Annual Resilience Measurement (ARM) Consultant – SomReP – 9 octobre 2026

Contexte

Programme Name: Somalia Resilience Programme (SomReP)

Target Locations: 10 districts of SomReP target Districts

Programme Goal: Increase the resilience of chronically vulnerable Somali people, households, communities and systems to recurrent climatic shocks and other related risks in targeted pastoral, agro-pastoral and peri-urban livelihood zones by 2029

Specific Objective: Sustainably improve food security and livelihoods of Somali people, households, communities through effective risk management, protection of productive assets, improved governance of resilience structures, and promotion of innovations and evidence-based programming.

Intermediary Outcomes:

• Improved capacity of households to implement disaster risk reduction and positive coping strategies to mitigate the immediate effect of exposure to shock;
• Improved capacity of individuals, households and communities to adhere to positive development trajectories; despite exposures to shocks and utilize strategies designed to allow adaptation to rapid and slow on-set hazards;
• Improved capacity of households to engage in strategies for sustainable livelihoods and economic growth to enhance food security and resilience;
• governance structures at community, district and national levels are strengthened to enhance participation, transparency and accountability;
• Programming, policy actions and decisions on resilience in Somalia informed on evidence-based resilience research, learning and innovation

Key Partners: ADRA, ACF, CARE, COOPI, DRC, Oxfam, Shaqodoon, and World Vision Somali (Consortium lead).

Assessment Type: Annual Resilience Measurement (ARM 2026)

Target Locations: 10 active SomReP districts (pastoral, agro-pastoral, peri-urban, and displacement settings). Badhan, Bossaso, Burao, Ceel Afweyne, Dollow, Eyl, Laas Caanood, Lughaya, Hargeisa and Salahley

Start and End Date: November 2026

Anticipated Reporting Date: December 2025 (Final Consolidated Report)

About SomReP: Somali Resilience Programme (SomReP) is a consortium of seven international NGOs and one local NGO namely Action Against Hunger (AAH), the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA), Cooperative Assistance for Relief Everywhere (CARE), Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI), Danish Refugee Council (DRC), Oxfam, World Vision Somalia and Shaqodoon whose aim is to tackle the challenge of mitigating the effects of recurrent shocks and stressors and alleviating the chronic vulnerability that is common among pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, and peri-urban households across Somalia. The program was designed to address communities’ unique needs by building resilient livelihoods, a strategy founded on the lessons learned and best practices of the consortium members.

With support from DFAT, EU, SIDA, BMZ and SDC, SomReP has been implementing interventions with the aim of enhancing the resilience of vulnerable populations. To achieve this, SomReP programming supports resilience through:

• Livelihoods & food security: HHs in targeted communities have improved access to productive livelihoods for enhanced food access and diversity;
• Social Safety Nets: HHs in target communities have their livelihoods and assets protected during shocks and stressors through the establishment and strengthening of social safety nets, including the use of crisis modifier mechanisms such as Savings Group Schemes;
• Natural resource management: Eco–system health improved through promotion of equitable and sustainable natural resource management;
• Local governance capacity building: Communities, civil society and local institutions are better equipped with resilience strategies and response capacities to cope with recurrent shocks and stressors; and

The rationale behind the theory of change and impact pathways is that implementation of such interventions would eventually result in positive changes in well-being indicators which implicitly is indicative of enhanced adaptive, absorptive and transformative capacity. The program targets 45,350 households and is implemented in the districts of; Badhan, Bossaso, Burao, Ceel Afweyne, Dollow, Eyl, Laas Caanood, Lughaya, Hargeisa and Salahley,

At the beginning of all these projects, SomReP conducted baseline surveys to establish benchmark indicators. In addition, since 2016/17 SomReP has conducted annual resilience measurements to document impact of the SomReP programmes and assess the progress made annually on key outcomes and output indicators. This resilience measurement study will build on these studies to document the programme’s impact and assess the progress so far made on key outcomes and output indicators. SomReP would also want to take advantage of this assessment to establish whether the hypotheses and assumptions set to underpin SomReP Theory of Change and causal linkages between inputs and activities and outcomes and impacts were plausible and valid. The results of the assessment will be particularly important for SomReP not only to understand the impact of the project, test the theory of change underpinning the strategies and interventions delivered, but will also inform future strategic programming and project development. The 2025 round will be the fifth consecutive annual assessment and will generate nationally comparable data across 10 active districts where SomReP is currently operating.

