Germany - General public services

Description

Brief Description of the ‘Strengthening education and health services for refugees and host communities in Pakistan’ Project (EHS)For almost 40 years, Pakistan has been one of the countries hosting the most refugees worldwide. Despite the increased return of Afghans to their home country since 2002, Pakistan still hosts about 2.8 million Afghan refugees. 58 % of them live in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KP). Only 31 % of the refugees live in refugee villages. Outside of these, in host communities, the presence of refugees leads to increased demand and pressure on the already insufficient supply of public services. The local population and Afghan refugees enter into a competitive situation. The provincial distribution of funds to local governments does not take into account the number of Afghan refugees in the host communities. The current Covid-19 situation poses another challenge. Reduced income opportunities, the overburdening of health care systems and difficult access to education worsen the living conditions of the population groups living in precarious conditions. The overburdened public administrative structures in KP hence provide only insufficient access to services in these sectors for vulnerable Afghan refugees and members of host communities, especially women, children, youth and people with disabilities. EHS therefore aims at improving the access to public services in the health and education sectors for vulnerable Afghan refugees and members of host communities in selected districts.The project's strategy to achieve this is based on capacity development at the micro and meso levels, complemented by selective measures at the macro level. The implementation focus is at the district level to strengthen the role of both service providers and the political partner, the Commissioner for Afghan Refugees (CAR) in KP (beyond refugee villages) in the area of access to education and health services for vulnerable Afghan refugees and members of host communities. At the individual level, the project strengthens the strategic competencies of relevant actors in public administration and service delivery as well as civil society in conducting participatory planning processes and addressing vulnerability. These competencies are effective at the municipal and district level, but also contribute to the more effective design and implementation of policies and planning processes at the provincial level. At the organizational level, the project supports capacities to develop demand-driven public service delivery using participatory approaches. Sustainable institutional anchoring is achieved through the use and capacity development of already existing training institutes of the institutions. By supporting the clarification of roles and responsibilities between administrative levels, the project strengthens change processes of the administration. By promoting social dialogue processes, it contributes to capacity building at the societal level. The exchange of learning and experience supports multiplier effects. The project concept is based on improving access to social services for disadvantaged population groups. The project advises partners on developing procedures for administration and service provision that meet the criteria of transparency, efficiency and citizen orientation. Capacity building aims at gender-sensitive and inclusive implementation of relevant planning processes and service delivery.The project implements this strategy within 3 Outputs. Output 1 and Output 2 aim to sensitize government actors in the education (Output 1) and health (Output 2) sectors to the needs of vulnerable Afghan refugees and members of host communities. Improved cooperation between the CAR and subnational governance structures (Output 3), improves the incorporation of the needs of both Afghan and Pakistani vulnerable groups, especially women and girls.
From 08/21 until 10/23, the contractor is expected to support the EHS project team in two work packages. For all packages close cooperation is required between the contractor's personnel and the responsible person in the project. All measures as well as reports, training material etc. will be in English language.The assignment includes services to enhance the capacities of the entire team working on all indicators and possibly activities within all components of the project. Therefore, the contractor is expected to contribute to the achievement of all target indicators. The contractor will be responsible for providing two work packages and the accompanying milestones in order to contribute to the achievement of the project's module and output indicators. Work package one is the internal organisational development and capacity building mainly for the project team; and work package two is the external organisational development and capacity building mainly for the project partners through the provision of a pool of short-term experts.Work package 1: Internal Organizational Development and Capacity Building:This work package targets the organisational development, capacity development and support to the GIZ project team both in Islamabad and Peshawar. The activities will contribute to the achievement of all project indicators as mentioned above, since they will provide more clarity on roles, responsibilities, improve the team's understanding of the needs of the partners and target group, and includes joint operational planning in all areas. The work package includes 4 activities:1) Management and team development support;2) Training course: Organisational Development;3) Executive feedback;4) Support for monitoring and evaluation (M&E).Work package 2: External Organizational Development and Capacity Development: provision of a pool of short-term experts:Work package 2 is for the provision of a pool of short-term experts to cover various issues relating to the strengthening of the education and health services for refugees and host communities in Pakistan generally and all the project objectives in particular. The services to be provided under the contract include measures for human capacity development and organisational and strategy advice to the project's partner institutions and organizations in the project components listed below. The services hence contribute to all Outputs (1, 2, and 3) as described in the project proposal as well as the respective output and module indicators.Examples for expected modes of delivery through the experts are the conducting of organizational assessments, developing of organizational change strategies, advising organisations on the implementation thereof, the organisation and implementation of workshops / trainings, the development of action plans and other advisory services.The beneficiaries of the services include the Chief Commissioner for Afghan Refugees (CCAR) in SAFRON, the CAR Office in Peshawar, sector ministries at the provincial level, and corresponding administrative units at district and local levels.Furthermore, at the local level, the future elected local councils (after the local elections, which are planned for September 2021), parent-teacher councils, the KP Women's Commission and other key actors from the education and health sectors. The contractor will assume responsibility for providing the partial services as described in more detail in the tender documents and for the monitoring and reporting of the activities.

Opportunity closing date

22 June 2021

Value of contract

to be confirmed