Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 08 Dec 2016
SRH Linkages And Gender Based Violence
Terms of Reference for Baseline KAP Survey for Lead Researcher
Background
IOM intends to contribute to the evidence base on gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response in a complex emergency in order to understand the nature of GBV in the South Sudan context. While there is a multitude of GBV interventions globally, there is minimal GBV-focused programming which exists in South Sudan and limited data available to understand how to best develop and target interventions that prevent violence against women and men and girls and boys and provide support to survivors of GBV through the establishment and strengthening of referral mechanisms.
Refugee and internally displaced women (IDP) are especially vulnerable to gender-based violence during armed conflict, during flight from that conflict, and in refugee camps. Data from the South Sudan Gender Based Violence Information System (GBVIMS) found that in the first quarter of 2016, one in four GBV incidents was related to sexual violence. Of the reported GBV cases: physical assault, 284 (51%); rape, 77 (14%); psychological abuse, 75 (14%); sexual assault, 44 (8%); denial of resources, 39 (7%); and forced marriage, 33 (6%). The effects of violence can be devastating to a woman's reproductive health as well as to other aspects of her physical and mental well-being. In addition to causing injury, violence increases women's long-term risk of a number of other health problems, including chronic pain, physical disability, drug and alcohol abuse and depression. Violence influences the risk of HIV and other STIs directly when it interferes with women's ability to negotiate condom use. For many women, asking for condoms can be even more difficult than discussing other contraceptives because condoms are often associated with promiscuity, infidelity, and commercial sex work. In some places women's fear of men's reaction has kept them away from voluntary HIV/AIDS counselling and testing. This reticence has implications both for controlling sexual transmission of the virus and for efforts to reduce mother-to-child transmission.
The research will aim to address the following questions: What is a feasible, acceptable and effective for community GBV prevention interventions in complex emergency settings, such as those described above, among South Sudanese women and men and girls and boys. The focus will be on the development and testing of a community-based intervention involving community leaders, health providers and community health workers to prevent GBV. The research will be a baseline or explorative cross-sectional study with a mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) survey among community members (women and men) and community health workers in order to inform the development of a culturally appropriate community intervention. A pilot, including feasibility testing of the targeted intervention, will be included. The study’s multi-disciplinary approach will include address questions of transferability and scalability in other regions of South Sudan and to other humanitarian settings seeking to implement community-based approaches to prevent violence against women and men and girls and boys. The research will be an explorative and piloting study, a necessary precursor stage, for a wider impact evaluation.
The research has already started with a comprehensive desk review of existing South Sudan GBV data and discussion with stakeholders on the needs, challenges and potential interventions suitable for the South Sudanese context. A first draft of the research protocol has also been developed. IOM is recruiting a consultant to assist coordination of the survey in South Sudan, including coordination of stakeholder involvement (including the Ministry of Health (MOH), other line Ministries, South Sudan AIDS Commission (SSAC,) GBV South Sudan sub-cluster, etc.) and collation of all inputs and feedback on survey and development of the GBV intervention documents. The proposed intervention will include the baseline data collection, intervention development, piloting of the intervention and then end line data collection activities. IOM has already undergone a competitive process in the selection of a research consultancy firm that will conduct the data collection.
IOM will facilitate the process of convening a research steering committee to guide the process as well as contract a lead researcher to oversee the research process, whose primary responsibility will be technical and implementation oversight of the research, in collaboration with a consultancy firm to undertake the fieldwork.
Deliverables of the Lead Researcher:
Review the desk review and protocol already developed (1 day-remotely-November/December)
Plan for stakeholder consultative meetings in-country with IOM’s support (1 days-remotely-November/December)
Field mission to South Sudan(approximately 13 days, December 2016): Field visit to IDP and refugee camps; Meet with consultancy firm/data collection; Briefing and training of enumerators; Interview key informants / relevant GBV actors; Stakeholder consultation meetings in Juba and other states as necessary
IOM South Sudan SGBV KAP Survey(approximately 20 days, December 2016/January 2017): Data analysis using STATA 14 or other suitable data analysis software; Draft preliminary findings (PPT & briefing document); Write survey report and refine based on feedback from stakeholders;Validation meeting; Ongoing technical support & quality assurance
Other payments: For internationally recruited consultants, Daily Subsistence Allowance will be provided for days in South Sudan including Juba as per the IOM standardized and approved DSA rates
How to apply:
Interested candidates are required to submit a letter of motivation, detailed curriculum vitae, technical proposal, financial proposal detailing personnel fees and payment terms and proof or previous related work (two reports or traceable recommendation letters) to below email.
E-mail: vss@iom.int
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.