The Danish Refugee Council Somalia seeks to establish a roster with Consultancy Firms to provide business development, strategy and program design and proposal development services, to support the implementation of our work for the next 3 years.
Objective of the Consultancy
The objective of the consultancy is to provide support to DRC Somalia in following areas:
- Undertaking specific tasks related to strategy and program design and revision, including research, facilitation and other inputs.
- Business development, including development of project concept notes, proposals, bids for resource mobilization.
Specifically, the consultant will provide services on:
Strategy and program design:
- Strategy and program reviews methodology and tool design, review.
- Context analysis, including political, conflict, access, economic analysis.
- Needs assessments, baseline-endline studies, after action reviews and evaluations.
- Facilitating workshops and events.
- Drafting and review of relevant documents.
- Mapping donor priorities and strategies, funding windows, developing fundraising plans.
Business development:
- Design the methodology and process of proposal, bid or concept note development.
- Review donor guidelines and instructions to ensure proposal is aligned with donor expectations, formats and regulations.
- Review all key documents shared by DRC, research & review additional relevant documents & information, and any other potential technical sectoral guidelines necessary for the proposal.
- Review and ensure the technical input from the relevant DRC country operations and technical leads links coherently into overall design and clearly articulates the intended outcome and impact.
- Develop, review, edit and format proposals, and concept notes, ensuring high quality standards.
- Develop and follow a mutually agreed timelines for the submission of draft versions of the proposal and preliminary budget before completing the final version.
- Contribute to the budget development and ensuring the budget and the proposal are aligned.
Scope of Works
The scope of work will be in response to specific strategy or program review needs and/or resource mobilization opportunities within the specialties of the Danish Refugee Council in Somalia including:
Urban and rural economic recovery, sustainable livelihoods, resilience building, climate adaptation, mixed-migration, protection (including GBV, Child Protection, ICLA and other protection activities), WASH, emergency response, market-based aid delivery systems, humanitarian access, CCCM, anticipatory action, IDP and refugee durable solutions, and addressing root causes of conflict, humanitarian peacebuilding.
NB. Consultants need to have expertise in at least one technical area listed above.
It will also target specific bilateral donors, multi-lateral institutions and MFIs, and the private sector/corporate/philanthropic community; consultants chosen for specific assignments will have experience with such donors.
The Danish Refugee Council seeks consultants and/or consultancy firms with significant previous experience and technical capacity in the following areas:
Programme sector experience:
- Protection
- Food Security, Livelihoods and Economic Recovery
- Humanitarian Disarmament and Peace Building
- Shelter & Settlements
- Camp Coordination and Camp Management
Cross-functional programme focus:
- Climate change adaptation
- Early warning and anticipatory action
- Safety nets and shock responsive social protection
- Nature based solutions
- Mixed migration
- Durable Solutions
- Addressing root causes of conflict
- Localization and Civic society capacity building
Donor specific experience:
- European Union
- USAID/State
- Major bilateral donors
- UN operational agencies
- Multi-lateral development banks including ADB, AIIB, World Bank, or Islamic Development Bank
- Philanthropic foundations
- Private sector
Geographical experience
- All of Somalia including Somaliland
- Regional and cross-border programs (Yemen, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya)
How to Apply:
All Request for Proposal Documents can be accessed in the link Below
