Trainer on Facilitation Skills

1. BACKGROUND:

The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization based in Beirut. CLDH was created in 2006 by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily), which has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human rights violations.

CLDH monitors the human rights situation in Lebanon, fights enforced disappearance, impunity, arbitrary detention andracism and rehabilitates the victims of torture. CLDH regularly organizes press conferences, workshops and advocacy meetings on human rights issues in Lebanon and collects, records and documents human rights abuses in reports and press releases.

CLDH team on the ground supports initiatives aimed at determining the fate of all missing persons in Lebanon.

CLDH regularly follows up on numerous cases of arbitrary detention and torture in Lebanon in coordination with Lebanese and international organizations, and with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention WGAD and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

CLDH opened in 2007 a Rehabilitation Center for the victims of torture in Beirut, Centre Nassim, member of IRCT (International Rehabilitation Council for Torture victims), which provides multi-disciplinary professional support and case management for victims of torture and their families.

CLDH compiles a daily press review on human rights violations and on-going judiciary cases in Lebanon and updates several human rights blogs.

CLDH is a founding member of the Euro-Mediterranean Federation against Enforced Disappearance (FEMED), a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Network of Human Rights (REMDH) and a member of the SOS Torture Network of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT).

Currently, CLDH is implementing a project in the Bekaa Valley in Partnership with Oxfam and funded by Danida, during which CLDH provides legal aid support to Syrian refugees and to poor and vulnerable local community members. Moreover, CLDH aim to spread awareness on relevant legal topics through legal information sessions.

Job Profile:

Under  the broad  guidance of  the Program Coordinator,  The consultancy aims
to Developing and delivering a four-days training to 36 Focal points Syrian refugees located in 4 different ITS on facilitation skills and detention. 

Training requirements:

Developing the training’s content and teaching aids including the agenda, working methods and procedures, handouts pre – post tests and evaluation forms) which will be discussed with CLDH team. 

Training Topics: 

Facilitation Skills; how to facilitate an awareness session 

Detention; steps  that should be taken during and after detention

Key Deliverables:

After the delivery of the training, the trainer is expected to submit to CLDH a report including a concise presentation of the training sessions content and the applied methods as well as his feedback on participation, level of interest and the most important issues raised throughout the training sessions.(The trainer is also expected to design the training evaluation forms, both pre and post evaluation forms for the sessions). 

 Values and Ethics:

The  candidate  should have  high level of  integrity, accountability,  and punctuality and be willing  to work beyond normal working hours. He/she should also demonstrate and be exemplary in portraying CLDH values and ethics. He/she should be a good team player.