Rwanda Civil Society Platform,Consultancy Jos in Rwanda

 on “Strengthening Women Capacity to Engender
Local and National Planning and Budgeting Process”
TERMS
OF REFERENCE TO RECRUIT A CONSULTANT
JUSTIFICATION
OF THE ASSIGNMENT
RCSP,
in collaboration with TROCAIRE would like to hire a consultant or a
consulting company with extensive experience on evidence base

d research
advocacy on “Strengthening women capacity to engender local and national
 planning and budgeting process.”
. The tasks are to be carried within
a period of 2 months maximum.

OBJECTIVES
OF THE CONSULTANCY
  1. Develop
    research materials ;
  2. Analyze
    the challenges blocking GBS to actively influence the country
    planning and budgeting process
  3. Assess
    the GBS level in pilot institutions
  4. Engage
    with other relevant institutions and initiatives to secure the cooperation
    and provision of evidence for analysis;
  5. Draw
    key messages, conclusions and recommendations from the research
SCOPE
OF THE WORK AND METHODOLOGY
The
consultant(s) will be expected to undertake the following tasks:
  1. Attend
    consultative meetings between RCSP and TROCAIRE or any other relevant
    meeting;
  2. Review
    relevant documents to understand the institution;
  3. Develop
    and submit a detailed work plan to RCSP;
  4. Produce
    and present the  inception report to RCSP and its  members;
  5. Present
    the draft report during a pre- validation meeting;
  6. Present
    the draft report during a validation meeting;
  7. Present
    the final report with recommendations during a national dialogue;
  8. Draw
    a position paper based on the national dialogue recommendations.
DELIVERABLES
AND TIMELINE
The
consultancy will be performed in 2 months maximum. The consultant should
therefore consider the following as deliverables:
  1. Inception
    report approved by RCSP;
  2. Work
    plan approved by RCSP;
  3. Final
    report of the research integrating recommendations from the national
    dialogue ;
  4. Position
    paper with recommendations approved by RCSP.
REPORTING
AND FEEDBACK
The
consultant will directly report to the Executive Secretary of the RCSP. He/ She
will also be required to submit regularly a progress report to the Management
of RCSP.
EXPERTISE
REQUIRED
The
lead consultant should:
  1. Hold
    a Master’s degree in project management, development studies, political
    sciences, Public policy,  Law, Public Administration or similar
    disciplines. Degrees obtained with distinction will be given priority.
  2. Possess
    a strong monitoring, evaluation and analytical skills, with a proven
    experience of at least 5 years doing similar work, having worked with
    Civil Society Organizations is an added value;
  3. Have
    an excellent  knowledge and understanding of the development sector
    in Rwanda;
  4. Be
    fluent in English and Kinyarwanda, a working knowledge of any other
    language used in Rwanda would be an asset.
Other
competencies include:
  1. Display
    sound judgment that enables independent work;
  2. Be
    creative, pro-active and able to tap information from various sources;
  3. Be
    able to work effectively under tight deadlines;
  4. Possess
    the capacity to adequately approach the population and to advise the
    management team;
  5. Excellent
    leadership skills to coordinate the field agents during data collection.
APPLICATION
DOCUMENTS
The
following documents are expected to be included in the proposals:
  1. Application
    letter addressed to the Executive Secretary of RCSP;
  2. Detailed
    CV and relevant education documents;
  3. Two
    successful completion certificates of similar directed researches;
  4. The
    RRA Tax Clearance.
SUBMISSION
Interested
candidates should hand submit documents including a technical and financial
proposal addressed to the Executive Secretary of RCSP.
Applications
should be submitted not later than Monday  7th,
August 2017 (4pm)
, at RCSP head office located at Gikondo, Rebero Stone
Road KK 31 St, Plot number 264. For any query, please contact: 0788932O3O
Done
at Kigali, 24th, July 2017
Executive
Secretary of RCSP

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