DPO's & SHG's Rights, Advocacy, and local inclusive TOT Cons

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Consultancy training on disability rights, advocacy, and inclusive local planning/development through training of trainers (TOT) for DPOs, and SHG members of the Multi-stakeholders Disability Working Groups (MSWG) in three municipalities in the West Bank.


Under the project Fostering Multi-stakeholders Mobilisation for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in their Community in Marginalized Areas of oPt

1. CONTEXT
Given the many restrictions on its physical and economic means, the unstable political situation and a lack of centralized political authority, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has only very limited capacity to deliver social services or enforce existing legislation. This affects the estimated 308,000 persons with disabilities (PWDs) living in the State of Palestine disproportionately, limiting their scarce access to benefits and basic services. In the Gaza Strip, controlled by the de facto authorities and out of any influence by the PNA, ongoing conflict and poverty are steadily increasing the risk of disability and are having a negative impact on the availability, access, quality and sustainability of services. The situation has worsened since June 2007, as PWDs face even harsher consequences than the average population when confronted with the Government of Israel policy to enforce a blockade on the Gaza Israeli border and to strictly limit the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza including for medical reasons.

Handicap International (HI) started its work in Palestine in 1996, and has been working continuously in the West Bank since that time and in the Gaza Strip since 2002. The proposed action builds on the experiences and lessons learned from the AC 3 project in the West Bank and on a number of access to services projects implemented in Gaza.

Since 2010, HI and its partners in West Bank have focused their action on improving the quality of services for PWDs by strengthening technical capacities of the rehabilitation workers, and by ensuring improved access to assistive devices. Handicap International also worked to improve access to accessible transportation options and information about existing rehabilitation services.

The proposed action builds on the AC3 project and also includes several new components: the support to existing CBR programs in the West Bank; the focus on local multi-stakeholder collaboration bringing together locales authorities, DPOs, service providers and other community organizations; and the strengthening of linkages with mainstream service providers through referral networks and pilot initiatives to improve PWDs access to services.



Description of the current situation of PWDs: needs and rights are inadequately met by service providers and civil society throughout the State of Palestine. While civil society stakeholders have been developing service provision capacities, the lack of regulatory frameworks have undermined their quality and impact. Moreover, according to the service providers themselves, they are unable to cover the needs of PWDs for support and specific services, while mainstream services fail to include PWDs. In this sense, key rights of PWDs as outlined in the CRPD remain unfulfilled.

The Gaza Strip and the West Bank present context-specific challenges and, as a consequence, require different intervention strategies and activities. However, there are common issues of concern for PWD in terms of quality, access and coordination of services, namely:

Limited coverage of the full population of PWD by the existing services;
Lack of technical capacity of rehabilitation service professionals on User Centered Approach (UCA) in centre policies and practices;
Weak coordination mechanisms and referral systems between rehabilitation services providers and other mainstream actors;
Lack of inclusive local initiatives aiming to improve PWDs access to mainstream services;
Lack of support for disability service providers to implement strategic and sustainable plans for rehabilitation programs;
Limited involvement of PWD families in rehabilitation;
Social stigma and lack of proper information on disability and rehabilitation opportunities.

The project will respond to these common challenges in the West Bank and the Gaza strip, however the proposed action will also focus on some specific issues and target groups in each territory that relate to the different contexts and development stages of disability service providers.

In West Bank, the project aims to develop a more effective response and mechanisms for people with all types of impairments. Through this project, rehabilitation centers and DPOs will be supported to consolidate their implementation of the User Centered Approach (UCA), and referral mechanisms will be improved. In two specific target governorates, existing community-based rehabilitation (CBR) services will be supported technically to develop their approaches in line with the 2010 WHO CBR guidelines. At the municipal level, in 3 targeted municipalities, the project will support the creation of multi-stakeholder working groups and the development and implementation of inclusive initiatives.

2. DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUIRED SERVICE PROVISION

Within the frame work of the current project Fostering Multi-stakeholders Mobilisation for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in their Community in Marginalized Areas of oPt Project a training module will be developed on disability rights, advocacy and inclusive community planning for DPOs/SHGs members through training of trainers TOT, and continues technical coaching to support their role in the multi-stakeholder working groups.
This will be devoted into two main stages the first stage, is to increase the technical capacities of the selected local DPOs/SHG, and activists members of the Multi-stakeholders working groups in the areas of 1.disability rights, 2.Advocacy, and 3. Local inclusive planning /development, the objective is to enable the local DPOs/SHG and activists to advance their role as they are leading the MSWG where they can promote effective advocacy of local initiatives towered more inclusive Scio economic services for person with disability at three municipalities in the West Bank.
The trainings will be of 6 days: 4 days for thematics like disability rights, advocacy, local action plans for inclusive socio-economic services, 2 days for basic trainers skills and methodologies.
The second stage is to enable the trained DPOs/SHG to transfer the knowledge and technical expertise to the rest members of the MSWG, using the TOT methodology of knowledge and skills transfer, the objective is to make sure that all necessary knowledge expertise has transferred to MSWG on how to develop local inclusive planning with PWDs at the three municipalities to increase the inclusion PWDs in the Scio economic services.

Specific objectives of the consultancy

Objective:
-To develop the competencies of DPOs/SHG activists members of Multi-stakeholders Disability Working Groups MSWG in Disability rights, advocacy, and local inclusive planning through training of trainers TOT, who will in return train Multi-stakeholders disability working groups in three municipalities in the West Bank.
-Build capacities of the DPOs/SHG members of the MSWG in leading local inclusive planning /development to increase the mainstream of PWDs to Scio economic services in the three municipalities in the West Bank.

Specific Objectives:
-At the end of the training the consultant will make sure that trainees understand:
-Disability evolutions and the right based approach in disability.
-Basic principles, skills, methods, and strategies of advocacy.
-Basic principles, skills, methods, and strategies of inclusive local planning
-To understand and acquire facilitation skills
-Understanding training methods
-Understand how to monitor and evaluate training
-To develop/design lesson plans

At the end of consultancy the DPOs/SHGs have increased capacities to promote the inclusion of PWDs into mainstream socio-economic services through:
-Develop an understanding of current situation of participation and mainstreaming of PWDs into Socio-economic services
-Build advocacy initiatives aim to improve this situation
-Able to develop and deliver training plan for the MSWG members on disability, rights, advocacy, and local inclusive planning

Expected Out comes:

-Develop, and design teaching materials on the TOT principles, Disability rights, advocacy, and local inclusive planning.
-Develop training lesson plan for the TOT training module.
-Deliver the training for the DPOs/SHGs
-Develop Situation analysis of PWDs current situation describing the main challenges, and underlying causes hindering the participation and mainstreaming of PWDs into Scio economic services on the three municipalities of the West Bank.
-Support the design of Realistic advocacy initiatives planning in response to the situation analysis findings with focus on the mainstream of PWDs to Scio economic services on the local level in cooperation with the DPOs/SHGs.
-Support the design of TOT training plan (action plan) to be conducted for the MSWG members by the trainees on disability, rights, advocacy, and local inclusive planning in cooperation with the DPOs/SHGs.

3-CONSULTANTS PROFILE
Higher education in field of social science or closely related field (MSc or Phd).
Knowledge and experience in the disability rights, advocacy, and inclusive local development.
Knowledge and experience on TOT training.
Previous experience in training persons with disabilities
Knowledge and experience in group dynamics, and team development.
Five years of relevant work experience.
Good social and communication skills, able to respect confidentiality.
The consultant is expected to have a sense of personal security, be aware of the security situation and take respective action, especially when approaching check point
Excellent Arabic, and English language skills (reading, writing and speaking).

4-SERVICE DURATION AND LOCATION

-Start date: 19th Oct 2014
-Mission end date: 30th Nov 2014

-Service location:
West Bank.

5-REPORT
Number of Reports:

-One report requested: at the end of training.
The reports should include:
-Executive summary.
-Methodology.
-Findings and discussion.
-Recommendations

Language: English

6-RESOURCE PERSON
Within the framework of the consultancy, the Consultant will be in collaboration with Handicap Internationals teams.

7-BUDGET
Once the short listing of applicants is done, Handicap International shall contact the shortlisted applicants to provide a full proper price quote with his/her financial expectations according to the services requested fitting with the below criteria:
-Price quote shall be in English and in ILS currency.
-Prices shall be inclusive of VAT.
-Delivery timeframe & payment terms shall be clear and mentioned in the quote fitting with the start/end dates requested by Handicap International.
-Price quote shall be signed and stamped.



Please send your CV with at least 2 references cover letter and a detailed technical offer no later than August 13th 2014
in the reference (DPO's & SHG's Rights, Advocacy, and local inclusive TOT Consultant).
To: [email protected]

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