Learning Review - Conflict Sensitivity Approaches in Emegencies
CAFOD and CARE International UK are inviting tenders from consultants to conduct a learning review on Conflict Sensitivity Approaches in Emergencies.
Background
The project “The practice of conflict sensitivity – concept to impact” is intended to strengthen the practice of conflict sensitivity throughout and beyond a consortium of 10 humanitarian, peace-building and multi-mandate development NGOs. The project goal is to ensure greater impact of development and humanitarian assistance through improved and more widespread mainstreaming of conflict sensitive approaches. The overall purpose is to improve policies and practices that support Conflict Sensitivity Approaches (CSA) across a broad network of NGOs, local partners and donor agencies.
Humanitarian responses to rapid on-set emergencies often represent significant challenges in terms of applying conflict sensitivity. This review will retrospectively assess the degree to which CSA were explicitly or implicitly carried out in the humanitarian responses led by CARE and CAFOD in Haiti and Pakistan. This reflective exercise will culminate in both agency-specific and sector-wide recommendations being made to ensure greater CSA application in future rapid onset emergency responses. It will build on work undertaken in 2010 by the Conflict Sensitivity Consortium that aims to better understand CSA implications in humanitarian responses when the Consortium produced an internal ‘good enough’ guide that lays out guidance as to how NGO systems and actions can be adapted to improve conflict sensitivity in the first phase (30 days) of an emergency response.
Key outputs / deliverables:
• To identify how programme and surge capacity staff apply conflict sensitivity in the context of rapid onset emergencies.
• To identify to what extent response programming was implicitly or explicitly conflict sensitive and what the implications of this were in the two given contexts.
• To understand the key conflict-sensitivity challenges that humanitarian response teams have faced in Haiti and Pakistan and to analyse the extent that these conflict specific challenges can be generalized to lessons-learned for practitioners in other contexts.
• To make a series of recommendations that will strengthen CSA in future humanitarian emergencies.
• To map and categorize key challenges faced by CAFOD & CARE in Haiti & Pakistan in terms of CSA.
• To assess to what extent these challenges are already addressed by SPHERE compliance/other humanitarian accountability/agency frameworks.
• To recommend useful guidance and tools for both HQ and Partner agencies that will address these gaps not covered by frameworks that are already in use, bearing in mind the operational constraints that are present during humanitarian crisis.
• To present findings/recommendations to humanitarian colleagues represented by the agencies of the CSC in London and to partner/Country Offices in Haiti & Pakistan
• To present and disseminate key policy recommendations emerging from this research to key audiences within DfID, EC & UN.
Background
The project “The practice of conflict sensitivity – concept to impact” is intended to strengthen the practice of conflict sensitivity throughout and beyond a consortium of 10 humanitarian, peace-building and multi-mandate development NGOs. The project goal is to ensure greater impact of development and humanitarian assistance through improved and more widespread mainstreaming of conflict sensitive approaches. The overall purpose is to improve policies and practices that support Conflict Sensitivity Approaches (CSA) across a broad network of NGOs, local partners and donor agencies.
Humanitarian responses to rapid on-set emergencies often represent significant challenges in terms of applying conflict sensitivity. This review will retrospectively assess the degree to which CSA were explicitly or implicitly carried out in the humanitarian responses led by CARE and CAFOD in Haiti and Pakistan. This reflective exercise will culminate in both agency-specific and sector-wide recommendations being made to ensure greater CSA application in future rapid onset emergency responses. It will build on work undertaken in 2010 by the Conflict Sensitivity Consortium that aims to better understand CSA implications in humanitarian responses when the Consortium produced an internal ‘good enough’ guide that lays out guidance as to how NGO systems and actions can be adapted to improve conflict sensitivity in the first phase (30 days) of an emergency response.
Key outputs / deliverables:
• To identify how programme and surge capacity staff apply conflict sensitivity in the context of rapid onset emergencies.
• To identify to what extent response programming was implicitly or explicitly conflict sensitive and what the implications of this were in the two given contexts.
• To understand the key conflict-sensitivity challenges that humanitarian response teams have faced in Haiti and Pakistan and to analyse the extent that these conflict specific challenges can be generalized to lessons-learned for practitioners in other contexts.
• To make a series of recommendations that will strengthen CSA in future humanitarian emergencies.
• To map and categorize key challenges faced by CAFOD & CARE in Haiti & Pakistan in terms of CSA.
• To assess to what extent these challenges are already addressed by SPHERE compliance/other humanitarian accountability/agency frameworks.
• To recommend useful guidance and tools for both HQ and Partner agencies that will address these gaps not covered by frameworks that are already in use, bearing in mind the operational constraints that are present during humanitarian crisis.
• To present findings/recommendations to humanitarian colleagues represented by the agencies of the CSC in London and to partner/Country Offices in Haiti & Pakistan
• To present and disseminate key policy recommendations emerging from this research to key audiences within DfID, EC & UN.
How to apply
For further information including a full terms of reference and details about how to apply please refer to the jobs page of our website: www.careinternational.org.uk/jobs
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