Project Context and Scope
Recognizing the complexities associated with the national migration dynamics, Nigeria adopted its first National Migration Policy (NMP) in 2015 to provide a coherent framework for managing all aspects of migration. The policy, through the national migration governance structure, recognized the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) as the lead coordinating agency and the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction (FMHAPR) as the supervisory ministry.
The policy review conducted in 2025, involving wide-ranging stakeholder consultations, revealed critical gaps, particularly in the coordination and supervisory functions. These gaps point to institutional capacity challenges particularly of the coordinating and supervising agencies that were recognized and directly addressed in the revised 2025 NMP and its Integrated Implementation Plan (IIP), with specific emphasis under Objective Six, which prioritizes enhancing cooperation and coordination in migration governance.
Also, a key priority of the revised policy, which falls under the coordination mandate of NCFRMI, is the promotion of dignified return, readmission, and sustainable reintegration. The Commission oversaw the development of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on Return, Readmission, and Reintegration (RRR) in 2019. The SOP includes a provision for periodic review to account for emerging trends and evolving migration dynamics. Now due for review, the SOP presents an opportunity to strengthen coordination, ensure institutional alignment, and enhance service delivery to returnees.
These highlight the need for a comprehensive needs assessment of the coordinating and supervisory agencies, focusing on institutional capacities, operational roles, and inter-agency collaboration. Hence, this consultancy, under the EU-funded Programmes, Support for Migration Governance in Nigeria and the Migrants Protection, Return and Reintegration Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa (MPRR–SSA) and the Government of the Netherlands funded Programme Cooperation on Migration and Partnerships to Achieve Sustainable Solutions 2.0 (COMPASS), seeks to conduct a needs assessment and capacity building of the FMHAPR and NCFRMI in their oversight roles of supervising and coordinating national migration governance and review the 2019 SOP on Return, Readmission and Reintegration.
This assessment and capacity are critical to reinforcing the central roles of NCFRMI and FMHAPR in Nigeria’s migration governance system and ensuring that both institutions are well-equipped to implement the revised policy and meet evolving national and international migration obligations. Likewise, a review of the SOP on RRR will ensure that Nigeria’s conduct promotes a dignified return, readmission, and sustainable reintegration, as prescribed in objective 21 of the GCM, with the aim of enhancing capacities of Ministries, Departments and agencies at federal and state levels.
Organizational Department / Unit to which the Consultant is contributing
Organizational Department / Unit: Migration Governance and Protection Divisions
Project type: Migration Governance and Migrants Protection and Assistance units
Project Name and Code: Support to Migration Governance in Nigeria - MS0060 and Migrant Protection, Return and Reintegration Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa (MPRR-SSA) - RR0342, and Cooperation on Migration and Cooperation on Migration and Partnerships to Achieve Sustainable Solutions 2.0 (COMPASS) PX.0499 Programmes.
Tasks to be performed under this contract
Consultant hired to provide technical support towards the implementation of the deliverables listed below on a five-instalment payment basis:
• Conduct an analysis of the factors impacting operational efficiency of the FMHAPR and NCFRMI and the available opportunities for improved efficiency in service delivery of supervising and coordinating migration
• Assess and analyse capacity (Personnel and Structural) gaps within FMHAPR and NCFRMI and recommend key areas of intervention for capacity-building initiatives
• Establish baseline measures and appropriate targets relevant to the needs identified for capacity building activities
• Conduct capacity building trainings for the staff of FMHAPR and NCFRMI on identified capacity gaps
• Support the Ministry and the Commission in facilitating the review of the Standard Operating Procedure on Return, Readmission and Reintegration
• Perform such other duties as may be assigned
First deliverable – Inception Report and Meeting
• Present inception report and work plan to FMHAPR, NCFRMI and IOM
Second deliverable – Conduct Needs assessment of FMHAPR and NCFRMI
• Preliminary Meeting with Ministry and Commission’s Officials
• Needs Assessment Tools
• Administer and analyze needs assessment survey
• Report of Needs Assessment
Third deliverable – Conduct Capacity building for FMHAPR and NCFRMI staff
• Develop training curriculum and plan
• Facilitate two sessions of 3-day capacity-building workshop for FMHAPR
• Facilitate two sessions of 3-day capacity-building workshop for NCFRMI
• Pre and Post evaluation of the workshops administered and analysed
• Detailed narrative reports covering the entire workshops prepared and submitted
Fourth deliverable – Facilitation of SOP on RRR review
• Facilitate an inception meeting with NCFRMI on the review of the SoP on RRR
• Develop SOP review template
• Facilitate 3x 3-day review workshop with the review committee for the SOP
• Present draft of the reviewed SOP and facilitate review and validation meeting by the WGRRR
• Detailed narrative reports covering the entire workshops and review process prepared and submitted.
Performance indicators for the evaluation of results
• Strict adherence to timelines and schedule of activities
• High-quality written documents
• Timely analysis, production and sharing of the report
• Ability to manage stakeholders from diverse backgrounds