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As Mercy Corps works on growing its Peace and Good Governance (P&GG) portfolio in MENA/Europe, we are seeking to develop a pool of technical experts in P&GG areas with strong contextual knowledge and expertise in the region to support specifically our Business Development work and Technical Program Quality Support. Applicants will join our Regional P&GG consultants’ rosters and broadly, consultant activities will be determined based on the needs of each assignment. However, scopes of work could take the form of literature review, analyses, inputs into strategic documents, and providing technical leadership and capacity building to country offices.
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Technical Coverage: This consultancy includes experts in the following Sub-sector areas:
Local Government Strengthening: Service delivery, electoral process and election, violence prevention, political and legislative institutions.
Countering Violent Extremism: Youth and conflict, intersection of governance and conflict.
Civil Society Strengthening: Progress measurement, social accountability, political economy analysis, community mobilization.
Behaviour Change: Behavioural governance, human-centered design.
Conflict Sensitivity: Interest based negotiation and mediation, HDP Nexus.
Youth Empowerment: Trauma healing, mental health and psychosocial health.
Gender, Peace, and Security: Participation, protection, violence prevention, women’s security.
Digital Peacebuilding: Peace messaging.
Technology for Governance: Stakeholder and crisis mapping.
Natural Resource Management
Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Reconciliation processes.
Consultant Objectives:
- Engage donors and support business development for peacebuilding and good governance (P&GG) projects in the Middle East and Europe including writing competitive proposals for submission to donors
- Contribute to program quality through delivering training to country teams, project participants, or implementing partners on subjects pertaining to P&GG.
- Lead/support in grant implementation by assisting program teams in developing relevant SOPs and program guidelines, leading on relevant project activities
- Contribute to Mercy Corps’ Evidence and Learning agenda through the development and execution of research and learning pieces around peacebuilding and good governance sub-sectors, as well as to agency-wide opportunities to advance thought leadership.
Consultant Activities:
As mentioned above, consultant activities will be determined based on the needs of each assignment. Specific examples of assignments will include one or more of the following activities:
- Proposal Development and Design:
- Support strategy development work at country level, in collaboration with Institutional Donors Engagement (IDE) Team, Technical Resources and Quality Unit (TRaQ), regional and country focal points
- Support country teams with engagement to donors to increase awareness and interest in P&GG
- Provide technical advice on concept notes, proposals, donor presentations, strategy documents and research
