Call For Applications: Consultancy For Organisation Of Event On Innovation

PU-AMI presentation:

Première Urgence – Aide Médicale Internationale (PU-AMI) is a French non-governmental, not-for-profit organization working in the field of international solidarity. PU-AMI’s mandate is to answer the fundamental needs of the population affected by conflicts, natural disasters or economic crisis: food, water, health, home and livelihood. PU-AMI’s strategy is to develop an integrated approach of crisis management based on our technical, medical and non-medical expertise. PU-AMI’s activities span from emergency to post crisis / development support and our programs are designed and developed in strong partnership with national / regional authorities, communities and the civil society. PU-AMI is currently working in 20 countries throughout the world. (To get more information, please refer to http://www.pu-ami.org/).

PU-AMI has been active since 1996 in Lebanon. Following the major crises that have affected Lebanon (the Israeli military operation “Grapes of Wrath " in 1996, the July 2006 war and the crisis in the Palestinian camp of Nahr El Bared in 2007, and now the Syrian crisis), PU-AMI has adapted its humanitarian activities to the ever-changing context of the country.

PU-AMI has organized different types of humanitarian emergency interventions related to food security, health, WASH, shelter, infrastructure and NFI’s.

Currently, PU-AMI is implementing emergency humanitarian activities in order to support the Syrian crisis affected populations (Syrian refugees, Palestinian refugees from Syria, Lebanese host communities) in Akkar, Mount Lebanon and Sour districts. These activities are distributed among 2 main programs:

1. Addressing humanitarian needs of Syrians refugees and Palestinian Refugees from Syria:

- Food security: conditional and unconditional cash assistance;

- Shelter: shelter rehabilitation (individual or collective), housing assistance (cash for rent), distribution of sealing off kits for informal settlements;

- WatSan: distribution of water filters, aqua tabs, jerry cans, construction of water tanks, emergency sanitation support services, building or rehabilitation of latrines;

- Health: support to primary health centers, public health promotion, community-based surveillance system to prevent communicable disease outbreaks

- Community outreach: Collective Site Management & Coordination, Community-based Protection activities, informal education

2. Supporting resilience/stabilization capacities of the Lebanese host communities

- Infrastructure: rehabilitation of public schools, construction of water network supply system for villages

- Community Outreach: school & community based psychosocial support.

Specific context of this workshop:

The Syrian crisis has had a significant impact on the structure of PU-AMI in Lebanon: from 2012 to 2014, the number of projects and field bases increased considerably, which lead to a dramatic increase in human resources (from around 20 to more than 200 employees); high turnover in staff; and major changes in the organization (creation of a new department, merger of departments, change in leadership…).

In particular, the PU-AMI mission in Lebanon made the strategic decision to split the Program department into two separately functioning but interlinked entities: the Department of Program Quality and Development and the Department of Program Implementation. This departmental separation enables project implementation teams to concentrate on the timely and successful implementation of their projects, whereas the Department of Program Quality and Development was created in order to enhance cross-cutting programmatic information management, sound design of and overseeing assessment, monitoring and evaluation, and to ensure that information collected is reflected upon and used to improve ongoing projects and to introduce innovative and new ideas into project building, development and management.

2014-2015 are years of stabilization of the mission, with objectives including retaining staff, increasing the capacity of key employees, and increasing the overall innovation of the PU-AMI mission in Lebanon

Please refer to the attached document for more information.