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  1. Créé par Anita SAFI DIAZILA
  2. Le 11/04/2023
  3. 181920Dans Services Consultance Via email

Lijst details

Organisation : medica mondiale e.V.
Uitvoeringstermijn : 11/04/2023 au 24/04/2023
Publicatie datum : 11/04/2023
Inlever deadline : 24/04/2023
Contactpersoon : recruitment@medicamondiale.org

Marktoverzicht

About medica mondiale 

medica mondiale e.V. is a non-governmental organisation based in Cologne, Germany. As a feministwomen’s rights and aid organisation medica mondiale supports women and girls in war and crisiszones throughout the world.

Context

The Transnational Health Training and Advocacy Programme (THTP) aims at improving access to stress- and trauma-sensitive health care services for women and girls affected by sexualized and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kosovo (KOS) and the Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI). medica mondiale implements the THTP together with its partner organizations Medica Zenica (BiH) and Medica Gjakova (Kosovo). In the Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI) the project is implemented through the medica mondiale regional office. The project is now in its third phase (2022 – 2025). One of the main focuses of this phase is to upscale field-tested good practices and lessons learned in implementing the Stress- and trauma-sensitive approach (STA) in the health care sector from the country level to the international sphere.
The project pursues a system-oriented approach that strengthens capacities at several levels with connected components:

  1. Direct support and awareness raising for SGBV survivors and their social environment
  2. Qualification and strengthening of health professionals
  3. Advocacy work on country level
  4. Transnational Learning Exchange
  5. International Advocacy work

In this context, the purpose of the assignment is to support the International THTP Advocacy Team in further developing and implementing the international advocacy strategy and contributing to the capacity development of the THTP partners in international advocacy work.

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Key Responsibilities 

The consultant will support the THTP team in the following activities:

  • Finalizing the international advocacy strategy, linking it to the country strategies
  • Continuous mapping, monitoring and assessment (develop and share recommendations) of relevant international advocacy platforms and participation in selected ones (Together with THTP partners whenever possible)
  • Advocacy meetings (individual/bilateral exchanges) with selected persons from advocacy target groups to establish partnerships and to promote the messages of the programme (Together with THTP partners whenever possible)
  • Support organising own advocacy events (such as conferences, round tables etc, as specified in the THTP international advocacy strategy)
  • Contribution to the development of specific advocacy products (position papers, draft standard procedures, recommendation papers, shadow reports, visual materials, campaigns etc. as specified in the THTP international advocacy strategy) 
  • Capacity development for THTP implementing partner organisations

Time Frame


The consultancy shall accompany the project implementation between 2023 and 2025. It is estimated that the implementation of the tasks requires on average around 30 working days per year. The details and exact distribution of workload over the years will be defined based on the revised THTP international advocacy strategy together with the consultant.

Deliverables

  • Project specific international advocacy strategy, revised and agreed with THTP partners, including an implementation plan and a mapping of relevant actors and platforms
  • Developed advocacy products (as defined in the International Advocacy Strategy)
  • Documentation of each advocacy and capacity development activity held or participated in.
  • Further needs based deliverables within the technical support to partners (to be defined during process)

The advocacy consultant will report to the International THTP Advocacy Team, composed by the THTP partner organisations, and coordinated by medica mondiale e.V.. Regular update meetings with the International Advocacy Team and the THTP project manager at medica mondiale e.V. will be arranged to define further details and to agree on the deliverables and changes if needed.

 

  1. Créé par Rudi COEL
  2. Le 14/03/2023
  3. 181920Dans Services Consultancy Via email

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Organisation : Oxfam Wereldwinkels
Geschatte duur : 128 jours
Geschat bedrag van het contract : 30000 euros
Uitvoeringstermijn : 10/05/2023 au 15/09/2023
Publicatie datum : 14/03/2023
Inlever deadline : 10/05/2023
Contactpersoon : OBE.TENDER@oxfam.org

Marktoverzicht

Invitation to quote: analysis of cocoa and chocolate purchasing practices that could undermine living incomes for cocoa farmers (West-Africa – Belgium)

 

  1. Introduction

Oxfam Wereldwinkels (hereafter OWW), a non-governmental organisation for humanitarian assistance and development aid, launches an Invitation to Quote (IQ) under Making Agricultral Trade Sustainable (MATS, INTCE 205) for a critical analysis of purchasing practices of cocoa and chocolate that could undermine living incomes for cocoa farmers.

 

The quote must arrive at latest on April 10th, midnight CET and stay valid until May 10th, midnight CET.

