Trainer Of Trainers/ Advocacy And Peacebuilding

Purpose of the Consultancy to provide training for 30 trainers/ master facilitators on advocacy and peace building. These master facilitators will be responsible for cascading the core and specialised training to a wider cohort of 400 community builders.     Background Overall Project Brief The aim of Aswat Faeela (Active Voices) is to develop the role of young Syrian social leaders as positive agents of change through practical action both inside Syria, as well as in countries affected by the Syrian Crisis and to give them a voice in national and international discourse about peace-building as an anti-dote to the dominant narrative around the impact of conflict. The project adopts a two-fold approach: firstly to support emerging social leaders to work within their communities to contribute to positive social actions that benefit Syrians and host communities; and secondly, to better equip social leaders and diaspora to advocate and influence decision makers and opinion formers on common themes relating to the experiences of the social leaders at the national and international levels. Project Objectives The overall objective is to develop the role of young Syrian social leaders as positive agents of change in order to contribute to social actions that benefit Syrian communities in the short-term and in preparation for the longer term transition to a peaceful and democratic Syria at the local and international levels. The specific objectives are to: SO 1- Build the capacity of young Syrian Social leaders to collaborate with the local community to contribute to positive social actions that benefit Syrian and host communities in the short-term and in preparation for the longer term transition in Syria. SO 2- Better equip Syrian social leaders and diaspora to advocate and influence opinion formers and decision makers at the community, national, and international levels.   Project Components The project has four components: Core Learning Journey for master facilitators cascaded to community builders based on principles of peace building and active citizenship Tailored thematic further learning on the themes of Peace building and Reconciliation, Social Cohesion, Economic Recovery, and Inclusion and vulnerable groups Community Actions through seed financed pilot actions and scaling up where possible in participating communities Advocacy and Communications through networking and a range of interventions targeted at policy makers and diaspora at a national and international (European) level.   Consultancy tasks In collaboration with International Alert advisors and using existing material as well as content developed specifically for the project, develop a training curriculum on advocacy and peace building, which covers advocacy at the local, national and international levels. The training should also include modules on gender and conflict sensitivity.   Travel to Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan and conduct training on advocacy and peace building for 30 Master Facilitators/Trainers. Each training is expected to last approximately 5 days each.  The training will be conducted jointly and in collaboration with the Alert Advocacy Officer, Projects Managers and Conflict Advisors.   Develop evaluation questionnaires, administer, compile the data, analyse the findings and write draft an evaluation report at the end of the training.   Assist in the planning of follow up work and next steps    Supervision of the work International Alert’s Syria Projects Manager will act as primary points of contact and supervise the delivery of the work.   Essential skills, technical background and experience required Professional proficiency in Arabic and English Extensive experience of collaboratively designing multi-topic training modules on the issues of advocacy and peace building Experience of training trainers on conflict sensitivity and gender Extensive experience in delivery multi-day training courses for a wide variety of audiences, particularly groups who will have the responsibility of training others Excellent communication and presentation skills Excellent knowledge and experience of peace building issues in the MENA region and in particular related to the Syria crisis Understanding learning and specifically adult learning methodologies; Excellent facilitation skills Excellent  training skills Able to facilitate learning process