TOR Name: Social Inclusion Action Plan
Log-frame component: Cross-cutting
Duration: June - August 2021
Location: Peshawar and remote working
Programme Background
Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) is a £37.5 million programme that aims to support provincial economic development and sustainable energy in Pakistan. It will support the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), to plan and finance the infrastructure and investment it needs for growth, jobs and prosperity. The programme will also address Pakistan’s energy crisis by providing innovative financial solutions to industry for the adoption of sustainable energy practices. Within SEED, ASI has been contracted to deliver the first component - Improved Economic and Urban Planning in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – with a budget of £15 million. The programme’s longer-term outcomes include generating higher levels of public and private investments, enhancing public investment management efficiencies and ensuring that investments made produce greater economic, social, and environmental returns. The programme will be managed by the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
SEED’s interventions are organised into the following four components:
· Component-I: Expanding fiscal space enabling the Government of KP to invest additional resources in economic development
· Component-II: Enhancing capacity for public investment management and Public Private Partnerships (PPP)
· Component-III: Mobilizing investments in priority sectors – initially Energy and Housing
· Component-IV: Policy reforms and innovative pilots to unlock investments beyond the priority sectors
Context
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, inequalities between groups (social, economic, and gender) persist, effecting economic opportunities, and access to resources, services, and information. The way that downstream investment planning currently occurs usually serves to reinforce these inequalities. This is not the result of any individual actor, but rather is a systemic problem with no individual solution.
With SEED 8 months into it’s implementation phase (as of May 2021), and having made substantial progress against work agreed with government and FCDO, it aims to refresh and refocus it’s efforts to promote more inclusive investment in KP (both public and private), and to reduce the systemic inequalities of the economic planning processes within the province.
SEED’s current social inclusion strategy outlines recommendations for how SEED can: i) safeguard from a ‘Do No Harm’ perspective; ii) mainstream inclusion in policy and practice; and iii) promote quality of life and access to opportunity for all within the programme’s scope of beneficiaries. There is currently a gap between the programme activities on the ground, and implementable actions to be integrated within SEED’s existing programme of work with GoKP, therefore SEED seeks a consultant develop a solid action plan for SEED to take forward as part of it’s overall programme strategy and workplan.
It is anticipated that the right consultant would have a substantial role in implementation of the action plan.
Objective: To develop a Social Inclusion Action Plan that integrates into the model and scope of SEED, with interventions agreed with the SEED team.
Tasks
· Understand the current SEED programme of work, targets (logframe), and way of working with government, so that the action plan can fully integrate within the programme and leverage the current work and position with GoKP.
· Understand SEED work on social inclusion to date.
· Institutional mapping of social inclusion of economic planning in KP.
· Assess how social appraisals are currently conducted, considering how they could be enhanced.
· Develop options for a refreshed social inclusion action plan, to be assessed by SEED team. It is expected that this would include:
- Identifying current interventions where beneficial attribution can be made to inclusive target groups, or be enhanced to improve inclusivity of investments or planning within GoKP
- Identifying potential new interventions with a more targeted socially inclusive focus
In line with the initial Social Inclusion strategy, these may include actions to: i) safeguard from a ‘Do No Harm’ perspective; ii) mainstream inclusion in policy and practice; and iii) promote quality of life and access to opportunity for all within the programme’s scope of beneficiaries.
· Where necessary, and where to qualify or scope potential options, consult with government to understand their priorities and identify any latent government demand currently not tapped into by SEED.
· Finalise into a coherent and strategic (as opposed to responsive) social inclusion action plan, with an aligned set of interventions agreed with SEED component leads.
D1: Outline social inclusion action plan in PowerPoint presentation format, including:
· Summarised social inclusion strategy
· Institutional mapping of social inclusion of economic planning in KP (2 days).
· Assessment of current system and implementation of social appraisals (2 days)
· A clear rationale and narrative for the action plan, in line with the scope of the SEED programme
· Options for a refreshed social inclusion action plan, to be assessed by SEED team. It is expected that this would include:
o Identifying current interventions where beneficial attribution can be made to inclusive target groups, or be enhanced to improve inclusivity of investments or planning within GoKP
o Identifying potential new interventions with a more targeted socially inclusive focus
· Recommended method for how attribution can be drawn based on extent of SEED’s TA inputs
D2: Finalised Social Inclusion Action plan, presented to FCDO, and updated based on any further feedback
· Summarised social inclusion strategy
· Institutional mapping of social inclusion of economic planning in KP (2 days).
