Overview
The consultant will support the development, application, and refinement of the PAAPAM ecosystem analysis, serving as a baseline assessment for five flagship countries. The role aims to provide a structured understanding of the active mobility landscape and inform capacity development and policy support activities.
Tasks Summary
- Develop a methodology for PAAPAM country ecosystem analyses, including alignment with relevant projects and indicators, a standardized and adaptable format, integration of gender equality, disability inclusion, and social equity, a step-by-step framework, stakeholder mapping, policy and institutional review, and capacity gap assessment. Organize peer reviews and workshops, and prepare and deliver a training workshop.
- Apply the methodology to five PAAPAM countries, reviewing policies, strategies, institutional mandates, financing mechanisms, and data systems related to walking and cycling. Identify capacity gaps, enabling factors, and opportunities. Engage with stakeholders, lead analysis in three countries, provide technical assistance in two, draft and finalize country reports, and review inputs for other country reports. Reports should include policy and institutional landscape, stakeholder mapping, capacity gaps, gender/inclusion/LNOB considerations, comparative analysis, and peer review integration.
- Support the development of a clear indicator framework for the Active Mobility Action Tracker, aligned with PAAPAM goals. Review existing indicators, define a core set of standardized indicators, develop indicator definitions, data sources, frequency, and responsible actors, identify opportunities for qualitative indicators, and support validation with counterparts.
Experience Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant professional experience in sustainable transport, active mobility, urban development, transport research or capacity development is required.
- Working on walking and cycling projects experience is required.
- Demonstrated experience working in African contexts, preferably across multiple regions or countries is required.
- Working with civil society, NGO’s and academia is required.
- Experience in undertaking research and data collection is required.
- Stakeholder consultation experience is required.
- Working in a project delivery environment experience is required.
- Experience in producing high-quality analytical reports and policy-oriented knowledge products is required.
- Strong background in gender-responsive, disability-inclusive and socially equitable mobility planning, including application of Leave No One Behind (LNOB) principles in analysis and engagement processes is desirable.
- Experience in facilitating multi-stakeholder workshops, validation sessions and consultations, including with marginalized groups and in multilingual or cross-cultural settings is desirable.
Qualification Requirements
Advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent) in transport planning, urban planning, public policy, international development, environmental studies, or a related field. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
