Consultancy to Undertake a Vulnerability and Resilience Study in the ASALs
of Kenya
Concern Worldwide
Introduction
Concern Worldwide
Introduction
The ASAL Alliance
seeks to engage in short-term responses as well as strategic resilience
activities and advocacy that addresses and improves the household, community
and national capacity to deal with shocks and stresses.
Purpose
Purpose
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide an evidence base on the nature of household (HH) & Community vulnerability and resilience, with a focus on adaptive capacity, to improve future intervention planning in the ASALs of Kenya.
Objectives
Using the DFID Resilience Framework as a framework for defining and analysing vulnerability and resilience the consultancy will conduct an in-depth desktop review of current research in the ASAL counties of Mandera, Marsabit, Turkana, Garissa, Wajir, Samburu and West Pokot to answer the questions below and identify any gaps in existing research.
- Household
vulnerability – Who are the vulnerable households in the seven counties,
what are their characteristics, and where are they located?
- Household
and community risk management, coping, and adaptation strategies – What
are risk management strategies that households use, are they changing and
if so in what way, how effective were/are they, and will they be effective
in the face of future shocks? How do communities and local officials
manage risk and respond to shocks?
- Successful/promising
development practice– In lieu of widely accepted measures for resilience,
what does it mean for a program to have built resiliency, how did it do
so, what promising/scalable practices exist? What practices harm
resiliency and how did the development community do in the most recent
drought?
- Areas
for further research – What areas of research lay outside of the SoW that
could help the development community ask additional questions to answer
the challenge of resiliency?
Timelines:
The consultant will propose a timeline with a Final Report prepared by 30 November 2012. It is expected that the research will be conducted concurrently in the six counties to meet the proposed deadlines.
Selection Criteria:
- Knowledge
of and experience in the ASALs
- Demonstrated
understanding of community resilience and an integrated livelihoods approach
through provision of adjusted SoW with more detail on type of analysis to
be provided
- Experience
in working with communities in scenario planning, vulnerability
assessments, etc.
- Demonstrated
understanding of the Government of Kenya
- Experience
of working within pastoralist and/or drylands programmes
- Ability
to meet proposed timelines
Concern has a Code of Conduct and a Programme Participant
Protection Policy to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants
from abuse and exploitation.
Concern is an equal opportunity employer
Concern is an equal opportunity employer
How to apply:
Interested applicants should submit their detailed technical and financial proposals to
nairobi.hr@concern.net by 10th August, 2012
For a detailed Terms of Reference and background document contact jackson.mekenye@concern.net