity - Duration (months / working days)
1 Inception report, consultations/interviews, workshop and interim strategic report
1and ? month (33 working days)
2 Piloting and documenting case studies
2 months (44 working days)
3 Final reports (strategic report and country reports)
? month (12 working days)

COMPETENCIES (maximum of five)
- Advanced knowledge of urban legal related issues
- Knowledge of urban legislation and practice in the developing world
- An advantage would be experience with different legal systems
- An advantage would be experience in legal issues at a global/international level
Qualifications
Qualified researcher or practitioner with at least 10-15 years’ experience in law and/or legal research related to international development, with at least 10 focusing on national and/or urban law and practice in developing countries.
EDUCATION
Advanced University degree (masters or similar) in a subject (or combination of subjects) deemed relevant to the subject areas covered by this ToR such as law (e.g. Public/private law, comparative law, international law and policy, human rights law, property law), legal theory, jurisprudence, international human rights law.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Qualified researcher or practitioner with at least 10-15 years’ experience in law, institutional reform and/or legal research related to international development, with at least 10 focusing on national and/or urban law and practice in developing countries.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Excellent English writing and presentation skills are required; knowledge of a second UN language is an advantage.

OTHER SKILLS
• Demonstrated ability to write advanced conceptual documents.
• Independent research ability is required.
• Ability to work with a team of consultants/reviewers.
REMUNERATION
Payments will be based on deliverables over the consultancy period. There are set remuneration rates for consultancies. The rate is determined by functions performed and experience of the consultant. The fees will be paid as per agreement.

Please be advised that since April 15th 2010, applicants for consultancies must be part of the UN-HABITAT e-Roster in order for their application to be considered. You can reach the e-Roster through the following link: http://e-roster.unhabitat.org/
Deadline for applications: 02 March 2011
UN-HABITAT does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. If you have any questions concerning persons or companies claiming to be recruiting on behalf of these offices and requesting the payment of a fee, please contact: recruitment@unon.org

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ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION:

UN-HABITAT

DUTY STATION: Nairobi
FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Consultancy to develop GLTN training strategy
GRADE: P4 (Equivalent)
POST DURATION: 2 months spread over 4 months
CLOSING DATE: 12 January 2011

BACKGROUND

In 2006, UN-HABITAT facilitated the establishment of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) which is a partnership of bilateral donors (e.g., Sweden, Norway), intergovernmental organizations (e.g., the World Bank, FAO and IFAD), civil society organizations (e.g., Huairou Commission), academia and research (e.g., University of East London, University of Twenete), international professional organizations (e.g., International Federation of Surveyors- FIG), etc.

The GLTN aims to improve global coordination on land by embracing and promoting a shared agenda and multi-faceted partnerships through the network itself and by strengthening other land networks. It envisages to contribute to the implementation of pro-poor land processes and outcomes to achieve secure land rights for all. The GLTN and its partners have agreed that these can be achieved by establishing a continuum of land rights rather than exclusively focusing on individual land titling; developing pro-poor and gendered land tools; promoting and disseminating existing innovative land initiatives; supporting grassroots participation in land matters; and improving the general dissemination of knowledge on how to improve access to land and implement security of tenure. More information on these and other relevant themes is available at: www.gltn.net.

Land training as a part of the GLTN agenda

Training is one of the first and foremost vehicles chosen to take the GLTN capacity development agenda forward. The GLTN launched its training activities in 2007 with a creation of a staff position in Training and Capacity Building Branch (TCBB) of UN-HABITAT and the subsequent allocation of funds for training activities.

In the GLTN context, the goal of training is closely linked to achieving the Network’s agenda. Though the GLTN lacks a clearly spelled out training strategy, what the network aims to achieve and what training activities have been implemented can be summarised as under:

* to facilitate the development, piloting and dissemination of innovative, pro-poor, gendered and sustainable land tools. This means after development and piloting, land tools will move to the training domain for scaling-up through sensitization, awareness creation and human resource development.
* to bring about innovative training and education in the land sector. This can be achieved by:
* positively influencing the curricula of land training institutions and helping them to move away from only technical knowledge and skills oriented training and expand into hitherto neglected ‘soft subjects’ like governance, gender, grassroots participation, etc. and enhance pro-poor analytical capabilities.
* entrenching training activities of the GLTN in the regular and occasional course offerings of formal training providers (e.g. adult education or on-the-job training) as a means to sustain initiatives.
* to usher in better knowledge management (networking, documentation, etc.) and
* to enhance citizen and civil-society engagement.

