Baseline Terms of Reference

Increasing Access to Protection, Mental Health, Psychosocial Support, and Education for IDP and Returnee Minorities in Duhok and Ninewa Governorates

Project Number: JUSI2020

JRS

1. Project summary Project name Increasing Access to Protection, Mental Health, Psychosocial Support, and Education for IDP and Returnee Minorities in Dohuk and Ninewa Governorates

Location Sharya, and , Ninewa governorate Types and number of Direct: 36,400 IDPs: 27,050 beneficiaries Indirect: 38,500 Returnees: 6,300 Host community: 3,050 Project goal IDPs and returnees in Dohuk and Ninewa Governorates have enhanced wellbeing through improved access to quality services Program objectives Objective 1: To increase access to protection and comprehensive care for IDPs and returnees through provision of case management, emergency assistance, legal and MHPSS services, and empowerment activities

Objective 2: To improve access to education and learning outcomes for children and youth through structured non-formal and formal education activities, teacher training and financial assistance Key partners Azadi Hospital (Duhok) – Department of Psychiatry University of St Joseph (Beirut) Hôtel Dieu de France University Hospital (Beirut) – Department of Psychiatry Project duration 2020 to 2022 Baseline purpose To identify the sense of safety and well-being among the JRS target IDP population in Sharya, Duhok Governorate, and returnee population in Qaraqosh, Ninewa Governate; to identity the sense of wellbeing and level of community integration among participants in the IS rehabilitation and reintegration program Baseline duration 8 November – 10 December 2020 Baseline report date 10 December

2. Project Description Out of 6 million people displaced during the 2014-17 conflict against IS, 4.1 million require humanitarian assistance. Three years after the territorial defeat of IS in Iraq, Qaraqosh, in Ninewa governorate is home to 32,400 mostly Christian returnees who fled in 2014. In Sharya, Duhok Governorate, JRS has identified 3,302 internally displaced Yazidi households (17,010 individuals) who survived the genocide. For IDPs and returnees in Sharya and Qaraqosh, protracted displacement and challenging returns continues to generate significant needs for basic humanitarian assistance, protection, education and MHPSS services.

The goal of the Increasing Access to Protection, Mental Health, Psychosocial Support, and Education for IDP and Returnee Minorities in Dohuk and Ninewa Governorates project is that IDPs and returnees in Dohuk and Ninewa Governorates have enhanced wellbeing through improved access to quality services.

The project will contribute to this goal by achieving two objectives:

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§ To increase access to protection and comprehensive care for IDPs and returnees through provision of case management, emergency assistance, legal and MHPSS services, and empowerment activities

§ To improve access to education and learning outcomes for children and youth through structured non-formal and formal education activities, teacher training and financial assistance

Project interventions will work to address the protection, MHPSS and education needs of IDPs in Sharya Collective and surrounding Yazidi communities, Duhok Governorate, and returnees in Qaraqosh, Ninewa Governorate at the individual and community levels.

Through the first objective, varied interventions including targeted emergency assistance, legal assistance and counseling (Sharya, only), responding to protection concerns and social cohesion events (Qaraqosh, only) will work to enhance the protection needs of community members. Individual counseling and psychiatric support, women’s support groups (Qaraqosh, only) and an IS survivor rehabilitation (Sharya, only) will work to meet the mental health needs of individuals and families in the target communities.

Under the second objective, JRS education programming will offer children and youth a safe space to learn and improve prospects for durable solutions to displacement and successful returns. Structured, quality education support will be implemented in line with Education Cluster approaches under the Humanitarian Response Plan, namely, increasing access to quality learning opportunities and implementing an integrated approach in collaboration with government authorities. This will be achieved through a variety of structured education activities, formative psychosocial activities, and support for education costs. This component complements the protection interventions outlined above. Training of teachers on protection topics will foster safe learning environments, and focal points in JRS education programs will be equipped to refer students to JRS MHPSS services.

3. Baseline Target Audience The baseline is intended for JRS project teams, project target communities, stakeholders, and the project funder in an effort to improve services and, ultimately, the lives of displaced, returnee and host families in Iraq.

