Job Description

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Raagsan is a female-led social enterprise that specializes in Social Accountability, Governance
and Citizen Engagement with focus in the Horn of Africa. Since 2023, Raagsan has been providing
community engagement services through its Daadihiye Citizen Engagement platform to provide
timely early warning messages and climate risk guidance to flood- and drought-prone
communities along the Shabelle River. This involved disseminating messages on weather
forecasts and early warning translating hydrological data via radio programs, SMS alerts, and
community workshops to increase community awareness. The organization has also worked
closely with the national government, local authorities and community leaders to ensure
communities have access to timely and reliable early warning information products.
THE INNOVATION
The Beledweyne Voices is one of the initiatives supported by the GSMA Innovation Fund for
Humanitarian Challenges. The project is implemented by Raagsan in collaboration with Water in
Sight, Radio Hiraanweyne, and Hormuud Telecom, and is funded by the GSMA with contributions
from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). The project adopts
Daadihiye, Raagsan’s mobile-based citizen engagement platform, to provide timely early
warning messages and climate risk guidance to flood and drought prone communities along the
Shabelle River.
Through integration of manual river data, satellite imagery, and real-time analytics, the project
delivers localized alerts via SMS, WhatsApp, radio, and a community call centre. The project will
also train gauge readers, organize community preparedness workshops, and targets 31,620
residents with advance warnings, enhancing the communities’ climate resilience and
preparedness capacity. By expanding the use of Daadihiye in Beledweyne, this project builds on
proven tools and community trust to ensure early warnings are actionable, accessible, and
responsive to the needs of vulnerable populations in one of Somalia’s most climate-exposed
regions.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Daadihiye is a community-centred initiative designed to strengthen local early warning systems
and ensure that climate risk information is accessible, trusted, and acted upon by the people
most affected by the crises. It integrates community-generated knowledge with satellite and
manual hydrological data, and engages communities through radio, SMS, and participatory
Request for Proposals (RFP)
Early Warning & Community Engagement Consultant
workshops. The project’s main focus is to scale up Raagsan’s existing Daadihiye Citizen
Engagement Platform and deliver water and climate risk guidance and warnings through digitized
hydrological observations, enhanced risk modelling and tailored messaging. The goal is to
empower Beledweyne communities to take timely and informed decisions when faced by
drought and flood emergencies.
OBJECTIVES
The objective of this assignment is to strengthen understanding and use of early warning systems
among practitioners and community engagement facilitators. The consultant will develop clear
and interactive learning materials, produce a community sensitisation guide, facilitate capacitybuilding workshops, and support the project team to document lessons learned from the roll-out
of the Daadihiye Early Warning Dissemination Platform.
SCOPE OF WORK
The consultant will be responsible for the following:
• Develop an interactive Early Warning Guide and Community Sensitisation Toolkit, suitable
for practitioners and community engagement facilitators.
• Produce a community sensitisation toolkit to support consistent messaging and
engagement at community level.
• Support the development of animated video content to translate the package into an
interactive video content. The consultant will work closely with Video Animation and
Graphic Design Consultant.
• Facilitate training for practitioners and deliver a Training of Trainers (ToT) for community
engagement facilitators through virtual and in-person 5 days session.
• Prepare a brief training report summarising the training outcome.
• Support the project team to document lessons learned from the roll-out of the Daadihiye
Early Warning Dissemination Platform and produce a learning brief.

Experiences and Qualifications

Skills Required

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