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Introduction

Country:   Nigeria

Region: North-west

Classification: National Consultant

Description of the Assignment:  IC for Final Project Evaluation

DURATION OF THE WORK: The evaluator(s) will be home-based with 50-days Level of Effort.

 

Period of assignment or service (if applicable):  90 days (Nov 2024 - Jan 2025)

Background: 

Armed banditry, organised crime and communal violence have increased significantly in recent years in Northwestern Nigeria. This has meant that the region reported higher levels of fatalities from conflict incidences than in neighbouring North Central region from 2018, where previously the reverse had been true. Kaduna and Katsina States are among the states in the region that are greatly affected by violent incidents inform of farmer-herder conflict, ethnoreligious and communal disputes, violent extremism, and banditry amongst others. Displacement of communities fleeing violence; disruption to farming, grazing and commercial activity; as well as to access to education and health services, have imposed serious impacts on populations, already suffering some of the country’s highest levels of poverty-related indicators. Northwest Nigeria is currently on a steep downward trajectory, with instability seemingly ever expanding. A window of opportunity for reversing this trend exists but may be closing. Further deterioration would have exponential impacts: grave implications for the region and Nigeria as a whole.

UNDP has identified that a strong conflict prevention agenda must be placed at the heart of UN and the wider international community’s engagement with the Federal Government and affected states. Together with a growing number of national and international partners, UNDP is now piloting a prevention approach in the Northwest. This centres around a recently launched Prevention approach, designed to prevent further escalation of insecurity in Kaduna, Katsina states.

The “Strengthening Local And State Level Peace Architectures For Peacebuilding And Prevention In Katsina And Kaduna States Of Northwest Nigeria” project with funding from the Secretary General’s Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) aims to reinforce non-military responses to conflict and insecurity in Kaduna and Katsina States by strengthening existing infrastructures for peace, providing safe spaces for inclusive (inter-and-intra)-community dialogue, enhancing the resilience of communities directly affected by conflict through the provision of psychosocial support and increasing access to sustainable livelihoods. The project is jointly implemented by UNDP, UN Women and IOM, with OHCHR providing technical support on mainstreaming and integrating human rights and UNDP serving as the convening agency.

This catalytic project is in line with the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) decisions, taken as of March 2023 during the Regional Monthly Review (RMR) where UNCT was called upon to prioritize initiatives that strengthens local peace architecture, prevention and dialogue in the north of the country paying special attention to the Northwest. The project catalyzes key partnerships within the States through reviving local peace processes; widening representation and increasing the participation of young men and women in peace processes; strengthening prevention capacities, including the protection of women and girls from violence, and initiating a roadmap towards a gender-sensitive peace and security infrastructure for resilience and sustainable peace in Kaduna and Katsina States.

PURPOSE OF EVALUATION

As the project comes to an end, an evaluation is hereby proposed by UNDP in Nigeria to distill the lessons and practices learned; harness the role of local and state level peacebuilding approaches to promoting stability and peace; as well as define the emerging opportunities for scaling the work initiated and consolidate the gains made moving forward.

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