Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Through the Building Alliance for Local Advancement, Development and Investment – Capacity Building
(BALADI CAP) Project
TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR) Terms of Reference (TOR) for engaging a Consultant to undertake the development of a self-care, Resilience and Peer-support toolkit
Post Title: Trainer / Development of a SCRPS Toolkit
Project Title: “Youth Making Change for a Resilient Lebanon”
Duty Station: Lebanon – Beirut
Duration: 5 to 10 working days between October 2020 – November 2020
The context
Lebanon is facing a humanitarian crisis initially provoked by socio-economic challenges, rising rates of unemployment, poverty and collateral damages of the Coronavirus pandemic. Since October 2019 and moreover after the Beirut blast, youth presence and active commitment either on personal volunteering basis or through youth organizations was noticeable, providing all sorts of civic relief.
Within this context and following the August four Beirut blast, all youth living on the Lebanese grounds – without exception – have experienced unprecedented levels of stress and even trauma and would need to benefit from immediate emotional relief arising from the overall situation along with a sustainable approach to address vulnerable youth and growing community needs.
The Project
Responding to that need, Saint Vincent De Paul جمعية مار منصور دي بول لبنان in partnership with USAID and Baladi Cap is launching the “Youth Making Change for a Resilient Lebanon” project aiming to provide youth with needed skills to thrive within current context and better serve the Lebanese community. The project includes the development of a “Facilitator Self-care, Resilience and Peer Support Toolkit” followed by a workshop, based on the toolkit developed and managed by experts.
Objective
Within a team of experts and based on a pre-set general framework, develop a step by step description of tools and activities fitting the “Self-care” and “Peer-support” sections of the toolkit, allowing youth to identify and apply for themselves relevant self-care techniques and enabling them to facilitate those activities within group meetings.
Scope of Work and Expected Outputs
The scope of work and expected outputs/deliverables will be the following:
- Collect, review and analyze all the necessary documents to fully grasp the current situation of youth in Lebanon;
- Based on previously implemented focus groups results, analyze youth priorities and concerns.
- Based on the processes mentioned above and in consultation with the Lead consultants, prepare a comprehensive list of contents to be included in the toolkit, specifically as related to self-care and peer support and based on a pre-set toolkit framework.
- Draft step by step applied tools and activities to be used by youth facilitators in leading community meetings.
- Facilitate one day workshop addressed to youth, based on proposed activities
Required expertise and qualifications
- A post-graduate or equivalent qualification/ degree in : Psychology, Social Work, Development Study, Humanities, Human Resources or any other relevant discipline;
- At least 5-7 years of prior work experience in self-care and peer-support, including toolkits development;
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in undertaking research especially in the area of self-care and peer-support;
- Demonstrated experiences and skills in facilitating working group consultations.
- Experienced in working in working with youth and in the NGOs environment.
- Experience in toolkits illustration is a plus.
Training Location
- All workshops will be implemented in SSVPL headquarters in Burj Hammoud.
- In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, all proper safety and physical distancing measures will be taken; including the use of hand sanitizers and mandatory masks wearing when working in groups.
How to apply
Interested candidates are kindly requested to send us their CV with a sample from your previous work (where possible) to ssvplb@gmail.com