SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
SNV is an international not-for-profit development organisation, working in 38 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. SNV specializes in supporting the resourcefulness of development actors by developing local capacities, improving performance and services, strengthening governance systems, helping to create access for excluded groups and by making markets work for the poor. Our global team of advisors use their specialised expertise in Agriculture, Renewable Energy and WASH to improve the health and livelihoods of millions of people, with a focus on the poor and marginalized groups.
The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sustainable Development Goals (WASH SDGs) Programme
SNV understands safe urban sanitation and hygiene services as a pre-condition for health and economic development in cities. With urban growth in Indonesia averaging 4.4% a year (World Bank, 2016), a failure to invest in urban sanitation will become a barrier for almost any development. Access to sanitation is a human right and governments are the duty bearers of progressive realisation of this right. With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Indonesia's government has committed to work towards universal access to safely managed sanitation services and improved hygiene.
Through its DGIS funded WASH SDGs programme, SNV supports local governments of Bandar Lampung & Metro Cities in Lampung Province and Tasikmalaya City in West Java Province to achieve sustainable and inclusive city-wide sanitation service in their area. In partnership with national and government counterparts, the WASH SDGs programme aims to improve the way human waste is managed by addressing the entire sanitation chain and answering different needs among the population with appropriate and sustainable service delivery models.
During the WASH SDGs programme inception phase, SNV will conduct a Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) assessment. The assessment is to deepen our understanding of gender and social inclusion issues and its implications for universal and sustainable WASH services in Bandar Lampung, Metro, and Tasikmalaya.
Scope and Purpose
Gender and social inclusion are ways of structuring societies, often unconscious and invisible, particularly to those who most benefit. Gender arguments or arguments of ethnicity, class, disability, origin, religion, are used to justify many things, such as:
* Division of labour, control over resources, inheritance
* Discrimination in laws and policies
* Access to education, jobs, positions, wider opportunities
* Self-perception and identity is also influenced by gender and social inclusion norms, which then define people's ambitions and demands
* Overarching social norms about good and bad (appropriate and not appropriate) behaviour, stereo-types, even justifying the use of violence
While culturally specific and sensitive, in some cases the outcome of these socio-cultural aspects affect the human rights of people, including the human right to sanitation. Questioning and influencing inequalities can only be done on the basis of a good understanding of the situation.
The GESI assessment aims to deepen our understanding of the underlying causes of marginalisation in SNV's programme area, be it on the basis of gender, age, disability, ethnicity, religion, poverty or any other. It is expected that the GESI assessment will generate practical inputs to improve the Theory of Change and thereby ensuring that the WASH SDGs programme:
* works towards equality in terms of access and use of WASH services
* contributes to greater equality in society general beyond WASH
* ensures that the "do no harm" and non-discrimination principles in the intervention
Processes of inclusion and marginalisation are often deeply embedded into societies, processes and structures. Thus the GESI assessment will need to consider:
* Intra-household discrimination
* Inter household/community discrimination
* Marginalization in public administration
* Legal and policy barriers and enablers
In each of those levels there is interaction, defining relations and power. The interaction is shaped through several mechanisms, such as self-perception (related to issues such as identity, feelings of inferiority etc.); existing structures (rights, division of labour, control over resources, inheritance, access to education, jobs, positions), as well as broader social norms and discourse (including stereo typing). The GESI assessments will need to explain the mechanisms behind marginalisation processes. These may be different for the different targeted cities.
Approach & Methodology
A three-step process is recommended for the GESI assessment
1. Desk review based on:
- Secondary information on GESI issues
- The baseline findings
These reviews provide preliminary conclusions on the main gender and social inclusion related issues in the sub-programme. This first analysis will narrow down the additional issues to be assessed in the field:
2. GESI assessments in the targeted locations will take through qualitative research and interviews, guided by the questions identified after the analysis and informed by the above GESI framework. The additional fieldwork and analysis taken up will provide location-specific findings on gender and social inclusion.
Following this broader, contextual analysis, the GESI assessment will then focus on how the identified issues affect universal and sustainable access to WASH services. This analysis will be structured along the project's key components:
3. Focus on WASH aspects for the programme's different components:
a. Behavior Change Communication and public awareness: that is, how GESI issues are likely to affect people's access to information and their ability to be engaged/targeted in communication campaigns for improved sanitation and hygiene
b. Sanitation demand creation: that is, how GESI issues are likely to affect people's ability to have access to sanitation and hygiene, be it economic, cultural, geographical, social or technical constraints
c. Safe and affordable services: that is how GESI issues are likely to affect the provision/availability of sanitation and hygiene products and services (also financial) that serve the needs of the different groups
d. Public financing and investment: that is how GESI issues are affecting the form and distribution of sanitation financing and investment in the city
e. Governance: that is, how GESI issues are reflected/affect the processes of consultation and decision making in sanitation and hygiene issues, what specific legislation/regulations/
Deliverables
The expected deliverables from the selected consultants are:
1. Detailed GESI assessment protocol, including assessment questions and detailed methodology
2. Draft assessment report in English, with a 4 pages summary in Indonesian
3. A PowerPoint presentation with the key findings and recommendations, in Indonesian, to be delivered to the programme partners in the 3 selected cities
4. Finalised assessment report in English, with a 4 pages summary in Indonesian, within seven days of receiving comments
The outline of the assessment report can be seen below:
1 Scope and purpose of the GESI assessment
2 Secondary information on GESI in the programme area
3 Baseline findings on GESI in the programme area
4 Preliminary conclusions about key GESI issues in the programme area
4.1 Main gender related issues
4.2 Main social inclusion related issues
4.3 Assessment questions
5 Methodology
6 Findings on gender issues
7 Findings on social inclusion related issues
8 Findings across the programme's components:
8.1 Behavior Change Communication
8.2 Sanitation demand creation
8.3 Safe and affordable services
8.4 Public financing and investment
8.5 Governance
9 Conclusions and recommendations taking into account the sub programmes ToC
Responsibilities
SNV
* Advise on the assessment set up and design, provide feedback as required;
* Pay the fee and costs related to the research;
* Assist with arranging contact with relevant stakeholders, interview, FGD, and workshop arrangement as required.
Consultants/Assessment Team
* Lead the assessment, including methodology design, implementation (primary data collection and secondary data review), and report writing;
* Involve SNV and relevant local government in the assessment process.
Timeframe
The research will be starting from 5th March and is expected to be completed by April 20th.
Budget
SNV will cover consultants' service fee, travel and accommodation costs in assessment area, and activity costs according to SNV's internal policy.
The applicants are requested to submit a financial proposal in line with activities and results.
Implementation Arrangement
Consultants will report to SNV's WASH Governance expert and will work closely with the programme's Team.
Payment will be made in IDR to the agreed account.
Qualifications
Assessment team should be experienced professionals with minimum 5 years' experience in GESI assessment in Indonesia. Specific experience in GESI assessment for WASH is an added value. The proposed team may consist of the leading researcher and supporting researchers to conduct the data collection.
The consultants must be fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and able to write report in English.
Application Process
Please send the application documents as follow:
* Application letter
* CV of the team
* Sample of a GESI assessment report
* Technical and financial proposal
to indonesia-procurement@snv.org<
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