CONSULTANCY FOR A RAPID CARE ANALYSIS OF PRIVATE SECTOR

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CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND OF RAPID CARE ANALYSIS ON PRIVATE SECTOR

1. Unpaid Care and Home Work

The non-public sector is properly developed and enormous by sub-Saharan and regional requirements and performs the main half within the Kenyan financial system. The well being of the financial system and advantages to residents are instantly correlated to the well being of the non-public sector. In Kenya, the non-public sector is noticeably cut up into two components: a proper, massive enterprise sector which is comparatively wholesome and productive, and an enormous, casual small enterprise sector that’s poorly understood and supported, but which employs nearly 9 out of ten employees. Hyperlinks between the formal and casual sectors are very weak – and initiatives that bridge the hole ought to be a precedence. Agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, tourism, transport and communication, and monetary companies account for over 80% of the non-public sector’s contribution to complete GDP. Agriculture stays crucial sector when it comes to contribution to personal sector GDP and employment, although the significance of agriculture when it comes to its contribution to GDP is declining relative to different sectors, whereas that of producing stays comparatively stagnant. Development within the non-public sector is more and more pushed by commerce, transport, Info, Communication and Expertise (ICT) and monetary companies.[1]

Unpaid care and home work (UCDW) hold households, communities and enterprise working. Care is a optimistic and invaluable contribution to our economies and the functioning of our societies. It ensures wholesome, thriving, well-fed youngsters, aged, disabled and sick folks, in addition to working adults. Take care of folks is offered by, or paid for, by households, and States, the non-public sector and civil society. In response to a 2019 Family Care Survey in Kenya by Oxfam, ladies spend a mean of 5 hours a day on unpaid care work (as major exercise) in comparison with about one hour for males. As well as, if unpaid care work is included as both a secondary or simultaneous exercise, the ratio is 11.1 hours for ladies to 2.9 hours for males.25 Ladies are extra typically anticipated to be the first caregiver and are more likely to spend 20% of their time taking care of a baby.26 Paid and unpaid care work stays largely absent from each nationwide and county social and financial growth plans and insurance policies, making ladies’s paid and unpaid care work much less valued than that of males and undermining Kenya’s ambitions to realize inclusive and sustainable growth. Ladies and ladies care work props up the financial system and underpins society, but there’s inadequate funding in fostering gender equality on this work.

1. Why UCDW Evaluation is Essential

The SDG 5 “Obtain gender equality and empower all ladies and ladies” consists of targets of valuing unpaid care and home work. The ILO calculates that of the full hours that men and women work, globally, unpaid care and home work represents 42% of complete work time (ILO). As governments and societies low cost this main section of labor, they have a tendency to underinvest within the productiveness and effectivity of those essential companies that all of us require. Financial actuality tends to be totally different for ladies, as ladies must ‘finances’ time in addition to cash to ‘present’ for his or her households. Ladies are inclined to make choices about their paid work based mostly on time in addition to revenue.

Globally, ladies spend twice as a lot time on family work and 4 occasions as a lot time on childcare than males (EBRD & ICRW 2019). On common, ladies dedicate 3.2 occasions extra time than males to unpaid care work. Globally, the gender distribution of unpaid care and home work is intimately linked to the gender distribution of paid work. These patterns stick with ladies doing the majority of routine home tasks and caring for household, a transparent impediment to their participation in paid labor. Even the place ladies have entered the paid labor power, they proceed to tackle most care and home obligations. Most frequently ladies are inclined to have insufficient entry to care is crucial infrastructure companies that help unpaid care work, comparable to transportation, water and vitality programs, and well being, schooling.

1. Why PS Ought to Take Care About UCDW

Sustainable Improvement Objective 5 Goal 5.4: Acknowledge and worth unpaid care and home work by the availability of public companies, infrastructure and social safety insurance policies and the promotion of shared duty throughout the family and the household as nationally applicable. The Fast Care Evaluation helps companies establish choices for decreasing heavy home and care duties or to redistribute some duty for care to authorities, civil society, or males, and to employers.

