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Plan International was founded over 75 years ago with a mission to promote and protect the rights of children. The organisation was set up by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and refugee worker Eric Muggeridge in 1937, with the original aim to provide food, accommodation and education to children whose lives had been disrupted by the Spanish Civil W...
Purpose of the Consultancy Assignment:
Plan International Nigeria in its new strategy, recognises the interplay of different aspects of governance in the ability of the government, the state, and its institutions to attend to issues affecting the citizens, especially children, girls, and women. In the new strategy, Girls Are Empowered to Take Action and Drive Change, it states in part that “The current situation of child rights and gender equality for girls in Nigeria is influenced by the interplay of a range of social, legal, economic, environmental, technological, and political factors. Whilst there have been legal and policy reforms which have influenced some small but significant shifts in awareness and practices, there are still significant gaps between policies and implementation”. These gaps as further illustrated by the strategy include “Weak political will, inadequate resources, and capacity required for policy and practice impact”. Taking a prime place among these challenges is the commitment of resources to addressing issues of concern, appropriation for gender-responsive capital projects and services and cash backing at the appropriate moments. This, thus means that intervention agencies such as Plan International Nigeria and others like it must of necessity, pay attention to budgetary processes, i.e. from envelopes development to budget defence, approval, assent, and implementation.
If there are issues with the budgetary process and the proposals contained in the appropriation bills at the federal and states levels, implementation of the budgets and the budget performances are also issues of great concern. Much of the attention in public finance analyses are devoted to the scrutiny of the proposed budgets, with limited or near-zero attention to the implementation of the budgets. It is in the monitoring of the implementation perhaps that the relevance of the budget to the people, the purposefulness of the budget, and its intention could be gleaned.
The relevance of a budget to national development and the aspirations of citizens across the different states is significant and the defence of the rights of citizens or the viability of a rights-based approach to social interventions is also tied to the existence of a budget conscious of the developmental needs of the citizens. This is so, as the budget serves as a crucial tool for governments to allocate resources, prioritise spending, and achieve broader economic and social goals. For any meaningful intervention by any NGO or other intervention agencies, there is need to have capacity for budget engagement, familiarity with the budgetary process, and support of the citizens and their agencies to do same.
It is in line with this that a Training of Trainers is planned for selected staff of Plan International Nigeria at the field offices and the country office.
To ensure that the training is fit for purpose and deliver on its intention of capacity building of staff to step down the training to other staff, partners and youth platforms, the services of a lead trainers and other support will be accessed.
Specific Scope:
Roles and Responsibilities of Consultants
Expose participants to basic elements and characters of citizen-centred and gender-responsive budgetary process and budget.
Deliverables, Time Frame and Level of Effort
The period of the contract will be expected to cover a maximum of four days as per agreed upon timeline. The consultants are expected to carry out all the preparations required to facilitate the training as per the suggested time frame below:
Tasks |
Deliverables |
Expected Time Frame |
Train Staff on Public Finance Analysis, Budget Advocacy, Tracking and Monitoring |
|
3 days |
Feedback, recommendation and submission of Report |
Process Report and Final Report |
1 day |
A completed application should contain the following:
Submissions are to be made to: nigeria.consultant@plan-international.org on or before the 28th April 2024
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