Delivery Of Training On English For Erd Staff In Akkar

1.   Background and Justification Background/IRC Summary:   The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and is at work in over 40 countries.  In response to the influx of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, the IRC provides income and livelihoods support to vulnerable Syrian refugees and host communities, through its Economic Recovery and Development Program. The objective of the program is to assist vulnerable households in the most affected areas of the Akkar and Mount Lebanon in meeting their essential needs and increasing their self-reliance; this is expected to ultimately lessen the use of negative coping strategies for survival. Interventions include unconditional cash assistance, financial management training, cash for work, access to training and business development opportunities, legal and job counseling, and job referrals through a livelihoods center. Additional market assessments and other research are conducted under this program. The main target groups are acutely vulnerable registered and unregistered Syrian refugees and Lebanese households. The ERD program has also developed synergies with the other programs implemented by the IRC in Lebanon, particularly working closely with the Protection sector to mainstream protection principles into livelihoods approaches and expand program offerings.  The ERD program will also seek synergies with the Women’s Protection and Empowerment and Children Protection sectors.  2.   Learning Objectives and Delivery Methodology An advanced training on English will be provided for the team. Each class will be conducted two days per week. By the end of the 48 training hours, trainees should be able to:   Understand, speak and write Business English lexicons and use them in their everyday contact with other employees in the same company or in other companies.  Engage in oral and written communication in order to provide and obtain information.  Write reports, emails (formal and informal), letters, memos, professional curriculum vitae and action minutes.  Demonstrate control of essential grammatical structures.  3.   Indicative Contents of the Training The topics covered throughout the advanced class should include the following topics but shouldn’t be limited to them: Reading/Speaking: Make and respond to statements related to information needed in the workplace  Ask questions in order to find out about a wide range of information related to the workplace   Use a wide range of professional words, phrases and sentences related to workplace routines   Contribute suitable words and phrases to pair, group and whole class exchanges   Organize talk at discourse level using appropriate connectors on a range of general and curricular topics  Keep interaction going in longer exchanges on a range of general and curricular topics?   Communicate meaning clearly at sentence and discourse level during pair, group and whole-class exchanges  Organize talk at discourse level using appropriate connectors on a range of general and curricular topics  Writing: Make statements which provide information on topics related to the workplace  Describe present and past actions on a wide range of general and business topics   Use business vocabulary for a wide range of general and curricular topics   Write formal and informal emails Write Letters Write memos Write professional curriculum Vitae Write reports Write action minutes Contribute a growing range of suitable words, phrases and sentences during short pair, group and whole-class exchanges  Take turns when speaking with others in a growing range of short, basic exchanges Relate very stories and events on a limited range of general and curricular topics  Grammar: Understand the active and passive in order to use them while writing reports Understand the past tenses in order to use them while writing emails Understand the difference between formal and informal language Understand the contractions in order to avoid using them in formal emails Understand the three conditional types in order to use them while writing reports Learn the different types of sentences 4.   Period and location of training delivery The training should be delivered to ERD staff over a period of 12 weeks consecutive from July to September 2016 The training should be delivered in the Livelihoods center in Deir Dalloum. 5.   Target audience and profile (age, literacy level) The target group will consist of all ERD staff working in the North.  6.   Pre- and post-training test requirements The contractor will be entrusted with developing pre- and post-test questionnaires through which the level of knowledge and skills of the beneficiaries vis-à-vis the English level will be rated. The pre-test and post-tests are the same questionnaire delivered before the training starts and after the last session. 7.   Arrangements Expected from Contractor The contractor is expected to ensure the following: -          Attend the entire contract period: The Training would run over 2 days of the week, with 2  hour per day, in the morning   The trainer would finalize the 1 class across a period of 12 weeks for a total of 48 hours. -          Provide samples of Training books/material for distribution 8.   Expected Deliverables -          An advanced English curriculum of the duration of 48 hours for the period of 12 weeks -          A facilitator’s guide, including: The training calendar with session titles; The Facilitator’s Guide organized by training sessions describing: Session topic Learning objectives, Duration of the session, List of key contents and talking points, Sequence of steps to deliver the session, Required materials The pre and post-training test questionnaires, to verify competences and learning -          Attendance sheets of each training day