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Habitat for Humanity
Outcome Assessment Of Housing Construction Labour Consultant
Nairobi, Kenya
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Purpose of the outcome assessment
The Terwilliger Centre seeks to conduct an outcome assessment for interventions on alternative certification and accreditation schemes and linkages of construction laborers to construction markets. To understand.
- The job path of certified artisans (fundis) benefiting from the Housing Construction Labour Programme and those not benefiting.
- Factors influencing fundis employment by formal employers, homeowners among other employers.
- The incentives influencing homeowners to seek services from certified and experienced fundis, and how to enhance quality housing construction services accessed by homeowners.
- The impact of activities conducted to support market linkages of housing construction labourers and how this affects the labourers’ income, job quality, quality of houses built, and contributes to systemic changes.
- Document lessons learned and effective strategies in implementation of the construction services.
Eligibility
The Selected Consultant(s) Will Have
- A Masters degree in social sciences, research, behavior change or labour related field.
- A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in research and evaluation work in development sector.
- Demonstrated experience in conducting studies and evaluation of construction labour workforce and programs and exposure working with affordable housing programmes.
- Understanding of the construction labour landscape in Kenya and experience of market-based systems.
- Demonstrated experience conducting qualitative and quantitative study approaches.
- Experience and capacity to convene strategic housing labour stakeholders in Kenya.
- Company/Consultant (s) has presence in Kenya.
- Safeguarding and Data Protection
Responsibilities
Purpose of the outcome assessment
The Terwilliger Centre seeks to conduct an outcome assessment for interventions on alternative certification and accreditation schemes and linkages of construction laborers to construction markets. To understand.
- The job path of certified artisans (fundis) benefiting from the Housing Construction Labour Programme and those not benefiting.
- Factors influencing fundis employment by formal employers, homeowners among other employers.
- The incentives influencing homeowners to seek services from certified and experienced fundis, and how to enhance quality housing construction services accessed by homeowners.
- The impact of activities conducted to support market linkages of housing construction labourers and how this affects the labourers’ income, job quality, quality of houses built, and contributes to systemic changes.
- Document lessons learned and effective strategies in implementation of the construction services.
Eligibility
The Selected Consultant(s) Will Have
- A Masters degree in social sciences, research, behavior change or labour related field.
- A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in research and evaluation work in development sector.
- Demonstrated experience in conducting studies and evaluation of construction labour workforce and programs and exposure working with affordable housing programmes.
- Understanding of the construction labour landscape in Kenya and experience of market-based systems.
- Demonstrated experience conducting qualitative and quantitative study approaches.
- Experience and capacity to convene strategic housing labour stakeholders in Kenya.
- Company/Consultant (s) has presence in Kenya.
- Safeguarding and Data Protection
Scope of the work
The consultant will be expected to cover the following.
- Conduct desk literature review on construction services in Kenya focusing on the policies that support construction labour services and professional development.
- Conduct interviews with professional construction services providers, government officials, artisans, developers, technical training institutions, HFHI staff, among other housing construction services sector actors.
- Prepare presentation slides and facilitate stakeholder workshop to disseminate the results.
- During the inception, in consultation with the selected consultant, Habitat will agree on the specific geographic locations/cities in Kenya for the study.
Expected Deliverables
The consultant will be responsible for ensuring data integrity and study completion within agreed timeline. Key expected deliverables include:
- An inception report elaborating the study design methodology and data collection tools.
- A field report that presents the success of the data collection process.
- Two draft reports on study Key findings.
- A validation session of key findings with key TCIS and construction labour sector stakeholders.
- A summary insights report of the validation session.
- A detailed final full & abridged versions of the report.
- Electronic version of the raw data collected from the assessment.
Consultancy Management
- The main contact for this assignment will be the Housing Construction services lead supported by the MEAL Senior Specialist in Kenya. The project logic and other programmatic information will be shared with the successful consultant.
Timelines.
- The successful consultant and Habitat will agree on the schedule of assessment and implementation. This assessment will be for 12-weeks.
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