Consultant - Early Warning & Early Response at Center for Civilians in Conflict’s Mission

Locations: Banki & Gwoza, Borno
Employment Type: Temporary

Background / Context

• To augment our community-based protection work, CIVIC plans to introduce an innovative new approach - a Community Early Warning and Response - in target locations for the purpose of responding to threats in selected Local Government Areas (LGAs).
• We will then help communities strengthen systems to contend with varying degrees of threat and ensure that do-no-harm considerations are integrated into the design to further reduce risks to civilians.
• CIVIC will support its Community Protection Committees (CPCs) to be trained in a locally appropriate way to identify early warning signs, threats and respond effectively to such - e.g., engage security forces, flee, warn, report, respond etc.
• Afterwards, the CPC members will be trained on how to report early warning and response.
• This activity area will be built upon lessons learned, applying such a system in a localized setting leveraging on CPCs, utilizing context appropriate technology (basic analog signals or mobile phone platforms), and reducing response time to incidents by focusing on security or government actors present at the community levels in target LGAs.

Purpose of Data Collectors / Terms of Reference

• CIVIC Nigeria is seeking the services of an organization that can lead the process of the advising, establishment and training of a community early warning and response committees in 2 LGAs of Borno state (Gwoza and Banki).
• The organization will also train CIVIC Nigeria staff and community liaison Officers on all the processes of establishment and set-up of the community early warning and response committee.
• As well as advise on the best option to adopt in the context of Borno state and northeast Nigeria.

Expected Deliverables
Under the supervision of the Team Lead, Nigeria, the organization will be required to:

• To provide a criterion for selection and outline the processes of establishment of a community early warning and response team,
• Support the establishment and training of CIVIC staff, community liaisons and CPC members in the various locations,
• Provide CIVIC with templates for monitoring the Community Early Warning and Response (CEWAR),
• Provide detailed soft and hard copies of the processes of establishment, training attendance lists with contact information of participants segregated by gender and successes and challenges encountered,
• Produce a detailed final report of the entire process of establishing an early warning and response system.

Skills, Experience, and Qualifications Required

• At least six years progressive experience in the establishment, training and management of community early warning projects or programs.
• Previous experience of working with the UN or international agencies on conflict early warning and response.
• Availability and willingness to travel to the North-East and target locations.
• Ability to deploy multiple teams and work in close coordination with other CIVIC team members.
• Ability to conduct training and translate meeting discussions into Hausa language will be an added advantage.

Expected Outputs
The expected outputs will be:

• Members of Community Protection Committees in project locations and CIVIC staff trained on conflict early warning, response, and reporting,
• Final report of the entire process produced with pictures and attendance list of all beneficiaries
• Schedule of periodic CEWART meetings developed.

Timeline:

• The activity in this SOW is estimated to take a total of 15 working days.

Logistics and Support:
CIVIC Country Office shall provide necessary support to the consultant to execute the assignment during the duration of the consultancy. These shall include:

• Security briefing for consultants
• Access to relevant project documents necessary for the execution of the duties under this consultancy.
• Facilitation of UNHAS flights & accommodation in deep field locations for the assignment.