Consultant - Baseline Study for ActionAid Denmark's Danida Strategic Partnership Programme II at ActionAid Nigeria

Background

• ActionAid Denmark (AADK) has almost 70 years of experience with development work to improve the conditions of life for and for people living in poverty.
• Our constituents are primarily young people and specifically young women. Together with local organisations, we work to empower people living in poverty and support them in knowing and demanding for the realisation of their rights, for them to build democratic, just, and sustainable societies.
• As part of the international ActionAid Alliance (AA), we work with human rights-based development in more than 40 countries and reach more than 25 million of the world's poor.
• AADK is embarking on a new four-year funding period from 2022 – 2025 within the Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA II) with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida.
• The six months from January – June 2022 are considered an inception phase during which, AADK works with the 14 ActionAid country partners under the agreement to align to the new SPAII theory of change and thematic approaches, while also revising the overall summary results frame.
• The 14 AA country partners work directly with other local partners to implement the programme across one or more of the thematic priorities of the programme. The SPAII programme’s overall objective is for Societies are transformed to become more just, feminist, green, and resilient, and the thematic priorities are expressed through the following 3 strategic objectives:
  • Strategic objective 1: Young people, especially young women and those facing marginalisation or fragility, enjoy their rights to an open and enabling democratic space and access to well-resourced programmes and public services.
  • Strategic objective 2: Young people, especially young women and those facing marginalisation or fragility, enjoy a just transition and their right to climate-resilient livelihoods.
  • Strategic objective 3: Young people, especially young women and those facing marginalisation, are resilient to shocks and enjoy their right to protection in fragile contexts, disasters, and protracted crises.
• In Nigeria, AA works with 6 local partners on implementing the programme across [strategic Objective 1, 2, and 3] of the SPAII programme in the following implementation areas: [Adamawa, Borno, Yobe, Akwa-Ibom, Enugu, Lagos and the FCT].

Objective

• AADK has developed a Summary Results Frame for the overall SPAII programme, and each SPAII AA partner country/region has developed a contextualized Theory of Change and Results Frame based on what is appropriate in their context.
• To inform the future programmatic results monitoring at both national and global level, a comprehensive Baseline Study needs to be carried out.
• The Baseline study will consist of a global study, primarily based on data-collection from the 14 SPAII partner countries/regions, but not limited to this.
• A global level consultant will design the baseline methodology and process, including data collection methods, defining means of verification/data sources, and counting methodology to be applied in all 14 AA 2 partner countries1
• This consultant will also conduct training in this methodology and will support the quality assurance of data collected at the country level.
• Hence, with these Terms of Reference, AA Nigeria is looking to hire a National Consultant to perform data collection for our national baseline study based on the design from the global consultant as well as data on any additional identified indicators in our results frame.
• The collected data will feed into the global study.

Scope & Deliverables
The consultant is expected to deliver the following outputs with key process elements included in the timeline and outputs below:

• Participate in training on the baseline methodology as organised by the global level consultant.
• Conduct the data collection at the country level, validate data, and present it in the format as given by the global level consultant.
• In collaboration with AA programme staff define national context-specific indicators for Nigeria's results frame.
• Critically review the national result frame for relevance and contextualisation and give input on how to operationalise the counting methodology from the Global SPAII Summary Results Frame.
• Engage in dialogue with AA programme staff at country level, and the global level consultant.

Management & Reporting:

• The consultant will be reporting to AAN Impact Assessment and Shared Learning (IASL) Manager and is expected to coordinate and stay in close communication with AAN SPA II Project team during the assignment.
• The national consultant is also responsible for coordinating with the global level consultant, and for delivering the stated outputs and deliverables to the global level consultant.
• AAN SPA II Focal Point will be responsible for providing the consultant with the necessary information and contacts necessary to perform the assignment. 

Timeline & Expected Outputs
The assignment is expected to take place from August to September 2022 and is estimated to require a total of approximately 20 working days.

Qualifications
The consultant is expected to have experience and relevant credentials in:

• A thorough understanding of the context in Nigeria with a specific focus and experience within youth rights, social movement work, protection and resilience, climate justice, and Gender Responsive Public Service (GRPS) is an advantage.
• Degree in Social Sciences, International Development, Statistics or any other relevant field (Masters or PhD preferred)
• A minimum of 7 years experience in carrying out such an assignment
• Experienced in conducting baseline studies using qualitative and quantitative data collection methods as well as coordinating and training data collectors
• Experienced in contextualising and elaborating counting methodologies and data collection processes and tools.
• Experience in developing tools for Project Impact Evaluations
• Working with result data collection and monitoring of rights-based, policy-influencing and advocacy interventions
• Conducting participatory and inclusive collaborative processes across different organisations, stakeholders, and constituents.
• Fluency in English is a requirement.
• Computer literate and able to apply Microsoft Office and other analytical tools efficiently
• An excellent team player.