Consultancy Job in Kenya for Women’s Rights Awareness

Terms of Reference 

For a Project Review and Strategic Planning for WRAP.

Introduction

The Women’s Rights Awareness Programme (WRAP)wishes to undertake a review of two years funding received from  Terres des Hommes Netherlands ( TDH) followed thereafter by a Strategic Planning  Process with the WRAP team , Board ,likeminded organizations stakeholders and friends of WRAP .Ideally both the review and strategic planning shall be under taken by the same consultant or firm of consultants.

Brief on Co-operation with Terre des Hommes Netherlands:

Terre des Hommes Netherlands has been our main supporter and donor for the shelter and legal aid projects. With their funding, we have been able to run the shelter, assisting abused children and women and provide legal assistance to women and children. Terre des Hommes funded our shelter project from June 2007 to June 2010. 

They have further funded the legal aid project which was implemented jointly with ANPPCAN Kenya from January 2007 to December 2009, and further approved a no-cost extension from January 2010 to June 2010.Therafter TDH supported WRAP again for a period of 2 years from 1st July 2010 up to 30th June 2012.

Terre des Hommes has not only provided monetary assistance, but also technical and moral support whenever WRAP needed them. With their help, WRAP  have been able to assist many children who have fallen victim of various abuses such as sexual abuse in the form of; defilement, incest, indecent assault, other forms of abuse such as physical assault, neglect, mistreatment, emotional and psychological abuse, early marriages and other cultural abuses, abduction among others. 

We, (WRAP) have also been able to assist women survivors of GBV and assisted women access justice on behalf of their children.

TDH has not only supported WRAP’s work as an organization, but also supported and encouraged our partnership with other child-focused organizations towards the common goal of protecting and promoting the rights of the child.  In this light, we have successfully created strong networks with child focused institutions both in the government sector and the NGO world.

WRAP hopes that the partnership with Terre des Hommes Netherlands shall continue, to protect and promote the rights of children and women, with the actualization of our vision of having a society free from gender based violence and one that strongly fights for and protects the rights of the child.

Brief background about WRAP

Women’s Rights Awareness Programme {WRAP} was registered under the Societies Act in 1993 as a national, non-governmental, non-profit, human rights organization. 

Because of gender violence having reached an alarming rate in Kenya, WRAP’s first major project was the establishment of a shelter home in late August 1994 for battered and violated women and their children. 

WRAP also started providing the following services to GBV survivors on a 24-hour-a-day, 7-days-a-week basis: one-stop emergency shelter and safe refuge for abused and violated women and children; legal aid and advice; medical assistance and other GBV-related supportive services, including information. 

In 2002, WRAP extended service provision to include unaccompanied minors whose rights have been violated after being registered under the Charitable Children Regulation as a Charitable Children’s Institution recognized by the Government of Kenya. 

WRAP’s work involves providing safety net for women and children who are vulnerable to the various forms of abuse due to economic dependence and negative effects of some cultural traditions. 

Since inception in 1994, WRAP has intervened directly or through referral, for more than 10,000 incidences child rights violations; about half of survivors were successfully reintegrated with their families.

WRAP has various departments including Counseling, Social Work and Community Outreach, Client Welfare {which also enables clients to access medical services}, Legal, Shelter Home {for abused women and abused children}, and Women’s Economic Empowerment Departments {which was started after WRAP established that the issue of poverty needs to be factored into GBV-programming, since poverty is one of the factors that lead to domestic violence/GBV. 

The effect of poverty also leads to negative outcomes in other programmes too: - termination of cases filed in Court by the Legal Aid Programme due to economic dependence, a factor that also affects children as it adversely affects child custody and maintenance cases}. 

Over time, WRAP has developed to an organization offering holistic response to GBV. WRAP has worked, and has various on-going programmes in various neighbourhoods of Nairobi, building the capacity of communities in GBV prevention and response through the formation of proactive GBV-Oriented Neighbourhood Watch Groups linked to WRAP’s wider referral network; through the referral system survivors of GBV access GBV-related supportive services. 

The groups are trained on case referrals and on documentation of interventions in GBV incidences, and incidences involving human rights violations and child abuse.

Scope of the engagement

 The consultant (s) shall take the following areas into consideration as far as the Review and Strategic Plan is concerned

• The period under review which runs from 1st July 2010 to 30th June 2012
• Review the current strategic plan available at WRAP and improve on it in terms of refining priority areas, key objectives and action plan.
• Interview similar/ likeminded organisations doing the same work WRAP in view of assessing services provided and give suggestions on how to improve on service delivery.
• Given the current environment in Kenya what is the best way forward for WRAP vis-a-vis access to funding and the kind of projects WRAP undertakes.
• How best can the project complement  each other in line with sustainability in the near future

Objectives

• Determine whether the Project achieved its objectives/goals
• Determine how WRAP can take things further, and deliver even bigger results
• To determine how lessons leant best practices can best apply in future projects

Tasks

• Conduct gap analysis by reviewing project results against the original objectives, relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability.
• Determine whether the project goals were achieved i.e. how does the end result compare with the original project plan, in terms of quality, schedule and budget?
• Determine the satisfaction of stakeholders; were the beneficiaries’ needs met, and are donors satisfied?
• Conduct SWOT analysis and identify areas of further development
• Identify lessons learned and Best Practices i.e. what went wrong, why did these things go wrong, and how could these problems be avoided next time?
• Report findings and recommendations.
• Facilitate the strategic planning process for WRAP (including board members, staff, partners and beneficiaries).

Deliverables

At the end of the task the consultancy team is expected to have;

1. A comprehensive review report with clear recommendation in both soft and hard copy.
2. A comprehensive Strategic Plan for WRAP in both soft and hard copy.

Qualifications and Requirements

• A  degree in social sciences is a must  and post  graduate degree/qualifications  will be an added advantage
• Proven experience of undertaking reviews and strategic planning (to provide copies of the same).
• Sound understanding of children and women’s rights.
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Good analytical and critical skills.

Consultancy Period

The recommended period for undertaking both the review and the strategic plan is a total of 8 (eight) working days to complete both the tasks and submit the two (2) reports. 

The Strategic plan will be done in 2 (two) days within Nairobi and its environs. The said Reports shall be submitted to the Board of WRAP and there shall be an exit meeting with the board, Terre des Hommes and the WRAP team

 For the full assignment of the two activities WRAP has available Kshs 150,000/00 amounting to a daily rate of kshs 18,750 /00 per day for 8 days (USD approximately 228/00 per day).

Supervision and Reporting

The consultant will work under direct supervision of and in close consultation with the team at WRAP and they shall be available at all times when necessary. 

The contact persons for the same shall be:

Ms Joane Mwangi
Ms Francesca N. Mutuku
 

Both can be reached on 0722-252939 and 0722-258550 or at info@wrapkenya.or.ke

Closing date for a technical and financial proposal is on or before close of business on 10th May 2012 and the proposed start date for the consultancy is Monday 15th May 2012.