eam/ Program: Strengthening Civil Society Representation of Women with Disabilities in Ghana.
Location: Ghana

Type of Contract: 45-day Consultancy

Project Background:

The Strengthening Civil Society Representation of Women with Disabilities in Ghana programme commenced in May 2024 and is a 2-year project funded by the European Union. The programme aims to strengthen the capacity for organisations of people with disabilities (OPDs), and organisations of women with disabilities in the areas of management, communication, fundraising, coordination, advocacy, gender, climate change, networking and financial accountability. Sightsavers will build the capacity of two OPDs, namely Women with Disability Development and Advocacy Organisation (WODAO), and the ABAK Foundation. WODAO and the ABAK Foundation will then cascade the capacity building areas downstream to members and partners to strengthen their ability to claim their rights and hold duty bearers to account.

Overall objective

Sightsavers is commissioning a consultant to a conduct a climate change situational analysis with a disability lens in the 33 project districts in the Bono, Bono East, Ashanti, Oti and Volta regions.

The assessment will:

• Assess awareness
• Climate change impact
• Risks
• Climate change response and adaptations
• Climate change policy environment
• Opportunities for adaptation

Duration of Project

The consultancy is expected to take up to 45 days, ideally to start as soon as possible.

Outputs and Deliverables

• An initial proposal outlining how the consultancy will be conducted, including proposed desk review sources, data collection tools, methodologies and the timelines for delivering the consultancy.
• A final report covering the project purposes outlining above and recommendations for Sightsavers, including guidelines for mainstreaming climate change into the programme and for downstream partners.

Budget and payment schedule

The consultant can invoice against the following payment schedule:

• 40% at the end of Phase 2
• 60% at the end of Phase 4

For full details of Phase, please see the Terms of Reference

Minimal qualifications for a Lead Consultant/ Team Members

• The consultant(s) must provide evidence of skills, experience and knowledge in climate change (essential) and disability inclusion (desirable).
• The consultant(s) must have experience in monitoring, evaluation, and research.
• The consultant(s) should have provided evidence of conducting climate change analysis or similar assessments along with examples of reports.
• The consultant(s) must demonstrate experience of working as an external consultant(s) for international organisations, the private sector and/or national development organisations.

Selection Criteria: Sightsavers is committed to running a fair and transparent tender process and ensuring that all bidders are treated and assessed equally during this process. Bidder quotation responses will be evaluated against Essential Criteria, Capability Criteria, Sustainability Criteria and Commercial Criteria. These criteria have been especially created to help us determine which bidder is able to offer the best quality and most commercially competitive solution to meet our needs and deliver the most effective programming to our beneficiaries.

Deadline for consultant(s) to submit bid

Monday 29th July 2024

Before the consultancy commences, the consultant(s) will receive a thorough orientation on the challenges and barriers faced by people with disabilities, including women with disabilities in the Ghanaian context.