Green Impact Assessment – National Consultancy

Employment Intensive Investment Program (EIIP) and Decent Employment in Jordan

Towards a More Inclusive Economy through Immediate Job Generation and Enterprise Development for Vulnerable Refugee and Host Communities in Jordan – Phase I

Terms of Reference

Green Impact Assessment

National Consultancy

Background

The Project “Employment Intensive Investment Program (EIIP) and Decent Employment in Jordan”, is an employment intensive investment Project funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS).

The ultimate goal of the project is to enhance green economic opportunities for some of Jordan’s most vulnerable workers through immediate short-term job creation and home-based business development support

The project is targeting the vulnerable Jordanian host communities, women and people with disabilities through generating 20,000 green working days, training services and providing post-training services and market-based skills training for vulnerable Jordanian and Syrian refugees, in order to improve employability in the labour market.

It also addresses critical issues regarding livelihoods for vulnerable Jordanian and Syrian refugees, as it aims to strengthen the employability of job seekers based on market needs and provide post-training support to graduates in order to improve their chances of acquiring jobs.

Hence, this project comes to build on the EIIP modalities and ILO-wide strategy for institutional capacity development, which promotes a holistic coordinated approach to capacity development addressing various mutually reinforcing layers (individual, organizational and enabling environment). The strategy, validated by the governing body, stresses that the improvement of technical and functional capacities is key for the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ensuring a positive impact on decent work. As such, the proposed project will focus on individual levels of capacity building through enhanced skills and abilities as well as creating an enabling environment especially through more inclusive societal systems.

The project is also aligned with the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) 2019-2020, especially its strategic direction of enhancing economic opportunities that includes strengthening the resilience of Syrian women and girls. The project is also aligned with national priorities stipulated in the Jordan Response Plan (2021-2022), especially the livelihoods component of the JRP, which aims to ensure dignified, sustainable livelihoods and create economic opportunities for both Jordanians and Syrian refugees, while at the same time Increase ability of women to develop sustainable, market-oriented entrepreneurial activities within an enabling policy environment.

Overview

Under the project of “Towards a More Inclusive Economy through Immediate Job Generation and Enterprise Development for Vulnerable Refugee and Host Communities in Jordan – Phase I”two components were accomplished; through the EIIP more than 15,000 working days were generated through 3 implementation agreements with 3 municipalities in Mafraq and Irbid Governorates and entrepreneurship under which 124 were trained on international entrepreneurship program and 70 women received seed funds to establish/expand their small and medium enterprises

Assignment

ILO would like to hire the services of a national consultant to conduct a Green Impact Assessment (GIA) for Phase I of the AICS project to:

• Identify and evaluate the potential environmental impacts (positive and negative) associated with project activities.
• Recommend mitigation measures to minimize negative environmental impacts and enhance positive outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with national environmental guidelines, national environmental regulations, and international standards and the contribution to national climate and environment plans such as the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and the Long-term Low Emissions Development Strategy (LT-LEDS)

Assignment Duration

The assignment will last for 12 days, starting from 19 March 2025 till 30 March 2025.

Deliverables

1. Deliverable No. 1: Conduct Inception report including with proposed surveys tools, methodology, sample design and data collection proposal (2 days)
2. Deliverable No. 2: Draft Report of the study to be submitted to ILO (8 days)
3. Deliverable No. 3: Final Report of the study to be submitted to ILO (2 days)

Activities

1. Kick off meeting with ILO project team
2. Desk review of documents related to the project
3. Inception report with proposed surveys tools.
4. Collection of data
5. Draft report with presentation of preliminary findings
6. Final report

Required Profile

1. A university degree in environmental fields, Green jobs, business development, green local economic development or another related field.
2. At least 5 years’ work experience in research methods (data collection, interviewing, mapping, and data analysis)
3. Proven Experience in conducting green impact assessments
4. Proven experience in reporting, communication, and documentation in both Arabic and English language
5. Experience with ILO would be an asset.

The Payment Modality

Payment schedule will be as follows

• First payment (70%): upon submission of deliverable no 1 (inception report) and deliverable no 2 (draft report)
• Second and final payment (30%): upon submission of deliverable no 3 (final report)

*Transportation to the sites is the consultant’s responsibility

Application

Interested candidates should send the following documents to [email protected] no later than 27th of February 2025. with CC [email protected] – Ayah Al Kassasbeh.

1. Updated CV
2. Proposed proposal including methodology with sampling and workplan
3. Sample of previous work of a similar nature
4. Financial proposal including all costs including travel if applicable. The financial proposal must include the cost break down of the proposal, including the daily rate. The financial proposal must amount to 15 workdays of 8 hours

The technical and financial proposals should be submitted in separate documents.

Contract Focal Point from ILO

Ayah Alkassasbeh, [email protected], 0799786592