Consultancy Services Drama Therapy Training Program - Islamic Relief Lebanon

Drama Therapy Training Program

Terms of Reference for Consultancy Services

“Training and Coaching”

Funded by

European Union

Implemented by

Islamic Relief – Lebanon

2018

1-Introduction

“Islamic Relief believes that all children have a right to personal dignity and protection from abuse and it recognizes the special responsibility and duty of care it bears to create a safe environment for children within the projects and programs it manages and supports. The interests of child safety and protection should be paramount to any other interest which might compromise it”.

In order to offer multidisciplinary protection and social stability activities for children from host community and Syrian refugees to fulfil their needs, IRL will provide youth resolve project in South area-Saida, inside a community based rehabilitated centre, and outreach activities as well. The intervention will be managed by IR team in cooperation with local NGOs, the local community, local consultants, shelters’ leaders and children parents.

IR seeks to contract local consultant (individual/firm) to train 100 youth who will be able to play effective local in their community.

2-Background

Drama therapy is the methodical use of written, verbal, and non-verbal means of expression derived from the practices of theatre for the purposes of psychotherapy, and/or PSS counselling support. A Drama Therapist/consultant works with beneficiaries to explore roles, create narrative, embody experience, and practice social interaction for insight, behavior change, and to promote the optimal healthy functioning of individuals’ wellbeing and social interaction.

Moreover, it is an active and experiential method that provides a context for participants to set goals and solve problems, express feelings or achieve catharsis-(acquire a positive role model and coping mechanism). Inner experience can be actively explored and interpersonal relationship skills can be enhanced. Participants may expand their repertoire of roles to find that the roles they play in life are stronger and more varied.

They are simple, cost-effective way of accomplishing a wide variety of psycho-educational goals, not just in theatre class. The drama games and exercises combine elements of creative drama, improvisation, pantomime, creative movement, and storytelling. They develop foundational skills needed in theatre arts that also have tremendous positive effects on literacy development, academic success, and social interaction. The games are easy to integrate with content from other school subjects or content areas. The drama game or theatre game is a versatile teaching/educative tool that reaches multiple learning styles, content areas, age groups, and levels of language and experience.

Drama education is a powerful teaching and learning tool with profound positive effects on a student’s cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development. The benefits of regular theatre arts instruction spill over into everyday life. Creative drama is sound pedagogy that reaches children/students of multiple intelligences and different learning styles. It is a multi-sensory mode of learning that engages mind, body, senses, and emotions to create personal connections to the material that improve comprehension and retention.

IRL experiences drama therapy as part of its PSS cycle of activities within all MH&PSS projects; and meanwhile IRL intends to integrate drama methodology in its social stability and livelihood project: “youth resolve” funded by EU as part of the training for youth over 10 months. The consultant will be working part time / 3 days per week including conducting the sessions followed by coaching sessions over 10 months depending on the work plan.

3-Objectives of the training:

Under the context of social stability and cohesion, IRL within “Youth Resolve project” intends to deliver full training package as part of capacity building targeting 100 youth. By using Drama context, Youth Resolve Project shall tackle the fragile inter-communal relations and social tensions between host community and refugees living in those communities, and seek to improve social stability.

In order to ensure that a strong training package is delivered to 100 youth to equip them in the knowledge of high quality regarding drama: consultant shall present materials to other in class or for a full-scale production, the participants must not only understand the material but also find a way to communicate it creatively and effectively to an audience. Therefore, knowledge is not enough; imagination, creativity, and communication are required.

These courses will be aimed at empowering a network of youth in Saida with the confidence and skills to take a central role in social stability and management initiatives in their communities.

3.1. Consultant main objective:

Train and coach 100 youth on drama therapy by using drama processes (games, improvisation, storytelling, role play) and products (puppets, masks, plays/performances) to help youth understand their thoughts and emotions better or to improve their behavior.

Deliver drama approach under the context of social stability and cohesion.

Delivering any required pedagogical support material (i.e.: training manuals, lesson plans, training material, etc.).

Developing training methodologies/techniques, this may include creative tools such as games, audio-visuals, group discussions, demonstrations, and practice sessions with feedback and role play, pending the target audience.

Ensuring or creating feedback loops that allow for suggests, modifications, or grievances related to the sessions or exercises in order to adapt to changes occurring in the work environment, based on the feedback from trainees and IRL.

