Background
An estimated 688,000 Rohingya community, have been fled forcibly due to violence from Myanmar into Cox's Bazar and the Chittagong Hill Tracts since 25 August 2017. The cumulative total of Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN) since 1978, 1991, and 2016 movements on top of 2017 movement is, according to the Government of Bangladesh 908,000, which is almost equal to the 1.2 million total population of Cox's Bazar. The rapid influx of FDMN into areas with high baseline levels of poverty and environmental vulnerability has put immense strain on infrastructure, services and the host population. There have been observations that conflict and social tension is rising gradually, within the camps between Rohingya, between Rohingya and host community, as well as inter-community tensions, including at household level, outside the camps. Both in 2017 and 2018 there have been high profile killings of camp community leaders as part of factional infighting in the Rohingya community. A UNDP mission in early January 2018 highlighted that although voluntary repatriation of FDMN to Myanmar is expected to begin shortly, the pressure of the exponential increase of population in the area is increasingly being felt by the local population and institutions. The scale and speed of the FDMN influx into Bangladesh over the past few months put immense strain on infrastructure, services and the host communities, overwhelming existing response capacities. Sub-district (Upazila) offices find that their workload has increased to respond to the requests from the Camp-in-Charge (CICs) which means they cannot deliver their services (fire and police especially) as normal. Roads and schools have been affected by changed and higher volume of use and need to be rehabilitated. Assessments have highlighted risks faced by the FDMN, many of which also affect the wider population in the area, including protection issues (e.g., human and drug trafficking, domestic violence), public health (e.g., limited access to health services, increased risk of epidemics due to lack of water and proper sanitation), increased risk of natural disasters (e.g., because of widespread deforestation), and social cohesion (e.g., increasing inter- and intra-community disputes). Considering the urgent humanitarian crisis and meeting essential services of the Rohingya and local host communities, UNDP initiated to work intensively through different long-term projects for both communities. The Community Recovery and Resilient Programme (C2RP) is one of them and the C2RP aims to address the impact of the influx on host communities focusing on livelihoods and social cohesion. Amongst its objectives, C2RP aims to provide district and sub district governance support, facilitate participatory and inclusive local governance processes, support improved service delivery in host community areas, inclusive development of community infrastructure. The project will be implemented in two Upazilas namely Ukhiya and Teknaf under Cox's Bazar district with five affected unions. As the C2RP project is working to strengthen the capacity of the host community and government intuitions as well as local government institution to protect the host community and also to establish social peace so, need a national expert to support the Local Government Institutions (LGIs) to come up with a plan which is prepared in consultation and participation of the community members. Against this backdrop, C2RP project intends to hire two consultants to support the project for efficient engagement of the community and effective implementation of the project at the community level. Description of the Assignment The consultant for the proposed assignment would be engaged in mobilizing the community and form community groups/ circles as proposed in the activity plan, as well as to provide programme and logistic support to implement the component based activities at the community level in cox’s Bazar. The community mobilizer will also conduct community level awareness, FGDs, campaign and keep a directory of local level stakeholders. The Mobilizer also will ensure proper documentation of the activities at the community mobilization activities and to help the line manager in the preparation of monthly and weekly reports that includes statistical information to the line manager as/ and when required for the decision making purposes. |
Duties and Responsibilities
Scope of works: The Project has several components where the community, government and local government institutions has scope to involve and implement the programme activities to support the communities in Ukhia and Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar.
Specific objectives:
- Contribute to design and implementation of outreach activities to provide inputs to outreach community mobilizer and project team;
- Support to engage and keep the community updated about the project;
- Connect with and engage individuals and groups relevant to the scope of the project work, maintain a directory of local level stakeholders, and connect to the mapped the activities complementing to the other development activities been carried away by UN agencies;
- Support to maintain a data base of the local level community and the members as well as to keep close contact with them.
- Support to organise and participate in all project events (practical trainings on collaboration between the local government and communities, local justice and formal justice mechanism, consultations with communities, etc.);
- Respond and adjust to a flexible activity scheduling, logistical constraints related to the social dynamics in Cox’s Bazar involving the community and its expectations;
- Prepare event wise report and a total report on the assignment and ensure proper documentation of the activities at the community mobilization activities and to help the line manager in the preparation of monthly and weekly reports that includes statistical information to the line manager as/ and when required for the decision making purposes.
Expected outputs/ deliverables:
Deliverables
| Days Required |
| 20 days
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| 20 days |
| 20 days |
The consultant should produce all deliverables by the dates. C2RP of UNDP will take 2-3 working days to review the draft document and share feedback with the consultant.
Supervision and Performance Evaluation:
The National Consultant will closely work with the project team of C2RP Project of UNDP, Bangladesh. C2RP will provide all necessary logistic support, if required. The Consultant will be under the direct supervision of the C2RP Project Manager for performance evaluation.
Duration of the Work and Duty Station
The assignment is for a total of 60 working days from its commencement, between January and April 2019. Workstation would be Cox’s bazar, Bangladesh.
