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People in Need (PIN) is a non-governmental, non-profit, international organization founded in the Czech Republic in 1992. PIN arrived in Nepal as part of a humanitarian response to the April 25, 2015, earthquake. Since its inception in Nepal, PIN has had a strong role in designing and facilitating systemic solutions advocating for and addressing the needs of vulnerable populations affected by disasters including person categories who live in geographically remote areas of the country, historically marginalized ethnic groups, and those marginalized because of their age and/or gender identity. Currently, PIN Nepal is implementing programmes under three strategic pillars 1) Emergency response and recovery, 2) Climate resilience, and 3) Civil society and inclusive governance.
PIN Nepal team works in and promotes strong partnerships with civil society, Government of Nepal, academia, private sector and other key stakeholders in Nepal. Together with them, PIN Nepal has been for example one of the pioneer organizations advancing programmes such as landslide disaster preparedness and anticipatory action, climate and flood resilient housing, durable local solutions, climate change modelling for more inclusive and efficient local decision-making, girls and inclusive education, waste management and circular economy approaches. PIN is strongly committed for safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults, including persons with disabilities, in line with its safeguarding framework and child protection policy.
SARATHI has been designed to support and significantly contribute to the overarching early action and climate resilience aims of FCDO BEK RAIN programme, and to increase the resilience of the most vulnerable communities. Project SARATHI is aimed at bringing significant value and sustainable scale up to RAIN programme in reaching the most vulnerable and marginalized people in Madhesh, Lumbini and Karnali provinces at risk of disasters by 2029. To achieve this, SARATHI will use evidence-based approaches to tailor implementation for building resilience in a systemic way, centred around localisation, inclusion and leveraging fiscal resources to contribute to adaptation across differing contexts in the targeted provinces. SARATHI’s two intermediate outcomes will focus on 1) enhancing community resilience, 2) strengthening sub-national governmental systems in early warning (EW), early action (EA) and adaptation. SARATHI supports the attainment of NDRRMA’s strategic goals to strengthen Early Action, develop multi-hazard EWS and catalyse research and innovation to develop EA plans as per National Disaster Risk Financing Strategy (2020), DRR Policy (2018) and National Strategic Plan for Action (2018-2030).
SARATHI is built around equal and long-term existing partnerships between eligible international-national-local organizations, who bring the requisite knowledge, skills and comparative advantage. Besides, the consortium will partner with, and empower 121 CBOs who represent the most marginalised groups in 15 LGs across 3 provinces. Through training and sub-grants, they will actively co-design and participate in EWS, EA and adaptation in their localities. The CBOs, together with national thematic sub-leads and leads, will empower and hold accountable the subnational Local and Provincial Governments (LG, PG), together with the RAIN TA and other stakeholders, with an emphasis on ‘unlocking fiscal resources’ for EW, EA and adaptation.
Furthermore, SARATHI is centered around using science, technology, innovation and evidence of best practice to inform multi-hazard early action interventions. The consortium, including technical partners, will build on its extensive experience of the RAIN sub-themes and what works and what doesn’t in Nepal, to establish and/or strengthen multi-hazard EWS at the sub-national level, increase access of vulnerable and marginalised groups to risk communication through forecasting, using data management for inclusive and focused EA and adaptation, and supporting coordination across all spheres of government. The learning produced from these interventions will in turn feed into the development of DRR and AA policy frameworks. The consortium will work closely at LG and PG levels with TA, SLU, RAIN partners to influence government to endorse relevant disaster resilience and adaptation policies and allocate fiscal resources, so that they address gender inequalities, marginalization and work with socially excluded groups. The consortium will directly target 987,299 people, and indirectly benefit 3,478,805 more.
Scope of Work
Under the guidance of the MEAL Lead, the MEAL Officer will support the implementation of the MEAL framework for SARATHI. This includes data collection, monitoring project progress, building partner capacity, and preparing quality reports. The MEAL Officer will maintain clear communication with stakeholders, mainstream Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) in planning and reporting, and uphold PIN Nepal’s safeguarding policies. Additionally, they will utilize PIN’s accountability platform to gather feedback and promote government mechanisms for two-way communication with communities.