Route Based Assessment and Analysis Consultant

Introduction

Established in 1951, IOM is a Related Organization of the United Nations and the leading UN agency in the field of migration. Working closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners, IOM promotes humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It saves lives and protects people on the move, drives solutions to displacement, and facilitates pathways for regular migration, while providing services and advice to governments and migrants.

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Duty Station of the Consultancy: Home-based, with travel to Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela, subject to operational needs, security clearance and IOM travel procedures.

Project Context and Scope

IOM is implementing the AECID-funded project, covering Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and regional-level coordination. The project seeks to contribute to improved safety, protection and sustainable reintegration for migrants returning south along the Central American-Andean corridor. Under Outcome 1, the project aims to ensure that migrants returning south in transit have improved access to protection services and reliable information along key points of the route. Output 1.1 focuses on improving understanding of protection needs and risks to inform programming along the route.

As part of this output, IOM will implement protection-centred assessments at key sites along the route to generate up-to-date evidence on route characteristics, migrant experiences, protection needs and risks. The assessment will pay specific attention to indications of trafficking in persons, gender-based violence, and other protection concerns affecting migrants in transit and return movements. The assessments will be harmonized across the four countries of implementation with support from IOM’s Regional Data Hub. They will inform: protection risk mapping; the composition of mobile protection team services; information shared with governments and stakeholders; and the design of humanitarian assistance packages. The consultant will support the full assessment cycle, including methodology development, field organization, coordination of data collection in the four countries, data quality assurance, analysis, validation and preparation of a route-based analysis report targeting decision-makers in policy, protection and humanitarian response.

Organizational Department / Unit to which the Consultant is contributing

Overall supervision by the project manager and technical supervision by the Regional Data Hub Coordinator in the Regional Office.

Responsibilities

Tasks to be performed under this contract

Under the overall supervision of the Project Manager and secondary technical supervision of the Regional Thematic Specialist (Data and Analysis), the consultant will:

A. Assessment Design and Preparation

• Develop assessment methodology and tools.
• Develop country data collection plans.
• Train and support field teams.

B. Field Coordination and Data Collection

• Coordinate and supervise data collection across the four countries.
• Conduct selected KIIs/FGDs and support mission-level implementation.
• Ensure adherence to quality and protection standards.

C. Data Analysis and Validation

• Consolidate and analyze data.
• Produce country and regional findings.
• Facilitate validation with missions and technical teams.

D. Reporting

• Produce draft and final route-based analysis report.
• Prepare dissemination materials and presentations.

Performance indicators for the evaluation of results:

Deliverable

Description

Installment amount

Deliverable 1: Inception Report and Workplan

Inception report including assessment objectives, methodology outline, sampling approach, assessment locations, stakeholder mapping strategy, implementation timeline, field coordination arrangements, and risk mitigation measures.

15% by 2nd month of consultancy

Deliverable 2: Assessment Methodology and Tools Package