Terms of Reference
Title: Participatory Open Defecation Free Research
Time Period: Flexible, anytime before June 2011
Duration: 21 Days
Location: Oecusse, Timor-Leste
Responsible to: Emily Rand, Program Manager, WASH Oxfam Timor-Leste Program
Background
According to UNICEF, in 2006 only 32% of the rural population in Timor Leste was using improved sanitation facilities. Oxfam has implemented water, sanitation and hygiene activities in Timor Leste since 2000 in Oecusse, Covalima, Dili and Liquisa. Oxfam has implemented community-led total sanitation activities a number of times in Timor Leste and has helped trigger villages to become Open Defecation Free (ODF). However, Oxfam has observed that villages that are ODF often don't stay that way and other villagers that have had accepted the challenge and created the goal for themselves to become ODF often don't reach that goal.
Goals/Objectives
Oxfam would like to help community sanitation champions, who are currently directly involved in motivating their neighbors to build latrines, to identify what leads to a village having, using and maintaining an ODF status. The eventual goal would be for the sanitation champions to then use this data to motivate a larger portion of the population to build latrines as well. The objectives include:
* Identify constraints to the achievement of sustained ODF status within Oxfam partners WASH program areas
* Identify what motivates communities to become ODF
* Assisting community sanitation champions to create research questions, conduct research an analyze research findings
* Document good practice related to motivating communities to build their own latrines
Preferred Approach and Methodology
We would prefer the consultant use a participatory methodology that enables community sanitation champions (local organization partner staff, community leaders or community health volunteers) to conduct research. and identify what leads to a village having, using and maintaining an ODF status.
The consultant would first review existing household surveys and research done in Timor and share them with community sanitation champions about external research and program experiences that has already been done in a simple easy to understand format.
In addition to Timor specific research, this review might focus on approaches that have been effective in achieving ODF status such as effective community mobilization/ engagement of men and women, household latrine construction, emergence of men and women sanitation champions,
or support provided etc.
The consultant would then facilitate a process that would enable community sanitation champions to develop questions and then research the answers. We would like to see community sanitation champions leading the engagement with communities. This process would empower them to investigate, analyze, compile and then immediately use what they have learned.
The role of the consultant would then be to facilitate a process with staff, partners and community members, to help them utilize their existing knowledge and that gained from the ODF research conducted to better understand what leads a village to gain using and maintain an ODF status.
Deliverables
* Review existing household surveys and research and program experiences from Oxfam and other organizations and create a presentation to share with community sanitation champions about sanitation and motivation research that has already been done. Give Oxfam printed copy of presentation.
* Facilitate an initial workshop with community sanitation champions to develop questions and create a plan to research the answers
* Mentor community sanitation champions as they conduct research in their own communities
* Facilitate a follow-up workshop with community sanitation champions to collect the information they have learned and help them analyze the results.
* Write up the results in a creative one-pager that community sanitation champions can use to remember lessons learned.
* Lead Oxfam staff through a process of writing up the results to create a three to four page report, documenting the process and lessons learned, which can be shared with the department of health, infrastructure and other WASH actors inTimor-Leste.
* Recommendations for follow-up of findings
Knowledge and Skills
The successful candidate with have:
* Positive deviance, appreciative Inquiry or community research facilitation experience
* Experience in Timor Leste,
* Experience motivating communities to build their own toilets (through community -led total sanitation, sanitation marketing or similar non subsidy approaches),
* Tetun or Bahasa Indonesia language skills would be an assets
Application Process
To apply, please send your CV and brief statement of qualifications to Benigna Vicente Martins, Senior HR Officer at benignam@oxfam.org.au.
Your statement should include preliminary proposed implementation work-plan, fee details, and your experience with positive deviance, appreciative inquiry or community research facilitation. The statement should not exceed three pages.
Interested individuals, teams and/or organizations are welcome to apply.
Applications must be received by Oxfam no later than Sunday 31 March 2011, 24:00 (GMT+9). Applications received after this deadline will not be considered.
