The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is one of the leading Shelter and Settlements (S&S) actors in the humanitarian sector. We are recognised by stakeholders for our expertise on emergency and transitional shelter, longer-term housing solutions and settlement-wide interventions such as community infrastructure and school construction. NRC provides dignified, durable and sustainable solutions that create lasting change beyond our firstline response, aiming to achieve wider impacts outside of immediate shelter outcomes in terms of education, health, safety, inclusion and self-reliance.
We also have strong expertise in Education in Emergencies (EiE) Programming. Through our EiE interventions we aim at ensuring that all displacement-affected children and youth enjoy quality, safe and inclusive learning opportunities relevant to their psychosocial, emotional and cognitive development and needs. Our strength lies in supporting them on their journey across different learning pathways, including first-line education response, structured and longer-term non-formal education provision (with a focus on out-of-school children), and support to formal education systems to ensure sustainability and support durable solutions.
NRC recognises that shelter can play a critical enabling role in a range of wider outcomes, including improved health, education, livelihoods, psychosocial well-being and protection. However, field teams frequently face challenges in capturing evidence related to these wider impacts. There is a lack of guidance on what to measure, how to measure it, and what questions to ask beyond basic shelter indicators.
Also, although shelter is a fundamental need and central to displacement response, it often receives limited dedicated funding and attention in resource mobilisation efforts. This may be partly due to the absence of clear, practical evidence demonstrating its wider contributions. Strengthening advocacy and attracting funding also depends on generating strong, field-based evidence of shelter’s broader impact
In response to this gap, NRC seeks to launch a remote consultancy to start exploring how we can support Country Offices (COs), or/and Global Staff to assess and document the wider impact of Shelter and Settlement programming across other key domains/sectors, specifically EiE, and more specifically how shelter/housing conditions impact on the wellbeing and ability to learn of children and youth in their learning journeys.
Closing date for submissions is 11 August 2025.
