Trainer on Human rights
A cover letter of no more than 2 pages introducing the consultant and how the skills and competencies described below are met, with concrete examples
A CV outlining all the experience obtained and relevant for the project, including three references.
A preliminary methodology of the training and the budget
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Please submit your proposal by Sunday the 7th of April 2019 addressed to [email protected] with “ Trainer on Human rights” in the email subject line.
1. BACKGROUND:
The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization based in Beirut. CLDH was created in 2006 by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily), which has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human rights violations. CLDH monitors the human rights situation in Lebanon, fights enforced disappearance, impunity, arbitrary detention and racism and rehabilitates the victims of torture.
CLDH is also a founding member of the Euro-Mediterranean Federation against Enforced Disappearance (FEMED), a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Network of Human Rights (REMDH) and a member of the SOS Torture Network of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT).
Project Summary:
In 2012, CLDH established a legal aid program with the aim to provide legal consultations, representation before courts, institutions and security services for vulnerable migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and Lebanese citizens. Since its inception, the programme has been supported by various donors and has achieved significant results.
Through this project, CLDH aims to continue providing support to the most vulnerable groups (including Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Palestinian refugees, Migrant Domestic Workers, LGBTIQ individuals, victims of torture, and others).
Intervention Summary:
CLDH is organizing its second capacity building training on human rights and facilitation skills for NGO members, law students and Junior lawyers. From this training and the previous one conducted during the month of December 2018, CLDH will select a group of 15 participants to attend a TOT on relevant topics in order for them to raise awareness among the community. The main objective of this training is to create a group of community facilitators to raise awareness among the community on legal topics by training them on how to facilitate awareness sessions using the adequate facilitation tools and to ensure on delivering all the legal information during sessions. Taking into consideration that the topics of these sessions are to be considered heavy and sensible and it needs to be facilitated accordingly.
Job Profile:
Within the direction of the Program Manager, the consultancy aims
to Developing and delivering two-days training to a group of 20 participants including junior lawyers and law students. The participants will be trained on the following six topics:
Torture
LGBT
Women’s right
Refugees civil and political rights
Migrants and domestic workers
Stateless and nationality procedures
Your Contribution:
Developing the training’s content and teaching aids including the agenda, training methodology, handouts, evaluation forms and pre and posttests) which will be discussed and approved by CLDH team.
Identifying the elements of each of the following topics:
Definition of torture, legally and psychologically
LGBT
Women’s right
Refugees (civil and political rights)
Migrants + domestic workers
Stateless and nationality
The relevant articles in international law
Provision of a brief background on CAT and OPCAT and the binding nature of the state’s obligation and the judicial application under CAT/OPCAT as well as other international laws and conventions.
Assessment of how law can be transformed into an agent of reform.
Analyze the role of law on the following three elements:
Protection of rights
Regulation of behavior/conduct
Law as an agent of social reform
Key Deliverables:
After the delivery of the training, the trainer is expected to submit to CLDH a report, based on the template provided by CLDH, that includes a concise presentation of the training session content and the applied methodology as well as his feedback on participation, level of interest and the most important issues raised throughout the training sessions.(The trainer is also expected to design the training evaluation forms and the pre and posttests of the training).
Values and Ethics:
The candidate should have a high level of integrity, accountability, and commitment. He/she should also demonstrate and be exemplary in portraying CLDH value
NOTE:
Daleel Madani, the civil society network, serves as a platform for organisations to post their professional opportunities, but is not involved in the recruitment process. The hiring organisation is solely responsible for the job and candidate selection.
- Lebanon
- Beirut