Consultancy - Domestic Worker Assessment

Terms of Reference

 

Service Contract: Consultancy

Location: Lebanon

Duration of the service contract: for up to 25 days from mid-August 2019 to mid-October 2019; the duration could be reviewed during the contract negotiation process and in accordance with the final needs and activities planning

 

Objectives / Purpose of assignment

To conduct a situation analysis to assess access of foreign domestic workers to MHPSS services.

This will include:

• Design and conduct a literature review to have a detailed overview of the situation of foreign domestic workers in Lebanon
• Design and conduct a desk review and consultations with stakeholders (including NGOs, therapists and psychiatric hospitals) to gather information on mental health status of foreign domestic workers in Lebanon
• Identify and meet with actors dealing with foreign domestic workers
• Provide a mapping of actors engaged in the protection of foreign domestic workers (response, prevention and advocacy), with a focus on MHPSS - including government, civil society and the private sector (including agencies, therapists, psychiatrists, psychiatric hospitals, migrant centers, prisons).
• Analyze the compiled information and on access to mental health services: opportunities and challenges
• Gaps and challenges knowledge and skills, prevention and response (services), advocacy and legislation per location – focusing on MHPSS.
• Recommendations

 

The consultant will be responsible for the entire assessment process and be responsible for all logistical arrangements (movements, communications and IT materials, etc.)

 

TIMETABLE

The Consultancy will be for a period of maximum 25 days. Work is to be completed by mid-October 2019, with a detailed work plan to be agreed during the inception stage of the contract.

 

EXPECTED DELIVERABLES AND PRESENTATION OF FINDINGS

• Work plan and report outline
• Design of interview guidelines and mapping tools to be shared with MdM prior to assessment
• Mapping of stakeholders
• Draft report to be share with MdM and final report taking into account MdM’s feedbacks.

 

All the deliverables shall be written and submitted in English.

 

PROFIL OF THE CONSULTANT:

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualifications or relevant work experience in MHPSS or with foreign domestic workers
• Three to five years of professional work experience in development projects in the mentioned field
• Technical and/or academic expertise in assessment development, preferably in MHPSS

Core Competencies

• Excellent time management and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to work autonomously
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Accountability

Technical Competencies

• Fluency in English and Arabic language, French would be an advantage
• Understanding of the region’s development context, activities, actors
• Significant experience in MHPSS project design and implementation
• Experience in research, monitoring and evaluation
• Excellent capacity to write

 

Submission of the application

To be considered, interested and qualified consultants must submit the following documentation to: mdm.lebanon.hr@gmail.com with the following email’s title: DW – Consultancy:

1. Curriculum vitae (max. 3 pages highlighting work experience and qualifications relevant to this consultancy)
2. Full contact details of at least two references from among recent clients
3. One sample report highlighting experience relevant to this situation analysis
4. A technical offer comprising:
   • Understanding of the objective of the assessment and the Terms of Reference (ToR);
   • Outline of the methodology and tools proposed;
   • A chronogram showing details for the realization of the assessment. The schedule proposed should include time for briefing and debriefing at the mission, and at Head Office as far as possible.
   • A sworn statement as to the absence of any conflict of interest

 

5. A Financial offer mentioning:
   1. Your name and contacts (address, phone and email) or corporate name and contacts
   2. Your consultant fees with the daily rate in USD for a consultancy equal to the number of days needed for the work, to be performed by maximum Mid of October. Daily rate shall be mentioned without taxes as MDM will be responsible to pay for them.
   3. A breakdown budget including all the costs

 

Expression of interest deadline: August 4th at 11pm.

Please note that the applications received after this deadline will be not considered. Please note that the application received without the email’s title DW – Consultancy will not be considered.

 

Criteria of selection:

The application received will be shortlisted based on the followings criteria:

1. Efficiency and details of the financial offer
2. Relevance of the previous professional experience and academic background compared to the profile seeking

Relevance of the technical offer