Tenders Are Invited For Health, Opportunity, Prosperity And Empowerment (Hope) Project.

Tenders are invited for Health, Opportunity, Prosperity and Empowerment (HOPE) Project. Closing Date: 29 Nov 2025 Type: Consultancy Terms of Reference for local consultant 1. Background information 1.1. Introduction ZOA, in partnership with Refugee Law Project a local organization, is implementing the Health, Opportunity, Prosperity and Empowerment (HOPE) project in Kiryandongo refugee settlement. The overarching goal of the project is to ensure communities have hope and live peaceful dignified lives. The team implements a multi-sectoral and integrated intervention to meet the most pressing needs of refugee and host communities in and around Kiryandongo. The project is being implemented using the Participatory Integrated Planning (PIP) approach, integrated with a land security intervention. The PIP approach facilitates the self-motivation, resilience, and stewardship of people and nature. All sectoral interventions will be layered and integrated into the same communities through livelihoods, WASH, land security and mental health outcomes. 1.2. The key principles and approaches. 1.2.1 Participatory Integrated Planning (PIP) approach the bottom-up PIP approach drives sustainable transformation by empowering smallholder households and communities to take ownership of their development, starting from their current situation and strengths. The approach builds a solid foundation for sustainable change, working towards sustainable farming systems, thriving communities, and healthy landscapes. The approach fosters mindset change that translates into action and measurable impact, without the provision of handouts. Through a six-month participatory process, households assess their current situation, envision their desired future, and co-create practical plans to achieve it. Smallholder farming households start this process on household level. Over time, PIP farmers start developing and implementing plans together at community level to achieve common goals focusing on long-term restoration and sustainability. Using tools such as the family tree, families analyze assets, income streams, labor distribution, and responsibilitiesstrengthening cohesion and joint decisionmaking. Trained PIP innovators catalyze peer-to-peer learning, enabling rapid and cost-effective scale-up across communities. Once critical mass is reached, communities collectively refine their shared vision and coordinate community actions for broader impact. The approach aims to deliver tangible results: improved household planning and productivity, stronger community cooperation, enhanced adoption of climatesmart and sustainable land management practices, and increased resilience to (climate related) shocks. Continuous mentorship and demand-driven technical 2 support ensure that changes are not only adopted but sustained over time building self-reliant, future-oriented communities. 1.2.2 Locally led HOPE adopts a localisation approach which aspires to build strong civil societies, communities and actors, and promote locally led recovery programmes. ZOA will work hand in hand with the local government and settlement leadership structures. These structures will be engaged in the design, implementation, and monitoring of the project to build their capacity and secure buy-in. Acknowledging the importance of strengthening local civil society, ZOA will work with and through local partners to deliver the water, sanitation, and MHPSS components of HOPE. In doing so, ZOA will intentionally seek to build the capacity of these local partners and ensure equitable partnerships when it comes to resource allocation, representation, and decision making. ZOA will adopt community-led approaches to ensure we are implementing a bottom-up approach, driven by local practices and preferences. 1.2.3 Women at the centre HOPE adopts a gender transformative approach. This means the design of the project will put women at the centre and seek to address fundamental barriers to their empowerment. This will be achieved through household participatory planning where decision making about resources and assets will no longer be left to men alone. This starts with the family tree which facilitates dialogue within the family about the functioning of the household (role of men and women), the activities that take place and the expenses that are made. The exercise helps families reflect on gender dynamics, build mutual understanding, reduce inequality, and commit to joint actions for positive change through participatory household planning. Certificates of customary ownership offer tenure security for women and their children, since all family members can be included on the land registration title. MHPSS services will be tailored to meet the specific needs of women, by creating safe spaces for women and girls to come together. Water and sanitation service provision will relieve the time burden on women and girls to collect water and care for family members who fall sick from water borne diseases. Male role models will be identified in target communities to champion positive change and tackle barriers to womens empowerment. 1.2.4 Private sector engagement Uganda benefits from a vibrant community of entrepreneurs, linked to upstream value chain actors. ZOA integrates its interventions in the local market systems, and establishes linkages to these businesses so that they may extend their goods or services to ZOAs target communities. Similarly, with increased agricultural production, there may be opportunities to link smallholder farmers to companies to purchase their produce for fair prices. Linkages and collaborations can stimulate investment in local value chain actors, improving the quality and standards of their products. ZOA is currently partnering with Fiber Foods on the oysternut value chain, Holland Greentech on vegetable value chains and others to identify relevant market system actors and increase income and profitability for target households in Westnile. 1.2.5 Targeted project participants HOPE will target refugees living in Kiryandongo refugee settlement and selected host communities in Kiryandongo District (Kichwabugingo, Kyankende and Kiryandongo) . The majority of this population are women and children. The project will target 50% host community members and 50% refugees from Sudan, South Sudan, DRC, Burundi, and Ugandan IDPs living in the settlement. Local partner organisations will be served by the project through capacity building initiatives Government institutions including District Land Board, Area Land Committees, Local Physical Planning Committees, and Water User Committees Total people to be served: 10,380 households (51,900 persons) in 90 communities 1.4 Overall project objective: Communities have hope and live peaceful dignified lives 1.5 Project outcome Outcome 1: Vulnerable households are food secure. Outcome 2: Refugee and host community households have improved land tenure security. Outcome 3: Households access safe and sufficient water, sanitation and hygiene services. Outcome 4: Vulnerable refugees and host community members improve their mental wellbeing. 2. OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE BASELINE STUDY To establish an evidence-based starting point for the HOPE project that will guide the design and implementation of integrated interventions aimed at enhancing the well-being, resilience, and peaceful coexistence of refugee and host communities in Kiryandongo District. Specifically, the baseline will generate comprehensive data and insights across key thematic areas including Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Land Rights, and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) for both host and refugee populations. All required baseline indicators on outcome and output level for this project need to be determined. The findings will serve as benchmarks for measuring project impact and effectiveness over time. 2.1 Scope of Work The consultant will be responsible for: Desk review and context analysis. Review existing literature, project documents, and relevant data on the socio-economic and humanitarian context in Kiryandongo District. Map ongoing interventions related to WASH, livelihoods, land rights, and MHPSS. 2. Baseline design and methodology. Develop a robust, mixed-methods baseline design incorporating both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Define clear indicators aligned with the HOPE Projects logical framework and results matrix. Establish data collection tools and sampling strategies to ensure representativeness across both refugee and host communities. Data collection and analysis. Conduct field data collection using participatory and gender-sensitive approaches in Kiryandongo settlement. Analyze data to identify current status, needs, gaps, and opportunities within each thematic area. Disaggregate findings by gender, age, disability and community type (refugee vs. host). Reporting and validation. Produce a concise baseline report outlining key findings, conclusions, and recommendations for project design and implementation (max 40 pages). Facilitate a validation workshop with stakeholders to review and refine findings. Deliverables. Inception report (including detailed methodology and work plan). Data collection tools. Draft and final baseline reports including stakeholder mapping (maximum 40 pages). Presentation of findings to project stakeholders. Provide soft and hard copy of the presentation and final report. 3. TIMEFRAME AND DELIVERABLES The consultant will summarize the capacity needs assessment work plan using the table below. The duration of the assignment is 30 working days. The baseline study will begin on 8th December 2025. 1. Inception and Preparatory Phase - (5 days). 2. Data Collection Phase (12 days). 3. Data Analysis Phase (4 Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4187718/health-opportunity-prosperity-and-empowerment-hope-project