PRMN Partners Prequalification- Puntland State of Somalia

PRMN Partners prequalification- Puntland |State of Somalia

Terms of Reference (TOR)

Project title: Protection and Return Monitoring Network(PRMN).

Target audience: Local NGOs.

Locations: Bari, Eastern Sanag, Nugal, Mudug (North and South).

1. Background

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has been present in Puntland since 2006 and has since expanded to the rest of Horn of Africa countries including Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Yemen and Djibouti. The regional office is situated in Nairobi, Kenya. NRC mandate includes emergency programs focusing on IDPs and Refugees and affected host communities. In Puntalnd the area office is in Garowe while there are field offices in Bossaso and Galkayo. NRC Puntland program includes Education, Shelter and WASH, Food Security, Protection, information counseling and legal assistance (ICLA).

NRC under its project ‘Protection and Return Monitoring Network (PRMN’), funded by UNHCR is seeking for potential local NGOs, covering Nugal, Bari, Mudug(North, south), Eastern Sanag regions.

NRC has been implementing the protection monitoring network and population movement tracking initiative since 2006. Throughout that year, efforts were exerted in order to build a Protection Monitoring Network comprised of Somali civil society organizations and human rights defenders who would be dedicated to documenting information on human rights violations and reporting on these violations to the protection cluster in a systematic manner. Monitoring methodologies were harmonized in 2006 and a common monitoring tool was agreed upon and disseminated for use by the partners engaged in protection monitoring.

1. Overall Objective

• Improved Living Conditions and Enhanced internally displaced (IDPs) and returnees Protection in Puntland state of Somalia.

1. Specific Objectives

• To improve the protection of the displaced, returnees and the refugees by strengthening the protection & return monitoring network, stakeholder capacity building, advocacy mechanisms, referral system and response.

4. Target Groups

• In terms of displacements monitoring, the target group would be persons move due to droughts and conflict-related displacement, including primary and secondary displacement as well as returns. Including the internally displaced people, returnees, refugees, and the vulnerable host communities.
• In terms of protection monitoring, NRC will target people affected by all different human rights violations and abuse including GBV, SGBV, evictions, denial of access to aid and services, physical assault, deportations, arrest, torture, forced evictions, child labor, human trafficking and smuggling within the target group outlined above.

5. Scope of the services provided

The project activities are mainly monitors visiting the field to collect specific data on IDP movement, returns and protection related Human Rights violation cases within IDP settlements, villages, transit camps/corridors and other IDP target sites; and submitting the data to online database. In so doing, the partner organization will receive funds to facilitate this exercise.

The partner will use a database system where the monitors will upload all information collected on daily bases, the partner will likewise send flash reports and evictions matrix to NRC focal points within 3 hours’ when the incident happen.

1. Competencies required

• The partner organizations should be based in location applied and have functioning office.
• The organizations should be officially recognized by the local authorities, and should have proof of registration.
• The organizations should have physical presence in region need to cover, where they will cover all district under that region.
• The organization should be able to provide track record of previously protection and other humanitarian interventions activities for over than 3 years or have implemented similar projects in the past.
• Deep knowledge of Human rights, guiding principles of internally displaced people.
• Knowledge of the culture for the various Somali communities in Puntland.
• Strong result oriented for communication, advocacy, reporting and data analysis
• Involvement in the recent response to droughts effected communities, refugees for

Yemeni crises effected and returnees in Puntland will give advantage.

• The organization should have organizational policies and procedures, particularly in financial, logistical, HR and Organizational governance.

1. Application Procedure

Competent local non-profit organizations who meet the above mentioned qualifications are encouraged to apply.

Please send hard copies of your updated following documents:

a) Application letter

b) Organizational profile

c) Registration certificates from Ministry of Planning

d) A concept notes not more than 4 to 5 pages indicating proposed activities, implementation methodology and the background information of the field monitors pre-planned the carry out the daily activities and any reports related to protection, Displacement interventions, mixed migration and human rights related issues

e) Organizational governance documents (7 manual documents on organizational manuals):

- Financial manual

- HR manual

- Service delivery manual including Procurement manual

- Sustainability manual, internal/external relations manual

- Governance manual

- Management practice manual

- Internal/External relations manual

1. Place to submit documents

NGOs applying this partnership Please convey your application documents to NRC offices in hard copy (Garowe, Bossaso, Galkayo). before 15th May, 2018 at 4:00 PM. There is a tender box at the NRC logistics offices.