Tasks to be performed under this contract
The consultant will be hired to deliver a report on a three-instalment payment basis:
- Equip government stakeholder to improve their respective country's data management capacity to generate deidentified, administrative data and statistics on migration, trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants.
- First installment upon delivery of the completion of an assessment and a report delivered approximately in the third month after contract signing that captures the following aspects:
- Review recent assessments of existing government data management processes for their ability to generate accurate, reliable, consistent and trusted migration, trafficking, and smuggling statistics.
- Fill any remaining gaps through primary data collection that need to be filled in order to have an exhaustive and comprehensive understanding of current data processes in select countries of EHoA.
- In coordination with IOM and government stakeholders, draft country-level data-related processes for national TIP, smuggling of migrants (SOM) and irregular migration administrative data in line with the new International Classification for Administrative Data on Trafficking in Persons, most effectively IC-TIP.
- Obtain review and validation of the data and proposed data processes by Government officials of the respective country.
The second installment is paid approximately after month 4 following contract signing, upon delivery of the following:
- Adapt existing data collection tools and TiP materials for each national context and integrate new content on SoM and irregular migration into existing data collection tools. Tools will be reviewed and validated by government stakeholders.
- Create bespoke capacity development materials per country that can sustainably equip Government agencies to establish or improve their collection, classification, and report administrative data on trafficking in persons in pursuit of more consistent, comparable, and actionable trafficking data.
- Lead/deliver capacity development programs including at least 1 workshop and 1 training per country of interest, with additional training defined by stakeholders in advance, in coordination with IOM Country Offices, national consultants and relevant stakeholders.
Third installment is paid approximately within month 5 after contract signing, upon delivery of:
- Evaluation report of capacity building measures for their adoption success;
- Pathway report that provides guidance on how to integrate administrative data into national statistical frameworks per country; how to leverage administrative data for national statistics and how the data can be used to develop the evidence base for policy and programmatic responses, reviewed and validated by government stakeholders.
- Develop means to monitor the sustained success of the linkage such that administrative data is collected and used for counter-TIP and counter-SoM. This may include selecting the priority sources of administrative data, drafting reporting frameworks, and recommended actions, developing inter-agency collaboration frameworks or beyond
Crosscutting Deliverables
- Ensure the mainstreaming of gender responsiveness, child protection, victim-centred, trauma-informed and non-stigmatizing considerations into the deliverables.
- Present the updated data processes, results of interoperability and proposed workflow at a validation workshop in coordination with IOM Kenya for the review and validation of the set of draft documents updated/developed during the assignment. The workshop will gather all relevant service providers and stakeholders with mandates related to victim assistance service provision/counter-TIP/migrant protection and assistance.
- Adhere to all data governance and protection considerations
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Master's degree in Statistics, Information Management, Development Studies, Migration Studies or a related field from an accredited academic institution.
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in migration, international development and data and information management, with developing country experience highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of the migratory context in the East and Horn of Africa highly desirable.
- Experience in migration, border governance, migrant protection or similar is highly desirable.
- Excellent communication skills and excellent attention to detail and quality.
- Excellent writing skills and creative thinking
- Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work well as part of a geographically dispersed team.
- Ability to work effectively and harmoniously in a multicultural environment with colleagues from various professional backgrounds.
- Experience working in the UN or other international development organizations is considered an asset.
- Availability to work in Addis Ababa or Nairobi preferred