Gender & GBV Trainer

Expertise France is a French public agency under the tutelage of the French Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Economy and Finance with a strong inter- ministerial vocation. Expertise France offers project engineering and technical assistance by developing and implementing international cooperation actions worldwide. EF operates in various fields of development and institutional cooperation including safety and security reform, post-crisis/ stability, public health, human rights, strengthening of institutions and NGOs and governance. Carrying out large-scale, multi-stakeholder projects, EF can ensure the cooperation between individuals, teams and institutions with very different statuses, cultures and specialties. Besides, EF has acquired a sound experience in administrative and financial management of large-scale international projects and is accredited by the European Union for the management of delegated Community funds.

Context

Lebanon is now home to the largest number of Syrian refugees per capita relative to its total population, putting a severe strain on the country’s fragile infrastructures, economy, and security. The population of Lebanon was estimated at about 4.8 million (including almost half a million Palestinian refugees[1]) in 2013. Even though Lebanon has not signed the 1951 Refugee Convention, up to date it has taken in about a fourth of its own population. According to UNHCR, in September 2016 about 1,017,433 persons from Syria were registered as refugees in Lebanon.[2] In the Lebanon Crisis Response Plan 2017- 2020 (2018 update) (LCRP), the total number of people living in Lebanon is estimated at 5.9 million, with 3.3 million people in need. Among the Syrian refugee population in Lebanon, which today comprises over 1.5 million people.[3]

Background information on Qudra Specific Objective 3 ( www.qudra-programme.org )

’Qudra – Resilience for Syrian refugees, IDPs and host communities in response to the Syrian and Iraqi crises’ is a regional action financed by the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, the Madad’ Fund and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), seeking to strengthen the resilience of Syrian refugees, IDPs and host communities in response to the Syrian and Iraqi crises.  The programme launched in June 2016, is being jointly implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Expertise France (EF) and Spanish Agency for International Development (AECID) in programme partner countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and North Iraq.

In Lebanon, Expertise France ensures the consistency and the implementation of the Specific Objective 3 of Qudra. The project seeks to improve social stability between communities in Lebanon through a comprehensive and local approach of protection for children and adults. To do so, activities will revolve around four results: (i) support to Social Development Centers (SDCs) of the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA), (ii) Focus on child protection, (iii) protection activities and (iv) dissemination of information. Expertise France will work within the framework of the Strategic Plan for Child Protection and GBV in close partnership with Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA). The programme will be implemented in the SDCs of the MoSA and if needed in annexes that might be developed during the project’s lifespan. Expertise France will select local NGOs as partners to implement the activities; these NGOs will hire the necessary staff and implement the activities following a precise programme drafted with the MoSA.

Expertise France is looking for a Trainer on Gender and GBV Prevention and Response (at the Workplace) for EF staff

Description of the Tasks:

• Tailor the curriculum depending on the agency’s needs, following the recommendation identified by the assessment session
• Send the curriculum to EF Deputy Project Manager  for approval and comments if applicable
• Prepare the logistics for the training, including venue setting and arrangement, distribution of materials and list of stationary and equipment (if needed, to be shared with EF before the training)
• Develop and pre and post tests to assess the trainees knowledge and evaluate the learning effectiveness respectively
• Produce a final report to be submitted to EF at the end of the training, detailing the training outcomes, recommendations and comments
• Curriculum design / content to be delivered one week prior to start of training

The training must be delivered in English. The curriculum, training design, content and methodologies should be submitted to EF one week prior the training starting date

[1]              Source: UNRWA

[2]              http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/country.php?id=122

[3]              http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/region.php?id=90&country=122, last update, September 2016