Call for Application: Engagement of Consultant for Assessment of Peace Architecture Platforms in Rivers, Delta, and Bayelsa States
Search for Common Ground, Nigeria
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1 Year
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Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Dec 9, 2023
Last Date
Jan 9, 2024
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Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is seeking a consultant to conduct an assessment of existing Peace Architecture Platforms in Rivers, Bayelsa, and Delta States for a project which is titled A Community-Centered Approach to Transforming Criminality and Violence in the Niger Delta. The assessment aimed at identifying Peace Architecture Platforms across three states, 32 LGAs, and 64 communities. Through the findings, Search and its Consortium partners seek to understand what peace platforms currently exist, the extent of their functionality, focus areas, and contacts of focal persons of the platforms. Through the assessment, we are interested in understanding what support is required in terms of remobilization and/or establishment of new peace platforms at the Community, LGA, and State levels. Candidates’ teams should have experience in mapping peace-focused platforms, conflict prevention, and analysis to inform the establishment and remobilization of peace platforms at the state, LGA, and Community levels for the Project.
1. ContextIn the oil-rich Niger Delta, oil bunkering (also known as crude oil theft), and the related practice of artisanal oil refining, have reached crisis levels, contributing to a 32-year low in Nigerian crude oil production in September 2022. The Niger Delta region, encompassing states like Rivers, Bayelsa, and Delta, grapples with a myriad of conflicts that have created a volatile state with dire consequences. These conflicts, ranging from resource-based disputes and environmental degradation to ethnic tensions and political marginalization, collectively contribute to heightened tension. Historical struggles over the ownership and distribution of natural resources, particularly oil, have given rise to armed groups advocating for a return to normalcy, resulting in environmental degradation and widespread socio-economic challenges. Additionally, ethnic diversity, historical tensions, political marginalization, youth unemployment, and inadequate security measures further fuel the unrest, leading to the loss of lives and the destruction of properties. Despite these challenges, the Niger Delta region exhibits resilience, with the presence of peace structures suggesting the potential for stability. These structures serve as vital mechanisms for promoting and sustaining peace amid turbulent circumstances.Furthermore, this underscores the importance of establishing robust peace structures, alongside comprehensive early warning and early response mechanisms at all levels in the region, aimed at minimizing the impact of conflicts.
2. The ProjectThe project is titled A Community-Centered Approach to Transforming Criminality and Violence in the Niger Delta and will be implemented by Search for Common Ground (Search), in consortium with Academic Associates Peace Works (AAPW), Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), and Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN). This project, which is funded by the EU will be implemented for 18 months with the overall goal of fostering inclusive community security approaches to address the systemic drivers of violence and criminality in Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers States. This project offers a holistic, community-centered approach to addressing core drivers of criminality, violence, and conflict in the Niger Delta region, with a specific focus on the empowerment and inclusion of youth in the security of their respective communities in the Niger Delta.
Specific Objectives (SO) and Expected Results (ER):SO1: To empower diverse community actors to address social exclusion, lack of economic opportunity, and environmental degradationER1.1: Local community actors, including youth, are better equipped to jointly address social exclusion, lack of economic opportunity, and environmental degradation ER1.2: Youth and adult leaders increasingly collaborate to explore and address drivers of division, criminality, and conflict in their communities
SO2: To strengthen collaboration amongst communities, security actors, and the private sector around preventing and responding to the triggers and core drivers of violence and criminalityER2.1: There is greater collaboration between communities and security and government actors around early warning and response to key security issuesER2.2: The private sector better collaborates with and responds to the needs of local communities
SO3: To foster onlin
1. ContextIn the oil-rich Niger Delta, oil bunkering (also known as crude oil theft), and the related practice of artisanal oil refining, have reached crisis levels, contributing to a 32-year low in Nigerian crude oil production in September 2022. The Niger Delta region, encompassing states like Rivers, Bayelsa, and Delta, grapples with a myriad of conflicts that have created a volatile state with dire consequences. These conflicts, ranging from resource-based disputes and environmental degradation to ethnic tensions and political marginalization, collectively contribute to heightened tension. Historical struggles over the ownership and distribution of natural resources, particularly oil, have given rise to armed groups advocating for a return to normalcy, resulting in environmental degradation and widespread socio-economic challenges. Additionally, ethnic diversity, historical tensions, political marginalization, youth unemployment, and inadequate security measures further fuel the unrest, leading to the loss of lives and the destruction of properties. Despite these challenges, the Niger Delta region exhibits resilience, with the presence of peace structures suggesting the potential for stability. These structures serve as vital mechanisms for promoting and sustaining peace amid turbulent circumstances.Furthermore, this underscores the importance of establishing robust peace structures, alongside comprehensive early warning and early response mechanisms at all levels in the region, aimed at minimizing the impact of conflicts.
2. The ProjectThe project is titled A Community-Centered Approach to Transforming Criminality and Violence in the Niger Delta and will be implemented by Search for Common Ground (Search), in consortium with Academic Associates Peace Works (AAPW), Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), and Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN). This project, which is funded by the EU will be implemented for 18 months with the overall goal of fostering inclusive community security approaches to address the systemic drivers of violence and criminality in Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers States. This project offers a holistic, community-centered approach to addressing core drivers of criminality, violence, and conflict in the Niger Delta region, with a specific focus on the empowerment and inclusion of youth in the security of their respective communities in the Niger Delta.
Specific Objectives (SO) and Expected Results (ER):SO1: To empower diverse community actors to address social exclusion, lack of economic opportunity, and environmental degradationER1.1: Local community actors, including youth, are better equipped to jointly address social exclusion, lack of economic opportunity, and environmental degradation ER1.2: Youth and adult leaders increasingly collaborate to explore and address drivers of division, criminality, and conflict in their communities
SO2: To strengthen collaboration amongst communities, security actors, and the private sector around preventing and responding to the triggers and core drivers of violence and criminalityER2.1: There is greater collaboration between communities and security and government actors around early warning and response to key security issuesER2.2: The private sector better collaborates with and responds to the needs of local communities
SO3: To foster onlin
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