Oxfam Consultancy Baseline Survey for Beyond the Numbers Making the Budget Work for the People Jobs in Zambia

Background

The EU Delegation has approved a grant to Oxfam and partners (Zambia Council for Social Development (ZCSD) and Non-Governmental Gender Organisations’ Coordinating Council (NGOCC) for a project entitled, “Beyond the numbers: Making the budget work for the people”.

The proposed project aims to convene diverse civic space (Non-State) actors and citizen groups to seek accountability of duty-bearers on budget development and implementation by building their capacity and facilitating opportunities for them.

The project contributes to the EU’s Support to Effectiveness and Transparency in Management of Public resources (EFFECT) programme.

The overall objective of the EFFECT programme is to contribute to the sustainable and inclusive economic growth through increased mobilisation and effective use of domestic resources.

The specific objective is to improve accountability, transparency and effectiveness in management of public resources and increase domestic revenue mobilisation.

Project Description:

Despite having a rich natural resource base with potential to spur socio-economic growth, Zambia is struggling to reduce poverty and tackle existing inequalities.

Zambia has a gender inequality index of 0.540 placing it at 134 out of 162 countries (UNDP HDR 2020).

Furthermore, Zambia is the most underperforming in terms of women participation in political office in the South African region with 18% of female representation at parliamentary level (far below the region’s average of 25%).

The health sector has positively improved with Zambia’s life expectancy now being at 63.9 and in terms of education, Zambia has an average of 11.5 years in school (HDR 2020).

Participation of citizens in the budgeting process has been underscored as an important aspect in development (Berner, 2001).

However, Zambia still follows an elitist and exclusive way of budgeting since most of the citizens’ participation is limited to few Lusaka based CSOs.

There are low levels of uptake and ownership particularly at sub-national and local level and lack of interest and skills of local communities to influence what they want to see in the budget.

Participation of key stakeholders through partnerships is minimal and thus common Zambians are unable to engage in a structured matter.

The budget has traditionally been considered the exclusive domain of technocrats, economists, and accountants (Policy Forum, 2009).

Furthermore, many official processes such as the preparations of annual government priorities, release of budget guidelines and ceilings by the Ministry of Finance, dates and deadlines for budget preparations or the requirement of citizens participation are closed to the general public (Ibid).

Responsibilities of Consultants

The consultants will be primarily responsible for:

• Development/design of the study including tools and methodology

• Share

study design including process, methodology and tools with the Oxfam

• Get feedback and finalize study design

• Pre-test tools, orient, train and lead study team

• Clean data set and ensure that they are interactive for use.

• Analyze data and prepare draft report.

• Update baseline values for the project indicators in the logframe

• Present baseline findings and and then submit final report

• Ensure safeguarding policy is adhered to by his/her team throughout the contract period.

• And any other duties relevant to the study

Responsibilities of Oxfam

Within its policies and practices, Oxfam’s primary responsibility is to help the consultants achieve the objective of the TOR. Specifically, Oxfam, will be responsible for:-

• Preparing detailed TOR and hire consultant

• Highlighting core inputs to study design and design of the tools

• Monitoring, and evaluating the study through providing feedbacks and ensure effectiveness of the study implementation.

• Coordinating with partner NGOs to ensure adequate support is provided at national and district level

• Giving inputs/feedback to draft and final report

• Releasing budget as per the agreed budget disbursement schedule.

• Orient consultant on safeguarding policy

• Orient consultant on COVID-19 declaration and acknowledgement

Deliverables

The following deliverables are expected under this TOR:

• Inception report (Detailed baseline framework detailing design and implementation plan that is agreeable with Oxfam and partners in Zambia)

• Data collection tools developed/used by consultants made available to Oxfam for future use.

• Baseline final report in both three hard copies and e-copy(not more than 50 pages excluding annexes)

• Complete cleaned dataset that supported both quantitative and qualitative study on Flash Drive and or as email attachment.

• PowerPoint presentation summarising the baseline study

• Updated project log frame based on the baseline findings(annexed).

How to Apply

All correspondence for the consultancy should be addressed to: HR through the email below:

HRZambia@oxfam.org.uk

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