Community Engagement Consultant

About Adyan

Adyan, Foundation for diversity, solidarity and human dignity, works locally, regionally and internationally for pluralism, inclusive citizenship, community resilience, and spiritual solidarity, through homegrown solutions in education, media, policymaking, and intercultural and interreligious relations. Adyan is registered in Lebanon as a non-profit and nongovernmental organization (NGO), under registration number 1103 by a ministerial decree dated 18 September 2008.

Project 

Generation G is an advocacy program that aims at equipping youth activists to address the root causes of social inequality.

It challenges social norms and harmful perceptions that drive power imbalances and violence perpetrated by the patriarchy, while encouraging sustainable change.

Through its interventions, the partnership is increasing the number of young people promoting social roles justice and preventing sexual and gender-based violence by providing with the necessary technical and soft skills along with essential resources to mobilize.

Additionally, it encourages decision-makers to increasingly adopt and be accountable for youth-inclusive policies and laws.

Generation G helps build a more resilient, effective, gender-just and youth-inclusive civil society through capacity strengthening and coalition building.

Since the program’s operationalization in 2021, the country coalition (comprising Adyan Foundation and ABAAD Resource Center for Gender Equality) has sought to fine-tune their youth engagement strategies. This RFP invites research consultants to develop a set of guiding principles and strategies around effective youth engagement in development programming that tackles culturally sensitive subject matters.

Objectives

- To develop and implement strategies for enhancing youth engagement in their communities

- Establish the dialogue between youth and local authorities 

Scope of Work

The Expert will undertake the following tasks:

- Develop the strategy on community engagement and assessment of priorities by youth

- Coach and supervise the work of youth enumerators on community priorities assessment.

- Design and develop the structures and outcomes of townhall meetings

- Organize 20 townhalls meetings

- Harvest the outcomes of the townhall meetings in form of recommendations

- Final narrative report with recommendations and analysis

Milestones

Milestone 1:  Develop community engagement strategy

Milestone 2:  finalize all community assessment data collection

Milestone 3:  Develop and design the structure of the community townhalls

Milestone 4:  Organize community townhalls 

Milestone 5:  Prepare final narrative report Including findings and recommendations.

Duration

The assignment will be for a period of 6 months starting from 1 July 2024.

Copyrights and confidentiality

All the data and information shared or produced in the framework of this ToR are exclusively the property of Adyan Foundation. The expert has to commit to full confidentiality related to this project, besides what Adyan makes public from its results. 

Code of conduct

The expert agrees to fully respect Adyan’s ethos and code of conduct that is considered an integral part of this contract.

Compensation

The training coordinator will receive a compensation fee of 10200$ (Ten Thousand and two hundred US Dollars) all-inclusive and subject to taxes where application by the Lebanese fiscal laws.

Required Qualifications

- Advanced degree in Law, Public Administration, Political Science, or a related field.

- At least 7 years of experience in community engagement and mobilization.

- Proven track record in youth engagement and capacity-building initiatives.

- Excellent understanding of the socio-political context in Lebanon.

- Strong analytical and research skills.

- Excellent communication and presentation skills in Arabic and English.

Application Process

Interested candidates are requested to submit the following documents:

- A detailed CV highlighting relevant experience and qualifications.

- A cover letter outlining the approach to the assignment.

- Sample of previous work related to municipal law or youth engagement (optional).

Submission Deadline

Applications must be submitted by Thursday 20^th of June 2024 to [email protected]