Overview : Terms of Reference Proposed Consultancy, Peer-2-Peer Support Project Project title: Peer-2-Peer Support Project Position: Programme Specialist, Humanitarian Affairs Consultancy Period of consultancy: 3 months Brief background of the project’s status The Peer-2-Peer Project was established in late 2013. It was initially called the Senior Transformative Agenda Implementation Team (STAIT) and the name was changed in mid-2017 to reflect the changing humanitarian environment, as the World Humanitarian Summit and Grand Bargain surpassed the Transformative Agenda as the predominant driving force of global humanitarian dialogue, and to reflect the peer support which the project offers to Humanitarian Coordinators (HCs) and Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) in field operations. The project is guided by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Emergency Directors Group (EDG) and is overseen on a technical level by a project board comprised of the Chair of the EDG (OCHA), the Director of UNDP’s Crisis Unit (or delegated authority), and the Director of the Peer-2-Peer Project. Purpose of the consultancy The project has limited staff in place currently, and current staff capacity is focused on on-going project activities such as preparing and participating in up-coming field missions, re-engaging with the webinar series, and maintaining partnerships with the broad humanitarian community, which is essential for the success of the Peer-2-Peer project. Furthermore, the Peer-2-Peer project will need to be revitalized with a new vision considering the latest changes and reforms impacting humanitarian as well as the change in dynamic at the field level. The consultancy position is critical to support the Director in developing concepts and strategies based on her vision and the exchanges with EDG, Donors and the board beside the lessons learned from the field missions. The strategic documents will guide the Peer-2-Peer activities and will be shared with the P2P’s partners in the EDG, IASC, the humanitarian community at large and with the Donors. It will address very specifically the value P2P brings to humanitarian response in the field and demonstrates its impact. This will require the development of a number of key documents and platforms to be out into place, including: - the update of the project’s vision and concept note which should be approved by the P2P board and presented to the IASC’s Emergency Directors’ Group; It will include an impact assessment strategy and concept note, M&E, a resource mobilization strategy, a COM strategy, staffing in light of the vision and new activities and strategy of implementation
- the production of an annual workplan outlining key existing and new activities that the project will undertake as well as the methodologies the P2P will be using for each activity;
- the production of a project document that reflects the concept note and the annual workplan. The project document which will provide the platform for donor engagement to bring in funds for the project.
The consultant will also support the Director in other duties as required, which might include revamping the methodology for field missions, conducting a quick and light desk review of all the missions reports of P2P and come up with initial thoughts about the impact of the Peer-2-Peer project in its role to support the humanitarian leadership, and drafting presentations on humanitarian trends for the bi-annual EDG meetings and to the Donors. Deliverables - Peer-2-Peer Project Concept Note, 2019-2021.
- Peer-2-Peer Project Annual Workplan, 2019/2020.
- Peer-2-Peer Project document for fundraising purposes.
- Prepare and organize meeting with donor representatives in Geneva to present the Peer-2-Peer project’s concept and workplan.
- Concept Note on Impact: measuring the impact of the Peer-2-Peer project in field operations.
- Five-page analysis report illustrating trends in the humanitarian environment based on Peer-2-Peer and STAIT missions.
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