Trainer on Child & Youth Protection job vacancy-South Sudan 2016
Introduction:
Since 2012, LWF has been responding to the needs of refugees who fled fighting in Blue Nile, Sudan to Upper Nile in South Sudan. LWF is a partner to UNHCR and a member of ACT Alliance and is implementing child & youth protection and education programs that provide primary, Accelerated Learning Program, secondary and vocational skills education in 3 refugee camps (Batil, Gendrassa and Kaya) in Maban County. The total population in all the three refugee camps is 80,297[1]. Children ages 0-17 years constitute 60% of the total population. The population of the host and IDP communities according to Human Development Consortium (HDC) database of 2015 stands at 13903 and 9431respectively. The overall population in Maban can therefore be categorized as 85% refugees, 9% IDPs and 6% hosting community.
LWF provides protection (prevention and response) services to a total of 3520(1726F, 1794M) unaccompanied/separated children, orphans, victims of early/forced marriages, child labour, children in conflict with the law, child neglect etc. LWF supports unaccompanied/separated children with family tracing and reunion with their parents and or puts them in foster care arrangement. The children are enrolled back to school and provided with psychosocial support, scholastic materials and non food items.
LWF works with community based structure such as child rights club, child help desk, child protection committees, youth and women groups, foster care parents, community leaders, and teachers to provide coherent services, increase coverage of protection services and sustainability of the programme. In addition, LWF also works closely with county authorities in Maban e.g. police, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Social Welfare and other partners such as SCI, DRC, ACTED, RI, IMC etc for enhanced coordination of protection services.
LWF’s has an interest is to improve the quality of its prevention and response services to both refugee and host community children and youth and to enhance the effectiveness of its role in promoting peaceful co-existence between the refugees and the hosting communities. Protection of persons of concerns i.e. children in both communities is key hence LWF’s focus to strengthen capacity of its staff on the theme of child protection. In the light of the above, the LWF in collaboration with UNHCR seeks to engage an experienced professional trainer to conduct a 5 days training for LWF staff on child and youth protection in Maban County, Upper State – South Sudan.
[1] Source: UNHCR Maban biometric registration data base November, 2015.
Objectives
· To build the capacity of staff in Child protection programming in order to enhance quality of protection service delivery to children and young people
· To familiarize staff with approaches that promotes dignity of the beneficiaries in child and youth protection services.
· Familiarize the participants with the concepts and issues of child and youth protection
· Enhance linkages between education and child/youth protection
3. Methodologies
A general guide is described below in this document to aid the consultant in the development of detailed methodology for delivery of the training
4. Scope of Work
The scope of work will be to:
· Develop interactive and detailed training content and sessions and all accompanying background material for the delivery of a training that ensures afore mentioned training objectives are addressed. Specifically, these should encompass the following:
a) key Concepts in child and youth protection in emergency and stable contexts
b) Legal frameworks, child protection systems, case management and Monitoring and Evaluation of child protection interventions
c) Responses to child and youth protection issues in humanitarian setting including
d) Linkages/interface between Education programmes and child protection
· Develop a participatory Training Methodology that enhances staff analysis skills in approach towards child and youth protection
· Facilitate training for staff on child and youth protection in Maban, South Sudan.
· Compile and submit within agreed timeframe the training report
5. Deliverables
· Protection training package (training staff on child & youth protection, power point presentations, training handouts and materials)
· Report on child and youth protection training
· Award of certificates to the participants
6. Duration of the Consultancy
It is anticipated that the consultancy will take 10 days as follows:
· Preparation of child and youth protection training package – includes training content, training program/sessions, handouts and learning materials such as case studies and other related learning exercises (3 days)
· Facilitate training on child and youth protection in Maban, South Sudan (5 days)
· Preparation of training report and submission (2 days)
7. Qualifications
· Post-graduate degree in Social Sciences, Social Work and Social Administration, Law or any other related field.
· Experience working in child and youth protection and knowledge of South Sudan context
· Good understanding of child and youth protection/psychosocial programming.
· Experience of designing and running child and youth protection training interventions (with specific experience in GBV, Protection, Child Protection, International/Regional/National legal instruments for protection etc.)
· Fluency in English, Knowledge of Arabic will be an advantage.
8. Technical and Financial Proposal
The technical proposal should include:
· Details on how the consultant will address the ToR’s items 2, 3 and 4 above
· CV detailing key qualifications as outlined above.
· A detailed activity plan (10 days) to be undertaken to fulfil the tasks mentioned in this ToR
· A financial proposal aligned to the specified period of the consultancy The applicant should submit to LWF both the technical and financial proposal (in USD) with breakdown of the tasks to be carried out by date e
HOW TO APPLY:
Contact
The applicants who meet the afore mentioned qualifications should submit their technical and financial proposal for undertaking the tasks described in this TOR to email address: adm.ssd@lwfdws.org and copy proca.ssd@lwfdws.org, prtc2.ssd@lwfdws.org