Call for proposal

Programme Background

The Strengthening Resilience - MENA II (SR2) programme is funded by the European Union and delivered by a consortium led by the British Council. It began with a pilot in 2015 and its current phase will continue until January 2021. It is under implementation in Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan. 

Resilience is the ability of individuals and communities to recover, keep going and grow through adversity. Resilient individuals are the “self-starters” who both take advantage of and create opportunities for themselves and others. Resilient communities use their social and political ties to negotiate solutions to the problems they face. The Strengthening Resilience (SR) programme aims to build young people’s resilience – their ability to “survive and thrive” whatever pressures and hazards they confront. 

In Lebanon the programme includes two components:
 

Component 1: Supporting the preventing violent extremism unit through  advising, building the capacity and supporting the delivery of the National Consultation phase that aims at developing the Action Plan of the National Strategy for Preventing Violent Extremism that was ratified in March 2018 and at contributing to the formation of a National PVE Network as well as conducting national youth consultation using as structured consultative and participatory process with Lebanese youth at the age group of (16-23) which is mainly concentrated in high school students at the third year and universities students as well as with youth outside institutions through CSO.

Through this process, targeted youth will be introduced to the key concepts of diversity, active citizenship and good governance via different strategic communications methods. 

Component 2: involves building individual resilience and sense of citizenship of youth, engaging them in community development and enhancing their role in political participation for the objective of strengthening the resilience of individuals and communities against extremist narratives and reduce the appeal of violent extremist groups through working with Universities and Civil society organisations

Consultancy Purpose

The purpose of the consultancy is to design a quantitative methodology and tools for youth consultations around PVE strategy. In this way, youth priorities will be identified, and a greater connection and engagement will be established between them and main actors in a structured and systematic way.
 
The consultant will be expected to work up to a maximum of 60 days for the duration of the contract.

Deliverables

The report will have a nationally representative sample (95% confidence rate or higher) of young women and men aged 16-23 years who are residents in Lebanon. Data will be analysed and disaggregated to discern those who are recognised Lebanese nationals from those who are not recognised but may have been born or residing in Lebanon for other five years (i.e. Palestinian, Syrian refugees). 

We would like the data collection phase to give an emphasis to reaching:
•    the harder to reach, marginalized and out-of-education segments of the population;
•    the students in secondary schools; 
•    the students in universities (first 3 years);
•    the students in the Technical and Vocational Education institutions.
and to ensure anonymity of respondents. 

We would also like the data to be representative of and disaggregated (as far as possible) by:
•    Age: 16-23
•    Gender: male / female / other / prefer not to say
•    People with: dual nationality / single nationality / stateless
•    Education: none / primary school / secondary school / graduation / post-graduation
•    Location: rural / urban (by city/governorates)
•    Wealth: household income
•    Religion / sect 
•    Ethnicity 
•    Disability
•    Socio-economic group

Research teams are invited to propose a suitable methodology however it is expected the study will include:

•    Literature review
•    Nationally representative survey of young people aged 16-23 who are resident in Lebanon
•    Analysis of the data with suitable disaggregation techniques for age groups and different residency / nationality status.
•    Analysis, conclusions and recommendations.