Research Expert– STRENGTHENING RESILIENCE MENA II

Programme Background

The Strengthening Resilience - MENA II (SR2) programme is funded by the European Union
and delivered by a consortium led by the British Council. It began with a pilot in 2015 and its
current phase will continue until January 2021. It is under implementation in Lebanon,
Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan.

Resilience is the ability of individuals and communities to recover, keep going and
grow through adversity. Resilient individuals are the “self-starters” who both take
advantage of and create opportunities for themselves and others. Resilient
communities use their social and political ties to negotiate solutions to the problems
they face. The Strengthening Resilience (SR) programme aims to build young
people’s resilience – their ability to “survive and thrive” whatever pressures and
hazards they confront.

In Lebanon the programme includes two components:

Component 1: Supporting the preventing violent extremism unit through advising, building
the capacity and supporting the delivery of the National Consultation phase that aims at
developing the Action Plan of the National Strategy for Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE)
that was ratified in March 2018 and at contributing to the formation of a National PVE
Network as well as conducting national youth consultation using as structured consultative
and participatory process with Lebanese youth at the age group of (16-23) which is mainly
concentrated in high school students at the third year and universities students as well as
with youth outside institutions through CSO.
Through this process, targeted youth will be introduced to the key concepts of diversity,
active citizenship and good governance via different strategic communications methods.

Component 2: involves building individual resilience and sense of citizenship of youth,
engaging them in community development and enhancing their role in political participation
for the objective of strengthening the resilience of individuals and communities against
extremist narratives and reduce the appeal of violent extremist groups through working with
Universities and Civil society organisations

Consultancy Purpose

The purpose of the consultancy is to design an online research for youth consultations
around PVE strategy and ministries by laws. In this way, youth priorities, opinions and
insights in regard to PVE will be identified, and a greater connection and engagement will be
established between them and main government actors in a structured and systematic way.

The consultant will be expected to work up to a maximum of 60 days for the duration of the
contract.

Deliverables

The research will have a nationally representative sample (95% confidence rate or higher) of
young women and men aged 16-23 years who are residents in Lebanon. A detailed
methodology and approach will be developed and data will be analysed and disaggregated
to discern those who are recognised Lebanese nationals from those who are not recognised
but may have been born or residing in Lebanon for other five years (i.e. Palestinian, Syrian
refugees).

We would like the data collection phase to give an emphasis to reaching:

• the harder to reach, marginalized and out-of-education segments of the population;
• the students in secondary schools;
• the students in universities (first 3 years);
• the students in the Technical and Vocational Education institutions.

and to ensure anonymity of respondents.

We would like the data to be representative of and disaggregated (as far as possible) by:

• Age: 16-23 (children 16-18 and young adults 18-23)
• Gender: male / female / other / prefer not to say
• People with: dual nationality / single nationality / stateless
• Education: none / primary school / secondary school / graduation / post-graduation
• Location: rural / urban (by city/governorates)
• Wealth: household income
• Religion / sect
• Ethnicity
• Disability

Researcher(s) are invited to propose a suitable methodology however it is expected the
study will include:

• Literature review
• Nationally representative online survey of young people aged 16-23 who are resident in Lebanon
• Analysis of the data with suitable disaggregation techniques for age groups and different residency / nationality status.
• Analysis, conclusions and recommendations.