Ethiopia: Consultant - Private Sector Policy Analysis & Assessment - Ethiopia (219312-927)

Deadline To Apply:Sept. 30th, 2014

Background:

PRIME is a five-year, USAID-funded initiative designed to support resilience among pastoralist communities in Ethiopia, and thus enhance prospects for a long-term development in the drylands, where the pastoralist livelihood system prevails. Financed through FTF and GCC, PRIME is designed to be transformative, innovative and achieve scale through market-driven approaches to livestock production and livelihood diversification that simultaneously support dryland communities to adapt to a changing climate. PRIME’s Intermediate Result 4 – Learning and Knowledge Management – aims at developing a robust and meaningful performance monitoring system that enables the project to make better decisions and helps USAID better assess overall project results. Assessing the labor market in PRIME’s areas as well as looking at the enabling environment in which the private sector operates is an integral part of the learning agenda for the project.

Purpose / Project Description:

Based on work from IR3 (Alternative livelihoods) team earlier this year in conducting the Labor Market Assessment (LMA) in the 3 operational regions of the project, the IR4 team is seeking a consultant that can work with the data gathered to edit the initial draft of the assessment report. The LMA is rich in information about the private sector in each of the geographical regions, including employers’ perceptions of people transitioning out of pastoralism, the skills/experience employers are seeking in potential employees, and the type of businesses in these areas. As part of the editing work is to look at the private sector profiles, the consultant will also be tasked with looking at issues within the enabling environment that deal particularly with policies that affect private sector investment in PRIME areas, analyze said policies and provide recommendations for PRIME on which areas that affect private sector investment to focus on policy work.

Consultant Activities:

PRIME is looking for a consultant who will:

Edit the first draft of the Labor Market Assessment report, finalizing it for stakeholder consumptionReview data collected through LMA and institutional survey undertaken by Kimetrica in 2013With IR4 advisor/leader and IIF Manager, identify three private sector policy areas to be analyzedAnalyze three policy areas based on desk reviews and consultation with government and private sector stakeholdersFinalize policy analyses after discussions with IR4 advisor, IIF Manager and COP of PRIME

Consultant Deliverables:

The Consultant will:

Provide a final draft of the LMA report, including annexes and graphsProduce 3 policy analysis that include recommendations for PRIME on areas in which it can work with stakeholders to provide policy support.

Timeframe / Schedule:

Description/Duration/Period

Labor Market Assessment editing, reviewing and finalizing / 8 days / Work may entail back and forth between consultant and leadership team. We expect all work to be finalized by December 2014, though period could be extended if policy identification takes longer than expected.

Policy identification/review with leadership / 2 days

Policy analysis 1 / 12 days

Policy analysis 2 / 12 days

Policy analysis 3 / 12 days

TOTAL

46 days/20 September to 31 December 2014

The Consultant will report to:

LKM Advisor for PRIME

The Consultant will work closely with:

IIF Manager

COP (if needed)

Requirements:

Consultant must be based in EthiopiaExperience writing and editing technical documents in EnglishExperience in the private sector of EthiopiaExperience in policy analysis Mercy Corps is an AA/EOE.