· Assessment of current system and implementation of social appraisals (2 days)
· A clear rationale and narrative for the action plan, in line with the scope of the SEED programme
· A clear rationale and narrative for the action plan
· Aligned set of interventions agreed with SEED component leads, through which SEED can record benefit on women and other marginalised groups (results measurements)
· Recommended method for how attribution can be drawn for the selected interventions
· Agreed ambition on realistic but stretch targets, against which progress can be tracked and reported
· Recommended review and update process for ongoing improvement of social inclusion on SEED
Resources
The following inputs will be working on delivering this TOR:
Resource: Consultant
Schedule:
Deliverables: D1,15 days, completed by 30 June
Deliverables, D2,10 days, completed by 31 July
Duration
Period of performance of 25 days over 2 months (June to July 2021), with at least 8 days in Peshawar
Management/Reporting
The consultant will report to the SEED Deputy Team Leader, with key inputs from the SEED Component Leads and Team Leader.
Experience and skills· Master’s degree in gender studies, social sciences or other relevant subjects with experience in social sectors with specific work experience in applying SI approaches to address issues and challenges in programming to achieve greater equity.
· Understanding of the economic planning, urban development and management processes within KP
· Experience of the challenges of integrating inclusiveness in provincial public policies; sector strategies/plans; project planning, development and delivery in Pakistan
· An understanding of the political economy of inclusion issues within KP
· An understanding of donor programmes working with provincial governments in Pakistan
· Strong analytical, writing and presentation skills
· Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
· Results-driven
· Proven capacity to meet deadlines and work under pressure
· Excellent oral and written communication skills in English required
Values and Obligations
All members of the SEED team are expected to adhere to the following values and obligations:
· At all times working collaboratively and openly with other members of the SEED team, proactively providing guidance, advice and sharing experiences in order to solve problems, overcome challenges and manage risks together.
· Freely and openly sharing information gained from government counterparts, FCDO or other international projects with other members of the team.
· Respecting the confidentiality of the SEED team’s discussions, assessments, decisions and plans or agreements with FCDO; sharing information with external parties only when authorised to do so by the Team Leader or Deputy Team Leader.
· Adhering to decisions taken by the programme’s leadership and taking collective responsibility for implementing those decisions and communicating them to counterparts or other external parties.
· Ensuring they have an accurate understanding of policies and decisions made by FCDO that relate to SEED, and respecting and adhering to those policies.
· Complying with the channels set out by ASI for all communications with FCDO through the SEED leadership structure.
· Careful coordination with other team members of communications and meetings with government counterparts to ensure coherence of technical advice and as efficient use of counterparts’ time as possible.
· Constant monitoring of risks to the delivery of SEED activities and achievement of objectives, as well as the reputation of SEED and FCDO, and swift referral of those risks to the Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader.
· Advisers are obliged to look out for and report human rights abuses known and rumoured to have taken place connected with or undertaken by our counterparts. In the event that advisors gain information about any such abuses they should report the matter in line with the procedure contained in the SEED Human Rights Assessment and Framework document.
· Professional coordination with other internationally funded programmes supporting SEED, including briefing those programmes when requested by the Team Leader or Deputy Team Leader.
· Contributing constructively to team meetings, development of workplans, risk assessment, progress reviews and report writing, as well as external evaluations by FCDO or its independent evaluation advisers.
· Complying with SEED’s media policy of referring all inquiries from the media to the Team Leader and Deputy Leader before responding in any way to those inquiries.
· Minuting all meetings with officials from FCDO and sharing those minutes with the Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader at the earliest opportunity.
· Maximising the impact of the programme’s limited resources by ensuring expenditure on travel, accommodation or other costs is as efficient as possible.
· Complying with financial procedures designed to protect the financial integrity of the programme and notifying the Deputy Team Leader and Project Managers of any incidents that threaten that integrity.
· Complying with ASI’s Duty of Care and security procedures designed to ensure safety of personnel and notifying the Deputy Team Leader and Project Managers of any incidence that threaten the security of personnel or assets of the programme.
