Youth and Citizenship consultancy for Active Citizens Programme with Higher Education

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 Active Citizens programme (i.e. committee of the Lebanese University that will be working on curriculum development program for citizenship using the methodology of the Active Citizens that will eventually contribute to have an accredited course for the mestor students in order to graduate). 

In addition to that, the youth and citizenship expert will also support the committee to form 2 to 3 citizenship clubs in the faculty of Education to secure sustainability of Active Citizens in Higher Education. The main responsibility of these clubs is for the master students to plan for social action projects according to the different social needs with high priority. The expert has to provide technical support and guidance to establish the clubs and to design the social action projects appropriately. 

The consultant will support the British Council to maximize benefits from Active Citizens methodology with a focus on information management tools and technique. 

Location

The youth and citizenship expert will be working mainly at the Faculty of Education of the Lebanese University and the British Council office in Lebanon. 

Duration

Up to 20 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.