Call for Trainers - LYLOT 4 Training: From Ideas to Legislation

Training Tasks

The proposed training, scheduled for 23-24th of February, will be the seventh one given to the class of 2019. The theme of the training will be “From Ideas to Legislation” with a focus on advocacy and campaigning. Interested applicants must provide a comprehensive draft of their vision for the training session, compete with proposed exercises and training objectives.

Successful applicants are expected to accomplish the below tasks in the build-up and during the training. Please note that the below list is not exhaustive.

• Briefly, revisit themes related to advocacy and campaigning: why and how? The notion of critical mass, etc.
• Develop and rollout a training agenda and methodology covering the following topics: How can one get a feel of pressing and longterm needs, formulate relevant and adequate ideas and develop clear objectives to develop and/or propose legislative texts? How can these ideas be used in campaigning and to advocate for inclusive legislation? What is inclusive legislation and how do we get to it? What does the legislative process entail? How can the civil society push for new legislation through advocacy and campaigning?
• Provide trainees with handson material during training session, including exercise booklets and reading material.
• Provide clear, pertinent, and relatable examples of successful advocacy campaigns, at the local and  international level.
• Present participants with a bird’seye view on the legislative process, including blockage points.
• Divide participants into groups, allowing them to propose issues from contemporary Lebanon, and to develop a legislation/legislative framework about them, while also explaining how said framework would resolve the main issue.
• Provide participants with a walkthrough on SWOT analysis techniques, with a focus on policy ideas and legislation.
• Divide participants into subgroups, depending on skill and political background, in preparation of a SWOT analysis of the group.
• Provide participants with examples of campaigns that led to the passing of legislation. Allow participants to carry out a SWOT analysis engroup of the above, and then discuss it.
• Monitor and moderate presentation of result of aboveindicated exercise.
• Based on the previously indicated case studies and examples, guide groups of trainees through a legislation design exercise.
• Monitor and moderate presentation of result of exercise, and foster an atmosphere of positive exchange.
• Monitor and moderate session on cooperation and synergies between different actors in politics, with an emphasis on differences in working through political parties, nonprofits and civil society initiatives.
• Develop indicators related to the training session.
• Provide the program manager with three qualitative assessment questions for the participants, to gauge the effects of the training, as a postassessment tool. 

Compensation

• Successful trainers will be provided with 500 USD a day in compensation, paid via check in Lebanese Pounds, and according to the monthly conversion rate for February 2019.
• FESLebanon fully covers the overnight stay of trainers in the hotel in which the training is held.

Trainer Specifications

• Commensurate experience in designing and delivering trainings, preferably for audiences aged 2030, within a political or development context.
• Excellent communication skills, in both English and Arabic.