Job Description

Title of Consultancy

TERMS OF REFERENCE (ToR) FOR SOMALIA GREEN CLIMATE FUND FUNDING PROPOSAL DESIGN PACKAGE

SCI Contracting Office

Save the Children Somalia Country Office

Advert Date

14th January-2024

Deadline

27 January-2024

Consultant type required

Individual or Firm

Target Locations

 Sool, Togdheer, Nugal, Galgudud, Hiran, Bay and Gedo regions in Somalia.

Responsibility for Logistics arrangements and Costs

Save the Children will pay the consultant fee in installments and the consultant will cover their own logistical arrangements and costs; including food, accommodation and local transport and all cost associated with data collection work and other activities. Where an international consultant is involved, same rules and procedures will also apply.

Taxation Provisions

Consultant shall be responsible for all Taxes arising from the consultancy in line with the local Tax regulations applicable at the SCI contracting office named above.

Travel requirements

The consultant will cover their travel costs (tickets) and arrange local travel to field sites

PART I – GREEN CLIMATE FUND – SOMALIA FUNDING PROPOSAL PACKAGE

INTRODUCTION TO SAVE THE CHILDREN

Save the Children International (SCI) is the world’s leading independent organization for children. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential. We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Our Vision – a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.

Our Mission – to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

We do this through a range of initiatives and programmes, to:

Ø  Provide lifesaving supplies & emotional support for children caught up in disasters (e.g. floods, famine & wars).

Ø  Campaign for long term change to improve children’s lives.

Ø  Improve children’s access to the food and healthcare they need to survive.

Ø  Secure a good quality education for the children who need it most.

Ø  Protect the world’s most vulnerable children, including those separated from their families because of war, natural disasters, extreme poverty or exploitation.

Ø  Work with families to help them out of the poverty cycle so they can feed and support their children.

For more information on the work, we undertake and recent achievements, visit our website

GREEN CLIMATE FUND – SOMALIA FUNDING PROPOSAL PACKAGE

Save the Children International is inviting submissions of Expression of Interest (EOI) from consultants, firms, or consortiums to undertake the development of the funding proposal package to be submitted to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for a climate change adaptation project in Somalia.

2.1 BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE

Save the Children International is working with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) in Somalia to develop a large-scale adaptation project for submission to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The project “Addressing Somali Pastoralists’ Adaptation Needs for Climate Resilient Livelihoods (ASPAN)” will seek to achieve its objective through three outcomes:

• Outcome 1 will strengthen the existing policy and institutional frameworks through capacity building and the creation of multi-stakeholder platforms that will enable better planning, including local landscape-based planning.
• Outcome 2 will channel investments into managing precipitation and run-off, maximizing storage and utilization within the watersheds to promote productive agricultural systems and rangelands using nature-based solutions in managing land and water adapted to the realities of the pastoral and agro-pastoral societies of Somalia.
• Outcome 3 will increase food production through climate-resilient production techniques, and support efforts to diversify production to increase income and reduce vulnerability to food insecurity.

Save the Children is the world's leading international non-governmental organization for children with a presence in over 120 countries. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Save the Children International’s work brings together partners, communities, civil society and government agencies to develop programs that are sustainable and bring long-term benefit to children and their families. Save the Children Somalia tackles climate change with actions across Health and Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection, Child Poverty Reduction and Child Rights Governance. Save the Children Somalia works in 17 of the 18 regions in Somalia with the country office in Mogadishu in addition to 14 field offices.  Since November 2019, Save the Children Australia, representing Save the Children globally, is an Accredited Entity1 to the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

The Green Climate Fund2 is the world’s largest dedicated fund helping developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and enhance their ability to respond to climate change. The GCF aims to catalyse a flow of climate finance to invest in low-emission and climate-resilient development, driving a paradigm shift in the global response to climate change. GCF activities are aligned with the priorities of developing countries through the principle of country ownership. The Fund pays particular attention to the needs of societies that are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, in particular Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and African countries. Somalia is both an African country and an LDC.

Somalia is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world with increased frequency of droughts, making nomadic pastoralism an increasingly vulnerable livelihood option. About 55% of the population in Somalia has frequently been exposed to loss of income, food sources, and assets with very little time for herds to recover. Large proportions of the rural population in Somalia are nutrition and food-insecure due to high vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. Save the Children’s proposed approach seeks to implement a range of activities leading to the delivery of the following three Components: 

1.             Improved natural resource governance through strengthened institutional capacities.  Productive land, water and soil are critical natural capital assets essential for agricultural and livestock productivity, hence the need to conserve biodiversity and manage ecosystems sustainably for continued supply of ecosystem services (provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural aspects) for those communities that depend on the land for their main livelihood strategies - particularly the rural poor whose health and wellbeing are completely reliant on these natural resources. Thus, the vital functions of land, water and soil underpin the nexus of food, renewable energy, and water security. 
2.             Land and water management is improved to make agriculture and pastoralism climate resilient. Appropriate climate-resilient and sustainable land management can improve water security by increasing the capture and infiltration of rainfall. Increased availability of water in the soil will support climate-resilient agriculture and production of forage for livestock. There will also be greater replenishment of aquifers that can then be utilized sustainably during the dry season to support local communities and livestock. Achieving this outcome will require strengthened governance, regional planning, and land management measures that conserve soil and promote rainfall infiltration. 

