Awareness Facilitator (Independent/ Body)

Project: Improvement of Development Process and Local Governance in the Municipality of Tripoli

I. Introduction

The Municipality of Tripoli received on the 15^th of January 2016 a grant from the European Union (EU) to realize the project” Improvement of Development Process and Local Governance in the Municipality of Tripoli” over a period extending to 48 months that included 2 extension periods of 6 months each. The overall objective of the project is to improve the institutional and operational contribution to governance and development process in the Municipality of Tripoli. The Specific objectives of the project are to improve access in Bab El Tabbane, Jabal Mohsen and El Ghouraba to basic and adequate social services on a sustainable basis. All three communities will benefit from a positive impact on different levels especially on Health, Education, Job Creation and awareness levels. Five Expected results derive from the project.

II. The project

The project derives from four basic facts advanced by the Municipality of Tripoli:

1. The local authority and civil society are in need for capacity building,
2. Health is a fundamental human right and should be available to all people regardless of gender, social class, ethnicity and age,
3. Job opportunities are very limited due to the deficiency of educational skills,
4. Recreational activities allowing the cohesion of the dissimilar zones allow a better synergy.

The project aims at enhancing the Municipality of Tripoli's capacity to effectively deliver public services and in particular, responding to specific health problems affecting the population of the targeted area  like: 1) anemia, scabies and lice because of lack of hygiene; 2) diarrhea, malnutrition and typhoid due to water and vegetables pollution; 3) scoliosis due to high humidity levels; 4) flu because of lack of regular medical consultancies and because the near governmental hospital has no capacity to receive the enormous demand of consultations and health services. No need to mention here that some local NGOs are providing medical services to the patients, but mainly based on availability of services and sometimes based on political affiliations.

Ten Heath care centers operating in the project area were equipped and furnished based on a realized assessment.

In addition, the project consists in conducting an awareness campaign in close collaboration with the existing healthcare centers and active participation of the existing schools in the targeted areas to promote the concept of hygiene in the deprived areas and disseminate a new strategy to tackle the problem of overcrowding of solid waste raised recently at national level, by sorting the waste from the households. The women will be involved in this approach as they are the main target and owner of this strategy. The health care centers as well as the community center will be the platform to disseminate the information, knowledge and necessary tools to address that issue. Also, Awareness campaigns in health care and of drugs addiction should be implemented in coordination with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Ministry of Public Health.

An awareness campaign was realized in 18 public schools of the project area on different components: sorting from the source, personal hygiene and drugs. Awareness facilitators were trained on conducting awareness campaign and activities on sorting from the source and personal hygiene depending on the school levels. They realized the awareness in cooperation with the health supervisors of schools. Different tools were used during the awareness adapting to the age of students. More than 130 containers for recyclables will be distributed by the municipality of Tripoli in cooperation with UCF among the involved schools in order to collect the recyclables separately and to minimize the number of recyclables reaching the landfill. Moreover, hygienic kits will be distributed among the students to emphasize them on the importance of a proper hygiene. The awareness campaign ended by a closing ceremony.

The Municipality plans to realize a second awareness campaign during the educational year 2019-2020.

III. Tasks

The Expected Result (2) of the consists of improving the health services of existing Health Care Centers addressed to all inhabitants (in particular for disadvantaged categories such as the Children, Women and Elderly people in targeted areas).

For this purpose, the Municipality of Tripoli is seeking to contract a short-term local facilitator to perform the following tasks in coordination with the awareness campaign coordinator and project team:

• Execute the required sessions for the campaign in public schools, health care providers and SDCs of the project area as per the methodology and plan of the awareness campaign
• Assist in designing the awareness raising campaign including expected results, planning (draft and Final), methods–competitions, PowerPoint training, videos, storytelling etc.- and materials needed.
• Follow the rules of visibility and communication imposed by the project in all activities.
• Assist in updating the list of the public schools (number of students, age range, gender, availability of theater, address of schools, etc.) where the awareness campaign will be realized
• Assist in realizing meetings with the concerned bodies (public schools, health care providers, steering committee and SDCs) as necessary.
• Assist in elaborating Awareness raising materials (brochures, posters, storytelling, video, etc) 
• Assist in disseminating the campaign and the project over the Social media.
• Disseminate any visibility material (banner, poster, LCD, etc.) or kit of the project to public schools.
• Assist in realizing the closing ceremony for awareness campaign
• Participate to all the meetings required by the project (Such meetings are integral part of the assignment and not considered as sessions)

IV. Contract duration and contract ceiling

- The contract duration is two months and will start on the day of its signature with the Municipality of Tripoli and after coordination with the project team.

- The maximum number of working sessions that the facilitator is expected to spend during the duration of his/her contract is: 13 Sessions

- The ceiling of the contract is: 390 euros

V. Evaluation of proposals and award of the contract

Proposals will be evaluated by the concerned committee. Methodology and CV will have a grade over 80 and the financial offer will have a grade over 20. The total evaluation grade of the facilitator will be the sum of the two grades and over 100.

VI. Dependence

The professional local facilitator will report to the Project Coordinator and will coordinate his/her work with the project team and the awareness campaign coordinator.

VII. Deliverables

The following deliverables are requested from the local facilitator:

• An integrated report for sessions realized (tools used, number of students, age of students, pictures, PowerPoint, closing ceremony, etc)
• Excel Sheet (showing the name of school, the name of director, the number of kits received by the school, the name of the facilitator, etc.) signed and stamped by the school’s director, signed by the facilitator and approved by the coordinator.
• Timesheet of each session (showing schedule, classes, number of sessions, title of the session, venue, etc.) signed by facilitator, focal point of the concerned body and coordinator.

VIII. Education/Professional experience and skills

The candidate should have:

• An academic formation, preferably in health/Environmental topics with previous professional experience on raising awareness on public health and sorting from the source
• Previous professional experience on raising awareness on public health and sorting from the source
• Previous experience of Work with municipalities, NGOs and organizations is an additional asset
• Oral and written strong communication skills.
• Fluency in both Arabic and English languages are a must (fluency in French is an additional asset).