Knowledge assortment providers in Belgium and France for the RUM challenge on outreach in direction of undocumented migrants
- Who’s the Danish Refugee Council?
The Danish Refugee Council
Based in 1956, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a number one worldwide NGO and one of many few with a particular experience in compelled displacement. Lively in 40 nations with 9,000 workers and supported by 7,500 volunteers, DRC protects, advocates, and builds sustainable futures for refugees and different displacement affected individuals and communities. DRC works throughout displacement in any respect phases: Within the acute disaster, in displacement, when settling and integrating in a brand new place, or upon return. DRC offers safety and life-saving humanitarian help; helps displaced individuals in changing into self-reliant and included into internet hosting societies; and works with civil society and accountable authorities to advertise safety of rights and peaceable coexistence.
The Combined Migration Centre
A part of DRC, the Combined Migration Centre (MMC) is a number one supply for unbiased and high-quality knowledge, analysis, evaluation and experience on combined migration. The MMC goals to extend understanding of combined migration, to positively affect international and regional migration insurance policies, to tell evidence-based safety responses for individuals on the transfer and to stimulate ahead considering in public and coverage debates on combined migration. The MMC’s overarching focus is on human rights and safety for all individuals on the transfer. The three total targets of the MMC are:
- To contribute to a greater, extra nuanced and balanced understanding of combined migration (data)
- To contribute to evidence-based and better-informed migration insurance policies and debates (coverage)
- To contribute to efficient evidence-based safety responses for individuals on the transfer (programming)
The MMC is a world community, with regional hubs in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America hosted in DRC regional workplaces, and a small central group in Geneva. The MMC is a part of, and ruled by, DRC. Whereas its institutional hyperlink to DRC ensures MMC’s work is grounded in operational actuality, it acts as an unbiased supply of knowledge, analysis, evaluation, and coverage growth on combined migration for coverage makers, practitioners, journalists, and the broader humanitarian sector. The place of the MMC doesn’t essentially mirror the place of DRC.
MMC Europe is presently operational in Europe by a number of knowledge assortment initiatives. MMC Europe is accumulating knowledge in Italy, Greece and Spain on a variety of completely different initiatives specializing in varied matters, together with: affect of irregularity on entry to providers and employment; migration-related choice making alongside journeys in Europe; understanding of combined actions and the related safety dangers for refugees and migrants arriving by the Western Mediterranean and Atlantic routes; discrimination for individuals of migratory background in entry to housing.
For extra info on MMC go to our web site right here: www.mixedmigration.org
- Function of the consultancy
The MMC, primarily based in Geneva seeks proposals from a marketing consultant to conduct quantitative knowledge assortment (survey administration) in Belgium and France. Brussels and Paris are precedence places and others might be included throughout the inception section.
- Background
As migrant receiving nations more and more give attention to ‘return and reintegration’ as a cornerstone of their migration administration practices, way more proof is required to know how sustainable such practices are, in addition to the affect they’ve on migrants. This features a deeper understanding of how irregular migrants view, perceive and understand return choices from Europe to their nation of origin. A greater understanding of migrants’ views and perceptions is essential to design extra humane, rights-based, and sustainable return and reintegration programmes and insurance policies into the longer term.
Knowledge assortment in France and Belgium will happen as a part of the EU-funded REACH OUT challenge, bringing collectively member states and assume thanks to raised perceive undocumented migrants’ profiles, journeys, entry to primary providers, data/understanding/notion of return choices with a specific give attention to Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) programmes.
- Goal of the consultancy
Analysis targets
Throughout the framework of the REACH OUT challenge, MMC will conduct a brand new knowledge assortment initiative in France and in Belgium, specializing in undocumentedmigrants’ profiles and drivers, journeys in Europe, entry to primary providers, migration choice making processes, data/understanding/notion of return choices with a specific give attention to Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) programmes.
The analysis design will give attention to quantitative knowledge assortment strategies. All interviews shall be performed utilizing a survey questionnaire supplied by MMC.
Goal inhabitants
- Migrants with irregular standing within the nation of interview
- 18+ years previous
- From a restricted variety of prioritized nationalities, particular to every nation.
- A quota (see beneath) of former Unaccompanied Minors (on the time of arrival in EU)
Pattern dimension
The goal for knowledge assortment shall be 500 surveys in every nation (500 in Belgium, 500 in France) divided as follows:
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500 surveys performed with respondents with an irregular standing in France
- Of which at the least 100 former Unaccompanied Minors (on the time of arrival in EU)
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500 surveys performed with respondents with an irregular standing in Belgium
- Of which at the least 100 former Unaccompanied Minors (on the time of arrival in EU)
Knowledge assortment have to be performed in accordance with MMC’s methodology and analysis targets, in shut cooperation with the MMC group.
Interview questions
The quantitative survey will serve to determine quantitative (but non-representative) tendencies among the many goal inhabitants, utilizing the 4Mi survey developed by MMC. The questionnaire will cowl the next matters:
- Profiles of respondents (principal demographics, intercourse, age, training, space of origin, migration standing).
