Consultant Comprehensive Gender Analysis Cameroon ( North-West & South-West)

Akwajobs   (Buea, Cameroon )

Category : Development & Humanitarian Aid   Location : Buea, Cameroon

Requisition ID: req19606

Job Title: Consultant Comprehensive Gender Analysis Cameroon ( North-West & South-West))

Sector: Gender

Employment Category: Consultant

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Buea, Cameroon

Job Description

The IRC started operations in Cameroon in 2016 to respond to the increasing concerns for people affected by violence linked to Boko Haram, in the Far North of the country. Assistance to displaced populations extends across the Far North, notably Mayo Sava, Mayo Tsanaga and Logone & Chari, delivering lifesaving programming to increase access to water and improving hygiene practices in vulnerable displaced and host communities, cash programming to enable poor families to meet basic needs and improve food security, and protection programming, including meeting specific needs of women and girls. The Coordination office is located in Maroua, with a field base in Kousseri and a representation office in Yaoundé.

Following the increasing crisis in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon, the IRC expanded its operations into the South West region in August 2018. The IRC is delivering lifesaving humanitarian assistance to internally displaced populations, with a field base in Buea.

IRC Cameroon is committed in its 2020 Strategic Action Plan, to continue to provide essential humanitarian services, with a focus on safety in communities and ensuring affected populations can meet their basic needs, whilst also building the resilience of beneficiaries, especially women and girls. IRC Cameroon is funded by European and American donors..

Objective Of This Consultancy

In its Multi-Year Strategic Action Plan, IRC has adopted gender equality as a cross-cutting priority result for all programmes (WASH, ERD, Protection, etc.). This is reflected in the development of a performance-based monitoring and evaluation system that ensures the data collected is disaggregated by age and sex. In addition, IRC implements gender analysis in its programming to assess the capacity of projects to address gender issues, and to ensure that barriers related to gender dynamics that prevent women, men, girls and boys from equitably accessing services in communities are addressed.

Thus, as part of its commitment to deliver on its ambitions to driving Gender Equality in its programming, the IRC Cameroon Country Program will work with a consultant to conduct a Comprehensive Gender Analysis (CGA) that will target communities and programs across the different settings that IRC Cameroon operates in. the CGA’s results will be used to inform existing and future program activities and enable IRC Cameroon to implement more gender-sensitive programs that recognize the specific needs of, and risks faced by, women, girls, men and boys – and do not exacerbate inequalities that women and girls face.

IRC Aims Through This Assignment To

Explore the gender differentiated needs of the host communities and IDPs in a cross-section of the different settings in the North-West & South-West crisis-impacted regions that IRC operates in.

Identify and understand the present gender inequalities, risks and opportunities for women, girls, men and boys and other vulnerable persons.

Gather information to better understand the impact of gender inequalities on individuals’ agency, their relationships, and the ways they interact with the systems & services around them, including access to water, sanitation, and hygiene, healthcare, education, protection and livelihoods opportunities.

Assess how IRC’s chosen operational approaches and program delivery systems affect, and are affected by, gender inequalities.

Assess, and map out a selection of IRC’s available services, and the extent to which they meet the identified needs, as well as the existing GAP to address the specific needs of women and girls, and where specific needs for women and girls remain under-addressed.

Provide recommendations on how IRC’s program activities need to adjust to improve accessibility, safety and appropriateness for women and girls, men and boys.

Provide recommendations on how to implement IRC programs to actively influence the identified inequalities.

Show case examples from each sector where possible transition to gender transformative programming is possible.

Methodology

Using the IRC’s Comprehensive Gender Analysis (CGA) Toolkit, IRC Cameroon aims to get a detailed understanding of the existing gender gaps within the host and IDP communities and review a representative sample of projects across every sector, with the aim of designing and implementing gender-sensitive programs. The Toolkit is designed to collect qualitative information through conducting Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and in-depth Key Informant Interviews (KIIs), to build on existing program data and an initial desk review. This data is used to do a full gender analysis using the Ecological Model, and then facilitate a dialogue on how the analysis informs and impacts the IRC Cameroon’s interventions in a phased approach that takes the current COVID-19 pandemic into account.

To be able to get the needed information for the CGA the consultant will conduct the following:

Phase1: Desk Review

• Background reading to gain a basic understanding of the conflict and context.
• Review of existing program data
• Review of existing research and gendered information about the IDP and host community populations.

Phase 2: Data Collection

• KIIs with IRC clients and/or community members and local decision makers and local authorities across field locations:
• KIIs with IRC program staff across program sectors, and across levels (officers, managers, coordinators, SMT)

Phase 3: Data collection (in the field, taking into consideration COVID-19 SOP to avoid or minimize infection)

• FGDs and KII with IRC clients and/or community members and local decision makers and local authorities in locations identified by the IRC team in North-West and South-West regions

Phase 4: Gender Analysis Workshop and Program Review

• In Yaoundé, Maroua, Buea (joined remotely as well)

Phase 5: Sensitization of implementing staff

Data Collection

The distribution of the FGDs will be as follows for each location:

Target groups

Data Collection

Researchers/Enumerators

Members of Host Communities

2 FGDs with each group highlighted below (10-14 people per group, handwashing, facemask, and social distancing measures to be observed):

• Boys 13-17 years; Girls 13-17 years
• Men 18-34 years; Women 18-34 years
• Men 34+ years; Women 34+ years
• Disabled women and girls
• Disabled men and boys
• Pregnant/Lactating women
• Parents groups

KIIs With

• KIIs – teachers, school administrators, parent group leads
• KIIs – doctors, nurses, health center administrators
• Community leaders
• Members of formal governance structure (as present in community)
• In each geographic location cluster, there should be one team of enumerators.
• These will be IRC staff who will speak the language in which the focus groups are to be facilitated in.
• There will be two women and two men for each team (4 people in total).

Internally displaced persons

2 FGDs with each group highlighted below (10-14 people per group, handwashing, facemask, and social distancing measures to be observed):

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