MEL Expert

Mental Health Community-based Awareness Campaign

TOR – MEL expert

Overview on YWCA

The Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) of Palestine is a right-based nongovernmental association initiated in 1893 by informal groups of Christian women and was formally established in Jerusalem in 1918. We envision a free and democratic civil society where women and youth are empowered to exercise and protect their political, economic, and social rights. YWCA Palestine is affiliated with the World YWCA, a global movement working for women, young women, and girls in over 100 countries. It holds a special consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Background:

The Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in partnership with Enable will implement a project titled “Mental Health Community-based Awareness Campaign”, to contribute to the protection of vulnerable boys and girls, young women and men, and their caregivers against stigma and taboo surrounding mental health and increase their access to quality mental health and psychosocial support services. The project will be implemented over the period from January 2024 to August 2025.

 The overall objective of the project is that young people in Palestine have increased access to quality mental health and psychosocial support services.

The project aims to:

• Palestinian youth, especially young women, have increased awareness of the importance of mental health and help-seeking strategies within their communities.
• Youths have actively engaged duty bearers and policymakers to improve MHPSS responses and national youth mental health policies.

More specifically, the project main activities that will take place during the two years of implementation include the following: 

1. Identification of a first cohort of young people through partner CBOs to receive intensive training (3-4) young people from each targeted area.
2. Develop and conduct three training days for the first cohort of young people in 1) the importance of mental health, including stigmatization attitudes and social exclusion and discrimination against youth with mental illness, and 2) help-seeking behaviors.
3. Develop and conduct three training days for the first cohort of young people in leadership using YWCA Rise Up! Model and focus on building community-based mental health awareness campaigns
4. Conduct youth-led community consultation sessions in each targeted location to identify major mental health-related issues with an emphasis on youth mental health, these issues will be addressed in the fact sheet, using the YWCA Feminist Consultation Methodology
5. Conduct knowledge transfer sessions by cohort one for a second cohort of young people on the importance of mental health by young people from cohort one
6. Develop a fact sheet that identifies major mental health-related issues, that will be updated to a position paper.
7. Conduction of round table discussions and forums to discuss the position paper with the key and relevant decision-makers

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Scope of the assignment/ Key responsibilities of the expert:

The expert is required to offer the following services with an expected Level of Effort 48 working days throughout the project period:

The MEL expert is expected to play a central role in ensuring the successful implementation and impact assessment of the "Mental Health Community-based Awareness Campaign" project. The following key responsibilities are outlined:

• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate potential risks to MEL activities
• Monitor and document the progress and lessons learned of activities using the program’s database, particularly contributing to activity notes.
• Begin activity evaluation actions (workshops, focus groups, interviews, round tables, surveys, etc.) as agreed upon with the MEL team.
• Capacity Building, support the development of MEL capacity within the organization, fostering a culture of learning and accountability.
• Use and manage the YWCA feedback mechanism for ongoing improvement based on MEL findings, fostering communication between stakeholders.
• Submit monitoring and evaluation reports for activities or groups of activities.
• Provide relevant information for MEL purposes into the database, including quantitative and qualitative indicators in alignment with the approved project’s log frame.
• Data Quality Assurance, implement measures to ensure the accuracy, reliability, validity, and timeliness of the collected data, including protocols for verification.
• Regularly visit partners, beneficiaries, and activities to evaluate the progress and impact of the activities.
• Perform activity evaluations, identifying the results and lessons learned, as required.
• Constantly share the lessons learned from the activities with the entire program team.
• The expert is expected to travel to some of the targeted locations, and remote monitoring in coordination with the project team is acceptable.

Qualifications:

• A post-graduate degree in the relevant field, preferably in psychology or sociology;
• At least five (5) years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, results-based management, and experience in mental health-related projects is preferable.
• Excellent writing and analytical skills in developing reports (in English) and MEL tools;
• Knowledge and experience in designing MEL systems and conducting evaluations.

Submission:

Please submit a technical proposal (in English) that includes the methodology, work plan, and CV(s) with relevant experience related to the tasks mentioned above.

Financial proposal: The price quotation for this assignment should be in euros. (Excluding VAT)

Proposal Submission and Deadline

The deadline for submission is Thursday, January 11, 2024, via email [email protected]. If you have any questions, please send them to the same email address. For additional information, call 0593777488

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