The world over, corporations, unions, and employees’ organizations proceed to make progress on gender fairness and respect for employees’ rights. Analysis reveals that addressing Unpaid Care and Home Work (UCDW) at work advantages firm operations, furthering the objectives of employers, and that the beneficial properties for enterprise are higher than the prices. Globally, 60.7% of employed adults have household obligations or dwell with individuals who rely on their care. When corporations introduce insurance policies and measures for addressing UCDW, this has a optimistic influence on ladies employees’ well-being. It improves their well being, reduces their stress at work, resulting in extra focus and employee engagement. Some measures allow ladies to get promoted at work, or to participate in coaching or in employees’ committees and commerce unions. Corporations and employers have duty to evaluate and handle employees’ unpaid care and home work.

OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSULTANCY: WHY THE NEED TO ROLL-OUT THE PS RCA TOOLKIT?

Dwelling wages are essential, however they don’t often resolve work-life stability. The ETI Gender Knowledge Steering requires a good way of life that’s calculated by the mix of revenue and time required to take care of a household, not solely wages. Oxfam analysis findings [LINK to WE-Care] contradicts the widespread assumption that girls with extra property and revenue are capable of spend fewer hours on unpaid care work. As a substitute, decreasing ladies’s care workload required a mixture of apparatus and companies to facilitate home tasks, and alter in social norms about males’s roles. As well as, the employer/firm insurance policies and practices might exacerbate troublesome work-life stability points and the function of personal sector corporations in supporting employees with household obligations is strongly confirmed in worldwide conventions and establishments. Thus, Oxfam believes that the RCA enhances, and doesn’t exchange, vital efforts for residing wages, non-discrimination and ladies’s rights, and emphasizes the PS-RCA roll out with the next broad objectives-

• Perceive and sensitize the Non-public Sector Administration in regards to the unpaid care and home works (UCDW).
• Understand and sensitize the Non-public Sector Staff in regards to the unpaid care and home works (UCDW).
• Work out the incentives of employers within the non-public sector (PS) and workers the place UCDW is counted.
• Advocate for Care coverage and observe overview and uptakes of PS.
• Promote higher office and social norms round care work important infrastructure, insurance policies and first rate work.
• Roll out the Non-public Sector Fast Care Evaluation device equipment (Please discuss with workplan under) focusing on 3-4 enterprises in Nairobi.
• Seize learnings from roll out of the RCA and contribute to refining and bettering of the Fast Care Evaluation device equipment.
• Develop sensible suggestions for care work throughout the 5R’s: Recognition, Re-distribution, Reward, Illustration and Resilience within the non-public sector and promote higher office and social norms in keeping with SDG 8 as regards first rate work and related tenets below the United Nations Conference on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

SCOPE OF WORK

Making use of to the Kenyan context, the Non-public Sector Fast Care Evaluation will embody the next scope and timeline:

Knowledge Assortment Methodology

The Evaluation workshop utilizing the Fast Care Evaluation Toolkit might be facilitated by Focus Group Dialogue of two separate teams of men and women. Qualitative knowledge might be collected from the RCA contributors composed of enterprises engaged within the ISME challenge. Over-all Steering in conducting the RCA from the PS Toolkit is as follows.

STEPS Agenda and Subjects/Methods Timeframe

Step 1 Participating and buying-in of PS Dialog with PS managers:

1. Focus on UCDW idea

2. Position of the corporate and its advantages of the RCA

3. Dialogue of firm operations and insurance policies

Toolkit: Useful resource 1,2,3 and 5

See Annex 1 in Toolkit: Questions

1-2 hours

Step 2 Gathering Proof Gathering context-specific and gender knowledgeable info of firm and employees particularly addressing UCDW in a personal sector context.

A. Firm degree coordination and knowledge assortment

B. Small group dialogue of employees

Conduct PS RCA Workout routines: (E-Workout routines)

-E1: Caregiving relationships

-E2: Time use -Calculate hours labored in a typical day (including paid work and unpaid work and home work)

-E3: Establish duties and obligations of UCDW which might be most troublesome to stability with paid work

-E4: Care companies

-E5: Additional search to grasp psychological load of care work throughout work hours.

