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Tenders are invited for Resilience Analysis - West Bank. Closing Date: 23 Jul 2025 Type: Consultancy Themes: Gender/Protection and Human Rights Background This Terms of Reference (ToR) is developed to support the implementation of the BMZ-funded Transitional Development Assistance (TDA) programme titled "Building Resilience in the Communities of the West Bank to Transform the Current Shock into a Sustainable Future" (20252029). The resilience analysis is a core activity within this programme and is designed to directly inform project design, intervention strategies, and the Theory of Change. The West Bank faces multiple and overlapping crises that undermine the resilience of communities and systems. These include Israeli occupation policies, land fragmentation, water scarcity, economic dependency, and governance fragmentation. In recent years, the Gaza wars spillover and political polarization have intensified pressures on already fragile communities, particularly in East Jerusalem, Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Jericho, and the Jordan Valley. These areas are further impacted by climate-induced vulnerabilities and limited access to basic services, land, and market opportunities. The BMZ-funded TDA 20252029 programme aims to support crisis-affected populations to stabilize their livelihoods, adapt to structural risks, and transform community systems in a way that fosters long-term resilience. This resilience analysis will serve as a key input into the programs strategic design, providing a detailed assessment of contextual risks, existing capacities, institutional gaps, and community priorities. Objectives The objective of this consultancy is to conduct a portfolio-informing and project-designing resilience analysis that provides a comprehensive understanding of the following: Contextual Risk and Vulnerability Analysis: Identify and analyse the main risks, crises, and vulnerabilities affecting the target locations, with particular attention to gender dynamics, exposure to shocks, and underlying structural inequalities. Stakeholder and Actor Mapping: Map affected and responsible actors and structures, including their strengths, capacities, and potential for coping with and responding to risks and crises. Institutional and Community Capacity Assessment: Assess institutional and community-level capacities and gaps in preparedness and response to shocks. Cross-Sectoral Crisis Management Needs: Identify needs and opportunities to strengthen cross-sectoral crisis management and resilience capacities. Resilience Analysis Across SAT Dimensions: Analyse key resilience capacities across the three dimensions: stabilization, adaptation, and transformation (SAT). Gendered Resilience Assessment: Examine gender-specific risks, gaps, and capacities across the SAT dimensions to inform inclusive resilience programming. Peacebuilding and Governance Opportunities: Identify peacebuilding and governance opportunities that contribute to strengthening local systems and social cohesion. Strategic Gender-Responsive Recommendations: Provide strategic, gender-responsive recommendations to inform the programmes Theory of Change (ToC) and implementation roadmap. Resilience Capacity Matrix Development: Develop a structured matrix mapping resilience capacities at the individual, community, and institutional levels across SAT dimensions, highlighting strengths and gaps. Indicator and Proposal Design Inputs: Provide concrete inputs to support the formulation of SMART, gender-responsive indicators and guide the design of the TDA project proposal in alignment with the ToC. Participatory and Adaptive Analysis: Ensure the analysis is participatory, contextually grounded, and aligned with national strategies and BMZ priorities, while identifying mechanisms for adaptive learning within the TDA programme Desk Review: Conduct a focused review of existing documents on resilience, fragility, local governance, food systems, and gender policies to establish a foundational understanding of the context. Stakeholder Mapping: Identify and map key actors across sectorssuch as ministries, local councils, cooperatives, CBOs, and women-led organizationsto understand their roles, capacities, and interconnections in resilience and service delivery. Focus Group Discussions (FGDs): Organize participatory discussions with farmers, women, youth, municipal representatives, and CSOs to gather qualitative insights into local perceptions of risk, coping strategies, and priorities. Key Informant Interviews (KIIs): Engage institutional and government stakeholders through interviews to identify structural capacities, coordination challenges, and resilience gaps at policy and governance levels. Gendered Resilience Analysis: Use the SAT (Stabilization, Adaptation, Transformation) framework to assess how women, men, and marginalized groups experience and build resilience differently, identifying both capacities and constraints. Risk and Crisis Assessment: Analyze