Storytelling Trainer for Advocacy & Survivor Voice Amplification

1. Background
The Lebanese Democratic Women’s Gathering works to promote gender equality and protect women and girls from gender-based violence (GBV).
In this context, amplifying survivors’ voices to foster empathy and social change is a key protection and advocacy approach. Storytelling is a powerful tool that enables women to safely express experiences, raise awareness, and influence community attitudes while ensuring a survivor-centered and do-no-harm approach.
This vocational training aims to equip women with structured storytelling skills that can be used for advocacy, awareness, and personal empowerment.

2. Objective
To empower women with storytelling skills to safely amplify survivors’ voices, foster empathy, and contribute to advocacy and awareness on GBV and protection issues.

3. Specific Objectives
- Develop participants’ storytelling and narrative-building skills
- Strengthen ethical communication on sensitive and GBV-related topics
- Promote survivor-centered, trauma-informed, and do-no-harm approaches
- Enable women to use storytelling as a tool for advocacy and awareness

4. Scope of Work
The trainer/service provider will:
- Design and deliver an interactive storytelling training program
- Integrate GBV guiding principles and safeguarding standards throughout the training
- Facilitate practical exercises (written, oral, audio, or visual storytelling)
- Support participants in developing personal or advocacy stories
- Conduct pre- and post-assessments
- Submit a final training report

5. Training Components (6 Sessions)
Session 1: Introduction to Storytelling
- What storytelling is and why it matters in advocacy

Session 2: Building a Narrative
- Structure of a story (beginning, challenge, transformation, outcome)

Session 3: Storytelling for Advocacy
- Using stories to raise awareness and influence change

Session 4: Ethical & Survivor-Centered Storytelling
- Consent, confidentiality, and “Do No Harm” principles

Session 5: Storytelling Formats
- Written, audio, and visual storytelling techniques

Session 6: Practice & Final Production
- Developing a final personal or advocacy story(based on the survivors experience )

6. Duration & Modality
- 6 sessions per group
- 15 female participants per group (aged 15–59)
- Locations: Beirut & Mount Lebanon (BML) and Bekaa
- Modality: In-person

7. Target Group
- Women aged 15–59
- Priority: vulnerable women and survivors of GBV
- Focus on empowerment and safe expression

8. Deliverables
- Training curriculum and materials
- Attendance sheets
- Pre- and post-assessments
- Participants’ storytelling outputs (written, audio, or visual)
- Final narrative report

9. Required Qualifications
- Experience in storytelling, media, communication, or content creation
- Proven experience in delivering training sessions
- Strong knowledge of GBV, safeguarding, and ethical communication
- Ability to work with sensitive survivor-related content
- Fluency in Arabic (English is an asset)

10. Monitoring & Evaluation
- Pre/post knowledge assessments
- Quality and relevance of storytelling outputs
- Participant feedback and engagement
- Application of ethical storytelling principles

11. Ethical Considerations
All activities must strictly follow:
- GBV guiding principles (safety, confidentiality, respect, non-discrimination)
- Survivor-centered and trauma-informed approaches
- UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women safeguarding and PSEA standards
- Internal policies of Lebanese Democratic Women’s Gathering

12. Reporting Line
The trainer will report to the RDFL Project Manager, in coordination with donor reporting requirements.