Well Being Session consultant

1. Context and justification of the need

 ’Qudra – Resilience for Syrian refugees, IDPs and host communities in response to the Syrian and Iraqi crises’ is a regional action financed by the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, the Madad Fund and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), seeking to strengthen the resilience of Syrian refugees, IDPs and host communities in response to the Syrian and Iraqi crises.  The programme launched in June 2016, has been jointly implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Expertise France (EF) and Spanish Agency for International Development (AECID) in programme partner countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and North Iraq.

In Lebanon, the project seeks to improve social stability between communities in Lebanon through a comprehensive and local approach of protection for children and adults. To do so, activities revolve around four pillars: (i) support to Social Development Centers (SDCs) of the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA), (ii) Child Protection activities, (iii) Protection activities and (iv) campaigns and communication activities. Expertise France works within the framework of the LCRP and MoSA National Plan for Safeguarding women and children in close partnership with Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA).

The second phase of the programme will end in 2023. The programme is implemented in 14 areas of Lebanon, in collaboration with NGO partners, Social Development Centers (SDCs) and the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA).

2. Objectives and desired results

1. 1. General objective

As part of strengthening the resilience of host communities and refugees in Lebanon; it is important to focus on Qudra 2 team, who are the frontliners working directly with people on filed, by taking care of their mental health and wellbeing state.

The ongoing crisis in Lebanon is affecting every person living in the country, which has a negative impact on people’s mental health and wellbeing. This impact can be highly reflected in the workplaces where it hinders the communication and coordination of staff, due to the low levels of tolerance, high tension, unhappy and unproductive employees, and accordingly low quality of service.

Having said so, Expertise France decided to conduct a wellbeing session to the employees of each partner working on Qudra 2 as well as EF staff to help them manage the daily pressure they are going through and give them tips on how to keep the workplace a healthy and safe space for their mental wellbeing.

1. 2. Specific objectives

1. Deliver 7 face to face sessions in different regions of Lebanon about mental wellbeing for the employees of Qudra 2 partners.
2. Suggest different topics for mental wellbeing that help employees to manage stress at workplace and have healthy work environment.
3. Develop training materials contextualized for the situation in Lebanon.
4. Develop the training in Arabic language.

for more information, please refer to the attached Terms of reference.