exposure to shocks and stressessuch as conflict, economic disruption, and natural hazardsusing both secondary data and community perspectives to capture current and emerging risks. Power and Access Analysis: Examine how power dynamics, exclusion, and inequality affect access to resources, participation, and decision-makingparticularly for vulnerable or marginalized populations. Gender Norms and Social Barriers: Explore how traditional gender roles, norms, and responsibilities influence access to services, control over resources, and exposure to riskespecially for women-headed or disability-affected households. Intersectional Inclusion: Analyze how overlapping identities (e.g., gender, age, disability, displacement) interact to shape peoples resilience and vulnerabilities, ensuring the programme is inclusive and equitable. **Climate Risk Lens:**Assess the impact of environmental riskslike water scarcity, drought, and land degradationon livelihoods and resilience, particularly in agriculture and food systems. Conflict Sensitivity and Peacebuilding: Integrate a conflict-sensitive approach to identify potential tensions, protection risks, and opportunities to strengthen peacebuilding and social cohesion, while applying do-no-harm principles. Validation Workshop: Facilitate a workshop with community members and stakeholders to validate findings, gather feedback, and collaboratively develop a practical resilience capacity matrix. Theory of Change and Roadmap: Develop a localized, gender-responsive Theory of Change and roadmap with clear pathways for change, inclusive of intersectional needs, and aligned with national strategies and donor priorities. Good Practices Documentation: Identify and document innovative local practices that enhance resilience and inclusionespecially those led by women, youth, or marginalized groupsfor possible scaling or replication. Final Report: Prepare a comprehensive final report synthesizing all findings, including gendered risks, resilience capacities, conflict dynamics, and actionable recommendations for programme design. Scope of Work The consultants scope of work will include, but not be limited to: Key Questions The consultant is expected to explore the following key questions to ensure a comprehensive, inclusive, and context-specific analysis of risks, capacities, and opportunities. These questions will guide data collection, stakeholder engagement, and analysis to inform the design of the BMZ-funded TDA programme. They align with TDA principles and BMZ priorities, with a focus on gender, governance, climate, social inclusion, and conflict sensitivity. 1. Risks, Crises, and Vulnerabilities What are the main risks and crises affecting the target areas, and how do these vary across gender, age, disability, displacement, and socio-economic status? What gender-differentiated risks and vulnerabilities are most relevant to the objectives of the TDA programme? How do environmental and climate-related risks (e.g., drought, water scarcity, land degradation) affect resilience at household and community levels? 2. Resilience Capacities (SAT Framework) What stabilisation, adaptation, and transformation capacities currently exist among individuals, communities, institutions, and systems? How do these capacities differ across gender and other social identity factors (intersectionality)? What local innovations or practices have contributed to building resilience, particularly those led by women, youth, or marginalized groups? 3. Actors, Power, and Governance Who are the key actorsformal and informalin resilience, service delivery, and governance across sectors? What roles do these actors play in enabling or hindering resilience and inclusive crisis response? How do power dynamics and decision-making structures affect access to resources, participation, and agency for different groups? 4. Contextual and Structural Influences How do political, economic, social, and environmental conditions interact to shape resilience opportunities and constraints? How do gender norms and structural inequalities impact peoples ability to respond to, adapt to, and recover from shocks? 5. Gaps and Opportunities What are the key resilience gaps that the TDA programme can effectively address through its interventionsincluding, but not limited to, gender inequality, geographic marginalization, youth exclusion, climate vulnerability, economic disempowerment, disability inclusion, social cohesion, and the digital divide? What institutional and community-level gaps exist in cross-sectoral crisis preparedness and response? What peacebuilding and governance opportunities exist to strengthen social cohesion and local systems? 6. Programme Design and Strategic Direction How can programme interventions be designed to strengthen inclusive, gender-responsive, and conflict-sensitive resilience across the SAT dimensions? What Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4164917/terms-reference-tor-resilience-analysis-west-bank
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