# Consultant for Documenting Market Systems Development Approaches **Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC) **Location**: Kampala **Experience**: senior **Job type**: part-time **Category**: Consulting **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Kampala-Uganda/Consultancy-to-Document--Profile-and-Assess-the-Re-BUiLD-Programme_JR00005743?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_cc2f9098-1e2 ## Description The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Uganda is seeking a consultant to document Market Systems Development Approaches as implemented under Re:BUiLD in Uganda. The consultant will undertake the following tasks: - Document Market Systems Development Approaches as implemented under Re:BUiLD in Uganda including its core components, private sector engagement and adaptive management - Profile the experiences and livelihood trajectories of selected project participants, highlighting changes in economic inclusion, resilience, well-being, agency and self-reliance - Assess available evidence of the approach's results, contribution to change, implementation strengths, limitations and sustainability prospects - Identify implementation gaps, contextual barriers, promising practices and opportunities for improving the design and delivery of the approach - Develop a compelling donor-ready pitch that presents the rationale, evidence, lessons, investment proposition and potential scale-up opportunities for the Graduation Approach and MSD approaches - Provide actionable recommendations for IRC and its partners to strengthen implementation, learning, measurement and future resource mobilization **Scope of Work:** The consultant will undertake the following tasks: ### 1. Inception and Desk Review The consultant will: - Hold an inception meeting with IRC and relevant implementing partners - Review project documents, including the proposal, results framework, theory of change, implementation plans, monitoring reports, assessments, evaluations, partner reports and relevant donor reporting - Review available participant-level or aggregated monitoring data, subject to access permissions and data protection requirements - Review existing studies and evidence on the Graduation Approach, MSD, economic inclusion and livelihoods programming for urban refugees - Identify key evaluation and documentation questions, information gaps and potential sources of evidence - Prepare an inception report outlining the methodology, work plan, sampling approach, interview guides, analytical framework and deliverable schedule ### 2. Assess Results, Contribution and Emerging Impact The consultant will analyze the available evidence to assess results across the Graduation Approach pathway and Market Systems Development approach. The analysis should consider the following domains, as relevant to the project indicators and available data: - Economic inclusion - Employment, enterprise development, diversification of livelihood and access to markets - Economic stability - Income patterns, savings, asset accumulation, financial inclusion and capacity to manage shocks - Household well-being - Food security, essential needs, housing stability and access to services - Resilience - Ability to cope with economic, social and environmental shocks without resorting to harmful coping strategies - Agency and empowerment - Decision-making, confidence, aspirations, control over resources and participation in economic activities - Social inclusion - Social networks, community participation, access to institutions and reduction of exclusion barriers - Sustainability - Continuation of livelihood activities, retention of gains, post-support resilience and prospects for self-reliance - Private sector engagement - Private sector engagement in various aspects of clients’ enterprises ### 3. Develop the Donor-Ready Pitch Based on the documentation and analysis, the consultant will prepare a donor-facing pitch for the Graduation Approach and Market Systems Development approaches under Re:BUiLD. The pitch should communicate: - The challenge: Why urban refugees and other eligible vulnerable populations face systemic barriers to sustainable economic inclusion - The opportunity: Why a sequenced Graduation Approach may address multiple barriers more effectively than isolated interventions. How MSD can unlock systemic barriers to refugee economic inclusion - The model: How the approaches (GA,MSD) works in practice, including the main intervention components, systems thinking and participant pathway - The evidence: Verified results, participant stories, relevant indicators and lessons from Uganda - Added value: The approach's (GA,MSD) distinctive contribution, including any demonstrated advantages over fragmented or short-term support - The investment proposition: What additional funding would support and why it matters - The scale-up pathway: How the models could be adapted, expanded or embedded through partnerships and systems - The measurement framework: A concise set of proposed indicators and milestones for tracking progress - The call to action: A clear invitation for donors and strategic partners to invest, collaborate or support further evidence generation ## Skills ### Required - Market Systems Development - Graduation Approach - economic inclusion - livelihoods programming - urban refugees ### Nice to have - data analysis - qualitative inquiry - quantitative evidence - donor reporting --- Source: [Apply at theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Kampala-Uganda/Consultancy-to-Document--Profile-and-Assess-the-Re-BUiLD-Programme_JR00005743?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)