INVITATION FOR IN COUNTRY RESEARCH PARTNER; COVID-19 YOUTH-LED DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT PROJECT 108 views

ActionAid Ethiopia (AAE) is a gender justice, good governance, and poverty eradication organization. It envisions a country where all enjoys their rights equally and live a decent life. Its heart lies on gender equality where it designs its frameworks and operations on women’s and girls’ empowerment and abolishing root causes of violence against women and girls. Its interventions are guided by the Human Rights Based Approach, Transformative Feminist Leadership, and Intersectional Feminist Analysis tools. AAE has been implementing programs in Ethiopia under both humanitarian and development contexts for more than 30 years.

ActionAid Ethiopia believes that Gender equality and poverty eradication are achieved through purposeful individual and collective action to bring socio-economic changes from household level to local, national and international levels. Empowerment of people living in poverty and women leadership with the support of their allies is crucial to drive change that will ensure equality and poverty eradication.

Young people endure a very perilous agency in development and the transformation of Ethiopia, by way of containing substantial demographic composition. The 2018 – 2023 AAE’s Country Strategy Plan places young people at the center of the desired transformation and influencing the change that the Country requires in political, social, and economic scenario.

AAE would like to invite firms/individuals that are interested to carry out study which will analyse the impact of covid-19 on young people lives regarding Gender responsive public services, Youth-led climate justice, Civic participation and Livelihoods, and economic opportunities. As the same time the researcher will train our youth champions on research methodology practically (online questionnaire development, data collection using mob apps, analysis and presentation)

The main objective of the study is to have Youth led citizen generated data collection through the use of social accountability tools and Youth Led Analysis & Policy Positions for local / national levels [and contribution to global synthesis]

The study will combine analogue and digital methods at all levels: in the collection of data, in information dissemination, and for advocacy and campaigning at country level.

Potential firms as well as individuals having the following competencies/skills and capacities are eligible to apply for this short-term service

•  The Lead Consultant/Researcher must be Senior Expert in leading and undertaking assessments/studies particularly on youth related studies and evaluation of programs/projects.

• The Lead researcher should hold a minimum of Ph.D./ Master’s degree in Social work, psychology, Behavioural Studies, Humanitarian studies, Economics, or related subject and practical knowledge. Health sector related experience is a plus.

• Experience in supporting young people in the creation of digital data collection tools using online forms builders i.e Magpi, Google Forms, etc

• Proven track record in supporting young people with collection, aggregation, and analysis of citizen-generated data from the communities identified by ActionAid Ethiopia

• Have experience in building the capacity of young people to understand their governments’ COVID19 budgetary commitments and track expenditure or lack thereof of allocated resources

• Willing to work with ActionAid Ethiopia to train young people on research processes- ranging from development of research questionnaires, data collection and analysis, as well as budget analysis and budget tracking (as required by ActionAid Ethiopia) in relation to the four thematic priorities

• Experience in addressing priorities: Gender responsive public services, Youth-led climate justice, Civic participation and Livelihoods and economic opportunities.

• Able to package budget information into youth-friendly materials for dissemination.

• Experience of analysing of the data together with young people selected by ActionAid to build their capacity in data collection, budget analysis and budget tracking

• Work with the selected youth as required on the overall data collection process: identification of research participants, sampling, ensuring informed consent, interviewing, transcription and uploading of completed data sets

• The bidder must provide complete set of technical and financial separately sealed document with all the necessary documents containing minimum of two examples of similar studies that have been produced by the applicant in soft copies (this will be treated as confidential and only used for the purposes of quality assurance).

• The bidders should attach all necessary legal documents including valid license, vat certificate and TIN registration along with the technical proposal

• Are committed to meet the deadlines, are equipped with enough resources and qualified professionals to make necessary logistical arrangements and accomplish the work.

• Must be willing to be guided by AAE HRBA policy, Transformative Feminist Leadership, and Intersectional Feminist Analysis tools.