Consultancy on Triple Nexus in Practice

الوصف

Background

The Middle East and North Africa region is a highly complex and volatile region. The birth place of the Arab Spring, the region has seen decades of war, large scale displacement, political crises and lack of good governance, large scale human rights violations, shrinking civic space, stark inequality, and is a place of origin, a transit point and a destination for millions of migrants every year. Syrian refugees living in the region remain the world’s biggest refugee caseload. The MENA region also hosts the two longest refugee caseloads in the world, the Palestinian refugees, and the Saharawi refugees in Algeria. The conflicts in the region are often proxy wars, and act as playing fields for the worlds super powers to fight it out and try to increase their global influence. Iran, Turkey, the US, UK, the UAE, France, Saudi Arabia, Russia, are just a few of the countries with a stake in the conflicts of Syria, Yemen, Iraq, OPT and Western Sahara. Despite the continued need for provision of emergency aid, the protracted nature of crises, and displacement and the scale of structural inequality and vulnerability across the region requires stronger articulation between humanitarian and development aid, and peace at all levels.

Purpose

The paper will demonstrate how Oxfam in MENA is addressing some of the four dilemmas raised in the global Nexus policy paper through the use of case studies. Ideally, each of the four dilemmas should be looked at through the lens of one project experience. In the event that the case study for a given dilemma is not strong enough, two projects/case studies could be used instead. Where feasible, multiple case studies could be identified for one dilemma.

Application process

Expressions of interest should be sent to [email protected] including the following information, no later than the 15th May 2022: