Development of Donor-targeted CVA modules - Consultancy

Background

The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) is the global partnership for cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in humanitarian aid. We are a catalyst for accelerating change in the scale and quality of cash transfer programming.
CaLP enables collaboration between organizations, while also supporting them to make their own progress. We do this by bringing organisations together to strengthen capacity, knowledge and commitment for CVA across the humanitarian sector. The potential of CVA cannot be delivered by organisations working alone.
The CaLP secretariat comprises approximately 30 staff globally, which is made up of technical expertise, policy, capacity building, communications and management staff. CaLP has offices in Jordan, Kenya, Senegal, Switzerland, the UK and US, in addition several staff are home based. These offices support and facilitate knowledge sharing, technical assistance, learning and training in multiple countries, and ensure that all voices are heard through representation in key global and regional fora.
CaLP’s members – who will deliver the increases in scale and quality of CVA in humanitarian response – are at the heart of what we do. They gain value from being part of our global partnership, both as individual organisations and collectively. Our membership comprises more than 80 organisations and individual experts. Members include the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, NGOs, UN agencies, academia, the private sector and donors.

Capacity Building (CB) strategy

Within the CaLP’s organisational efforts to brings humanitarian actors together to address the many collective aspects of the global framework for action, our capacity build objective highlights our commitment to providing specialist capacity building services and advice by:

1. Developing a full set of training programmes that cover key competencies required for quality CVA and are integrated into sector-wide training infrastructure.

2. Making our training programmes easily accessible to people working on humanitarian assistance around the world.

3. Training 50,000 people working on humanitarian assistance around the world.
   Our current portfolio of approximately 15 face-to-face and e-learning courses offers opportunities for humanitarians at the introductory, intermediate and advanced levels. Our materials and content serve as a foundation for the training efforts of organisations around the world.

Context for the work

While many donors support the use of CVA in their programmes, and its use within humanitarian response continues to increase, there is value in promoting learning and discussion forums that respond to donors’ needs and explores current trends and anticipated outlook for CVA programming. In addition to existing CVArelated content that is of value to the donor community, CaLP’s support for the ‘Future of Financial Assistance’ initiative and its periodic State of the World’s Cash reports offer rich material for discussion. The German Federal Foreign Office has expressed interest in attending the course, and is offering support for its development and initial delivery.

Audience

This consultancy will lead the planning and development of a set of capacity building modules targeting donor staff. More specifically, this will target donors who typically work through their foreign offices and embassies and who do not usually have full time CVA expertise in-house and/or who have staff who rotate regularly between roles and may not have specialist CVA knowledge.

Specific task(s) of the consultancy

Using existing materials and resources and participating in consultations with CaLP and GFFO, the consultant will finalise key topics and craft a series of sessions (likely 90 minutes per session) to promote understanding, share experiences and foster discussion around the outlook for CVA programming and implications for donors’ strategic planning and actions. Illustrative modules topics might include orientation and advocacy, strategic vision, programmatic components, trends and issues, and embassy roles.
In addition to the development of the course, the consultancy will include the delivery of the modules to an audience of GFFO staff, and, perhaps, representatives from a number of other donor agencies.
Key activities of the consultancy include (with estimated number of days in parentheses):

1. Discuss with CaLP, GFFO, other donor agencies and additional stakeholders opportunities and needs for content for the various modules (4 days)

2. Review related content from existing courses, and read the Future of Financial Assistance and State of the World’s Cash reports to glean key topics and trends for inclusion (3 days)

3. Draft a series of interactive sessions (up to six sessions, to be delivered over 2 days) and accompanying materials (Facilitation Notes, slides, handouts) using CaLP course formatting (10 days)

4. Pilot delivery of the course with donor agencies (3 days, including reporting)

5. Refinement of modules, including recommendations (and materials, if appropriate, for alternative delivery formats, such as moderated webinar) (3 days)

Key Deliverables/Outputs

During the consultancy, the following outputs will be expected:
a) Completed course materials (reflecting input from GFFO and other donor agencies)
b) Course report

Time Schedule & Project Duration

This work is expected to be completed no later than 31 March 2020.

Management

This piece of work is commissioned by Oxfam GB on behalf of the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP). The CaLP Global Capacity Building Coordinator will manage the consultant.

Milestones and Payment Schedule

A one-time payment will be made upon successful completion and submission of all project deliverables.
Note – for smaller pieces of work, we prefer to make one payment at the end of the contract. For larger pieces of work, payment milestones must be linked to key deliverables as outlined in the previous sections. Payment milestones can have 1, 2 or 3 payment points, but should have no more than 3 as a maximum.

Essential profile of the consultant

For this piece of work, CaLP is looking for the following expertise:
• Demonstrated experience with capacity building course development, especially with CVA course
content.
• Strong familiarity, skills and past experience delivering CaLP courses.
• Substantial knowledge and experience in capacity building: adult learning methodological approaches and tools and strong skills in facilitation; designing trainings; collecting and analysing secondary information; conducting surveys, consultations and key informant interviews; synthesising qualitative and quantitative information; and evaluating training impact.
• Knowledge of and ability to guide high-level discussions of CVA-related topics and trends, including but not limited to the Grand Bargain, the Global Framework for Action, the Future of Financial Assistance, and the State of the World’s Cash.
• Familiarity with the ‘landscape’ of the humanitarian donor community, and ability to relate to questions and concerns emanating from donors
• The ability to communicate technical subject matter (in oral and written form) to people with varying technical knowledge/skills and from different educational and cultural backgrounds.

Additional document:
• ToR

How to apply:

Please apply with your Expression of Interest and/or Proposal to: consult@cashlearning.org or, for any other questions globalcapacitybuilding@cashlearning.org