Travel and DSA:
No DSA will be paid at the duty station. If unforeseen travel outside the duty station not required by the Terms of Reference is requested by UNDP, and upon prior agreement/approval, such travel shall be UNDP’s expenses and the individual contractor shall receive a per-diem not to exceed United Nations daily subsistence allowance rate in such other location(s).
Payment Milestone linked with deliverables:
Deliverables
| Percentage of Total Contract Amount |
| 20 % of the total contract amount shall be paid upon completion of Deliverables-01
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| 20 % of the total contract amount shall be paid upon completion of Deliverables-02 |
| 40 % of the total contract amount shall be paid upon completion of Deliverables-03 |
Competencies
Professional Competencies
- Strong background in promotion of peace and human rights, Demonstrated knowledge on community-sensitive mechanisms in Bangladesh;
- Excellent writing, IT and communication skills.
Behavioral Competencies
- Good interpersonal skills;
- Ability to take initiative and promotes a knowledge sharing and learning culture in the office;
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships to facilitate work goals;
- Demonstrable capacity to build knowledge through using various sources;
- Ability to plan, organize, implement and report on work;
- Positive, constructive attitude to work, effective problem solving, self-improvement, analysis and synthesis;
- Openness to change and ability to responds positively to feedback and differing points of view and integrates & updates accordingly; adaptability, creativity;
- Excellent presentation and facilitation skills;
- Demonstrates integrity and ethical standards;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality, age sensitivity and adaptability;
- Exhibit strong teamwork skills in a complex environment.
- Confident in demonstration of work;
- Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure.
Note: The individual consultant who does not meet the above eligibility criteria shall not be considered for further evaluation. Necessary documentation must be submitted to substantiate the above eligibility criteria.
Required Skills and Experience
Expected Qualification and Experiences of the Consultant
Educational Qualification:
Minimum Bachelor Degree in Economics, Development Studies or any other social science related field for the assignment.
Experiences:
- Minimum 2 years of relevant working experience in the area of capacity development, community mobilization, social cohesion.
Additional Capacity:
- At least one year of experience in convening and coordinating community activities and events in Cox’s Bazar.
- Working experience with local level government and non-government stakeholders would be an asset.
- Fluency in written and spoken English and ability to writing report is required.
- Understanding of local language (Cox’s Bazar) will be considered as added value.
Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments
Consultant must send a financial proposal based on Lump Sum Amount. The total amount quoted shall be all-inclusive and include all costs components required to perform the deliverables identified in the TOR, including professional fee, travel costs, living allowance (if any work is to be done outside the IC´s duty station) and any other applicable cost to be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment. The contract price will be fixed output-based price regardless of extension of the herein specified duration. Payments will be done upon completion of the deliverables/outputs and as per below percentages-
In general, UNDP shall not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources. Lodging, meals and transport cost for field visit related to this assignment will be paid by the project as per UN standard.
In the event of unforeseeable travel not anticipated in this TOR, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and the Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.
Travel and DSA:
No DSA will be paid at the duty station. If unforeseen travel outside the duty station not required by the Terms of Reference is requested by UNDP, and upon prior agreement/approval, such travel shall be UNDP’s expenses and the individual contractor shall receive a per-diem not to exceed United Nations daily subsistence allowance rate in such other location(s).
Evaluation Method and Criteria:
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology.
Cumulative analysis-
The award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant up on Cumulative Analysis/evaluation and determined as:
- Responsive/compliant/acceptable; and
- Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation;
Only candidates obtaining a minimum 70% mark in technical evaluation will be considered eligible for financial evaluation.
Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 70 points)
- Criteria 1 Educational Diversification and Qualification – Max 15 Points
- Criteria 2- Number of years working experience in the area of capacity development, community mobilization, social cohesion – Max 10 points
- Criteria 3-Year of experience in convening and coordinating community activities, and events in Cox’s Bazar.;- Max 20 points
- Criteria 4- Fluency in written and spoken English and Bangla including Local Chattertonian language is must tegic plan or cooperation/development framework (evidence needs to be produced)– Max 15 Points
- Criteria 5- Working experiences with UN agencies or other international development agencies will be an added advantage– Max 10 Points
Financial Evaluation (Total 30 marks)
All technical qualified proposals will be scored out 30 based on the formula provided below.
The maximum points (30) will be assigned to the lowest financial proposal. All other proposals received points according to the following formula:
p = y (µ/
Where:
- p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated;
- y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal;
- µ = price of the lowest priced proposal;
- z = price of the proposal being evaluated.
Documents to be included when submitting the proposals:
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Proposers who shall not submit below mentioned documents will not be considered for further evaluation.
- Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references; P11 can be downloaded from the link below: http://www.bd.undp.org/content/bangladesh/en/home/operations/jobs/
- Technical proposal, including a) a brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment; b) a brief methodology, on how you will approach and complete the assignment, including a tentative table of contents for the final report; and c) a list of similar assignment with topic/name of the assignment, duration, role of consultant and organization/project
- Financial Proposal: Financial Proposal has to be submitted through a standard interest and availability template which can be downloaded from the link below:
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