Peace Building Trainer

1. Background and Problem Statement

“Islamic Relief believes that all children have a right to personal dignity and protection from abuse and it recognizes the special responsibility and duty of care it bears to create a safe environment for children within the projects and programs it manages and supports. The interests of child safety and protection should be paramount to any other interest which might compromise it”.

In order to offer multidisciplinary protection and social stability activities for children from host community and Syrian refugees to fulfil their needs, IRL will provide youth resolve project in South area-Saida, inside a community based rehabilitated centre, and outreach activities as well. The intervention will be managed by IR team in cooperation with local NGOs, the local community, local consultants, shelters’ leaders and children parents. IR seeks to contract local consultant (individual/firm) to train 100 youth who will be able to play effective local in their community.

 In 2013, the repercussion of Syrian refugees’ influx has expanded to most of Lebanese. Signs of conflict between the Lebanese host community and the Syrian communities have become clear in many regions, varying based on the respective regions’ social and economic context.

Citizens and local community are left alone to deal with its implications, with no guidance or capacity to differentiate between the political and humanitarian aspect. Lebanese society is thus suffering from the overload and is facing many challenges when it comes to managing the situation on the local level whether at the managerial level, the communication level or the conflict one. IRL and through its new “Youth Resolve Project” funded by EU is addressing the new challenges caused by the impact of the Syrian crisis on Lebanon through working on three sectors: education, livelihood and social cohesion. Under the last sector and through the Peace Building concept an initiative for improving social cohesion in Lebanese host communities impacted by the Syrian crisis was launched.

The project will work on establishing channel of social cohesion and local socio-economic stability throughout peace building mechanisms in South, one of the affected regions and one of the community hosting Syrian and Palestinian refugees.

The project choose Saida old town as main location for community center rehabilitation purpose and work on creating a local peacebuilding body aiming at supporting Lebanese-refugees social cohesion by reducing tensions between Lebanese citizens and refugees from Syrian and Palestinian.

1. Objectives of the training

Under the context of peace building and communal cohesion, IRL within “Youth Resolve project” intends to deliver full package training as part of capacity building targeting 100 youth. The consultant will be working part time / 3 days per week including conducting the sessions followed by coaching sessions over 10 months depending on the work plan. Thus Social stability context tackle the fragile inter-communal relations and social tensions between host community and refugees living in those communities, and seek to improve social stability and PSS service delivery through youth volunteering, soft skills development, and psychosocial awareness activities for caregivers.

In order to ensure that a strong training package is delivered to 100 youth to equip them in the knowledge of high quality regarding Capacity development, communications and outreach, as well as technical skills for youth that will enable them to an interactive courses focusing on responding to violence/conflict/tension/ and enhancing conflict transformation / peacebuilding skills. These courses will be aimed at empowering a network of youth in Saida with the confidence and skills to take a central role in peacebuilding initiatives in their communities.

1. Consultant main objective:

• Delivering clear curriculum technics and methodology which at the very minimum, should include the following areas of knowledge and learning:

• Principles of communication

1. Introduction to, communication, peace, social stability and co-existence at the local level
2. Accepting the other
3. Inclusion and tolerance

• NVC / Non Violence Communication

1. what in NVC and how to practice it in daily life
2. What is the violence cycle and how to break it
3. How to practice empathy with ourselves and with others
4. How to use NVC as a negotiation tool.
5. How to deal with Anger
6. win-win solutions

Peace and security at the community level

1. Community awareness raising
2. Community mobilization.
3. Community Resilience: How communities can support each other.

• Delivering any required pedagogical support material (i.e.: training manuals, lesson plans, training material, etc.).
• Developing training methodologies/techniques, this may include creative tools such as games, audio-visuals, group discussions, demonstrations, and practice sessions with feedback and role play, pending the target audience.
• Ensuring or creating feedback loops that allow for suggests, modifications, or grievances related to the sessions or exercises in order to adapt to changes occurring in the work environment, based on the feedback from trainees and IRL.
• Ensuring that all youth are trained adequately, and have a solid understanding of the training material. This will include administering a test for youth prior and after the training, to assess the training’s quality and relevance.
• Developing pre-posttests, collecting pre-post data and submitting a final electronic report.

1. Responsibilities

The Consultant will advise on peace building context. He/she will conduct a specific needs assessment of psychosocial knowledge and experience for youth, provide advice on the strategic direction of the program, develop a psychosocial assessment system as pre and post evaluation for the youth, design a viable training program and provide capacity building to 100 youth after assessing their skills and verify their needs.

The Consultant will also conduct coaching sessions during the project over 10 months to emphasize the practical implementation of all topics that has been taken in training.

1. Capacity building

The consultant will provide professional training to youth and based on identified training needs through pre-test questionnaire. He/she will also train them on how to use the new assessment forms and effectively utilize planning and implementation process.

1. Report and Formulation of Recommendations

At the end of his/her assignment, the consultant will prepare a report in English. The report should contain collected assessment data, an analysis of the findings, the scope of the psychosocial impact and the consequences based on pre and post -test has been done for the trainees and the training activities.

1. Requirements:

1. Academic Qualifications:

University degree in social science, communication, peace building, sociology, political science or any other related field. MA is a plus.

1. Years of Experience:

A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in local level capacity building skills and peacebuilding/dialogue processes.

A minimum of 3 years in conducting conflict assessments, conflict analysis

1. Competencies:

- Excellent Facilitation skills

- Excellent training skills

- Excellent reporting skills

- Proven impartiality and cultural and human rights sensitivity. Ability to build strong relationships with local actors using inter-personal skills to network effectively

- Excellent analytical, negotiating, and communication skills

- Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and show flexibility

- Excellent command of Arabic language and good command of English. French is a plus

- Good knowledge of the impact of the Syrian crisis on Lebanese Host Communities

1. Required documents

• Qualifications and relevant experience of the consultant (attach CVs )
• Work plan including time frame and topics to be delivered over the 10 months providing minimum 34 training and coaching sessions

Two references (including telephone numbers) and web links (pictures and videos) to your previous work , if available