Advocacy Strategies Trainer
الوصف
Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children (ASDC)
Term of Reference (TOR) – Advocacy Strategies Trainer
Women and Girls with and without Disabilities are Empowered through Inclusive and Multi-sectoral GBV Responses
Overview: Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children is a local non-governmental organization, established in 1992 in Gaza City, in order to enable persons with hearing disability in the Gaza Strip to have their chance in life through education, rehabilitation, and job training and employment opportunities. From its establishment as a small school for persons with hearing disability serving 27 students, Atfaluna now serves more than 40,000 persons annually through a multitude of services and training programs implemented within an inclusive approach. These interventions aim at providing equal opportunities for persons with hearing disability in the society.
Vision: A Palestinian disability inclusive society where persons with disabilities enjoy their full rights.
Mission: Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children is a non-profit organization that endeavors to empower persons with hearing disability as well as persons with other disabilities in the Gaza Strip and improve their quality of life within a disability-inclusive development framework
Project Background:
The project titled “women and girls with and without disabilities are empowered through inclusive and multi-sectoral GBV responses” aims at reducing the GBV risks which affect women and girls with and without disabilities in Gaza Strip. The project supports the rights of women with and without disabilities by contributing towards creating a safe and inclusive environment. Also, the project will enhance community-based system roles to prevent or mitigate GBV, including the women at risk of or affected by GBV and the whole community. The project intends to reduce gender issues that are aggravated by the protracted crisis in the Gaza strip. It focuses on preventing and responding to GBV committed against women and girls with and without disabilities, strengthening their resilience, facilitating access for them to inclusive GBV-related services, economically empowering them, sensitizing the community, and building a safe environment for them. The project provides Case management interventions and Psychosocial support sessions to 300 women and girls with and without disabilities.
Assignment objectives:
A total of 72 training hours (two trainings each training will consist of 36 hours) will be conducted in advanced techniques for 50 female and male (30% male and 70% female) leaders and human rights activists from DPOs, HROs, and CBROs from across the Gaza Strip. The participants will be equipped with the required knowledge and skills to develop an advocacy strategy that will in turn enable them to create advocacy action plans and implement them in an organized and structured manner.
The participants will explore and learn a variety of strategic considerations that are critical to protecting and promoting women and girls with and without disabilities rights, including how to conceptualize and advance those rights agendas that entrenched, structural challenges, how to mobilize constituencies and collaborate with affected women and girls to better address the issue of GBV prevention and mitigation in the society through making legislative law reforms to be in line with international and national laws. The participants will gain skills in developing communication strategies and narratives for maximum impact.
Scope of work:
The course will focus on enhancing the participants’ leadership skills, dealing with trauma, developing a more sustainable practice, establishing approaches to increase attention on women and girls’ rights, developing strategic and tactical mapping for women and girls’ rights campaign, acquiring the ethics of fact-finding and interviewing, negotiation and coalition-building, and community -based participatory action and research.
At the end of the course, advocacy action plans will be developed.
A committee formed from DPOs, CSOs, human rights defenders, who attended the course, will be responsible for carrying out the advocacy action plans. The committee will include a considerable variety of stakeholders to create mobilization and create the intended change for women and girls’ protection.
Trainer/facilitator deliverables
The deliverables of the assignment comprise of the following within the meanings of scope of work as defined in this TOR.
- 72 training hours for 50 female and male leaders from DPOs, HROs, and CBROs for delivering two courses, each course a total 36 hours per course, and 25 participants per course
- Pre and post evaluation
- Training completion report at the end of the training
- Package of recommendations and lessons
- Training materials and plan
Qualification/level requirements
Applicants with the following experience are welcome to apply:
- The trainer should have a bachelor degree in human rights or social science.
- At least 5 years of experience in the gender, disability inclusion, and human rights advocacy.
- experience in advocacy and lobbying training
- Knowledge and understanding of proven track records of developing and facilitating trainings on core gender and GBV concepts.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Extensive experience in leading, training and facilitating workshops, working with a diverse range of beneficiaries, including government, civil society and academia.
- Experience in participatory approach is essential as well as excellent facilitation skills and ability to manage diversity of views in different cultural contexts.
Selection criteria
The offer will be evaluated by using the best value for money approach (combined scoring method).
Technical proposal will be evaluated on 70 %, whereas the financial one will be evaluated on 30%. A two- stage procedure is utilized in evaluating the proposals, with the technical evaluation being completed prior to any financial proposal being opened and compared.
Time frame: The assignment is for 72 training hours from the date the contract is signed. The assignment is expected to be implemented in the months of September, October and November, 2021.
Submission Process: Interested trainer should submit technical and financial proposals in two different envelops and a soft copy in CD, where the financial offer in (NIS)
technical offer; Methodology & Work Plan, topics outline, Required qualifications and experience (example of previous works)
A pre-bid meeting shall be held in the 23rd of September at 10:00 am in Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children.
Deadline for submitting the technical and financial proposals is 3rd Oct at 2:00 PM at Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children, 72 Philisteen Street, Gaza City.
المكان
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موعد الإنتهاء
03, Oct, 2021
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