Cash Consultant

1. Organizational context

War Child is a specialized child rights agency with over 23 years of experience in these sectors and specific expertise on integrated protection and education interventions.

Through its current programming in Lebanon, War Child responds to the immediate and urgent needs of children affected by conflict through protection, education in emergencies, psychosocial support, and capacity-building of partners and community structures. With offices in Beirut, Chtoura, and Tripoli, War Child has been working in Lebanon since 2007 and has a long-established partnership with other international NGOs, Lebanese NGOs, CSOs, and communities all over the country. War Child's mandate and expertise focuses on three main areas of intervention: child protection, psychosocial support and education. Through the community-based approach embedded in all of its programming, it has been able to effectively access vulnerable hard-to-reach populations and foster existing local initiatives, in line with its commitment to strengthen local capacity. All War Child's partners are well-established in their respective communities and able to provide services to vulnerable communities in extremely challenging circumstances with the acceptance of the local authorities.

War Child's Education and Child Protection programme, implemented all over Lebanon are supported by UNICEF, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, EU Madad, and others. Our interventions are focused on children and at-risk adolescents to prevent and respond to Protection concerns through provision of psycho-social support, non formal education (to reintegrate into FE), and child protection. War Child is a member of a number of consortia with other Child Protection and education actors (AVSI, Terre des Hommes) as well as member of sectors’ Working Groups, such as the CP WG (national by War Child and at field level by partners), the Case Management Task Force (CMTS), the SGBV Task Force, the Education Sector Working Group on the national level and in the education sub groups.

War Child is active across all governorates of Lebanon. We are presently in more than 40 locations - including the most vulnerable areas of the country. We work in support of children from host communities as well as children from Syrian and Palestinian refugee communities.

Our community-based integrated approach combines psychosocial support, child protection and education to enhanced effect. We work to enhance the capacities of local Community Based Organizations to further extend our impact. We also strive to boost the inclusion of children with disabilities in all our programming.

Due the deteriorating situation in Lebanon and as mentioned by the WB in their report “Lebanon Sinking (To the Top 3)”-The Lebanon financial and economic crisis is likely to rank in the top 10, possibly top three, most severe crises episodes globally since the mid-nineteenth century. The social impact of the crisis, which is already dire, could rapidly become catastrophic;

more than half the population is likely below the national poverty line.

Therefore, War Child is hiring an expert in cash and food security to advise and provide guidance on how to integrate cash and food distribution in their current programming and its related components.

The provision of cash or food will happen:

1. Either through Local partnerships – those who have the experience or transferable capacities to deliver local action (CASH, Livelihood, Food security).

2. Or directly through child protection, education and PSS with an emphasis on how CASH and Food related interventions can result in Education, Child Protection and PSS positive outcomes

2. Nature of the consultancy

The Consultant’s primary responsibility is to contribute to War Child team efforts to systematize the integration of cash throughout the programs. Specifically, the consultant will focus on collecting and reviewing different internal and external guidance and literatures which will then be used to draft Cash based guidelines for War Child Lebanon and advise on the best modality to integrate cash in our current programs.

To provide an overview of definitions, conditions, modality, needs to be covered, targeting and eligibility criteria, transfer value based on needs and context analysis (tensions that might arise due to the response).

Scope:

The consultancy should include (i) interviewing and coordinating with key War Child staff members from different departments and divisions to clearly understand the objective of the guidelines to be drafted and get all relevant information to be included (ii) identifying and reviewing existing literature on cash-based interventions including guidelines, standard operating procedures and other relevant documents  (iii) drafting the War Child cash based guidelines in coordination with relevant WC colleagues.

Objective:

The consultant will support WC Lebanon in drafting cash based guidelines which will become the practical comprehensive guide on how to plan, implement and monitor projects that use cash as a modality to deliver humanitarian support within the organization.

Tasks to be performed under this contract:

1. Prepare and submit a detailed work plan

Based on the details outlined in this TOR and additional information to be provided by the WC team, the consultant will provide a detailed workplan within the 1st week of the consultancy period to be reviewed and approved by ?

2. Interview and discuss the content of the document with key WC stakeholders

In order to better understand the purpose of this tool and the needs that it will address, the consultant will carry out interviews with key WC personnel from different departments.

Interviews will be as well carried out with key partners in order to be inclusive and have main partners participating and sharing information from their experience.

3. Conduct literature and desk review

The consultant will collect and carry out well-structured review of the existing documents (guidelines, SOP, literature reviews, etc.) done by agencies who implement Cash programming.

4. Review and finalize the guidelines

The consultant will draft the outline of the guidelines then will finalize them based on discussions and reviews from WC team and partners

3.  Realistic delivery dates and details as to how the work must be delivered:

1. Orientation and induction for the consultant to be done during the first 2 days of the contract
2. The detailed workplan shall be ready 1 week after the start of the contract
3. The interviews to be done during the first Month after start of contract
4. The literature and desk review to be done simultaneously with the interviews
5. The outline/draft table of content expected at the start of the second month of the contract.
6. The first draft of the guidelines is expected 1 month prior to the end of the contract and the revised version 1 week prior to the end of this contract