Training Evaluation

Event evaluations of training events have shown that training delivery has invariably been very effective. The training events have always concluded with action planning as a means to replicate initiatives and transfer knowledge. As a result, many excellent, albeit ambitious, individual and group action plans have been formulated. Some of these have led to notable activities including curricula related interventions as well as country level training events. Many of them haven’t been implemented.

Formal and informal follow-ups of post training activities have shown that lack of satisfactory implementation is attributed to several factors: lack of financial resources, group dynamics, lack of support from superiors at work place, demanding professional life and lack of time, risky nature of subject matter to be handled, etc.

In 2009, the training activities of the GLTN, like all other activities of the network, were subject to a rigorous mid-term assessment which among other things has identified limited impact of the training activities as a potential challenge. Further, the assessment recommended the development of training strategy as a mean to begin to enhance training impact. This consultancy is thus responding to this recommendation and is expected to start off a process that would eventually lead to a better impact of GLTN’s trainings.

Objective and scope of the consultancy

The objective of this consultancy is to develop a training strategy for the GLTN. This includes enabling beneficiaries to continually develop knowledge and skills, change attitudes, incrementally and sustainably build organizations and institutions. Although other training activities of UN-Habitat/TCBB are of interest and should be reviewed and analysed, the focus of this work is providing strategic framework to the training agenda of the GLTN. In this regard, special attention shall be given to:

* the analysis of the positive aspects of past training initiatives,
* the transfer of knowledge approach and individual learning and how these relate to training in the land sector ,
* analysis of requirements to make training produce change agents
* the different levels of evaluation beyond level one or learners reaction and planned action

RESPONSIBILITIES

Below, an indicative list of activities is provided which the consultant shall carefully review and come up with detailed specification of activities and corresponding methodologies. The time frame for this project will be 2 months spread over 4 months.
The spread in the duration of the project is necessary because of the time that will be required to contact training partners, past training beneficiaries, etc. and solicit their feedback and views.

* Review the GLTN Institutional and operational framework: This is important to contextualize and align the recommendations and training strategy to GLTN’s current framework. GLTN operates within the UN as a global network of partners what results in both constraints and opportunities influencing training delivery and follow-up activities. The consultant also should acquaint her/him self to UNHABITAT’s relevant capacity development and operational activities which could offer entry points and opportunities for implementing the training strategy or some of the recommendations emerging from the exercise.
* Review and analyse past and ongoing training initiatives: objectives, inputs, outputs, outcomes and where possible impact. The objective of this exercise is to briefly document experiences and to, based on this, identify lessons learned. Also, this task has to accentuate positive aspects of past initiatives as well as isolate those that would benefit from a fresh thinking (incl. review of findings and recommendations from the Mid Term Assessment).

* Review and analyse international good practices in training needs assessment, design, delivery and evaluation. The purpose of this is, among other things, to provide a synoptic overview what works and what doesn’t. The focus of the work should be on good international practices with particular focus to those of similar institutional framework (like GLTN) and doable within the context of developing countries.
* Review and develop SMART objectives. While individual training activities have clearly stated objectives and outcomes, the overall objective (s) of the GLTN training agenda have not, as noted, been clearly specified. Staff and managers, however, have thoughts which have been expressed in different occasions. These need to be clearly spelled out. With regard to objectives of individual training activities, what needs to be done is to determine whether or not these have been SMART given the various constraints under which they have to be realized.

* Development of training strategy by unpacking and/ or adapting “the transfer of learning” approach. Drawing on TCBB’s discussion note and further consultation with TCBB, it is essential to assess and ascertain if this is a doable strategy for the land sector where both soft and hard issues (e.g., governance and land administration respectively) of which many are highly political have to be addressed. Also, unpacking the constituent elements of the strategy and their implications on different stages of the training cycle (needs assessment, design, delivery, evaluation, etc) is vitally important. With regard to delivery, analysing the various options (face-to-face, eLearning, blended) and proposing the most cost effective and high impact method is critical. Based on analysis of past activities and drawing on cutting edge practice and thinking, it is crucial that key training design and delivery issues pertinent in the context of GLTN’s objectives and ambitions of capacity development are highlighted. Though there were plans and discussion early in 2008 to develop an e-Learning course on land value capture and TCBB has an eLearning platform, the GLTN funded training activities have been limited to the face-to-face method. This has been costly and limited the outreach. There is a need thus to assess and provide recommendations if eLearning is an approach that must be pursued.
* Identification of institutions who will partner with TCBB and GLTN in undertaking training needs assessment, design, delivery, follow-up and evaluation: based on SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threat), this task has to help identify formal and non-formal training institutions whom TCBB and GLTN can partner with. While doing this, it is necessary to think in terms two-tier partnerships (primary and secondary) and how they should be engaged with different purposes in mind, intensity, etc of engagement.

