ForumSyd Request for
Expression of Interest
Global Recruitment of
Individual Experts and Consultants for Short Term Assignments
The Assignment:Capacity Building of
Local Implementing Partners within SIDA CIVSAM Project Support
Background: Forum Syd is a Swedish development platform for 159 organizations with Country Offices in Kenya, Cambodia, Colombia, Belarus and Tanzania with head office in Stockholm Sweden. Our common aim is sustainable development, global justice and poverty reduction.
We provide a platform
for the exchange of experiences, the design of new development methods, and
collaboration towards result improvement and effecting change.
Forum Syd’s main
focus is on Democracy and Rights, Sustainable Use of Natural Resources as well
as Gender Equality. Forum Syd achieves this through the strengthening of civil
society organizations.
The Assignment: During the period
2014 – 2016, Forum Syd Kenya Office is undertaking a new assignment with the
responsibility of coordinating and working as a hub for capacity building of
Local Partner Organizations (LEOs) receiving grants through Project Support
Department in Stockholm.
The broad aim of the
capacity building is to contribute to a stronger civil society capacity build
on LEOs with capacity in key areas of finance and administration, project
management, monitoring and evaluation, and rights based approaches.
The geographic scope
for capacity building assignment is on a global level but focusing on local
implementing partners in prioritized countries in Africa, Eastern Europe and
Asia.
These countries
include: Africa: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Congo DRC, Gambia, Ghana,
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia, Mali, Sierra Leone, South Africa,
Sudan, Togo and Zimbabwe. Asia: India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand,
Cambodia, Laos, Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Palestine and Lebanon. Eastern Europe:
Ukraine and Belarus.
This Invitation for
Expression of Interest is intended to establish a short-list of a group of
experts and consultants in specific areas of specialization who shall be
selected on the basis of a formal request with specific Terms of Reference
(ToR) for the assignment and specific contract(s) not exceeding 25 days signed
for each assignment.
Areas of focus for the consultancies
The consultancies for
the capacity building work is structured to be delivered primarily through core
training courses and technical support to identified local implementing
partners at In-country level.
Technical support will
be required in the following thematic areas:
- Financial
Management, Resource Mobilization and Effective Utilization(including anti-corruption)
- Administration,
Leadership and Change Management
- Project
Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Rights Based Approaches
Scope of the assignments:
The experts will be
expected to provide technical assistance and support as follows:
- Review
and development of context specific training course modules or reference
materials.
- Technical
support training on financial management, funding and sustainability
- Provision
of on-site and off-site in financial reviews, audit readiness, budgeting,
financial reporting, grants management and use of financial management
information systems
- implementation
support
- Technical
support training and facilitation on administration, leadership and change
management
- Technical
support training and facilitation on project management, monitoring and
evaluation
- Technical
support training and facilitation on rights based approach
- Development
of organization strategies, work plans, proposals, and management policies
- Translation
services to the capacity building assignment: Required languages: English,
French, Spanish, Arabia, Swahili, Russian, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Thai and
Burmese
- Research
and documentation of capacity building work.
- Provision
of editing, design and printing of capacity building work
- Information
technology support to local partners undertaking online courses
- Development
of Organizational Capacity Assessment Tools
- Expert
guidance on other tasks as directed by Forum Syd Kenya Country Office.
Required Qualifications and Experience
Forum Syd now invites
eligible Consultants to indicate their interest in providing the
services.
Interested Consultants
should provide information demonstrating that they have the required
qualifications and relevant experience to perform the services.
- A
minimum of 10 years’ working experience in the focus areas of the
assignment
- Relevant
Post graduate qualification
- Extensive
experience providing relevant technical support to non-state actors in
target country(s)
- Extensive
experience in teaching and developing course content, and/ delivery of e
-courses
- Extensive
knowledge and experience from international development work and other
contexts particularly in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia
- Experience
in a senior advisory level on organizational development or similar
issues.
- Knowledge
and expertise on rights based approaches, training and support
The successful consultant(s) will be selected on the basis of
their qualifications and experience in their respective areas of expertise,
geographical location and experience in countries listed above and shall be
retained so as to provide technical assistance and support services from time
to time as required during the period 2014-2016.
For further information, kindly contact:
The Global Coordinator
for Capacity Building of Local Partners
eMail: moses.otsieno@forumsyd.org
eMail: moses.otsieno@forumsyd.org
Or
The Country Manager,
Kenya
Forum Syd
P.O Box 1419-00502
Nairobi, Kenya
Forum Syd
P.O Box 1419-00502
Nairobi, Kenya
Telephone number: +254 705 871 873/736 549 118
Submission of the EOI
Candidates are
requested to submit written Expressions of Interest (EOI) specifying the
relevant technical skills, country of focus, fees per day in USD and
availability.
The EOI shall not
exceed five (5) pages and should be sent by email to Forum Syd Kenya Country
Office with the subject: EOI: Individual Experts and Consultants for Short Term
Capacity Building Assignments to: info.africa@forumsyd.org on or before 15th
August 2014.
Further information
about the organization is available at: www.forumsyd.org
