Community Engagement Consultant

About the Organization:

ABAAD is a non-profit, non-politically affiliated, non-religious civil association that aims to achieve gender equality as an essential condition to sustainable social and economic development in the MENA region. ABAAD seeks to promote women’s equality and participation through policy development, legal reform, gender mainstreaming, engaging men, eliminating discrimination, and advancing and empowering women to participate effectively and fully in their communities. ABAAD also seeks to support and collaborate with civil society organizations that are involved in gender equality programs and advocacy campaigns.

About the Project:

“Towards Strengthening Fair Legislation For Women Affected By Sexual Violence And Exploitation In Lebanon” Project

This project seeks to enhance the existing protection legal framework for women and girls living in Lebanon, in particular in relation to sexual violence. To do so, it intends to combine a top-down and a bottom-up approach through working at community, institutional, and policy levels. The work at these three levels is crucial as the existing direct or indirect democratic challenges hampering the strengthening of the women’s rights protection framework in Lebanon manifest themselves within these three layers.

More specifically, this project will work towards enhancing community engagement from women survivors of SGBV. Participating women will lead their own initiatives that aim to tackle violence and increase knowledge about existing protection and human rights frameworks through peer-to-peer education and sensitization.

Terms of Reference (TOR)
 
Community Engagement Consultant
 
Position: Consultant
Requirement: Conduct four community engagement workshop targeting a total of 40 women survivors of GBV to engage in the development of Information and Education Communication (IEC) tools aiming at shaping the key messages of the campaign, in a context specific and culturally sensitive and relevant manner
Project: Towards Strengthening Fair Legislation For Women Affected By Sexual Violence And Exploitation In Lebanon
Time-Frame for this assignment: June – August 2018
Duration: 30 days
Location: Lebanon
Type of consultancy: short-term
Funded by: UNDEF (the United Nations Democracy Fund)

The overall purpose and functions are:

The consultant will be responsible for supporting developing a community-based, context-specific Information and Education Communication (IEC) tool on Sexual exploitation and sexual violence in Arabic, aiming at sensitizing most marginalized host and refugee communities on these issues as in most remote areas, access to information is difficult. The tool will be easily understandable through the use of a clear language, culturally adapted, and will be development and disseminated in the spirit of the Do No Harm approach. S/he has the overall responsibility of ensuring that the different tasks are delivered on time.

Among the functions s/he is expected to achieve:

• Conduct 4 community engagement workshops with 10 women survivors each (total of 40 women survivors of GBV) to engage them in the development of the IEC tools - The engagement of survivors in the process ensures the relevance and need-based approach of the IEC tools. The results of these workshop will feed into the development of context specific and culturally sensitive IEC tools.
• Develop a community-based, context-specific IEC tool on Sexual exploitation and sexual violence - through the development, validation and massive dissemination of a specific tool in Arabic on Sexual exploitation and sexual violence aiming at sensitizing most marginalized host and refugee communities on these issues as in most remote areas, access to information is difficult. The tool will be easily understandable through the use of a clear language, culturally adapted, and will be development and disseminated in the spirit of the Do No Harm approach.
• Develop a report outlining milestones, achievements, and observation notes after each workshop session.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

• The Consultant will be responsible for conducting 20 workshop, 6 hours each, targeting a total of 100 women from both refugee and host communities in different areas in Lebanon.
• The Consultant is to submit a proposed methodology and roadmap of the sessions while detailing the relevant tools, scripts, materials to be used during sessions to ensure these are culturally sensitive to the targeted population
• The Consultant is to provide progress reports after finalizing the workshop, and to provide support in the application of the quality assurance procedures –in close coordination with the project team namely the project officer – through:

1. Assessing the satisfaction of targeted beneficiaries using the satisfaction survey;
2. Facilitating complaint mechanism procedures through informing the targeted population of the complaint cycle procedures;
3. Assessing impact of the provided activities through using MEAL tools, such as pre-post-tests, evaluation forms, etc.…

Skills required

• A minimum of 2-3 years of experience in conducting community engagement workshops and activities for young women and girls, while addressing sensitive issues through interactive actions;
• Previous experience in targeting vulnerable population in rural (high risk) villages;
• Excellent understanding and knowledge about women’s rights, gender and sexual violence;
• Previous knowledge of the cultural aspects (norms, traditions and beliefs) related to most vulnerable population in Lebanon (including Syrian refugees and host communities).

 
APPLICATION PROCEDURES:
Interested consultants must submit, by May 31, 2018, a proposal demonstrating their suitability to undertake this assignment. Documents requested are:
-          CV/portfolio, demonstrating previous experience in the same requested field; 
-          A brief methodology on how to approach and conduct the assignment;
-          Budget (which should consist of the proposed daily fee, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses).
 
Proposals should be sent to the attention of Aseel Naamani, Director of Programs, at the following email: [email protected]. ABAAD can also be contacted for any technical questions related to this assignment.
 
Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.  
 
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Women candidates are strongly encouraged to apply!
 
ABAAD is an equal employment opportunity organization.