Introduction
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Project Context and Scope
- Duty Station of the Consultancy: Remote and working with IOM Regional Office for MENA- Cairo, Egypt.
- Duration of Consultancy: Three (3) months starting from July till September 2026, subject to the medical clearance.
- Nature of the consultancy: Category B Consultancy
- Project Context and Scope: Governments across North Africa are increasingly confronted with the complex and interlinked challenges of climate change, environmental degradation, disaster risk, and human mobility. Despite the existence of national climate strategies, disaster risk management frameworks, development plans, and migration policies, linkages between climate risk governance, early warning systems, anticipatory action, and human mobility remain unevenly integrated and insufficiently systematized at the regional level. Through the Climate Change and Migration Data (CCMD) Programme and the Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) Initiative, IOM has supported the generation of a substantial body of country-level evidence on climate-related human mobility, including MECC country studies, DTM analyses, climate vulnerability assessments, and policy mapping exercises. However, these outputs remain fragmented across countries and thematic areas, limiting their collective utility for informing coherent regional policy dialogue and programmatic design. Within this context, IOM MENA seeks to engage a Regional Research & Policy Consultant to consolidate, synthesize, and systematize existing policies, legal frameworks, and evidence on climate change and human mobility across North Africa. The consultancy will deliver a regional synthesis that strengthens policy coherence, identifies shared governance patterns and entry points, and supports CCMD programmatic outcomes, UN cooperation frameworks (UNSDCFs, CCAs), and future programme development. The Consultant will work under the overall supervision of Regional thematic specialist (Data and Research) the Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa, in close coordination with the Regional Data Hub (RDH) and Climate Action & Mobility Division (CAD) , the CCMD programme team, and IOM Country Offices in North Africa.
Organizational Department / Unit to which the Consultant is contributing
Regional Data Hub (RDH), IOM Regional Office for Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Responsibilities
Tasks to be performed under this contract
- The Consultant will work under the overall supervision of Regional thematic specialist (Data and Research) the Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa, in close coordination with the Regional Data Hub (RDH) and Climate Action & Mobility Division (CAD) , the CCMD programme team, and IOM Country Offices in North Africa. 1. First deliverable - Inception and consolidation framework:
- Inception note confirming final scope, methodology, analytical questions, risks, and validation plan, explicitly aligned with CCMD Outcomes 1–3
- Standardized analytical framework and mapping template covering:
- governance and institutional arrangements;
- legal and policy instruments;
- integration of climate risk, DRM, EWS, AA, and human mobility
- Annotated inventory of existing evidence to be synthesized, including:
- MECC country studies (Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria);
- DTM analyses (with focus on Libya);
- Climate Vulnerability Assessments (CVAs);
- relevant CCMD regional and country‑level analytical products
