Research Consultant - London, United Kingdom - DAI

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Research consultant - Challenges and opportunities in delivering anticipatory action at scale within the international crisis financing and response system:

About the Centre for Disaster Protection:
The Centre for Disaster Protection plays a unique role in the global risk management and crisis financing architecture.

We were established to address major challenges to effective disaster risk financing and promote more impactful and more equitable disaster risk finance at scale, that leaves no one behind.


  • We're helping to grow the emerging evidence base on how to better reach and support people in need to help ensure that money and plans are in place before a disaster strikes. We work with governments and organisations to create practical and policy solutions, incentivise proactive risk management and risk financing and support risk informed decision making. We are the only international organisation focused on providing impartial technical advice and training on disaster risk finance we do not implement or sell financial instruments.
  • We are deliberately multidisciplinary. Our team comprises experts in risk management, actuarial science, basic service delivery, public financial management, economics, risk modelling, finance, policy and strategic communications, humanitarian delivery, gender, and inclusion. All of our work is guided by our core values of impartiality, quality, creativity and challenge.
Background


The research will inform a parallel track of policy influencing and engagement which seeks to drive system-level change among international crisis financing and response actors, crisis-affected governments and development partners.

Objectives


This third strand of the research will investigate the political economy, institutional culture, competition, and operational challenges faced internally and at the system level among response and financing actors across the humanitarian and development system.


Despite making huge gains in demonstrating proof of concept, refining operational approaches, and achieving normative status of anticipatory action as a programmatic approach, anticipatory action remains a niche and small-scale approach within international organisations.

There is institutional resistance and outright opposition in some cases to further expansion let alone mainstreaming of anticipatory action.

Attention has been focussed on delivery of anticipatory action frameworks at country level.

Meanwhile, there is no clear vision or ask from humanitarian organisations on how they would need to invest in their own capabilities to become fit to deliver anticipatory and early action programming at an institutional level, and at the system level - notably with respect to where financing for anticipatory action could sit.

Notably, humanitarian donors, including those who have championed anticipatory action, are clear that anticipatory action at scale, including the system level investments and preparedness investments required to achieve this, cannot realistically be borne by stretched humanitarian budgets.


Anticipatory action actors have yet to build acceptance of and support for this approach among development partners who have access to more sustainable and large-scale financing, and who have comparative advantages in working in long-term partnership with governments to build early warning systems, develop financing tools, and support the development of shock responsive social protection systems.


The purpose of the research therefore is to identify the key challenges, barriers, disincentives and opportunities to scale up of anticipatory action within the international humanitarian system, and beyond, into development-supported government-led systems.

This diagnostic should also generate a detailed and actionable set of recommendations for investment, policy change and institutional reform to facilitate a scale of up anticipatory action.


This strand of the research will be closely linked to the policy and engagement stream and will rely both on targeted semi-structured interviews and policy convenings initiated by the Centre.

The research will produce a working paper and a presentation of policy recommendations.

Required skills and experience


The Centre is seeking an individual consultant to shape, conduct and deliver a package of research with an expected level of around 30 days days.

The consultant should have over 10 years of experience and have sufficient relevant experience as indicated below to deliver the research.


The consultant should demonstrate relevant sectoral and thematic expertise in anticipatory action, crisis financing, disaster risk financing, disaster risk management and response, and with strong networks with key international actors, including donors, already engaged in anticipatory action.

Deliverables and timeline

  • The project is expected to commence in December 2023 and end in March 2024. It is expected that around

30 days would be required. A ki
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