Consultancy – Review and update CaLP’s “Decision making tools – Minimum Expenditure Baskets

Action Against Hunger – ROWCA (Regional Office Western Central Africa) in Senegal – Consultancy – Review and update CaLP’s “Decision making tools – Minimum Expenditure Baskets”

Reference : WA – DK – 00826

Presentation of the CaLP network
CaLP’s purpose is to maximise the potential that humanitarian CVA can bring to people in contexts of crisis, as one component of broader financial assistance. CaLP envisions a future where people are enabled to overcome crises with dignity, by exercising choice and their right to self-determination in order to achieve long term well-being. Our role as a collective is to optimise the quality and scale of humanitarian CVA by generating alignment in the approaches and actions of those within and across our network.

Context
Following the emergence of « Multipurpose Cash grants », more and more actors have embraced the concept of Minimum Expenditure Baskets as a tool to inform programme design and quality. Some organizations have started to develop tools to support and progressively harmonize the calculation of MEB, like WFP’s guidance.
In early 2020, CaLP developed a set of decision-making tools from the collective knowledge of the sector, to accompany practitioners and decision makers through key stages in the process of calculating an MEB. These tools are built on the existing guidance produced by the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Bank, tools like the Basic Needs Assessment (BNA), Response Options Analysis and Planning (ROAP), Essential Needs Assessment (ENA) and learning from a variety of Cash Working Groups in different contexts including Uganda, Colombia, Peru, Haiti, Vietnam and Yemen, among others.The overall objective of this consultancy is to work on the update of the decision-making tools on MEB. Catalyzing knowledge from recently produced resources (from Clusters, partners) and updated knowledge, the consultant will update the tool wherever relevant (with a focus on the “MEB insights” section).

Objectives of the consultancy

Catalyzing knowledge from recently produced resources (from Clusters, partners) and updated knowledge, the consultant will update the tool wherever relevant (with a focus on the “MEB insights” section). Specifically, the work will consist in :

• clarify any aspect of the tools that was initially a debate among practitioners and where good practice is now available

• add specific sections that were not covered in the first version and where challenges have appeared – update links and lists of tools with recently produced resources

• maximize alignment with other available tools on MEB (throughout the document, on concepts, directions, technical issues…)

• ensure that the tool remain as user-friendly and practical as in its first version – or improved, based on feedback.

For further information and how to apply, please download the Terms and Conditions.

Closing date: January 4th, before 24:00 (Dakar time)