CAFOD, a partnership and solidarity-based INGO, is looking for a consultant or team of consultants to research and author a policy briefing paper on locally-led crisis response (‘localisation’) focused on evidencing - [a] the unique access of local actors and [b] the improved humanitarian and resilience outcomes arising from support to local actors’ humanitarian action and resilience programming.
The consultant[s] will engage with CAFOD country teams and local partners, as well as a wider range of local actors, international agencies and donor stakeholders, to generate the evidence for this. In terms of documenting the humanitarian access of local actors, our initial scoping points to potential examples being generated from Colombia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ethiopia and DRC. In relation to documenting the effectiveness of locally-led humanitarian action and resilience programming in terms of improved outcomes for communities, initial scoping points to potential case studies in health response and pandemic preparedness and/or anticipatory action in DRC, WASH / health response in Sudan, protection and food security in South Sudan, and/or food security/climate resilience in Ethiopia.
CAFOD is open to creative proposals on the composition of the consultancy team and research method, which could include the use of region/country-based experts on the sectors, and/or experts that bring cross-cutting thematic expertise.
Deadline for expressions of interest: Close of Business, December 16th
Application instructions:
Please submit a cover letter/statement of between one to four pages in length, in which relevant thematic, technical and geographic expertise is detailed. If a team of multiple consultants is proposed, please include CVs for each team member along with hyper-links or a Zip-Folder containing relevant published articles, publications and other materials of relevance to illustrating the track record and quality of analysis, research and written work.
Based on the description of CAFOD’s desired focus for this research (as outlined above), the applicant[s] should also outline any considerations, suggestions or questions that they have regarding the substantive focus of the research, methodology to be used and the kinds of evidence required.
To submit an application or for more information about this consultancy opportunity, please contact: applications@cafod.org.uk