Financial Sector Deepening Kenya (FSD Kenya) is an independent trust dedicated to the achievement of a financial system that delivers value for a green and inclusive digital economy, while improving financial health and capability for women and micro and small enterprises (MSEs).
FSD Kenya has identified gender and women’s economic empowerment (WEE) as one of the strategic drivers in its 2022-2026 strategy and to position the issues of women’s financial inclusion (WFI), women’s economic empowerment and economic inclusion at the centre of all programme activity. This is a significant shift in how FSD Kenya will determine strategic priorities, activities and results tracking to ensure that women’s needs, and opportunities are prominent.
FSD Kenya’s Agriculture and processing (AP) project, whose objective is to “accelerate development of value-adding finance to catalyse increased production, productivity and profitability of smallholder female farmers, agricultural traders, and processors” is in its second year of implementation. So far, 5 interventions out of the 6 envisaged have been designed and various activities (tasks) under these interventions are at varied stages of implementation. Supplemental technical support is required to build and enhance the project team’s capacity for gender integration.
FSD Kenya is looking for a gender specialist who has expertise in gender integration, a solid understanding of the agriculture sector and the barriers to deriving optimal value especially for women smallholder farmers and processors to support the Agriculture and Processing (AP) project.
OBJECTIVES
The objective of this consultancy is to provide technical support in the integration of gender into FSD Kenya’s Agriculture and processing project in relation to intervention activities design and implementation, impact assessment and synthesis and communication of lessons and insights.
SCOPE OF WORK
Integration of gender into project and intervention design
The consultant will provide gender integration support in
- Design of project interventions and activities (tasks). This will include supporting the AP project team in undertaking gendered sectoral and financial market analyses to inform interventions and tasks design.
- Implementation of project intervention activities including advisory to project partners (as a member of the AP team)
- Review of the ongoing interventions and activities (tasks) and identify opportunities to effectively integrate gender for optimal WEE impacts.
- Assessment and identification of potential project risks which could hamper WEE outcomes, their impact, and mitigation strategies.
- Review of the projects impact assessment and evaluation framework
- Review of the AP project’s results and measurement framework to align with gender integration. This will include suggesting edits on specific WEE metrics/indicators (to add or remove) and ways to measure/monitor them.
- Monitoring of project implementation (tasks) with reference to the results and measurements framework
- Synthesis and communication of lessons and insights from the project
Build gender integration capacity in AP project team execution.
The desired outcome from this assignment is enhanced capacity by the AP project team in gender integration. While the consultant is expected to provide technical input in gender integration, a deliberate effort in enhancing the team’s capacity to be able to subsequently do the work through:
- Mentoring and coaching/handholding the project team
- Providing guidance to the AP team in helping partners to integrate gender into project activities (implementation and reporting)
CONDUCT OF THE WORK
The consultant(s) will work closely with the AP project team and in close coordination with the FSD Gender team, reporting to the Senior economic inclusion advisor.
OUTCOMES AND DELIVERABLES
The overall outcome of this assignment is a deeper understanding of gender and WEE and enhanced capacity of the team to integrate gender into the FSD Kenya programme. The following specific deliverables are envisaged:
- A detailed workplan on how to deliver the scope of work outlined above (to be developed with input from the AP team)
- A report on the assignment including recommendations for further gender integration capacity enhancement for the team
The copyright for all material prepared under this term of reference will pass to FSD Kenya. It is FSD’s practice to publish the reports it commissions in its own house style. There is therefore no requirement for material to be extensively formatted beyond that required to indicate how material should be logically presented in the final report. All final reports should be presentedin an electronic format allowing the text and graphics to be manipulated in preparation for publication. Where a final report is presented in a portable document format (pdf) generated from another format (such as Microsoft Word) it should be accompanied by the original file from which it is generated. All representations of graphic material (tables, figures, drawings, charts, graphs and photographs) must be able to be reproduced at high print resolution. Tables, figures, drawings, charts, graphs should be provided in Microsoft Excel or Adobe Illustrator format. Photographs must be provided in high-resolution JPG images set to minimumof 300 dots per inch (dpi). Any technical questions regarding these requirements should be addressed to FSD’s Communications Officer.
Minimum requirements:
- Demonstrable expertise in gender and agriculture and local (Kenyan) knowledge
- A track record in integrating gender into project design and implementation
- Expertise in undertaking gendered sectoral/market analysis and the ability to apply these in project/intervention activity design
- Financial inclusion experience
- Understanding of the market systems development (MSD)/facilitation approach
How to apply
Full Terms of reference can be found on FSD Kenya’s website below
for proposal submission details see the full call for proposal in the link above. Please indicate “AP Project gender integration support” in the subject line.