Avis d’appel d’offres : Projet de renforcement de la résilience des communautés face aux effets du changement climatique (BRCAECC) dans le comté de West Pokot, Kenya.
About the program
Action Against Hunger is implementing resilience building interventions in West Pokot County targeting vulnerable communities with the aim of improving their livelihoods. The County is facing myriad of challenges such as poverty, low literacy levels, limited livelihood sources coupled with recurrent shocks eroding the community’s capacity and resilience to multiple shocks. Action Against Hunger intends to apply the Poverty graduation model to support extreme poor households participating in meaningful economic activities that boost their incomes, ultimately getting out of poverty and improving their well-being. Action Against Hunger will target mother to mother support groups with combination of layered and sequenced interventions that will empower women to attain strengthened and sustainable livelihoods. The interventions will include conducting organizational capacity assessment for the groups to identify capacity gaps to prioritize in capacity trainings, building capacities in matters entrepreneurship, business development, and financial management among others and stimulate initiatives for sustainable alternative livelihoods ventures. Continuous mentorship will be an integral part of these interventions.
Action Against Hunger is seeking for a consultant to scale-up the adoption of the poverty Graduation Model anchored in four critical pillars of social protection, livelihood promotion, social empowerment, and financial inclusion. Interventions toward the pillars will be addressed through 5 cycles of poverty graduation model: targeting of beneficiaries, training of business mentors on financial skills, business saving groups, seed funding and mentoring of business mentors.
AIM OF THE ASSIGNMENT
Action Against Hunger (AAH) is implementing a program titled Building Resilience of Communities Against Effects of Climate Change (BRCAECC) in West Pokot County projectand supported by the Fields foundation. The objective of the program is to strengthen the capacity of women’s groups to protect and participate in sustainable livelihoods among vulnerable communities in West Pokot County. AAH Seeks the services of a consultant, specialised in poverty graduation model to train business mentors on the approach and mentor them to offer the services to farmer groups in West Pokot County.
Scope of the Evaluation
The consultant will support AAH to design a poverty graduation-training module aligning to the relevant county and national policies, train 10 business mentors TOTs and monitor the performance of the mentors.
In the execution of this assignment, the consultant will:
- Develop a tailored Poverty Graduation training manual.
- Develop a training program for the business mentors based on the poverty graduation model.
- Deliver training to the business mentors on the poverty graduation model and how to train farmer groups.
- Provide ongoing support and mentoring to the business mentors as they conduct the trainings.
- Carry out pre and post assessment knowledge survey to the business mentors.
- Expected Deliverables
- A tailored Poverty Graduation training manual
- A training program for business mentors based on the poverty graduation model.
- A report on the training of business mentors, including the number of participants, topics covered, and feedback from participants.
- Technical reference documents and training materials to be used by the mentors.
- A monitoring and evaluation report on the effectiveness of the training program and recommendations for improvement.
3.1. Learning workshop and Validation Workshops
The result of this evaluation should be presented in a written report and through briefings with AAH Kenya mission, at the county and national level. Reviews from the teams will be included in the final report. The report will include but not limited to best practice, information for fund raising and advocacy.
Email address for submission
Note that the financial and technical proposal should be presented on separate documents in the same email.
Prospective applicants should send their detailed applications on or before May 8th, 2023 to [email protected]
Action Against Hunger reserves the right to accept or reject any bid in part or whole and is not bound to give reason(s) for its decisions.
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