Fire fighting training for Steering committees

Akkar Network for Development (AND) has been working in Akkar for the last 6 years with women, youth and local authorities to promote the well-being of the community. In addition to other interventions in the area, AND is currently working on a number of protection initiatives aiming to reduce violence against women and children, along with women and youth empowerment.

In partnership with UNICEF, AND is currently implementing a project aiming at raising awareness about children rights with children and caregivers, empowering duty bearers to realize the importance of children rights, and provide a safe space for boys and girls to actively participate in this process and voice their needs.

AND is implementing this initiative in Wadi Khaled and Sahel. Throughout this project, AND team will organize awareness sessions and collaborate with the existing bodies/committees, 2 steering committees (SC) and 2 children committees (CC). AND will build the capacity of these committees by conducting a fire fighting training that will help the steering committees to prevent and manage domestic fires.

Areas of Responsibility:  Life skills  

The trainer must provide fire fighting sessions to the 2 steering committees.

 The main topics to be included in the training session/day shall be:

• Properties of fire
• The fire triangle
• Classifications of fire
• Extinguisher types and extinguishing agents
• Checks and maintenance of hand held fire extinguishers
• Fire extinguishing techniques
• Maintenance and stowage
• Types of hazardous atmospheres

• How to communicate the preventive measures required to limit the impact of the fires in the area.
• How to work in close collaboration with the civil defence.
• Implement recovery measures after fires

Training locations: Sahel and Wadi Khaled area /Akkar.

Deliverables

The consultant shall be responsible for the following deliverables.

1. Training Program and schedule.
2. Training Curriculum (Power point presentations, videos, forms, exercises, etc. for the training sessions )
3. Final Appraisal at the end of the training.

Level of Effort

The Consultant shall have the following number of days allotted for this task:

Task

LOE

Fire fighting  training

4 days

TOTAL

4 days

Reporting

The consultant shall report to the Project Manager.