Ensuring that all youth are trained adequately, and have a solid understanding of the training material. This will include administering a test for youth prior and after the training, to assess the training’s quality and relevance.

Developing pre-posttests, collecting pre-post data and submitting a final electronic report.

3.2 Responsibilities

The Consultant will advise on conflict context. He/she will conduct a specific needs assessment of psychosocial knowledge and experience for youth, provide advice on the strategic direction of the program, develop a psychosocial assessment system as pre and post evaluation for the youth, design a viable training program and provide capacity building to 100 youth after assessing their skills and verify their needs.

The Consultant will also conduct coaching sessions during the project to emphasize the practical implementation of all topics that has been taken in training.

3.2.1 Capacity building

The consultant will provide professional training to youth and based on identified training needs through pre-test questionnaire. He/she will also train them on how to use the new assessment forms and effectively utilize planning and implementation process.

3.2.2 Report and Formulation of Recommendations

The consultant will prepare monthly and final report in English. The report should contain collected assessment data, an analysis of the findings, the scope of the psychosocial impact and the consequences based on pre and post -test has been done for the trainees and the training activities.

Training outlines titles:

The trainer(s) will be committed to deliver the following training and the related materials (in Arabic) following the topics such as Drama games, Socio-drama, Puppets, Role play over 10 months.

5- Requirements:

Qualified candidates (individuals and firms) are invited to apply for this task. The candidate (individuals and firms) can apply for one or more of the mentioned training topics.

a. Academic Qualifications:

University degree in drama and theater, psychodrama, psychology, or other related fields.

b. Years of Experience:

A minimum of 3-5 years of relevant experience in local level capacity building skills.

c. Competencies:

- Excellent Facilitation skills

- Excellent training skills

- Excellent reporting skills

- Proven impartiality and cultural and human rights sensitivity. Ability to build strong relationships with local actors using inter-personal skills to network effectively

- Excellent analytical, negotiating, and communication skills

- Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and show flexibility

- Excellent command of Arabic language and good command of English. French is a plus

- Good knowledge of the impact of the Syrian crisis on Lebanese Host Communities.

6-Proposal Submission and Evaluation

The Technical Proposal shall clearly include, but not necessarily be limited to the following items:

Introduction (including the consultant’s understanding of the required assignment).

Qualifications and relevant experience of the consultant (attach CVs of proposed person/ team).

Proposed approach and methodology for conducting the assignment with preliminary time schedule submission and Evaluation of Technical Proposal.

1 Submission and Evaluation of Financial Proposal

Only the applicants, who receive 45 points or more in the technical score, will be considered in the evaluation of the financial proposals.

The financial proposal shall show all the direct costs related to the implementation of the assignment, while other operational costs such as transportation, communications, etc. can be implicitly included

6-2 Proposals evaluation

The evaluation of proposals and selection of the consultant will be made using the Quality and Cost Based Selection, with a total score calculated out of 100%, of which 70% is the weight of the Technical Proposal and 30% is the weight of Financial Proposal.

Only Technical Proposals will be opened on the submission date. Financial Proposals remain sealed until the technical evaluation is completed.

The consultant with the highest total score (sum of technical and financial scores) will be considered as the winner of the consultancy assignment and will be invited for contract negotiations and ultimately to sign the Contract in month of September.

The Technical and Financial Proposals of the successful bidder and negotiation minutes will become part of the Contract.
 

6-3 Proposal submission

Consultants shall submit Technical and Financial Proposals in a package containing two separate envelopes as follows.

The first envelope must be marked “TECHNICAL PROPOSAL” and shall contain one original hard copy of the technical proposal.

The second envelope must be marked “FINANCIAL PROPOSAL” and shall contain one original hard copy of the financial proposal.

All offers shall be signed and stamped by the consultant.

No financial information shall be contained in the Technical Proposal otherwise the offer will be cancelled and excluded from the evaluation process.

Consultants shall not be entitled to compensation related to costs of preparing the proposals.

Proposals shall be submitted before 20.09.2018  at the following address:
 

Islamic Relief, Lebanon logistic and procurement coordinator, Samer Ibrik.

EL Zarif - Tawfek Tabbara Street - Tawfeek Tabbara center 8th Flr| Saida – Lebanon

       Tel/fax:+961 1 748654 ext 17  |Mobile: +961 76 111438