-E6: Managing paid work and unpaid care work throughout peak work intervals within the yr

-E7: Options; How can the enterprise help employees by decreasing /addressing unpaid care and home work by applicable, context particular measures insurance policies?

1 entire day Session

Step 3 Appearing Processing and Refining inputs 10 Working Days

WORKPLAN

The task ought to be from Could to June 2023. The advisor is anticipated to conduct and facilitate the next actions and timeline:

TIMELINE SCOPE /DELIVERABLES Remarks

1 st – 2nd Week Could 2024 (14 Working Days) Facilitate and coordination with goal Non-public Sector entities

Inception and Precise Conduct/Knowledge Assortment of the Fast Care Evaluation Guarantee coordination with companions and personal sector contributors

Facilitate the conduct of evaluation workshop with focus teams composed of 12-15 women and men contributors

3rdWeek Could-4th Week of Could (15 Working days) Knowledge Evaluation, and Writing of the Fast Care Evaluation and growth Motion Plan growth with non-public sector entities

Submit Evaluation Report and motion plan developed.

2nd Week June, 2024 Submission of 1st Draft

Overview Current outcomes Oxfam in Kenya Staff

third Week, June 2024 Finalizing Report

Submission of Closing Report Closing report with Peer overview feedback addressed

1. CONSULTANT QUALIFICATION

• Submit Graduate college diploma in Masters in Gender, Regulation, Worldwide Regulation, Social Sciences.
• Expertise in efficiently main Gender assessments and Fast Care Evaluation of resilient growth and community-led project-related tasks.
• Expertise working in labor sector and ladies financial empowerment or gender and well-being and helping enterprise on coverage making.
• A minimum of over 6 years of related skilled expertise in fields associated to gender, social research, ladies’s financial justice and growth work
• Sturdy gender evaluation, analysis expertise and wonderful analytical writing expertise together with communication.
• Confirmed observe file of facilitating grownup learners and consultancy expertise with various stakeholders
• Expertise in working for labor rights recognition and advocating for coverage reforms on this planet of labor might be an added benefit.
• A confirmed capability to supply a complete report with clearly identifiable evidence-based outcomes realized due to challenge contribution.
• Required to stick to Oxfam’s rules and values in addition to the promotion of gender justice and ladies’s rights
• Understanding of and dedication to stick to protected programming, fairness, inclusion, and variety rules.
• Wonderful report writing and quantitative and qualitative knowledge assortment and analytical expertise.
• Fluency in English and Swahili.

Key Attributes:

• Skill to show sensitivity to cultural variations and gender points, in addition to the dedication to equal alternatives.
• Skill to show an openness and willingness to study in regards to the software of gender/gender mainstreaming, ladies’s rights, and variety for all points of growth work.
• Dedication to Oxfam’s safeguarding insurance policies to make sure all individuals who meet Oxfam are as protected as potential.

METHODLOGY

The advisor might be anticipated to undertake a mixture methodology strategy, i.e., a qualitative and quantitative approaches. Qualitative knowledge assortment strategies will embody Focus Group Discussions with the goal inhabitants, Key Informant Interviews and Desktop Analysis. The advisor might be required to design stakeholder mapping matrix that clearly outlines the roles obligations and energy affect of the stakeholders to be interviewed. As well as, the advisor will undertake quantitative strategy within the evaluation. It will embody conducting family interviews with the goal inhabitants.

Gender Delicate Methodology: The advisor will undertake gender responsive strategy to the task and can put in place measures that mitigate any gender biases which will come up.

Focusing on/Pattern Measurement Calculation: The recognized advisor is anticipated to establish an applicable sampling method/focusing on for each the qualitative and quantitative knowledge assortment strategies which might be mentioned and agreed with Oxfam previous to the information assortment train.

Knowledge assortment instruments and Devices: The recognized advisor will develop related knowledge assortment instruments and establish the suitable means for amassing the information which might be mentioned and agreed with, previous to the information assortment train. For the FGD’s and KII’s the advisor will work with Oxfam in overview of devices.

