Summary
Project Lead: Christopher Hockey, Senior Research Fellow, Terrorism & Conflict (Nairobi)
Consultancy fees: circa 15 days per month at £150-200 per day
Location: Focused on Somali Region, Ethiopia. Consultant ideally based in Jijiga. Travel to Nairobi expected.
About Deris Wanaag
This is a project seeking to enhance peace and stability, and strengthen social and economic dynamics, in the border areas between Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
The project acknowledges that enhancing peace and stability, and improving social and economic conditions, can only be achieved through increasing collaboration between the three countries, respective local administrations, and between the communities located in the borderlands.
To enhance peace and stability in a meaningful and sustainable way, the project integrates ongoing security, development and peacebuilding efforts. The project focuses on strengthening the effectiveness of national responses to insecurity along the border, supporting local conflict resolution and management structures, and building individual and community resilience to the influence of violent extremist actors. Recognising the transnational nature of insecurity, the project will support ongoing coordination mechanisms between Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, situating itself within regional developments and their impact at local level.
Deris Wanaag: meaning “good neighbourliness”, the term illustrates the shared interests between governments, sub-national administrations and communities in the border areas to enhance peace and stability for the common good of the three countries and their citizens.
Finally, the project leverages the UK’s strategic partnerships in the region to build on the successes of previous and ongoing programming, and to ensure that security, development and peacebuilding efforts are coordinated in order to benefit national and sub-national partners and communities in the border areas.
Services
RUSI leads the research and analysis component of Deris Wanaag, delivering regular monitoring and analysis as well as discrete studies to inform interventions. The team is currently looking for a consultant to focus on Ethiopia.
The analyst will join a well-established team, linking research and context monitoring with policy and programming. The ideal candidate will have an extensive understanding of Ethiopia’s shared borderlands with Kenya and Somalia. They will be conversant in both Somali and Amharic; and will be comfortable producing reports in English. The candidate should have experience working in both data collection and analysis. Ideally, they will be based in Jijiga, Ethiopia.
The consultant will be responsible for producing regular reporting on the security and political environment in the Ethiopia borderlands, particularly relating to the Dolo Ado and Dolo Bay areas. They will support the project’s wider research objectives, overseeing fieldwork in the borderlands.
The consultant will be expected to use their best endeavours to promote the interests of RUSI and, unless prevented by ill health or accident, work approximately 15 days per month to carry out services relating to research for RUSI. The research work will be communicated by the project research lead.
Terms of reference
Requirements
Application Process
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How might evolving geopolitics in the Horn change the security landscape in the Somali Regional State?
Closing date: 11th SEPTEMBER 2024 at 23:59 UK Time zone – Applications for the consultancy will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the closing date brought forward if needed. Early application is encouraged.