Consulting Opportunity - Review of resilience measurement approaches

Background to the engagement

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) is looking to commission experts from the majority world as consultants to conduct mapping exercises on resilience measurement.

GRP is an inclusive and diverse Partnership of organisations joining forces towards a world where vulnerable people and places are able to thrive in the face of shocks, uncertainty and change. GRP achieves collective impact by adding value to the work of its individual partners through innovation and scaling, shared learning, convening diverse voices, and advancing knowledge.

GRP hosts the Resilience Knowledge Coalition, a “network of networks” co-led by the Climate Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). Its purpose is: Getting the best knowledge and practice on resilience used to shape policies, plans and investments to deliver a resilient future. The coalition has three functions - Collaborate, Connect and Apply. It is through the Apply function that the coalition helps GRP’s role as a curator of resilience evidence and lessons from and beyond its own programming and managed investments.

In line with GRP’s role as a curator of resilience evidence, this review will map resilience measurement tools and approaches. It will assess the relative advantages and disadvantages of using different tools and approaches, and attempt to identify common characteristics, core principles and minimum requirements. It will aim to distill lessons that may be replicable across tools and approaches, that can provide recommendations for further harmonising resilience measurement. The study is intended to be useful to those funding, evaluating and implementing resilience programs.

GRP does not prescribe how resilience should be operationalized and supports grantees and partners in generating evidence on what works (and what doesn’t) in resilience building through a range of methods. This review aims to update and add to the following study commission by the Resilience Measurement, Evidence and Learning (RMEL) community of practice: ODI (2016). Analysis of Resilience Measurement Frameworks and Approaches. RMEL CoP (https://www.dropbox.com/s/uh2yukr3nhwq0nd/ODI%20Report.pdf?dl=0). A key addition to the existing literature would be determining the core principles and requirements for resilience measurement.

Roles and responsibilities

This terms of reference (TOR) sets out the expectations for methods of data collection for the review of resilience measurement approaches and tools. GRP is looking for a consultant who can design and deliver a useful and reflective review of resilience measurement tools and approaches guidance documents. The precise review design and content (scope, purpose, limitations, methodology and deliverables) will be based on an inception report produced by the consultant.

The review will cover the time period 2000-2022 and shall cover both peer-reviewed and grey literature. The data is to be collected following the GRP Resilience Platform (https://resilienceplatform.info/) Evidence and Tools form to facilitate import of the data onto the platform. The consultant will identify core measurement principles (minimum requirements / common ground) among resilience measurement approaches and develop a decision tree to aid practitioners in selecting relevant and appropriate tools based on their needs.

Assessment

Consultant(s) are asked to submit their CV along with a proposal based on this ToR, to include outlines for methodology, process, experience and budget. The accepted proposal will then go through a process of finalisation and agreement of the methodology with the GRP team, resulting in an inception report after month two of contracting. The proposals will be assessed based on:

• University degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum of 5 years working experience in the field of international development.
• Consultant experience with resilience measurement approaches and tools.
• Qualifications and experience of the consultants, especially evidencing a strong methodological understanding and experience with resilience measurement - including impact assessment.
• A strong track record with substantive experience of similar reviews.
• Excellent ability to express themselves in English, both orally and in writing.
• The consultant should be a national of a country eligible for Official Development Assistance as defined by the OECD-DAC (https://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finance-standards/DAC-List-ODA-Recipients-for-reporting-2021-flows.pdf)
• Consultants will need to have a registered business.
• Cost.

Timing

The last date for submissions is 15 April. It is expected that the work will commence in April 2022, with an inception report due by mid-May, data collected between July-August and final deliverables approved by October 2022.

Budget

The maximum proposed budget is USD 10,000. The final budget will be based on a proposal containing a work plan specifying consultancy rates and number of days/hours allocated per activity. No operational and travel costs are foreseen.

Deliverables

Outline for deliverables to be included in proposal and agreed in inception report, however it is expected that this will include a database of resilience measurement approaches / tools and a standalone summary document (including an assessment of core principles / common ground and a decision tree for tool selection).

Lead contact

The lead contact for purposes of this ToR will be the GRP Programme Officer, Shuchi Vora svora@globalresiliencepartnership.org

Note

In case you want to be considered for future opportunities through the Global South Expert pool of the Resilience Knowledge Coalition, please sign up and fill your profile on the Resilience Platform here: https://resilienceplatform.info/people/create-submission