- Journeys and experiences in Europe (final transit nation earlier than coming into EU, nation transited in Europe, financing and entry to info).
- Drivers for migration and planning of the journey (migration drivers, influences).
- Situations and entry to primary providers within the nation of interview (authorized standing; entry to healthcare, work; housing; training and housing, and obstacles confronted in acquiring such rights and providers; relations with native communities and authorities; security; entry to revenue help; residing requirements; likeliness to entry residence and work permits; security).
- Migration choice making (motion intentions – staying, transferring onward, returning; most popular vacation spot; expectations).
- data/understanding/notion of AVRR programmes (sources of data, data and notion of AVRR, elements impacting the choice to return, obstacles to voluntary return).
Knowledge assortment
Surveys are deliberate to be performed face-to-face by digital knowledge assortment (text-based survey answer on telephones/tablets).
The survey shall be administered in French OR English. Enumerators shall all have command of French to obtain coaching on this language.
The aim of this consultancy is to to recruit consultants or consultancy corporations to conduct quantitative knowledge assortment (administration of surveys) in France and Belgium. The ultimate knowledge assortment places shall be determined collectively with the chosen marketing consultant(s). Prioritized cities embrace:
- Belgium: Brussels
- France: Paris
IMPORTANT: Candidates can resolve whether or not they wish to submit their proposal for knowledge assortment in each nations, or just one nation.
- Scope of labor and Methodology
Particularly, the marketing consultant is anticipated to:
- Recruit, contract and supervise a community of enumerators in step with MMC SOPs;
- Set up a coaching for enumerators (that shall be facilitated by MMC) in every nation, offering an ample room for this;
- Acquire 500 surveys within the outlined areas of knowledge assortment in digital format (ODK), in line with the workplan agreed upon prematurely with MMC;
- Cowl potential cellphone credit score and transportation costs;
- Present telephones or tablets ({hardware}) to its enumerators for digital knowledge assortment;
- Help in figuring out respondents;
- Conduct knowledge validation and cleansing in accordance with MMC SOPs
- Guarantee methodological pointers shared by MMC are utilized for the survey;
- Repeatedly submit clear datasets within the digital format specified by MMC.
- Designate a focus and arrange common reporting and dialogue with MMC groups, particularly throughout the knowledge assortment section to make sure environment friendly knowledge assortment and high-quality requirements.
MMC will present:
- Methodology and analysis instruments for quantitative knowledge assortment, already coded in ODK format and translated within the related languages.
- Coaching for enumerators and/or coaching of trainers on related ideas, methodology, the questionnaire, ideas and ethics of analysis within the area, Code of conduct.
- Context evaluation, together with the contact of a variety of organizations which is able to facilitate entry to respondents in each nations.
- The backend infrastructure (server, ONA administration) for digital knowledge assortment on the telephones supplied by the marketing consultant.
- Tips for knowledge validation and cleansing / spot checks for high quality management. Direct validation and cleansing by MMC to be mentioned relying on the marketing consultant’s capacities.
Common necessities:
- The marketing consultant is accountable for all facets of knowledge safety and knowledge safety during the contract.
- The marketing consultant is accountable for incessantly reporting to MMC on progress and any points concerning deliverables, the timeline, and knowledge high quality. When designating a focus for this challenge, the marketing consultant ought to:
- Make sure that the point of interest has direct supervision over the enumerators as a way to safe a direct line of communication and reactivity between each events;
- The marketing consultant is accountable for adhering to moral pointers detailed within the analysis protocol.
- The marketing consultant is accountable for offering insurance coverage and making certain compliance concerning human sources.
- Deliverables
The Advisor will submit the next deliverables, for every nation:
Section
Anticipated deliverables
Indicative description duties
Section 1
Inception section
Inception report
An inception report detailing modalities for finishing up the agreed duties for your complete size of the challenge together with: composition of the group, prompt coordination mechanism between the implementing associate(s), native organisations and MMC, and all the opposite parts wanted for an efficient implementation of the actions and correct coordination with MMC.
Section 2
Pilot
Knowledge assortment area pilot report
Take a look at of the survey adopted by a brief report on the sphere pilot for potential methodological/technical changes to be mentioned with MMC earlier than knowledge assortment.
Section 3
Knowledge assortment
Survey dataset
Assortment of 500 high-quality quantitative interviews within the agreed places, in digital format. Surveys are anticipated to be collected from the start of the information assortment interval and persistently all through it, with a weekly quota to be established.
A full evaluate of knowledge assortment tendencies shall be carried out after the primary three months of knowledge assortment, to evaluate development and talk about any adjustment wanted.
Section 4
Finalisation of dataset
All knowledge assortment documentation
Full documentation concerning knowledge assortment, together with notes and observations on any modifications or modifications.
To hold out the above-mentioned deliverables, it’s anticipated that the applicant will determine the next positions inside the group:
- Mission supervisor, accountable for the general implementation of the challenge and coordination with MMC.
- Discipline coordinator(s), accountable for the supervision of the enumerators group(s) and for making certain that knowledge assortment proceeds efficiently. The variety of area coordinators is to be proposed by the marketing consultant, additionally relying on whether or not the proposal is single- or multi-country.
