BACKGROUND

Danish Red Cross’ International Strategy 2022-2025: Ready to Act sets the overall direction and priorities for how we work with people, communities, and partners towards positive change in our international work.
The strategy identifies three key changes – breakthroughs – which if achieved will positively transform the lives of the people we work with and for. One way of contributing to answering the changes achieved, DRC has committed to carrying out a series of “Breakthrough Studies” to generate learnings on how transformative change happens within each of the three breakthroughs.
This third and final Breakthrough Study (the study) will focus on the strategic area ‘Included and Safe People’ and within this focus on the extent to which we have contributed that ‘people are protected and included when they find themselves in situations of displacement and migration’ with a particular focus on the route-based assistance that DRC has supported in partner countries and elsewhere.
This Terms of Reference (ToR) aims to review DRCs work under this strategic area with a particular focus on 1) route-based humanitarian assistance including humanitarian service points and safe referral mechanisms and 2) evidence based humanitarian diplomacy.

In general, DRC focuses its learning efforts on two main learning questions:

• How can integrated programming across our three breakthroughs drive transformative change?
• How can strengthening national systems drive transformative change within our three breakthroughs?

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

We expect the consultancy to be carried out by a team or similar that covers the above skills and qualifications:

• A team that is composed of technical experts with at least 10 years of experience working with research and evaluation on global migration and protection.
• Extensive experience with evaluations and research studies.
• Experience with facilitation and stakeholder engagement/consultation.
• Documented experience using the outcome harvesting methodology preferably with a focus on migration, displacement and protection.
• Experience conducting research, evaluation or studies in Niger, Mali and/or Sudan
• Personal competencies: Result oriented, ability to work across cultures, strong analytical skills.
• Fluency in English and French is a requirement.

PURPOSE

The purpose of the study is to generate learnings and documentation on how change happens within the breakthrough “Included and Safe People” with a particular focus on route-based assistance including humanitarian service points and formal safe referral mechanisms and other systems for ensuring service and support to migrants along the migration routes and 2) evidence-based humanitarian diplomacy on route-based assistance in order to understand whether we are generating the intended positive change to contribute to achieving the breakthrough.
The study aims to identify key strategies, challenges, and examples of good practices associated with migration efforts for our partners to step into their auxiliary role to allow for broader engagement and transformative change together with national, local authorities level as well at influencing global policy work.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior PMEAL Advisor is responsible for the completion of the study, with the Head of Technical Quality and Impact and Head of Operations as the overall responsible for the study. The Senior PMEAL Advisor will coordinate the DRC Breakthrough Study team who acts as coordination body and is responsible for delivery of all aspects of the study.
The Senior PMEAL advisor is also coordinating the input of the advisory group who acts in an advisory role and will be consulted throughout the consultancy. The advisory group provides advice on the technical subject matter.
The Senior PMEAL Advisor will provide support and guidance to the consultants including consolidate feedback from DRC to the consultants. The Senior PMEAL Advisor will coordinate travel to case study countries, if necessary, on behalf of the consultants. The Senior PMEAL advisor will ensure that the consultant has access to secondary data and ensure that online interviews are set-up in accordance with the inception report.
The case study country staff will organise the visit for the consultants, including all in-country travel and arrangements related to data collection while in country in accordance with the inception report.
The consultant is responsible for deliverables as detailed below. It is the consultant’s responsibility to identify the necessary relevant secondary documentation and information as part of the inception report. Additionally, the consultant can request further documentation to triangulate information uncovered during field visits. The consultant is responsible for coordinating travel in their home country e.g. to and from airport, and any travel insurance, as applicable.