Consultant : Governance Assessment for Building Resilience Program in Indonesia
Type: National Consultants
Location: Indonesia
Closing Date: 20 May 2011
BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE
Oxfam believes that influencing power holders is essential to overcome poverty and suffering. Therefore every program is encouraged to influence the government as the duty bearer to be able to provide better service to the people. This recognition is in the Regional Change Strategy under “Building Effective Government” as a key strategy.The strategy has been interpreted in two ways: firstly by empowering citizens and civil society to be more capable in demanding their rights, secondly by influencing the government at both national and local level to be more effective and accountable in delivering public services.
Through the Governance Community of Practice (CoP) learning event we redesigned a governance framework, Social Accountability Framework (SAC Framework). The Framework has been adjusted to the Oxfam context with four pillars namely: 1) responsive government, 2) organized and capable citizen organizations, 3) access to information, 4) high participation and strong leadership of women (see the framework in the annex).
This framework can be applied to any Oxfam program and project to analyze the quality of a program or project from a governance perspective. A good program from this perspective should invest in four pillars: 1) advocating the government to be more open and responsive, 2) empowering the citizens to be more organized and capable in demanding their rights, 3) supporting a constructive engagement between government and citizens through opening access to information, 4) encouraging women participation and women leadership. This governance assessment would particularly benefit in developing an advocacy strategy for any program or project.
The Building Resilience Program in Indonesia or usually name as PRIME has been closely working with the Regional Change Lead for Building Effective Governance to develop this initiative. It is considered as a good choice to apply this framework to the PRIME since the program has been one of Oxfam’s main programs for a long time and it has very strong component of governance by influencing the government in establishing a resilient community.
Building Resilience Programme in Indonesia has started to look at a solid framework in 2005, by applying PRIME (Preparedness and Response, Risk Reduction, Influencing Policy, a Model of Emergency). It was started with community based disaster risk reduction project in selected areas of which then continued and replicated in other area. At this moment, under PRIME, there are several projects implemented related to emergency preparedness and response and building district resilience with mainstreaming and advocacy component in it. Since the BR program is one of the main programs in Indonesia, with a wide coverage, the country team has found it imperative to apply this governance framework with an aim of strengthening the advocacy strategy of the program. Beyond the country need, this assessment later could be used as a model for the advocacy strategy for the BR Program in the region.
CONSULTANT EXPECTED TASKS
The followings are the consultant expected outputs:
* Develop a research plan in consultation with RCL for building effective government and country PRIME team in Indonesia
* Agree with the regional change lead for building effective government on the final research plan
* Work with the country teams in Indonesia for the research implementation
* Undertake desk research
* Undertake field research
* Undertake workshop to analyze and finalize the research
* Presentation of the final report
Type: National Consultants
Location: Indonesia
Closing Date: 20 May 2011
BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE
Oxfam believes that influencing power holders is essential to overcome poverty and suffering. Therefore every program is encouraged to influence the government as the duty bearer to be able to provide better service to the people. This recognition is in the Regional Change Strategy under “Building Effective Government” as a key strategy.The strategy has been interpreted in two ways: firstly by empowering citizens and civil society to be more capable in demanding their rights, secondly by influencing the government at both national and local level to be more effective and accountable in delivering public services.
Through the Governance Community of Practice (CoP) learning event we redesigned a governance framework, Social Accountability Framework (SAC Framework). The Framework has been adjusted to the Oxfam context with four pillars namely: 1) responsive government, 2) organized and capable citizen organizations, 3) access to information, 4) high participation and strong leadership of women (see the framework in the annex).
This framework can be applied to any Oxfam program and project to analyze the quality of a program or project from a governance perspective. A good program from this perspective should invest in four pillars: 1) advocating the government to be more open and responsive, 2) empowering the citizens to be more organized and capable in demanding their rights, 3) supporting a constructive engagement between government and citizens through opening access to information, 4) encouraging women participation and women leadership. This governance assessment would particularly benefit in developing an advocacy strategy for any program or project.
The Building Resilience Program in Indonesia or usually name as PRIME has been closely working with the Regional Change Lead for Building Effective Governance to develop this initiative. It is considered as a good choice to apply this framework to the PRIME since the program has been one of Oxfam’s main programs for a long time and it has very strong component of governance by influencing the government in establishing a resilient community.
Building Resilience Programme in Indonesia has started to look at a solid framework in 2005, by applying PRIME (Preparedness and Response, Risk Reduction, Influencing Policy, a Model of Emergency). It was started with community based disaster risk reduction project in selected areas of which then continued and replicated in other area. At this moment, under PRIME, there are several projects implemented related to emergency preparedness and response and building district resilience with mainstreaming and advocacy component in it. Since the BR program is one of the main programs in Indonesia, with a wide coverage, the country team has found it imperative to apply this governance framework with an aim of strengthening the advocacy strategy of the program. Beyond the country need, this assessment later could be used as a model for the advocacy strategy for the BR Program in the region.
CONSULTANT EXPECTED TASKS
The followings are the consultant expected outputs:
* Develop a research plan in consultation with RCL for building effective government and country PRIME team in Indonesia
* Agree with the regional change lead for building effective government on the final research plan
* Work with the country teams in Indonesia for the research implementation
* Undertake desk research
* Undertake field research
* Undertake workshop to analyze and finalize the research
* Presentation of the final report
TIME FRAME
The duration for this consultancy is 40 working days (specific date will be determined later).
OUTPUT
Research report:
- Agreed reporting format
- 5 pages executive summary
- 50 pages report
- Annexes
How to Apply: Please send your expression of interest including your CV, a proposal summary and budget/fee to Jakarta@oxfam.org.uk
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