- Enumerators, instantly accountable for accumulating the surveys. The variety of enumerators is to be proposed by the marketing consultant, additionally relying on whether or not the proposal is single- or multi-country. The quantity shouldn’t be decrease than 3 per nation.
The marketing consultant will present the documentation by e mail in Excel format (database of quantitative surveys) and Phrase format (area pilot report, ultimate notes and observations).
- Period, timeline, and fee
Actions
Interval envisaged
Methodological & operational design (knowledge assortment websites, respondent recruitment standards, and so on.) (by MMC)
January-March 2024
Survey coding and translation (by MMC)
March 2024
Contractualization of knowledge assortment marketing consultant
March-April 2023
Trainings of enumerators (organised by marketing consultant, content material and facilitation supplied by MMC)
April 2024
Discipline pilot (3 days)
April 2024
Knowledge assortment of 500 surveys per nation.
Surveys are anticipated to be collected from the start of the information assortment interval and persistently all through it, with a mean weekly quota to be established
April to finish of December 2024 (with full evaluate in July 2024)
Validation and cleansing of quantitative knowledge
Weekly
Estimated begin date of consultancy: fifteenth April 2024
Date of submission of the finalized dataset: thirty first of December 2024
MMC estimates that the above actions would require roughly 55 days of labor per nation over the indicated interval.
- Eligibility, qualification, and expertise required
- Analysis group, college, assume tank, NGO, CSO, or consultancy firm with in depth observe report in conducting surveys and making certain knowledge high quality in France and Belgium.
- Authorized authorization and operational capability to independently perform knowledge assortment in France and Belgium, experience in knowledge assortment particularly using an digital survey device in respect of the very best analysis requirements.
- Confirmed experience in researching or implementing tasks on combined migration, smuggling of migrants and with undocumented individuals on delicate matters.
- A confirmed expertise in partaking with migrants.
- Languages: French is important, different related languages could be a plus (Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Dari, Pashto).
- The chosen organisation should signal and adjust to DRC’s code of conduct.
- Technical supervision
The evaluation shall be accomplished in shut cooperation with MMC Europe. The chosen marketing consultant will work underneath the supervision of Océane Uzureau, 4Mi Mission Officer Belgium/France.
- Location and help
The project will happen within the cities of Brussels and Paris. Different knowledge assortment places within the two nations might be added throughout the inception section or later upon settlement between MMC Europe and the marketing consultant. All interviews are to be performed face-to-face.
The Advisor shall be anticipated to rearrange transportation, lodging, ample gear (together with knowledge assortment units resembling tablets or telephones), cellphone credit score, insurance coverage, meals for its group, and to make ample provision within the Monetary Proposal.
- Journey
If the marketing consultant expects group members to journey between analysis places inside the similar nation, it’s accountable for all logistical, administrative and monetary preparations, and may make ample provision within the Monetary proposal.
- Submission course of
Please see Request for Proposal (RFP) part III, clause A
Candidates ought to submit an utility together with:
- Paperwork requested within the Request for Proposal (RFP), part III, clause A
- Cowl Letter
- CV together with references of earlier related publications (max. 4 pages)
- Instance of written work
- Technical proposal (max 10 pages) together with: proposed strategy and workplan, proposed profiles for the group (group chief, enumerators…)
- Monetary proposal: finances (in CHF), which shall cowl all prices over the course of the consultancy. The finances must be damaged down as described beneath:
A. Consultancy charges – day by day and whole
B. Technical prices – telephones, and so on.
C. Journey prices, if relevant
D. Miscellaneous (e.g. insurance coverage, printing, and so on. – please specify within the monetary proposal)
IMPORTANT: Candidates wishing to submit multi-country proposals ought to current a separate technical and monetary proposal for every nation.
- Analysis of bids
The analysis course of consists of three phases: 1) Administrative, 2) Technical and three) Monetary. This course of is defined within the Request for Proposal (RFP), part III.
Solely these shortlisted shall be contacted for an interview with the panel to make sure their understanding of the consultancy providers.
- Phrases and circumstances
The marketing consultant(s) will report on to Océane Uzureau, 4Mi Mission Officer for MMC Europe, with common updates (at the least bi-monthly) and sharing of partial knowledge and suggestions and observations at intervals earlier than the ultimate deadlines for deliverables. They’re additionally more likely to work together with different MMC Europe employees, and companions to the challenge.
- Cost for the consultancy shall be made as follows (per nation):
- 20% on the signature of the contract
- 30% upon passable receipt of the primary 250 surveys
- 50% upon passable receipt of the final 250 surveys and ultimate knowledge assortment documentation.
All info introduced, obtained and produced is to be handled because the consumer’s property and is taken into account as confidential for all functions aside from what is printed in these ToR. Upon signing the consultancy contract, the chosen marketing consultant shall be required to signal a confidentiality settlement. The fabric ready by the marketing consultant can’t be bought, used or reproduced in any method (partially or in full) by the marketing consultant with out prior permission from MMC.
The way to apply
Please apply by DRC web site