Consultancy for the prefiguration of a Mountains Careers Campus

The consultant will have to carry out a diagnosis and a census of the professions and know-how in the mountain economy sector of Zgharta and Bsharre Cazas.

Beyond the diagnosis, the consultant will have to:

• Restore this diagnosis in the form of a database and produce a catalogue or guide exhaustively listing the actors, trainings, and professions.
• Issue recommendations on the conditions for the sustainability of jobs (economic strategy/jobs relationship), including by proposing innovative solutions in the career approach.
• Draft the terms of reference for the Mountain Careers Campus.

In the details:

Expected activities

• Formalizing the scope of the diagnosis with the team and project partners.
• Meetings with training authorities at national and local levels (communities with training-teaching competences).
• Census of the training offers (secondary and higher) linked to mountains as well as affiliated professions: accommodation and catering, guiding, outdoor sports, and peripherical professional sectors (such as agriculture).
• Identification of economic and social actors on the territory.
• Identification of research institutes affiliated with the study sector.
• Organization of consultations between different stakeholders to present the “mountain careers campus” model in collaboration with the “Qadisha Durable” program team.
• Writing the terms of reference for the future “mountain careers campus”.
• Assistance in identifying actors.

Expected deliverables

• Framing document.
• The list of actors to meet.
• Reports of the meetings.
• A summary note resuming the stages of the diagnosis and the analyzed professions. 
• A database listing professions, trainings, education, and economic actors. 
• A catalog-side guide listing training courses and actors.
• The list of stakeholders implied in the consultations.
• A presentation frame to be used for the meetings.
• A summary document with actors’ recommendations and working axes allows the prefiguration of the careers campus. 
• Reports of the exchanges with the project’s team and the actors. 
• The production of terms of reference.