Strengthening the capacity of EU community sponsorship programmes through targeted outreach, training and transnational cooperation.
Overview
The Vitality & Engagement – Developing Communities Project supports community sponsorship schemes at pilot and early implementation to develop into sustainably scaled programmes in each of the project’s partner countries of Ireland and Portugal, as well as across other EU Member States. The project timeline is January 2021 to December 2023.
Implementing Project Partners
Amnesty International Ireland
Amnesty International is an independent worldwide movement working impartially for the release of all prisoners of conscience, fair and prompt trials for political prisoners, an end to torture, executions, disappearances, and extrajudicial executions. Amnesty International’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
Amnesty Ireland is supporting Ireland’s Community Sponsorship Programme for Refugees through the incubation of The Open Community, a National Support Organisation for Community Sponsorship Ireland, with plans to launch The Open Community as a standalone organisation in 2024.
Portuguese Refugee Council
The Portuguese Refugee Council (CPR) is Portugal’s leading Non-Governmental Organization for Development (NGOD) working exclusively with asylum seekers and refugees. CPR, operational partner of UNHCR since 1993, has had a long standing European and national presence.
CPR maintains strong links with central government, local authorities, NGOs and refugees and seeks to raise public awareness and mainstream refugee rights into public debate for a more inclusive society.
Advisory Partner: Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative
The Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative works to assist and inspire countries around the world to open new pathways for refugee protection.
They do this by sharing Canada’s history, experience, and leadership in private sponsorship and by supporting the creation of new programs that countries design to meet their unique needs.
Funding
The Vitality and Engagement Project is funded by the European Union’s Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF).
Purpose of the evaluation
As part of the funding agreement, the Vitality and Engagement project was asked to commission an external consultant to gain a comprehensive independent review of the project after three years of operation.
Please see full Terms of Reference attached below.
Application process
Consultant(s) should submit a CV and an Expression of Interest which includes:
- The relevance of their previous experience for this consultancy.
- A short methodology showing how they plan to approach the consultancy.
- A list of previously completed evaluations of a similar nature.
- Indicative timetable to conduct and complete the consultancy.
- Budget
- References
- Expressions of Interest are to be submitted by Wednesday the 15th of November 2023.
Expressions of Interest should be emailed to Annie Marshall at amarshall@amnesty.ie with ‘Expression of Interest– Evaluation’ in the subject line of the email.
Selection of the consultant will take place by Wednesday the 22nd of November 2023.
For queries please contact amarshall@amnesty.ie.
Full Terms of Reference
Available here: Evaluation Terms of Reference.
