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Individual Consultant: Young and Emerging Evaluator (YEE)

Individual Consultant: Young and Emerging Evaluator (YEE)

Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement and Turkana West Sub-County host communities and Nairobi.

Individual Consultant

2024-09-20

Job Description

Individual Consultant: Young and Emerging Evaluator (YEE) to support the end of project Evaluation on Harnessing the Power of Sports to Prevent GBV in the Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement and Host Community 

 

Background and Context:

According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, Turkana is the poorest County in Kenya. Turkana is a predominantly pastoral and patriarchal society, where they have recently faced severe drought between 2021 and 2023. Women in Turkana work in agriculture as farmers, as unpaid workers on family farms and/or offer cheap paid labour on other farms and agricultural enterprises. Girls do not gain ownership of assets with transition to womanhood as land, livestock, farms, fishing nets and the income from them belong to men and are then inherited by the man’s family after his death. Traditionally, women in Turkana are neither decision makers nor do they attend any decision-making assemblies in the community, restricting their ability to voice their concerns.

Furthermore, Turkana is a host county of Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement which is located in Turkana County, approximately 120 kilometers from the County Headquarters in Lodwar and 95 kilometers from the Lokichoggio Kenya-Sudan border. 212,283 of refugees reside in Kakuma Refugee Camp and 73,786 refugees reside in Kalobeyei as of 31st May 2024. An assessment conducted in 2017 by UNHCR, before the project started, identified insecurity posed by both sides of the communities which results in gender based violence, drug abuse, sexual exploitation and abuse, petty theft and community disputes.[1]Refugees in Kakuma refugee camp are vulnerable to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) due to continued conflict in South Sudan coupled with the protracted nature of their stay in the camp.[2] 

To strengthen prevention of gender-based violence among adolescent girls and young women in Kakuma and Kalobeyei, UNFPA has implemented a project titled “Harnessing the power of sports to prevent Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement and host community” dubbed “Play2Protect”. The project was implemented from 2020 to 2024 with funding from the Olympic Refugee Foundation and UNFPA. The overarching goal of the project was to reduce vulnerability to gender-based violence among adolescent girls, young women and boys in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement and Turkana West Sub-County by 2022. The outcomes of the project focused on self-efficacy and psychosocial well-being of young people through sport-related platforms. The project aimed to broaden the participation of adolescent girls, young women and boys in sports activities through engagement with community leaders and parents, training of coaches and other duty bearers, and psychosocial and life skills support to the youth. The project directly targeted 13,000 adolescent girls and young women (15-24 years) in the Kakuma Refugee Camp (5,000) and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement (3,000) and the host community (5,000). The project also targets 11,000 adolescent boys and male youth in the Kakuma Refugee Camp (3,000) and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement (3,000) and the host community (5,000). Collaborative sports programmes and activities that seek to reduce the vulnerability of adolescent girls and young women and boys to gender-based violence through the strengthening of self-efficacy and psychosocial well-being of young people were implemented through sport related platforms. Furthermore, the sport avenues were used to promote access to GBV services, including psychosocial support.
 

[1] UNHCR. Kalobeyei Protection Strategy Kenya. September 2017.

[2] UNHCR (2017). Kakuma Sexual and Gender Based Violence Protection Strategy. 

 

How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.  UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

 

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

 

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

Evaluation Purpose:

The Sport for Protection Project evaluation will serve the following purposes:

(i) Demonstrate accountability to stakeholders on performance in achieving development results and on invested resources; 

(ii) Support evidence-based decision-making to inform humanitarian response programming; 

(iii) Aggregating and sharing good practices and credible evaluative evidence to support organizational learning on how to achieve the best results; and The end-of-project evaluation will assess the extent to which the project harnessed the power of sports to prevent Gender-Based Violence in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement, and host community.

 

The consultant will work under the direct supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for all technical aspects (review of deliverables), in close consultation with the Deputy Representative and daily collaboration with the Lead consultant.

 

Objectives:

The objectives of the Sport for Protection project evaluation are: 

(i) To provide the UNFPA, ORF, county and national stakeholders and rights-holders, as well as a wider audience with an independent assessment of the project on “Harnessing the power of sports to prevent Gender Based Violence in the Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement and host community.

(ii) To broaden the evidence base to inform the design of humanitarian response programmes.

(iii) To provide an assessment of the effectiveness of the sport for protection toolkit in designing GBV prevention programmes in humanitarian settings.

(iv) To assess the geographic and demographic reach of UNFPA's humanitarian assistance within the "Harnessing the power of sports to prevent Gender Based Violence in the Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement and host community" project, specifically evaluating its ability to bridge immediate, life-saving GBV prevention through sports.

(v) To draw key conclusions from current partnership and provide a set of clear, forward-looking and actionable recommendations for similar humanitarian response programmes.

 

Scope of work

Geographic Scope

The evaluation will cover Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement and the host community in Turkana County where UNFPA implemented interventions.