Short Term Consultancy

To Develop and Present Policy Recommendation Based on the Findings of the Study in Tea Sector

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Tea sector is facing enormous challenges in terms of low income, gender imbalance and occupational safety despite the effort of NAEB regulating the tea pickers wage per kilogram. Besides, the working conditions are often poor and minimum standards of occupational safety are lacking. Those negative factors affect in general all workers and especially women in the above mentioned sector. 

Basically, achieving decent work would require upholding workers ‘rights but also to improve working condition, most probably to provide a sufficiently high minimum wage. The status quo needs to be assessed to effect sector-wide change. For these reasons, FES Rwanda in collaboration with COTRAF Rwanda under the EU funded project entitled “Social Dialogue 4 Sustainable Development (SD4SD): Promoting effective social dialogue, strengthening social protection, and enforcing the national and international labor standards in Rwanda” commissioned studies on labor condition in  tea sector  and their findings are used to engage in constructive dialogue with decision makers.  Indeed, policymaking to improve the living condition in tea sector   requires integrated views of people who are faced with policy choices on issues affecting workers in that sector and who can use findings of studies to make the best decisions.

It is against this background, FES and COTRAF-Rwanda seek the service of a national consultant or a consortium of 2 national consultants to develop and present a set of actionable policy recommendations (minimum 5 actionable recommendations) based on the findings of the study to a range of stakeholders namely political decision makers, Member of Parliament and other relevant ministries. 

This policy recommendations presents evidence and recommendations emerging from the research undertaken on labor and living conditions of workers in tea  sector in Rulindo and Rubavu District  and  the presentation  will be in  a form of one day workshop  for decision makers to  discuss concrete recommendations  in order to be understood as an advice to  improve the living condition of workers in tea and education sectors. 

The consultant will present the recommendations to 25 various decision-makers namely political decision makers, Member of Parliament, government institutions, trade unionist and other relevant stakeholders. 

Competences and Experience of the consultant:

The consultant should have the following qualifications:

• Strong  policy recommendation development 
• Excellent command of English and outstanding writing skills.
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication and reporting skills.
•  Knowledge about trade union movement in Rwanda, labor rights, and the legal framework on labor matters.
• Knowledge on the national and international labor standards
• Knowledge and exposure to ILO core labor standards and sustainable development goal (SDG8)

Qualification of the consultant

• PhD or master’s degree in Law, Education, Rural development, agriculture, economic development, Sociology of development, Demography, statistics and other social sciences related to the task. 
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience is required.

6. Remuneration and other considerations:

The assignment requires in-country presence and dedicated work with milestone-based terms of payment for:

1. Policy Recommendations
2. Presentation of the policy recommendation

1. Application process

The consultant or the consortium of 2 consultants will submit an expression of interest to  info@fes-rwanda.org   and copy to COTRAF-RWANDA at cotrafrwanda2003@gmail.com  before 8^th   Sept  2023 at 5PM. The expression of interest should include the following:

✓ Updated curriculum vitae that clearly spells out qualifications and experience in relation to this assignment.

✓ Contacts of 3 organizations that have recently contracted the consultant to carry out a similar assignment.

• Financial proposal for this assignment.

While submitting your application be sure that your email subject line is EIDHR/ 2021/429/ 349 (Your Name)

Online submissions only are considered.   For any further information or clarification please contact us on cotrafrwanda2003@gmail.com and  at info@fes-rwanda.org

2. Evaluation Criteria

Competence and Experience of the consultant in similar assignment (50 points)

Qualification and Education of the consultant (20 points)

Financial proposal (30 points)

Done at Kigali, on 29^th/August 2023

Rwanda resident representative

FES Rwanda