Emily Christensen Rand | Water, Sanitation and Health Manager | Oxfam
Rua Jacinto Candido, Bidau Akadiru-Hun, Dili - Timor Leste
Title: Participatory Open Defecation Free Research
Time Period: Flexible, anytime before June 2011
Duration: 21 Days
Location: Oecusse, Timor-Leste
Responsible to: Emily Rand, Program Manager, WASH Oxfam Timor-Leste Program
Background
According to UNICEF, in 2006 only 32% of the rural population in Timor Leste was using improved sanitation facilities. Oxfam has implemented water, sanitation and hygiene activities in Timor Leste since 2000 in Oecusse, Covalima, Dili and Liquisa. Oxfam has implemented community-led total sanitation activities a number of times in Timor Leste and has helped trigger villages to become Open Defecation Free (ODF). However, Oxfam has observed that villages that are ODF often don't stay that way and other villagers that have had accepted the challenge and created the goal for themselves to become ODF often don't reach that goal.
Goals/Objectives
Oxfam would like to help community sanitation champions, who are currently directly involved in motivating their neighbors to build latrines, to identify what leads to a village having, using and maintaining an ODF status. The eventual goal would be for the sanitation champions to then use this data to motivate a larger portion of the population to build latrines as well. The objectives include:
* Identify constraints to the achievement of sustained ODF status within Oxfam partners WASH program areas
* Identify what motivates communities to become ODF
* Assisting community sanitation champions to create research questions, conduct research an analyze research findings
* Document good practice related to motivating communities to build their own latrines
Preferred Approach and Methodology
We would prefer the consultant use a participatory methodology that enables community sanitation champions (local organization partner staff, community leaders or community health volunteers) to conduct research. and identify what leads to a village having, using and maintaining an ODF status.
The consultant would first review existing household surveys and research done in Timor and share them with community sanitation champions about external research and program experiences that has already been done in a simple easy to understand format.
In addition to Timor specific research, this review might focus on approaches that have been effective in achieving ODF status such as effective community mobilization/ engagement of men and women, household latrine construction, emergence of men and women sanitation champions,
or support provided etc.
The consultant would then facilitate a process that would enable community sanitation champions to develop questions and then research the answers. We would like to see community sanitation champions leading the engagement with communities. This process would empower them to investigate, analyze, compile and then immediately use what they have learned.
The role of the consultant would then be to facilitate a process with staff, partners and community members, to help them utilize their existing knowledge and that gained from the ODF research conducted to better understand what leads a village to gain using and maintain an ODF status.
Deliverables
* Review existing household surveys and research and program experiences from Oxfam and other organizations and create a presentation to share with community sanitation champions about sanitation and motivation research that has already been done. Give Oxfam printed copy of presentation.
* Facilitate an initial workshop with community sanitation champions to develop questions and create a plan to research the answers
* Mentor community sanitation champions as they conduct research in their own communities
* Facilitate a follow-up workshop with community sanitation champions to collect the information they have learned and help them analyze the results.
* Write up the results in a creative one-pager that community sanitation champions can use to remember lessons learned.
* Lead Oxfam staff through a process of writing up the results to create a three to four page report, documenting the process and lessons learned, which can be shared with the department of health, infrastructure and other WASH actors inTimor-Leste.
* Recommendations for follow-up of findings
Knowledge and Skills
The successful candidate with have:
* Positive deviance, appreciative Inquiry or community research facilitation experience
* Experience in Timor Leste,
* Experience motivating communities to build their own toilets (through community -led total sanitation, sanitation marketing or similar non subsidy approaches),
* Tetun or Bahasa Indonesia language skills would be an assets
Application Process
To apply, please send your CV and brief statement of qualifications to Benigna Vicente Martins, Senior HR Officer at benignam@oxfam.org.au.
Your statement should include preliminary proposed implementation work-plan, fee details, and your experience with positive deviance, appreciative inquiry or community research facilitation. The statement should not exceed three pages.
Interested individuals, teams and/or organizations are welcome to apply.
Applications must be received by Oxfam no later than Sunday 31 March 2011, 24:00 (GMT+9). Applications received after this deadline will not be considered.
Emily Christensen Rand | Water, Sanitation and Health Manager | Oxfam
Rua Jacinto Candido, Bidau Akadiru-Hun, Dili - Timor Leste
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