CAMRIS International is an international development and research firm that realizes innovative solutions to development challenges through high-quality, cost-effective program and research management services. With experience working in more than 80 countries, we combine our proven systems with today’s most effective, evidence-based best practices to improve the lives of people around the world. We apply a customized, customer-centric, cost-effective business approach to offer greater value to our clients and challenge the way things have always been done in our field.

CAMRIS clients include U.S. government agencies and multilateral and private organizations. Our core practice areas include public health, agriculture, and food security, economic development, education, environment, humanitarian assistance, democracy and governance, monitoring, evaluation and learning, and medical research.

CAMRIS International implements USAID’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Activity, a five-year project in Nepal. The MEL Activity supports the achievement of USAID/Nepal’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) Development Objectives (DOs) by assisting the Mission in planning, designing, conducting, disseminating, and learning from more rigorous monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of development activities. USAID/Nepal uses the products and deliverables from the MEL activity to (a) facilitate informed program management, (b) shape the long-term strategic direction of programs and decision-making within the Mission, and (c) enable USAID/Nepal to comply with Agency accountability and M&E requirements.

The MEL Activity has three major components:

Component 1: Support greater rigor and coherence in USAID/Nepal’s M&E efforts

Component 2: Design and conduct analyses, evaluations, surveys, studies, and assessments

Component 3: Support improved knowledge management within the Mission

CAMRIS International is an international development and research firm that realizes innovative solutions to development challenges through high-quality, cost-effective program and research management services. With experience working in more than 80 countries, we combine our proven systems with today’s most effective, evidence-based best practices to improve the lives of people around the world. We apply a customized, customer-centric, cost-effective business approach to offer greater …

Expert Consultant (Moderator/Facilitator) for Federalism Learning Summit – 2019

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Overview:

Following the elections for 761 governmental units – from local government to the federal parliament – Nepal is now focusing its efforts on institutionalizing the federal governance structure. This change in governance structure has multi-dimensional implications for development initiatives in all sectors, providing opportunities for better governance outcomes. While there is a potential for improved delivery of government services and greater civic participation in government decision-making, the transition to a devolved power structure could also lead to conflicts over jurisdiction, prerogatives, resource allocation, revenue sharing, fiscal transfer arrangements, and division of administrative responsibilities across the three levels of government. With the new and demanding role of local government units, the public has high expectations for local government to be more responsive and efficient at delivering resources and services in their communities.

USAID/Nepal is in the verge of planning for its new Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS). Hence, understanding the opportunities federalism has created and the underlying challenges that might impact the development programming and its successful implementation is crucial for USAID and other partners.

In this backdrop, the USAID/Nepal is holding a Federalism Learning Summit in June 6-7, 2019 in Kathmandu. The learning summit entitled ‘Federalism in Nepal: Challenges and Opportunities for Development Programming’ will engage members of all Mission Development Objective teams, implementing partners, and other development organizations with experience on federalism to learn from each other’s experiences and begin to consider how to respond programmatically.

To support this initiative, the MEL Activity seeks one or more Expert Consultants, Moderator/Facilitator to design, facilitate, and moderate the learning summit. Contractors with relevant expertise and capacity may also apply. This is a short-term assignment starting from April 2019 to the last week of June 2019.

Responsibilities:

Provide agenda outline of the learning summit
Hold meeting with key staff from each DO team and Federalism Working Group in the Mission and incorporate findings into the summit design
Gather experiences from various stakeholders working on federalism and bring their experience to the summit
Finalize learning summit design to align to key elements of the integrating governance strategic planning workshop
Prepare detailed summit scripts and the materials such as brief information packages, work-sheets, and presentation slides
Facilitate the summit
Document the summit discussions and group work
Draft a summit report
Finalize the summit report and submit to the Mission

Qualifications:

Degree in social sciences or relevant field, and master’s degree preferred
Extensive knowledge on the federalism issue particularly in post federal structure in Nepal
Strong moderation/facilitating skills on the subject matter. Five years or more moderation/facilitation experience preferred
Experience on using facilitation methods and tools appropriate to deal with the group dynamics
Good track record of working with donor partners. Working experience with USAID will be an asset
Excellent communication skills. English fluency is required
Nepali nationals are highly encouraged to apply

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