ForumSyd Request for
Expression of Interest
Global Recruitment of
Individual Experts and Consultants for Short Term Assignments
The Assignment:Capacity Building of Local
Implementing Partners within SIDA CIVSAM Project Support
Background: Forum Syd is a Swedish development platform for 159 organizations with Country Offices in Kenya, Cambodia, Colombia, Belarus and Tanzania with head office in Stockholm Sweden. Our common aim is sustainable development, global justice and poverty reduction.
We provide a platform for
the exchange of experiences, the design of new development methods, and
collaboration towards result improvement and effecting change.
Forum Syd’s main focus is
on Democracy and Rights, Sustainable Use of Natural Resources as well as Gender
Equality. Forum Syd achieves this through the strengthening of civil society
organizations.
The Assignment: During the period 2014 –
2016, Forum Syd Kenya Office is undertaking a new assignment with the
responsibility of coordinating and working as a hub for capacity building of
Local Partner Organizations (LEOs) receiving grants through Project Support
Department in Stockholm.
The broad aim of the
capacity building is to contribute to a stronger civil society capacity build
on LEOs with capacity in key areas of finance and administration, project
management, monitoring and evaluation, and rights based approaches.
The geographic scope for
capacity building assignment is on a global level but focusing on local
implementing partners in prioritized countries in Africa, Eastern Europe and
Asia.
These countries include:
Africa: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Congo DRC, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda,
Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia, Mali, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Togo and
Zimbabwe. Asia: India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos,
Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Palestine and Lebanon. Eastern Europe: Ukraine and
Belarus.
This Invitation for
Expression of Interest is intended to establish a short-list of a group of
experts and consultants in specific areas of specialization who shall be
selected on the basis of a formal request with specific Terms of Reference
(ToR) for the assignment and specific contract(s) not exceeding 25 days signed
for each assignment.
Areas of focus for the consultancies
The consultancies for the
capacity building work is structured to be delivered primarily through core
training courses and technical support to identified local implementing
partners at In-country level.
Technical support will be
required in the following thematic areas:
- Financial
Management, Resource Mobilization and Effective Utilization(including
anti-corruption)
- Administration,
Leadership and Change Management
- Project
Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Rights Based Approaches
Scope of the assignments:
The experts will be
expected to provide technical assistance and support as follows:
- Review and
development of context specific training course modules or reference
materials.
- Technical
support training on financial management, funding and sustainability
- Provision of
on-site and off-site in financial reviews, audit readiness, budgeting,
financial reporting, grants management and use of financial management
information systems
- implementation
support
- Technical
support training and facilitation on administration, leadership and change
management
- Technical
support training and facilitation on project management, monitoring and
evaluation
- Technical
support training and facilitation on rights based approach
- Development
of organization strategies, work plans, proposals, and management policies
- Translation
services to the capacity building assignment: Required languages: English,
French, Spanish, Arabia, Swahili, Russian, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Thai and
Burmese
- Research and
documentation of capacity building work.
- Provision of
editing, design and printing of capacity building work
- Information
technology support to local partners undertaking online courses
- Development
of Organizational Capacity Assessment Tools
- Expert
guidance on other tasks as directed by Forum Syd Kenya Country Office.
Required Qualifications and Experience
Forum Syd now invites
eligible Consultants to indicate their interest in providing the
services.
Interested Consultants
should provide information demonstrating that they have the required
qualifications and relevant experience to perform the services.
- A minimum of
10 years’ working experience in the focus areas of the assignment
- Relevant
Post graduate qualification
- Extensive
experience providing relevant technical support to non-state actors in
target country(s)
- Extensive
experience in teaching and developing course content, and/ delivery of e
-courses
- Extensive
knowledge and experience from international development work and other
contexts particularly in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia
- Experience
in a senior advisory level on organizational development or similar
issues.
- Knowledge
and expertise on rights based approaches, training and support
The
successful consultant(s) will be selected on the basis of their qualifications
and experience in their respective areas of expertise, geographical location
and experience in countries listed above and shall be retained so as to provide
technical assistance and support services from time to time as required during
the period 2014-2016.
For further information, kindly contact:
The Global Coordinator for
Capacity Building of Local Partners
eMail: moses.otsieno@forumsyd.org
eMail: moses.otsieno@forumsyd.org
Or
The Country Manager, Kenya
Forum Syd
P.O Box 1419-00502
Nairobi, Kenya
Forum Syd
P.O Box 1419-00502
Nairobi, Kenya
Telephone number: +254 705 871 873/736 549 118
Submission of the EOI
Candidates are requested to
submit written Expressions of Interest (EOI) specifying the relevant technical
skills, country of focus, fees per day in USD and availability.
The EOI shall not exceed
five (5) pages and should be sent by email to Forum Syd Kenya Country Office
with the subject: EOI: Individual Experts and Consultants for Short Term
Capacity Building Assignments to: info.africa@forumsyd.org on or before 15th
August 2014.
Further information about
the organization is available at: www.forumsyd.org
