Consultancy: Organizing A Management Training In Beirut

Context of the intervention PU-AMI presentation: Première Urgence – Aide Médicale Internationale (PU-AMI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organisation. Our teams are committed to support civilian victims of marginalisation and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs. Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people in order to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency. PU-AMI relies on more than 30 years of field experience in 50 countries in crisis, as well as on the complementarity of its medical and non-medical expertise, to adapt its programs to each context and to the real needs of the most vulnerable populations. The association leads in average 250 projects by year in the following sectors of intervention: food security, health, nutrition, livelihood, protection, camp management, construction and rehabilitation of infrastructures, water, sanitation, hygiene and economic recovery. Today, PU-AMI is providing assistance to around 3 million of people in more than 20 countries over Africa, Asia, Middle East and Europe. (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. 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: - Humanitarian Assistance Program: Providing a protection-based humanitarian material assistance and services for the most vulnerable refugees and people of concern affected by the Syrian Crisis. - Resilience Program: to develop and strengthen community-level infrastructures and support household-level economic empowerment and well-being with regards to specific poor and vulnerable groups, including women and people with disabilities. Specific context of this training: 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. 2014-2016 are years of stabilization of the mission, with objectives including retaining staff, increasing the capacity of key employees, and increasing the overall innovation and leadership within the PU-AMI mission in Lebanon. Objectives & Main activities of the consultancy Objective of the consultancy: To organize a management training for 20 to 40 employees of PU-AMI focusing on leadership and communication skills. See more details in the attached Terms of Reference. Timeframe: The training should take place before June 18th, 2015. Requirements and Application This Request for Proposal is open to all national and international consultants, team of consultants, or legally constituted institutions that can provide the requested service. In this regard, the request for proposal is open for all qualified consultants/ institutions that have the following minimum qualifications: Knowledge and Experiences - The consultant or organization should have a proven experience in training NGOs - The training should be interactive and include time for participants to discuss real life scenarios - The training should include some exercises and case studies Language Requirements - English is compulsory - Arabic would be an asset Preparation & submission of application 1/ A proposal including: - a drafted schedule for each of the training days, including minimum/maximum number of participants per session - a detailed budget (detailing all the necessary costs/resources related to the consultancy with narrative explanations per budget line, including all the modules the consultant can offer) 2/ CV of the trainer and eventually all team members who will directly or indirectly contribute to the project 3/ At least one summary paper of similar assignments with complete recommendations/references from former organizations Deadline for submission: Documents to be submitted by e-mail and by mail until 28/05/15, 05:00 pm. Applications submitted after the above stated deadline for submission, for whatever reason or cause, shall be considered defaulting and shall be returned to the Bidding Organization unopened. Submission of applications A scan of signed documents must be submitted to the following email: [email protected] - Reference: LIB/TRAINING/MANAGEMENT/201505 (each applicant will receive an email to acknowledge receipt of the application) Only applications with including the full list of requested documents will be considered.