 

The Invitation to Quote (IQ) is structured as follows

  1. Terms of reference
  2. Submission procedure
  3. Decision procedure

 

Your quote could form the basis for a contract between your company and OBE. However, this invitation to quote does not oblige OBE to proceed with the actual act of purchasing. No compensation can be claimed in case of non-acceptance of a quote or non-award of a contract.

Oxfam General Purchase Conditions apply to all Oxfam purchases. If there is an inconsistency between any of the provisions of these Conditions and a particular provision in the IQ or a contract then the provision in the IQ or the contract will prevail.

 

  1. Terms of reference
    1. General information

General information

Institution

Oxfam Wereldwinkels (OWW)

Tentative title

ANALYSIS OF COCOA AND CHOCOLATE PURCHASING PRACTICES THAT ARE UNDERMINING LIVING INCOMES FOR COCOA FARMERS

Budget

30.000 €

Period

April - September 2023

 

Oxfam Wereldwinkels (OWW), since 2020 an integral part of Oxfam België (OBE), has been advocating for a sustainable cocoa/chocolate sector for several decades. Since 2010 we are co-publishing the bi-annual Cocoa Barometer and we are one of the founding members of the VOICE-Network, the main CSO-advocacy network in the cocoa sector. The rights of farmers and small farmer organizations are central to our approach. Therefore we advocate for the human right of a living income to be protected and respected for all farming families.

 

In recent years there has been a lot of movement around the topic of living income, with statements from CSO’s, governments, knowledge institutions as well as companies. Governments are looking for ways to legislate the protection of a living income while companies look at the concept mostly from a CSR perspective. This approach is mostly disconnected from their business model as a whole. Despite the fact that prices are an essential element of the living income equation, they are mostly overlooked as part of the living income strategies.

 

    1. Objectives

With this study we would like to get a better understanding of the actions that companies (willingly and unwillingly) are doing that are keeping cocoa prices down and therefore potentially harming the right to a living income for cocoa farmers. This better understanding should help policymakers to create adequate rules that push companies to respect the right to a living income through their business models as a whole.

 

From these learnings, we would like to make recommendations to:

  • Businesses: to shift to a business model that contributes to their living income commitments
  • Legislators: to change the trade rules and to create a level playing field for living income conform pricing models
  • Governments and cooperatives in exporting countries: How to increase their negotiating power and raise prices for farmers

Samenvatting van de verwachtingen van de leveranciers

 

    1. Requested profile

The consultant(s) should have strong data analysis and research skills, excellent economic knowledge and experience in commodity markets. Strong background in EU frameworks.

  • PhD or Masters degree in an area relevant to the assignment.
  • Strong background in trade and policy analysis
  • At least 3 years’ experience in one of the following policy fields: Commodity trade, Cocoa trade, EU trade policy
  • Demonstrated analysis, synthesis and writing capacity in English.
  • Ability write for policy makers and the wider public.
  • Professional knowledge of French is an asset

 

    1. Deliverables

The study will be presented and discussed with members of civil society in producing countries (such as Plateforme Ivoirienne pour le Cacao Durable and Ghana Civil Society Platform – GCCP) as well as in consuming countries (such as VOICE-network).

 

The authors will participate in a meeting with the authors of the other MATS study mentioned above.

 

The study will produce a visualisation of the links and impact pathways to help clarify the interrelationships.

 

Deliverables will have to fit the requirements of MATS project (template under development), and OBE quality standards.

  • A research/case study report of 30-50 pages, in line with OBE quality standards and where possible aligned with the requirements of MATS (template under development, preliminary section headings see annex 3).
  • Visualization of key insights on how change is believed to happen in this coffee value chain (ToC).
  • Access to any used data sets if these are freely accessible or otherwise produced under this agreement, with all steps of calculations shown.
  • Data on the number of informants/interviewees involved, including dates of participation in the research, disaggregated at minimum by gender & age, and where possible without compromising anonymity in case this was requested: nationality, ethnicity, disability, legal status, etc. The consultant must provide Oxfam, upon request, access to the preparatory materials for interviews and focus groups (questionnaires, topic lists) and,where possible withour compromising requested anonymity, the recording of these events.
  • Data collected on 15 SDG-related indicators, to be determined by the consultant and Oxfam.
  • Timesheet for reporting requirements within MATS

 

    1. Calendar

The research should be conducted between April 2023 and September 2023, taking into account the harvesting period in the selected location as the ideal timing for field research. The deadline for the draft report is August 20, 2023. The deadline for the final report is September 15, 2023.

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