The information might be analyzed utilizing applicable knowledge evaluation packages. The information ought to be introduced in a logical, significant, reader pleasant and easy language on a date agreed with Oxfam and companions.

Moral Concerns: The advisor will put in place measures to make sure knowledge assortment adheres to all crucial ethics and pointers offered by native legal guidelines on knowledge safety and ‘Do no Hurt’ requirements.

Roles and obligations

The task might be carried out by the advisor with the help from the Oxfam Gender Justice and Ladies’s Rights Staff, Oxfam MEAL advisor and the companions.

Exercise Accountable Others Others

Settlement on Phrases of Reference Oxfam With settlement from consultants

Improvement of Analysis instruments Guide in collaboration with Oxfam Consultants

Piloting of analysis instruments Consultants Consultants

Knowledge Assortment- (FGD classes) Consultants Consultants

Knowledge evaluation Consultants Consultants

Report writing Consultants With help of Oxfam as required, together with for overview

Anticipated deliverables

The anticipated deliverables schedule is as follows:

Inception Report

• Inside 3 days after signing the contract.
• The inception report ought to element the next:
• The advisor’s clear understanding of the proposed task.
• Methodology for use for the task.
• Knowledge varieties, assortment plans and analytical strategy.
• Total work plan for the task

Zero Draft Report

• 20 working days after submission of the inception report within the format under:

Closing Report

• Throughout the final 5 days to the expiry of the contract length which is approximated as a complete of 40working days for your entire task.

The manufacturing of the evaluation report would be the legal responsibility of the consultancy workforce protecting all of the points as outlined within the ToRs. The ultimate report ought to be:

• Produced in English language and ought to be easy in expression and simple to grasp.
• The ultimate evaluation report (together with an Government Abstract) and presentation of a abstract report in PowerPoint.
• The ultimate report ought to be not more than 30 pages excluding Government abstract, appendices, and bibliography.
• The report format and textual content ought to be an A4 paper measurement and a legible font.
• The advisor might be liable to submit an digital copy of the evaluation report by the agreed deadline.

The report ought to comprise the totally different components talked about under. All components ought to be clearly distinguished from one another and of ample high quality.

• Cowl web page.
• Desk of contents.
• An govt abstract that ought to embody goals of evaluation, the key findings of the evaluation, summaries, conclusions, and suggestions.
• A justification of the strategies and strategies used (together with related underlying values and assumptions, theories) with a justification of the choices made (of individuals interviewed, cities/counties or exercise websites visited).
• Eventual limitations of the evaluation.
• A presentation of the findings and the evaluation thereof (together with surprising, related findings).
• Conclusions which have to be derived from findings and evaluation thereof.
• Suggestions ought to be clearly associated to conclusions however introduced individually. Suggestions ought to be sensible and divided up for numerous actors or stakeholders within the numerous thematic areas and embody pointers of how they are often carried out.
• Report annexes that embody knowledge assortment instruments and schedule, sampling procedures and body and sampled cities/counties, and checklist of survey workforce members.
• References to sources used, comparable to interviews, literature, experiences, have to be given.

Confidentiality of points mentioned MUST be harassed throughout interviews and safeguarded by the advisor(s). The information ought to be disaggregated by gender and age as this can be very vital when figuring out key problems with the response and assessing gender and safety vulnerabilities. Corporations or

Guide(s) who meet the necessities ought to submit their bids (Most 10 pages), which ought to embody the next:

• A suitability assertion, together with dedication to availability for your entire task when required.
• A short assertion on the proposed case examine methodology together with an in depth plan.
• An in depth monetary proposal. The monetary proposal ought to embody every day prices.
• Up to date curriculum vitae that clearly spell out related {qualifications} and expertise.

[1] https://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Project-and-Operations/The_State_of_Kenya_s_Private_Sector_-_Recommendations_for_Government-Development_Partners_and_the_Private_Sector.pdf

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Please submit purposes on or earlier than nineteenth April, 2024 and within the topic line: Non-public Sector Fast Care Evaluation. All Expression of pursuits ought to be despatched to deal with: [email protected]