The IFRC Geneva Information Management team sits within the DREF, Information Management and Quality unit under USG NSDOC.
The role of the Information Management Team at IFRC headquarters is to provide high-quality critical technical support for coordination, systems, evidence and analysis – with a goal to ensure that the IFRC secretariat and National Societies systematically use and share quality information and analysis in programmes and operations before, during and after crises.
IFRC has established a multi-year Accelerating Information Management programme, with the primary objective to accelerate Information Management to strengthen the humanitarian data ecosystem within and beyond the IFRC network, linking local action to global systems. The main focus of this program is to support National Societies in developing more robust systems in terms of Information Management across the globe.
Some of this funding will be expended by the IFRC at global or regional level to deliver outcomes under the People, Process and Technology strands – while a significant portion of these funds is to be channeled directly to selected National Societies in all 5 regions, to accelerate localised adoption of information management approaches through sustained workforce investment and enable them to improve their IM capacity through hiring a dedicated IM staff for the NS, linked with associated technical/learning support as required.
The People pillar has a strong focus on learning and development and capacity strengthening, whilst the Process and Technologies pillars are enablers to improve decision-making capabilities, and the technology support required.
Historically IFRC Information Management has been solely for Emergency Operations and focused on surge capability for IFRC-supported responses. The AIM programme enables IFRC to rapidly up-scale capacity-strengthening opportunities for National Society IM for local programmes and operations in addition to large scale international responses.
Desired outcomes
The main objective of the consultancy is to contribute to building the evidence base of the availability and applicability of analytical outputs to inform key IFRC milestones in disaster management design and planning.
Specifically, this will entail a review of the relevance, process and overall impact/use of Crisis Categorisation, Disaster Briefs, Emergency Needs Assessments, Multi-hazards Risk Analysis, and Scenarios on emergency readiness and response processes (or equivalent), with the following overall guidance questions:
Key activities
The consultancy will include, but not be limited to, the following activities:
*Please note that the final outputs are subject to the consultancy stakeholders’ approval before they are considered as final deliverables. All comments from the IFRC should be addressed before the report is considered completed.
Methodology
The consultancy outputs will be based on the findings and factual statements identified from review of relevant documents and discussions with key interlocutors. It is anticipated the consultant(s) may be required to physically travel to IFRC headquarters in Geneva (Switzerland) for face-to-face meetings and/or to present findings.
Document review. Documents to be reviewed include, but not limited to i) Existing IFRC documentation on emergency response framework and other relevant processes, ii) IFRC internal documentation on IM, Emergency Needs Assessment and Humanitarian Analysis (Policies, SOPs, guidance notes, handbooks, and iii) Other relevant documents, when available.
Discussions with key interlocutors. The consultant is expected to facilitate discussions with IFRC team members at the global and regional level. This may include DREF, IM and Quality team, Operations Coordinators, and National Society Response Capacity Strengthening staff.
Support to be provided to the consultant
The primary contact for the consultant will be Vincent Annoni, Sr Officer IM & Data Analysis, Vincent.annoni@ifrc.org and Luke Caley, IM team lead, luke.caley@ifrc.org
Timeframe
The duration of the consultancy will be for a maximum of 44 days for the period from November 15, 2024. The exact start date to be collectively agreed with IFRC, and duration adapted according to final list of outputs.
If additional time is required to meet the overall objective of this assignment, IFRC will endeavour to extend the assignment for an additional period to be determined and subject to the availability of resources.
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