Humanitarian Disability Inclusion Consultant

Duration of the assignment: The consultant is expected to support the disability inclusion in humanitarian action in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh for a period of six months. The assignment is expected to start from 1st July 2018. The estimated total working days for this assignment are calculated at 120 days.

Location/Country: Predominantly in Cox’s Bazaar, Rohingya Refugee camps and occasional trip to Dhaka, Bangladesh

CBM is an international development organisation, committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the poorest countries of the world. Based on its values and over 100 years of professional expertise, CBM addresses poverty as a cause and a consequence of disability, and works in partnership to create a society for all. CBM’s vision is: “an inclusive world in which all persons with disabilities enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential”.

CBM works with persons with disabilities, their families, national and local partner organisations, alliance partners including UN agencies, global organisations, and Disabled Persons’ Organisations. (DPOs).
CBM has been in Bangladesh since 1972 and formally established a country office in 2006. The current portfolio of projects in Bangladesh ranges through inclusive health care including community mental health, empowerment and rights promotion of persons with disabilities through community based inclusive development approaches, emergency relief and rehabilitation, research, advocacy and inclusive development initiatives.

Since November 2017, CBM and its partner Centre for Disability in Development – CDD are implementing humanitarian response for the Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazaar. The humanitarian response strategy has two main pillars: Provision of essential medical and rehabilitation services (centre based, mobile van units and outreach homebased care teams), running of inclusive child friendly space and, provision of technical support to mainstream humanitarian agencies to include persons with disabilities in various sectoral interventions. The second phase of the response started from 1st April 2018 and has seen expansion of the above services and addition of inclusive education in emergencies as well as technical support to mainstream organisations to include persons with disabilities in their humanitarian response.

Since the beginning of the response, CBM and CDD has worked hard to create buy in and commitment from many mainstream agencies to include persons with disabilities in their core activities. This has resulted in development of partnerships with Oxfam, Care, IOM and UNICEF.

In Addition, in June 2018, an Age and Disability Task force - ADTF has been established in Cox’s Bazaar. ADTF comprises of agencies such as HI, HAI, CBM and CDD. These agencies have come together to formulate a strategy and work plan to influence mainstream humanitarian action to implement disability inclusive humanitarian assistance in Cox’s Bazaar.

This will include promoting the Humanitarian Inclusion Standards, training and orientation on various sectoral technical guidelines, hands on support to mainstream agencies on planning, monitoring and evaluation on how persons with disabilities are included in their response activities.

CDD has an operational team of 130 people on ground and core management team of 5 people in Cox’s Bazaar overseeing the implementation of the whole response.

CBM has a support team of two people in Cox’s Bazaar. The team will comprise of Humanitarian/DRR Coordinator and Finance Officer.

Rationale:
In order to successfully promote inclusion of persons with disabilities in on-going humanitarian assistance in Cox’s Bazaar, particularly with identified partners such as IOM, UNICEF, Oxfam, Care and IFRC, CBM is commissioning this consultancy to provide the needed expertise and to support transfer of skills and knowledge and sustain the efforts moving forward.

The Objective and deliverables of the consultancy is:

Objectives: 
1.    To support inclusion of persons with disabilities in the on-going humanitarian assistance in Cox’s Bazaar 
2.    To support implementation of advocacy and technical support strategy for inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian assistance in Cox’s Bazaar. 
3.    To strengthen the capacity of inclusion officers of partner organisation in order to hand over the overall implementation of the advocacy and technical support strategy in six months 

The key tasks of the consultancy are:

Program Management support
1.    In collaboration with CDD’s inclusion officers, CBM’s Global advisors, develop a detailed action plan for implementation of advocacy and technical support strategy with mainstream actors such as IOM, IFRC and UNICEF, Oxfam and Care International
2.    In collaboration with CDD’s inclusion officer, implement and monitor the action plans
3.    Jointly with CDD’s inclusion officer, participate to cluster coordination meetings and work with members of ADTF such as HelpAge International, HI and other like-minded organizations to ensure disability is addressed throughout the coordination mechanisms 
4.    Identify appropriate persons with disabilities among Rohingya population in order to support affected communities voices being included in the humanitarian assistance (through either opportunities during various studies carried out by UN agencies and other humanitarian INGO/NGOs or through attending cluster coordination meetings when possible) 
5.    Develop case studies either show casing good practices of inclusion of persons with disabilities in various sectors such as site planning and management, DRR, healthcare, WASH, Education, Protection) or documenting various barriers or challenges for persons with disabilities to be included in the humanitarian assistance 
6.    Support CDD’s education team leader in development of knowledge products in Inclusive Education in Emergencies
7.    Support CDD’s MEAL Coordinator to capture important learning milestones in the advocacy strategy and present the same to relevant mainstream stakeholders
8.    Ensure that CBM’s Global advisors particularly Accessibility, Education, Gender and Inclusive development advisors are engaged through monthly meetings in order to seek their inputs, align CBM’s advice with global standards and practices and capture learnings as per institutional practices
9.    Assist in mid-term and end of project evaluation
Capacity strengthening 
1.    Support HAI and HI in the roll out of Humanitarian Inclusion standards through orientation training and technical support to mainstream humanitarian organization (detailed work plan will need to be developed)
2.    Linking with any national, regional or local initiative, support DPO leaders, when possible, to provide trainings to mainstream humanitarian organisations to include disability in their response strategies
3.    Mentor and coach CDD’s inclusion officers to carry out advocacy and technical support function for promoting inclusion of persons with disabilities in various humanitarian sectoral activities independently
4.    Support any CBM’s technical or monitoring visits to the project during the project implementation period 

Key Deliverables:

1.    At least, 10 mainstream humanitarian agencies (including UNICEF and its partners, IFRC and its partners, UNHCR) are trained on disability inclusion in humanitarian action and support them to develop specific disability indicators, inclusion plan of action and monitoring plan. A full report on the trainings including specific plan of action and monitoring is produced for these partnerships.
2.    Oxfam – Care DFAT funded project staff is supported to include persons with disabilities in WASH and Protection activities (baseline assessments, trainings and orientation, monitoring and technical support to partner staff members and final evaluation). A final report capturing both the process of including persons with disabilities in WASH and Protection activities and knowledge products will be required
3.    Specific knowledge products are developed on sector specific guidelines on inclusion of persons with disabilities. These sectors may include education in emergency, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion – WASH, Protection and GBV.
4.    IOM staff is trained on the use of Washington set of questions for identification of persons with disabilities and improvement of data disaggregation by disability and supported to developed inclusive plan of action for their engagement in camp management and site planning, WASH and Protection. A detailed report on the training including disability inclusive specific plan and monitoring is developed at the end of six months.
5.    Humanitarian Inclusion Standards are rolled out jointly with HAI
6.    Skills and capacities of CDD’s inclusion officers are enhanced to continue provide technical support to mainstream humanitarian agencies on disability inclusion

Additional specific deliverables will be agreed based on the various tasks at the time of inception and will form the basis of monitoring the outputs of the consultancy work.

Timeline: 
The assignment is expected to start from 1st July 2018 and should be completed by 31st December 2018, with not more than 120 working days in total. The consultant should develop a clear timetable aligned with operational needs of the project to illustrate total time required (in days) to complete the whole assignment. Please note that the timetable will have to be adopted to reflect the fluidity in the context and has to remain flexible to meet the demands of working in tense humanitarian context.

The requirements for selecting an external consultant will be: 
1.    University Degree in social science, disability studies, international development, humanitarian assistance or any other relevant area;
2.    At least five years of proven experience in inclusion of at risk groups – persons with disabilities, women, children, and older people 
3.    Proven knowledge of humanitarian system
4.    Proven experience working with partners and other international stakeholders (UN, INGOs) 
5.    Proven writing skills in English and capacity to product learning documents and products
6.    Proven skills in training and mentoring staff
7.    Proven Experience of working in complex organisational structure 

The consultant will work under the supervision of Humanitarian/DRR Coordinator, and in close cooperation with the CBM ERU, CBM Bangladesh Country Office and CDD.