The table below provides the core and outcomes indicators for SomReP: https://wvi.box.com/s/l3dcl2kath9tjj2atu95e81k8ttpbher

Missions et responsabilités

• Assess the relevance, and effectiveness of the program strategies and interventions in relation to the context and the programme strategic framework, documenting the lessons learnt and best practices to inform future adaptations of interventions typologies.
• Establish the extent to which the consortium has achieved its purpose and delivered on intended outputs, and whether the intended outcomes were met in relation to resilience programming
• Assess the impact of the programme with particular focus on establishing changes that have occurred as measured by resilience capacity indices (absorptive capacity index, adaptive capacity index and transformative capacity index ) and wellbeing indicators (provided for in SomReP master logical framework) for example food security and coping strategies indicators (i.e. HHS, FCS, rCSI), ownership of household and community productive assets (climate sensitive and non-climate sensitive assets), income and expenditures among others; and disaggregated to livelihood zones and other vulnerabilities.
• Assess the effectiveness and efficiency of programme interventions in strengthening the response capacity of various shocks and stresses including COVID-19 effects, Desert Locust, Conflict, drought, Floods etc.
• Employ a quasi-experimental design to compare households and communities directly targeted by SomReP interventions with non-targeted or indirectly exposed groups, thereby strengthening attribution of observed changes to program interventions.
• Compare findings with the last four rounds of ARM surveys (2021–2025) to analyze longitudinal trends in resilience trajectories, highlight persistent gaps, and identify lessons on what has worked or not worked in different livelihood and displacement contexts.
• Address gender-specific questions regarding women’s and girls’ access to services, resources, rights, and participation.
• Acquire all clearances and permissions necessary to collect data in all needed regions where the project will be implemented
• Preparation for the study: planning scope, engagement, logistics and schedule; documented in a clear inception plan together with the work plan including schedule for field work
• Develop inception report before actual roll out of the assessment detailing study methodology and appropriate/relevant data collection tools, sampling and workplan.
• Work closely with SomReP Head of Quality Assurance, M&E and Knowledge Management during the design of the methodology/ tools; agree on the tools that will be used.
• Incorporate feedback into tools and reports which will be given from the SomReP team.

Profil recherché

• Consultant expérimenté dans la réalisation d’évaluations d’impact, d’enquêtes de résilience et d’études quantitatives/qualitatives.
• Maîtrise des méthodologies de recherche, y compris les plans quasi-expérimentaux.
• Capacité à concevoir des outils de collecte de données mobiles et à gérer des équipes d’enquêteurs.
• Solide compréhension des contextes pastoraux, agro-pastoraux et de déplacement en Somalie.
• Expertise en matière d’intégration du genre et de protection de l’enfance dans la recherche.

Conditions et avantages

• Les consultants sont responsables de leur propre logistique (transport et hébergement si nécessaire).
• Les consultants sont responsables de leurs propres assurances, vaccinations, santé et préparation à la sécurité.

Dossier de candidature

• Plan de démarrage clair (Inception Plan) avec plan de travail et calendrier.
• Rapport de démarrage (Inception Report) détaillant la méthodologie de l’étude et les outils de collecte de données pertinents.
• Outils de collecte de données approuvés par l’équipe M&E du projet.

Comment postuler

Soumission des dossiers et propositions selon les directives de SomReP / World Vision Somalia. Pour toute référence ou consultation des indicateurs de base, utiliser le lien fourni : https://wvi.box.com/s/l3dcl2kath9tjj2atu95e81k8ttpbher.