Consulting firm for Building Capacity Activity for local CBO

 

 

Mercy Corps is seeking a consulting firm for Building Capacity Activity for local CBOs in Gaza Strip
Assessment Place: Gaza Strip

Program: Palestinian Community Assistance Program (PCAP)
Deadlinefor Questions: 21 October 2012 no later than 04:00pm.
Pre-bid Meeting: 17 October 2012 at 12:00pm.
Closing date of application: 24 October 2012no later than 04:00pm

Background
Mercy Corps (MC) is a non-profit humanitarian relief and development organization working in the West Bank and Gaza to help Palestinians build a more peaceful and hopeful future. Mercy Corps focuses on relief and recovery efforts in Gaza in response to periodic conflict and ongoing blockade. MC is implementing the Palestinian Community Assistance Program (PCAP) which is a three-year program funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Gaza Strip.  The Youth in Sport (YIS) Program is a component that targets mainly adolescents (12-18 yrs. old) and Youth with Disability (YWD). MC currently is working in cooperation with eight local CBOs in the Gaza Strip and targeting about 1,600 adolescents and youth with physical disability through Moving Forward sessions which is sport-based psychosocial activities. YIS aims improving mental, social and physical development of adolescents (12-18 yrs. old) and Youth with Disability (YWD) through engaging them in psycho-social sport-based activities that build their life skills. Moreover, YIS intends to enhance the capacities of local CBOs/SCs to implement youth development programs.

Scope of Work Trainer:

1-For the first CBO: The consultancy service is supposed to design the needed material and deliver four-day (6-hours per day) in Programs’ Monitoring and Evaluation for 7-10 employees, volunteers, and board members of the society, besides providing three consultancy days for assessing DM&E tools in the society and develop Data Monitoring and Evaluation Booklet for current programming of the society.

2-For the second CBO: The consultancy is supposed to design the needed training material and deliver 3-day (6-hours per day) for four employees in fundraising and project cycle management. In addition the consultancy company will provide consultancy 48 consultancy hours in the same field for the society’s staff.

Purpose:  By providing the two CBOs employees with training and consultancy work, both societies will be able to maintain reasonable improved practices and theories required in two areas of improvement based on Participatory Organizational Need Assessment Tool (PONAT) results and reports.

The deadline for the submission of applications is 24 October 2012, no later than 04:00 Pm Gaza Time.
The applications should be submittedto Mercy Corps offices in Gaza located at:
Gaza office,           
Abu Galion Building    
Ahmad O’rabi Street PO Box 49263
Gaza City
Tel: +972 8 282 6331

Each applicant should submit twohard sealed copies of the application documents and one soft copy.