Evaluation consultancy for Active Citizens Programme, focus on Most Significant Change

About Active Citizens

The British Council’s Active Citizens program promotes community-led social development. It motivates members of communities to take responsibility for their social needs and gives them the knowledge, skills and experience to address them.

Initially delivered through civil society organisations in 2010 the programme has now been adapted to operate in Education settings where its methodology has been found work successfully with students. 

Delivered in two discrete phases, the programme begins with a reflective ‘learning journey’ which develops the participant’s understanding of themselves as an active citizen; addresses their personal and cultural identities; their ability to engage appreciatively with people different to them; to develop a positive social vision, and to be agents of change through social action based on democratic values.

At the end of the first phase students are placed into teams where they then conceive and plan a ‘Social Action Project’ with clear and achievable student-conceived and led goals, designed to improve the lives of those in their communities. 

How Active Citizens works

We work with partner organisations around the world to deliver and develop the Active Citizens programme. 

Delivery partners identify facilitators and we train them in the skills they need to deliver the Active Citizens training to others.

Following their training, they use the Active Citizens toolkit to design and deliver the training programme to participants in their local communities around the world.

Participants receive the tools and the support they need to set up or adapt the way they run their own Social Action Projects to tackle a social issue within their community.

Purpose

This consultancy aims on providing technical support to the British Council team in Active Citizens programme specifically in terms of evaluation and learning and measuring the impact of Active Citizens programme in secondary public schools as well as with the higher education.

The consultant is also expected to read the toolkit of the Active Citizens and cross check with the one adapted for the schools by the implementing partner to make sure that the Active Citizens methodology has been incorporated appropriately and that the schools are taking an efficient training.

The consultant will be also tasked to make scoping visits to some of the secondary public schools as well as the Ministry of Education and Higher Education to understand their perspective and how can Active Citizens contribute to their agenda. He/she will write 2 to 3 case studies from the schools that took the Active Citizens training and write key lessons learned/recommendations on how to continue the programme accordingly.

Location

The M&E expert will be working mainly at the British Council office in Lebanon with continuous visits to MEHE, Lebanese University and secondary public schools. 

Duration

Up to 25 days’ work starting 15th January and ending March, 2020. The number of days is subject to change and be extended depending on the needs of the British Council.