* Development of monitoring and evaluation framework for assessing outcomes and where possible impact. Compared to other training activities, those funded by the GLTN seems to have fared well in terms of getting second opinion through an external mid-term assessment. Nevertheless, they lack an in-built evaluation process (particularly related to outcome and impact). The task is thus to identify how to establish such a process and what this would entail. In this regard, reviewing and analysing the Training Impact Evaluation (TIE) methodology of TCBB and determining its suitability for land trainings is required.
* Resource implication of the training strategy: the GLTN experience over the past four years has shown that training is expensive. It requires huge investment both in funds and staff time. On the other hand, global as well as in-house trends show that funding is limited and dwindling. Against this backdrop, the ultimate test of any training strategy is whether or not it matches potentially available resources and / or identifying ways and means of ‘doing more with less’ with out compromising quality and result. It is also important that the recommendations are largely applicable to the realities of institutional and programmatic framework of GLTN. The consultant should clearly analyse this dimension of the strategy and make realistic recommendations.

Notes on Methodology

The aforementioned activities should be undertaken by reviewing and analysing reports, discussion notes, training resources, and other relevant documents available both in TCBB and the GLTN.
Further, staff and senior managers of TCBB and GLTN and other relevant UN-Habitat staff recommended by TCBB and the GLTN should be consulted both individually and in groups to solicit views and thoughts, build consensus on the strategy as well as its diverse elements.
TCBB has ongoing consultancy on increasing the effectiveness of training activities in UN-HABITAT which has a potential to broadly inform tasks set out through this TOR. Therefore, the consultant need to tap into the thinking of this task and / or (if reports are available) look into its conclusions and recommendations with a view to adapting and sharpening the GLTN training strategy.
Outputs/Deliverables and Reporting

Payments will be paid in three instalments based on the following output delivery schedule:

* Inception report - 1st payment (25% to be paid after two months)
* First draft report - 2nd payment (25% to be paid after three months)
* Final report - 3rd payment (50% to be paid after four months)

The successful candidate will report to Gulelat Kebede (gulelat.kebede@unhabitat.org), Chief, Training and Capacity Building Branch and to Human Settlements Ofiicer Britta Uhlig (britta.uhlig@unhabitat.org).

COMPETENCIES
Excellent coordination, facilitation, communication and conceptual writing skills, team working ability.
Advanced knowledge of land related issues, training in international development contexts and capacity development theory and practice.

QUALIFICATIONS

Qualified researcher or practitioner with at least 15 years experience in land related international development, with at least 10 focussing on training and capacity development issues.

Education

Advanced University degree (masters or similar) in a subject (or combination of subjects) deemed relevant to the subject areas covered by this ToR such as adult education, curriculum development, land law, land surveying, land economics, planning or similar.

Work Experience

Qualified researcher or practitioner with at least 15 years experience in land related international development, with at least 10 focussing on training and capacity development issues.

Language

Excellent English writing skills are required; knowledge of a second UN language is an advantage.

Other skills.

* Previous working experience with international development assistance agencies is required.
* Demonstrated ability to write advanced conceptual documents such as training strategies.
* Independent research ability is required

REMUNERATION
Payments will be based on deliverables over the consultancy period. There are set remuneration rates for consultancies. The rate is determined by functions performed and experience of the consultant. The fees will be paid as per agreement.

* Cover memo (maximum 1 page)
* Summary CV (maximum 2 pages), indicating the following information:
o Educational Background (incl. dates)
o Professional Experience (assignments, tasks, achievements, duration by years/ months)
o Other Experience and Expertise (e.g. Internships/ voluntary work, etc.)
o Expertise and preferences regarding location of potential assignments
o Expectations regarding remuneration

All applications should be submitted to:
Mr./ Ms. Britta Uhlig
UN-HABITAT
P.O. Box 30030, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
Email: britta.uhlig@unhabitat.org
Fax: + 254 20 762 4265

Please be advised that since April 15th 2010, applicants for consultancies must be part of the
UN-HABITAT e-Roster in order for their application to be considered. You can reach the e-Roster
through the following link: http://e-roster.unhabitat.org/

UN-HABITAT does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. If you have any questions concerning persons or companies claiming to be recruiting on behalf of these offices and requesting the payment of a fee, please contact: recruitment@unon.org

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