TOR for Consultancy (Consultancy Firms Only) – Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center, Ethiopia

TOR to Conduct a Mapping Survey of Actors and Initiatives on National  Dialogue in Ethiopia

Descriptions

Currently, Ethiopia is set to have a comprehensive national dialogue which is expected to convene to address a broad set of issues. As part of this effort to build national consensus, Ethiopia ratified the proclamation for the establishment of the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission, Proclamation No. 1265/2021. Considering the positive roles CSOs can play to ensure women’s representation in the Ethiopian national dialogue, a variety of CSOs have established a coalition by the name “Coalition for Women’s Voice in the National Dialogue” aimed at promoting gender inclusivity in every stage of the national dialogue process.

The Coalition for Women’s Voice in the National Dialogue was established on 16 March 2022 with the aim to ensure women’s meaningful representation in the forthcoming Ethiopian National Dialogue process and to ensure that the process responds to and addresses Ethiopian women’s needs, perspectives, priorities, and aspirations. With over 45 member civil society organizations, the Coalition operates with seven steering committee members and a secretariat, i.e., TIMRAN.

Project Background As a member of the coalition, EHRDC is looking for a qualified consultancy firm to conduct a survey mapping of key involvements and activities with the view to locate active actors, and the nature, scope, and limitations of initiatives to better understand the environment and identify entry points, and find complementarity. The mapping will also explore identifying allies, supporters, and partners such as CSOs and community based organizations and initiatives such as eder and ekub associations in all regions. In addition to this, the mapping will also identify possible challenges that may affect the interventions and the possible mitigating strategies that may be considered.

Role Context

The consultancy firm will design, and conduct analyses of the mapping and produce a consolidated document highlighting identified allies, supporters, and partners such as CSOs and community based organizations and initiatives such as eder and ekub associations in all regions as well as anticipated challenges and recommendations. This includes their constituency and structure and of these allies, supporters, and partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Design appropriate methods (such as surveys, interviews, secondary data analysis, etc.);
• Undertake relevant document/literature reviews,
• Analyze and decrypt inputs from professional perceptive to interpret the raw data;
•  Provide expert recommendations based on the findings. Expected Results and Deliverables Develop an inception report and map out identified allies, supporters, and partners such as CSOs and community based organizations and initiatives such as eder and ekub associations with their respective structure and constituency in all regions
• A mapping survey report
• Produce an outcome document within the specified timeframe

Required qualifications of the Consultant The consultancy firm should possess the following qualifications:

Essentials 

•  Institutional operational experience of consultancy services of at least five (5) years
•  Previous proven work experience with NGOs relevant to similar assignment on mapping survey;
• Human resource capacity of a consultancy firm with available/potential staff for the proposed assignments. The proposed human resource must also include staff with strong communication/reporting, editing/proof-reading skills;

Desirable

• The proposed staff is gender-balanced;
•  Understanding the concept of national dialogue and women’s political participation
•  Strong analytical skills,