Project Baseline Assessment

Terms of Reference (ToR)

Project Baseline Assessment

 Resilient Communities: Supporting vulnerable and affected Palestinian communities to transition to more resilient, sustainable, and equitable economic growth in the Gaza Strip and the Jordan Valley

Project BACKGROUND

Project summary

DURATION: July 2021-July 2025

COUNTRY: Occupied Palestinian Territory 

CONTRACT HOLDER:  Oxfam Germany 

OXFAM COUNTRY EA: Oxfam Novib (ONL) in Palestine.

DONOR: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Project design and Intervention logic 

The Resilient Communities project designed to strengthen the resilience of undeserved conflict, Covid-19 and climate affected communities in the Gaza Strip and the Jordan Valley. The project will address the needs of men and women small scale producers, farmers, youth, agronomists, and cooperatives experiencing multiple vulnerabilities and negative coping strategies caused by natural and man-made events that have resulted in system failures. The project will also address the lack of protection of the project’s targeted group’s agricultural assets, lands and inputs, limited livelihood opportunities, job insecurity, and the lack of access to quality basic services. Additionally, the project will strengthen targeted groups' capacity and production skills at the individual, households, and community/local structure levels to enhance locally embedded services, responsive capacities to crises and shocks and high-quality production. 

This project is part of “Oxfam’s Nexus Approach” that complements “Oxfam’s One Program Approach & Resilience Framework”, which requiring meeting immediate needs while ensuring longer-term investment. Under this project, the “nexus” focuses on addressing the systemic causes of conflict and vulnerability, which has a better chance of reducing the impact of cyclical or recurrent shocks, stresses and violent conflict.

Accordingly, the project's overall objective is to contribute to transitioning from aid dependency to resilient, sustainable, and equitable economic growth in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The project’s theory of change (TOC) is that IF vulnerable communities affected by COVID-19, conflict and climate shocks have improved access to water for domestic and irrigation purposes, services and climate smart irrigation techniques; and IF young women, men, agronomists and SSPs have improved livelihoods and increased income; and IF local communities, stakeholders, SSP’s representative bodies and implementing partners have strengthened knowledge and capacity to respond to emergencies; THEN this will contribute to transitioning from aid dependency to resilient, sustainable and equitable economic growth in OPT.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Interested consultants should submit letter of interest, technical proposal, and financial offer no later than the November 8, 2021, COB 16:00 to the attention of OPT–Jerusalem Procurement [email protected]  

The proposal should include the following:

Objectives -understanding of the scope of the assignment.

Technical offer including a preliminary causal approach, design, methodology. 

CV of the consultant(s) including list of similar works

Detailed budget on a separate sheet.

All docs are requested in English language, and the financial offer in Euros.

Tender Documents: ToR