Stakeholders Function Azadi Hospital - Department of Psychiatry Psychiatric consultations and treatment of IDPs (Duhok) Physical health services Catholic Relief Services (Duhok) Educational assistance in Sharya School of Education University of St. Joseph Teacher formations (Beirut) Hotel Dieu de France University Hospital - Trainings for psychologists and medical doctors. If Department of Psychiatry (Beirut) travel and visits are possible, one-day training sessions for all in Duhok and Ninewa. These are currently being carried out by Zoom videoconferencing in more frequent one-hour long sessions.

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University of St Joseph (Beirut) Pedagogical training for teachers in Duhok and Ninewa

4. Baseline Purpose & Objectives JRS launched operations in Iraq in October 2014 and has been working to respond to the needs of IDPs and returnees. With the advent of a new project, which aims to achieve positive changes to community members’ sense of safety and wellbeing, a baseline study is needed to establish methods to measure these concepts, effectively track them, and to evaluate project implementation. Thus, the baseline study will inform programming and provide data from which future comparisons will be made. While JRS Iraq programming is well-established in the target areas of Sharya and Qaraqosh and primary and secondary data does exist, data measuring sense of safety and wellbeing is insufficient.

Included in JRS’s project is an IS rehabilitation and reintegration program. Data capturing the sense of wellbeing and level of community integration among participants in this program should also be collected.

5. Methodology 5.1 Process

The baseline should be a collaborative process in which the consultant works in close coordination with key JRS Iraq staff including the Country Director, program officer and M&E officer in addition to project directors. Meetings which include JRS Regional Office staff based in Beirut will also take place.

A mixed methods approach should be employed integrating data during the different baseline phases including during data collection, analysis and discussion of findings. The study should take a representative sample for both quantitative and qualitative methods. While percentages must be established through quantitative tools, qualitative tools should reveal the varied understandings and interpretations of the concepts which are the focus of the baseline.

The methodology and the analysis must adapt a gender mainstreaming approach i.e. ensure a gender perspective is incorporated into the design of data collection tools, analysis of findings and baseline conclusions.

A list of potential baseline participants to be provided by the JRS Iraq team. The methodology for the selection of candidates to be done by the research consultant. The sample size should have a 95% confidence interval and a 5% margin of error. 5.2 Protection concerns

There is a high level of vulnerability among the target population which will participate in the baseline. The consultant must include in their technical proposal submitted to JRS Iraq for the tender process how they will take into consideration the protection concerns of participants in the design and implementation of the baseline in line with the Do No Harm principle. Additionally, the consultant must provide examples of how they have considered the protection needs of participants in previous research with vulnerable populations.

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5.3 Target population

The baseline survey will target the Yazidi IDP population in Duhok Governorate in Sharya town (GPS: 36.79 N; 42.97 E) and its surrounding seven villages - Kalabadre, Old Sharya, Shekhadre, Sina, Kharshnaya, Rikava, and Grepan. All are out-of-camp IDPs. The project will also target host community members in Sharya in effort to promote social cohesion, therefore, this population should also be included in the baseline.

In Ninewa Governate, individuals in Qaraqosh (GPS: 36.26N, 43.38E) will be targeted. The majority of the population in Qaraqosh is Christian returnees. 5.4 Quantitative data collection The project logframe should serve as the frame of reference for collection of quantitative data. Baseline data should be collected at the goal and outcome levels. Tablets will be provided by JRS Iraq for quantitative data collection.

Table 1. Project goal and outcome indicators

Objective Indicator % of girls and boys reporting well-being Project Goal % of women and men reporting well-being % of girls and boys reporting sense of safety and well-being Project Outcome 1 % of women and men reporting sense of safety and well-being % of girls and boys reporting wellbeing and community integration Project Outcome 2 % of women and men reporting wellbeing and community integration

5.5 Qualitative data collection Qualitative methods should include focus group discussions with children and adults with participants representing all project activities. Key informant interviews with project staff, including mental health specialists, and teachers of child and adult education. 5.6 Data analysis and interpretation Primary data to be disaggregated by age and gender. Findings must integrate distinctions in gender as well as IDP, returnee and host community responses and attitudes.

