Gender Impact Assessment Consultancy at International Rescue Committee

• Together with partners, IRC has been implementing integrated emergency flood response activities. Considering the worsening situation, the IRC aims to conduct a detailed Gender Impact Assessment to understand the basic facts about the GBV situation and the gendered impacts of the floods. This assessment will inform IRC and its partners in planning to improve emergency protection responses, aiming to meet the needs of survivors and diverse clients and reduce the vulnerability of women and girls to GBV in Garissa, Tana River, and Mandera counties.

Project Objectives
The Objective Of The Consultancy Is To
Objective 1: Identify the scope and gendered impact of the floods, including direct and indirect effects on GBV, Protection, and how women, men, boys, and girls can access various services, resources and information.
Objective 2: Determine the various coping mechanisms, constraints, capabilities, and unique needs of women and men, including those with disabilities, to respond to the crisis across the range of protection and SRH needs, considering intersectionality.
Objective 3: Identify measures that enhance protection, GBV care, and support services, and prevent GBV through collaboration with clusters/sectors, the government, and other responsibility bearers.
Scope of Work
Required
In liaison with the Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE) Program Team, SRH Program Team, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team, guidance from UNFPA, and input from partners, the consultant will be required to:

• Undertake a desk review of the gender situation in Garissa, Tana River, and Mandera.
• Conduct consultations with relevant stakeholders and use the recommendations to enrich the assessment.
• Conduct a validation exercise with stakeholders, including IRC.
• Submit the approved assessment to IRC.

Using a Feminist, Diversity And Inclusion Approach, The Gender Impact Assessment Will Gather Information On The Various Needs, Abilities, And Coping Mechanisms Of Men, Women, Boys, And Girls. The Following Primary Areas Of Inquiry Will Be The Focus Of Data Collection, With The Consultant Expected To Develop Data Collection Tools That Capture Sufficient Information

• Time use and Space: Analyzing how changes in time use and spatial dynamics, such as displacement and relocation, have affected gender roles and responsibilities during and after the floods.
• Decision-making and power dynamics in households: Investigating power dynamics within households and communities, and how these dynamics influence decision-making processes related to recovery and rebuilding efforts post-floods.
• Access to and control of resources and assets: Investigating how access to resources, services, and decision-making opportunities has been affected by the floods for women, men, girls and boys.
• Knowledge, Beliefs, and Perception: Examining how knowledge, beliefs, and perceptions about gender roles, disaster preparedness, and response have influenced individuals' and communities' ability to cope with and recover from the floods.
• Practices and Participation: Assessing how gendered practices and levels of participation in decision-making at household and community levels have been impacted by the floods.
• Legal Rights and Status: Evaluating the extent to which legal rights and social status, particularly concerning land ownership, inheritance, and protection from Gender-Based Violence (GBV), have been upheld or compromised due to the floods. The assessment should take into account how these intersecting identity variables affect women's access to their rights and assess how violations of those rights relate to other forms of discrimination. The assessment should be conducted rigorously and robustly using appropriate statistical and qualitative analysis techniques.

Deliverables / Outputs

• An inception report defining the study approach, methodology, sampling criteria, and tools used for qualitative and quantitative data collection. The sampling plan should be inclusive of all demographic groups and take gender equality into account.
• A thorough and well-structured final gender impact assessment report not longer than 20 pages per county.
• Supplementary files, including photographs, original and cleaned datasets, and statistical output files.
• Presentations using PowerPoint and a fact sheet, abstract, or both to share results with stakeholders.
• Present the report to relevant parties, such as the protection and GBV, working groups, who will be asked to validate the findings and contribute.
• An executive summary of findings in Word and PowerPoint presentation format.

Date and Duration of Consultancy
The consultancy period shall be for 20 days. The complete report must be submitted to IRC within 5 days after the validation exercise.
Minimum Qualifications
The ideal consultant should have:

• A post-graduate degree in Gender and Development, social sciences, or another relevant field.
• Over 5 years of experience conducting gender studies with evidence of publications or field reports on gender issues, with experience in women and adolescents programming.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting a gender impact assessment or a similar related assignment.
• Experience working collaboratively with government and other development partners.
• Experience working with diverse and special groups.
• Ability to communicate in English and Kiswahili; proficiency in local languages spoken in Garissa, Mandera, and Tana River is an added advantage.

The Successful Candidate Will Be Required To

• Follow protection guidelines when engaging with all participants in the assessment.
• Adhere to the organization policy of different partners involved in the assessment.
• Adhere to human rights, Protection Principles, socio-ecological, systems strengthening, and MHPSS approaches.
• Be guided by the spirit of collaboration, cooperation, partnerships, balance of power, and meaningful engagement of marginalized voices, including women, girls, young people, and persons living with disabilities, among others.