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Consultancy for Outcome Harvesting and Qualitative Inquiry: Strengthening Community-Level Learning on the prevention of Child Wasting in the Mandera Triangle Job.

Purpose of the Consultancy

• To ensure that the programme remains grounded in the lived experience of communities, particularly mothers and caregivers, this consultancy will undertake an outcome harvesting exercise combined with a qualitative review. The aim is to capture promising practices and identify gaps that hinder progress toward improved nutrition outcomes.
• Support the conducting of qualitative research with mothers and caregivers across a sample of Hanaano communities in the Mandera Triangle in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia
• Harvest outcomes and promising practices that contribute to improved nutrition and prevention of wasting.
• Identify key insights as well as barriers and gaps in relation to behaviour change, access to nutritious foods, caring practices, livelihoods, market access as well as water and sanitation practices
• Provide evidence-based recommendations to strengthen the programme’s Theory of Change and its delivery mechanisms.

Specific Objectives

• Document relevant community-level changes related to child nutrition, maternal care, food access, livelihoods, and hygiene/water management since the programme started.
• Understand how and why these changes have occurred (or not occurred), from the perspective of mothers and key community actors.
• Identify what is working well in Hanaano’s design and implementation—across nutrition, livelihoods, gender, WASH, and social protection.
• Highlight missed opportunities or gaps in reaching the most vulnerable households and preventing wasting.
• Develop recommendations for enhancing effectiveness, including changes to programme activities, linkages, or support models.
• Contribute to learning under the Child Wasting Initiative, with clear documentation of findings and implications.

Essential and Desirable Experience/Qualifications

This assignment requires a consultancy team with at least one member having access to the Hanaano communities, ideally a female qualitative researcher with live experience in the Mandera Triangle. The ideal team will have:

• Proven experience in qualitative research, outcome harvesting, or participatory methods in complex contexts
• Expertise in nutrition, gender, WASH, or livelihoods programming
• Ability to engage with vulnerable women and caregivers sensitively and ethically
• Fluency in local language (Somali) and excellent written English
• Experience in producing clear, action-oriented reports and facilitating validation/learning workshops
• Understanding of cross-border dynamics and livelihood systems in the Horn of Africa

Security

It is a requirement that the consultant will comply with [Kenya] security policy and in-country security procedures. Failing to comply will result in immediate termination of contract.

Required documentation with your proposal:

• Company / Consultant profile
• Certificate of Incorporation (firms) or National ID card (individual)
• Valid Tax Compliance Certificate
• PIN Certificate
• Company / Consultant’s Profile
• Certificate/reference information of previous undertakings of similar contracts with
• NGOs/UN agencies
• Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct etc. or what are the necessary provisions have you put in place to keep everyone safe in the course of your engagement
• Attach copy of Certificate of Good Conduct or proof that you have applied for the same
• Short one page timeline and proposal of how the work will be completed.
• An up to date CV detailing relevant experience
• A proposed daily rate inclusive of all costs for each consultant and breakdown of roles/responsibilities and days. Should be presented in Kenya Shillings & ensure you indicate VAT and withholding tax where applicable;
• Availability for the period of the consultancy

How to Apply

Interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, should submit their proposals by email to; Consultancies.Kenya@concern.net With the subject line “SR111669 – Consultancy for Outcome Harvesting & Qualitative Inquiry.” by 4:00pm on 21st July 2025.