Closing date: 02 Feb 2016
ICRC is looking for a consultant for a 2-months performance review of a 4-year Red Cross project to respond to the consequences of urban violence in Medellin, Colombia. The review is due to take place in Geneva and Colombia between February and April 2016 (exact date TBD). The consultant will need to have a proven track record in project evaluation, capable to analyse outcome and measure impact of multidisciplinary operations, preferably Movement knowledgeable or familiar with ICRC mandate. The consultant will also need to master a very good to excellent level of Spanish. Renumeration to be agreed upon.
Rationale for the review
After the four-year implementation of the joint ICRC Colombian Red Cross (CRC) Antioquia branch project “Más Espacios Humanitarios, más alternativas” (MEHMA), the delegation decided to have a performance review for the following reasons:
Management of the project: given the objective to address the humanitarian consequences caused by urban violence in the most affected neighbourhoods of the city of Medellín in the form of a project and given the choice of this exceptional form of ICRC intervention in an urban setting, the ICRC needs to establish whether the project form added value to its humanitarian objectives:
Partnership with a National Society branch: given the project’s nature as being a humanitarian intervention in an urban setting by the ICRC with a National Society branch, the ICRC needs to define whether this partnership added value in terms of the humanitarian impact in favour of victims of urban violence;
Relevance of activities: the nature of urban violence, its consequences for the civilian population and the formulation of a needs-based humanitarian response pose particular challenges to the ICRC and host National Societies. The ICRC and the Antioquia branch of the CRC need to establish whether the protection and assistance activities deployed during the four-year period have been relevant in light of the population’s needs;
Prevention dimension: with the intention to deploy a multi-disciplinary ICRC and NS operation within the project, the dialogue with arms carriers has been a particular challenge. The ICRC needs to know whether those prevention activities contributed to improve the respect by arms carriers of the civilian population.
Finally, having been intentionally defined by the ICRC as a four-year project because its intervention in Medellín took place in “unchartered waters” and in the wake of the ICRC Río pilot project, the ICRC, with this performance review can add a new learning experience with regard to its response to humanitarian needs in an urban setting, under the threshold of IHL applicability.
The performance review of the MEHMA project serves as a delegation and institutional lessons-learning for the ICRC humanitarian response of urban violence. Its intended use is first and foremost the delegation’s adequate objective-definition when wanting to address humanitarian needs in favour of victims of urban violence. The review is an opportunity to have some recommendations for future ICRC interventions in comparable urban settings.
How to apply:
Please send your CV and cover letter to: Yvette Houlmann-Pintado, Assistant Americas, ICRC. yhoulmann@icrc,org
In case of questions, please contact: Martin de Boer, Operations Coordinator Americas, ICRC. mdeboer@icrc.org