Agriculture and dairy value chains provide livelihood support to rural communities. Currently, the supply chain of dairy products from nomadic pastoralists to urban consumers leads to significant losses of milk due to spoilage. Improvements in the value chain, through investment in small-scale community and household cooling infrastructure and improved management of the value chain, will reduce spoilage and increase income for farmers and pastoralists. 

APPLICATION GUIDANCE (Lot 1 and 2)

The GCF requires a rigorous project design and comprehensive package of documents for the submission of a Funding Proposal (FP). Save the Children (SC) Somalia requires consultancy services to fulfil the following key requirements for this Funding Proposal package. SC has structured the work into key components and prefers contract a single firm, consortium, consultants, or a combination of all that have the relevant skillset and experience to deliver all aspects of the work outlined. However, Save the Children reserves the right to split the work across multiple firms or consortia if we believe that would further our ability to submit a strong proposal package to the GCF. 

PART II – CORE REQUIREMENTS & SPECIFICATIONS

SCOPE OF WORK AND DELIVERABLES

Under the guidance of the Save the Children project development team, the consultancy will deliver the following tasks and deliverables, divided below according to Lot:

Note, the annexes included in this RFP provide additional information on some but not all of the key deliverables expected under this contract and should not be seen as an exhaustive list of tasks under each component. 

Experiences and Qualifications

Taxation Provisions

Consultant shall be responsible for all Taxes arising from the consultancy in line with the local Tax regulations applicable at the SCI contracting office named above.

Travel requirements

The consultant will cover their travel costs (tickets) and arrange local travel to field sites

Security requirements

Consultant will comply with standard of Save the Children Security procedures, including the completion of SCI online security training, adhering to the terms of access negotiation and maintaining low profile while in Somalia

Technical Requirements

Applicants should outline the composition of their proposed team for each lot being applied for and ensure that the proposed team demonstrates:

• GCF proposal development experience [Lots 1 and 2 ]                           
• Somalia and / or East Africa experience [Lots 1 and 2]                                     
• Experience in building climate rationale for GCF proposals (including applying historic data and climate models to drive programming decisions) [Lot 1]     
• Experience with economic and financial analysis [Lot 2]

Criteria and Selection

1. Technical Proposal (70%) broken down into the following parts:

• Qualifications of the lead consultant and consulting team, appropriate skills, and a minimum of 5 years of experience in developing assessments/studies/funding proposals like the proposed studies/assessment/funding proposal (40%)
• Understanding of the Terms of Reference and proposed methodology for undertaking the work (15%)

2. Samples of work reflect a high level of attention to detail, quality, and analytical rigor (15%)
3. Financial Proposal (30%)

Terms and Conditions

Consultancy fee: The consultant will come up with his/her own rate which will be subject to negotiation within the bounds of set standards of SC in Somalia. The consultant is expected to estimate all relevant costs for the exercise, including costs for data collectors, vehicle rent, venue, stationary, and accommodation while undertaking activities related to this assignment.

Code of conduct

Save the Children's work is based on deeply held values and principles of child safeguarding, and it is essential that our commitment to children's rights and humanitarian principles is supported and demonstrated by all members of staff and other people working for and with Save the Children. Save the Children's Code of Conduct sets out the standards to which all staff members must adhere and the consultant is bound to sign and abide by the Save the Children’s Code of Conduct.

A contract will be signed by the consultant before the commencement of the action. The contract will detail terms and conditions of service, aspects of inputs, and deliverables. The Consultant will be expected to treat as private and confidential any information disclosed to her/him or with which she/he may come into contact during her/his service.  The Consultant will not, therefore, disclose the same or any particulars thereof to any third party or publish it in any paper without the prior written consent of Save the Children. Any sensitive information (particularly concerning individual children) should be treated as confidential.

An agreement with a consultant will be rendered void if Save the Children discovers any corrupt activities have taken place either during the sourcing, preparation, and implementation of the consultancy agreement.

Ethics And Child Safeguarding

The consultant is obliged to conduct the research in an ethical manner making sure children are safe at all times. The consultant should seek the views of various stakeholders, including children. Efforts should be made to make the research process child-centered and sensitive to gender and inclusion.  The consultant must respect the rights and dignity of participants as well as comply with relevant ethical standards and SC’s Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. The research must ensure voluntary, safe, and non-discriminatory participation and a process of free and un-coerced consent. Informed consent of each person (including children) participating in data collection should be documented.

A contract will be signed by the consultant before the commencement of the action. The contract will detail terms and conditions of service, aspects of inputs, and deliverables.

Property right:

All data that will be collected should be considered as SCI properties and may not be used for other purposes.

Skills Required

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