The Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme – Climate Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Programme (KCEP-CRAL) is an expansion of the Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme (KCEP) to the ASALs. The Programme is a strategic partnership between the Government of Kenya (GoK), European Union (EU) ,International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD and three Rome Based Agencies (RBAs) namely: The World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). In this partnership, the RBAs build on their comparative advantages to support the Government in graduating farmers from recurrent food insecurity to market-oriented farming, by promotion of Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), resilience to Climate Change and sustainable Natural Resources Management (NRM)

The Programme is financed by the European Union (EU), IFAD and the Government of Kenya, beneficiary farmer, Partner Financial Institutions and Private investors and supervised by IFAD. The Financing Agreement was signed on 26th August 2015, for a duration of seven (7) years with Programme Completion and Finance Closing dates of 30th September 2022 and 31st March 2023 respectively

The Household methodologies are participatory approaches that enable family members, households and communities to work together to improve relations and decision making to achieve more equitable workloads. The household methodologies are used in addressing the effectiveness of targeting strategies to address Gender inequalities in the household. The methodologies are therefore appropriate for livelihood approaches as well as value chain development towards achieving a common household vision to promote gender lens.

Gender inequalities in relations at the household level have a direct impact on agricultural production and productivity on developmental outcomes such as decision making, access and control of household resources in education, food security and nutrition. To ensure gender sensitivity in agricultural service delivery, the extension service providers will be trained on selected household methodology tools.

The Methodologies will be used to ensure organization goals are inclusive, address issues of power and gender, strengthen mechanism for dialogue and promote joint planning and decision making at household level.

Household Methodologies have been successfully used in IFAD supported projects in Uganda, Malawi, and Zambia. In Kenya, Small Dairy Commercialization Programme (SDCP) and Upper Tana Natural Resource Management Programme (UTaNRMP) have used the methodologies and both have reported significant improvements in participation and decision making among members of the households including women, men and youth. Other changes reported include improved gender and organizational transformation among the targeted communities.

The Programme is seeking qualified short-term consulting firm(s) to develop a tailor made KCEP CRAL Household methodology Manual with reference to IFAD’s Manual on

“How To Do Household Methodologies’ as well as the series of Gender Action Learning Systems (GALS) Manual that already exists and develop a Capacity building strategy .The Manual will also be informed by the findings from the Programmes Gender Youth Equity and Social Inclusion(GYESI) Study findings and will be used in training Farmer Groups in the thirteen Counties where the Programme operates.

The Scope of work shall be to develop a guiding manual that will address the gaps in decision making, access, ownership, leadership and Gender powers as well as a Capacity Development Strategy that will focus on trainings in the Thirteen (13) Counties of the Programme implementation namely; Trans Nzoia; Nandi; Kakamega; Bungoma and Nakuru in Western Region; Makueni; Machakos; Kitui; Embu and Tharaka Nithi in Eastern Region and Kilifi; Taita Taveta and Kwale in the Coast Region

The expected duration of this assignment shall be four (4) months. The assignment is expected to commence in September 2019

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