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6. Roles & Responsibility Baseline phase Role Task § Introduction meeting with JRS Regional Office JRS Iraq and research consultant § Provide documentation and JRS Iraq project team list of potential baseline participants § Desk review § Design methodology and finalize with input from Planning project team Research consultant § Prepare tools and finalize with input from project team § Inception report § Train enumerators on tools and protection concerns § Introduction to research JRS Iraq HR consultant/enumerators on JRS CP policy and procedures § Facilitate data collection process in target communities by contacting all JRS Iraq Project team selected participants and ensuring their presence at designated safe spaces for Data collection and analysis data collection § Implement data collection process § Ensure data quality Research consultant § Hold debriefing sessions with project teams at the end of each day in the field § Submit first draft report in English Research consultant § Reflect discussion feedback in final report § Submit final report Reporting and follow up § Submit draft report to JRS Regional office, JRS Iraq consultant with comments project team and questions JRS Regional Office, JRS Iraq § Discuss findings after project team, Research submission of first draft consultant

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7. Timeline & Products The baseline to be implemented from 8 November to 10 December 2020 (24 working days).

Date Item Deliverable Days § Introduction meeting 8 – 9 November with team members 2 § Desk review § Evaluation design § Product 1: Inception § Tool development in report including coordination with JRS detailed assessment staff methodology § Development of field (including sampling 10 – 13, 15 November visits plan in methodology) with a 5 coordination with JRS plan of action and staff deadlines (including § Train enumerators on field visits schedule) tools § Product 2: qualitative & quantitative tools § Dataset of raw quantitative data from children and adults 16 – 19, 22 – 25 Nov § Fieldwork 8 § Notes from qualitative methods with children and adults § Data analysis § Product 3: § Prepare draft report submission of draft 26 – 27, 29 – 30 Nov § Submit draft report report on 1 5 1 December to JRS Iraq and December Regional Office 7 December § Validation and interpretation 1 meeting with JRS Iraq and JRS RO staff 8- 10 December § Prepare final report § Product 4: § Submission of final submission of final 3 report to JRS Iraq report on 10 and Regional Office December

8. Budget The budget for the baseline should not exceed USD 10,450. The budget includes all expenses associated with the baseline including air and/or land transportation, accommodation, enumerators hired by the research consultant and any other costs associated with the baseline which may be accrued.

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Payment for services will be made in three installments. The first installment will be 40% of the budget upon the signing of the contract. The second installment will be 40% of the total after completion of fieldwork. The remaining 20% of the total to be paid upon submission of the final report as agreed upon by the consultant and JRS Iraq and the JRS Regional Office.

Interested candidates must submit a detailed budget with the breakdown of the project phases and products.

9. Requirements Applicants must meet the qualifications detailed below.

§ A minimum of 7 years of experience conducting baselines and evaluations in a humanitarian context in conflict/post-conflict settings, including Iraq § Demonstrated experience of incorporating protection concerns into the design and implementation of baselines/evaluations § Knowledge of the context of northern Iraq § Strong cultural sensitivity § Experience leading a team of enumerators § Experience conducting qualitative and quantitative data collection methods § Experience with KoBo Toolbox or other digital data collection tools § Fluent in . Fluent in Kurdish, strongly preferred. Excellent reading, writing, and speaking in English. § Ability to obtain work and movement authorizations independently e.g. visa and other permits which may be needed

10. Application submission Interested applicants must submit the below documents in order to be considered for the research consultancy no later than 2 November and be ready to begin work immediately. Applications to be reviewed on a rolling basis.

§ CV and cover letter demonstrating qualifications and relevant previous experience § A proposal including baseline methods, draft questionnaires for quantitative data collection, action plan and work schedule § Detailed budget § Sample of baseline or evaluation report conducted previously as a research consultant

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Proposals to be sent to the JRS Iraq Country Office at: [email protected] and Mark McGuinness, Regional Programmes Officer at: [email protected]

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