Request for Proposal For Capacity building for local actors

Request for Proposal

 For Capacity building for local actors

RFP/LBN/NOL/21/004

FOR

DANISH REFUGEE COUNCIL (LEBANON)

              In 2020, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) partnered with three civil society organizations in the North of Lebanon: Al Midan, Al Ribat and Leb Relief, to build their capacities on Empowering civil society actors to strengthen the protective environment for girls and boys through sustainable and integrated child protection interventions. The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) proposed a 12-month child protection (CP) intervention in the most vulnerable areas of North Lebanon and Bekaa governorates, encompassing a package of CP prevention and response services, with the parallel aim of strengthening localization, inclusion and multi-sectoral integration. Building upon its long-standing presence in the North of Lebanon and the Bekaa, DRC will seek to respond to the prevailing CP concerns that continue to undermine the rights and wellbeing of Syrian and other refugee as well as Lebanese host community, to ensure effective project delivery, different implementation modalities are proposed in each of the targeted areas. The proposed project will expand upon DRC’s successful partnership with three civil society organizations (CSO) in the North, in which DRC comprehensively built their technical and organizational capacities in partnership with UNICEF to initiate and sustain specialized CP programming

• DRC will hire a training agency or trainers / service providers to provide a series of training modules to personnel working in the Protection humanitarian field aiming to build their personal and interpersonal skills to implement better the activities and the project.
• Training dates are: July 28, 29 and 30.)

Objectives:

DRC is seeking to hire a highly qualified training agency who will be handling a boot camp for DRCs partners.

Main deliverables are as follows:

Module 1: Project management: (6 hours excluding breaks)

(including but not limited to: SMART goals, Time management, Risk management, planning skills…)

A project management training will equip staff with strong planning abilities, including the capacity to set clear goals and realistic objectives, along with a schedule with specific stages to achieve the project goals, budgeting, time frames, and resource estimates, leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified time and achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints.

Module 2: Communication skills: (6 hours excluding breaks)

(Including but not limited to: Body language, facilitation skills, empathetic listening, negotiation and influencing skills, conflict resolution and emotional intelligence…)

This training will help staff improve their interpersonal skills (both speaking and listening skills), be more interactive and empathetic to the emotions and opinions of others. It will also teach staff how to control their emotions and consider the needs of others, which will reflect in their work in the field when conducting and facilitating protection activities with the beneficiaries or stakeholders, as well as enhancing their skills to improve internal communication strategies between supervisees and supervisor, and vice versa.

In this training course we would also like to include emotional intelligence and social skills that affect the quality of work in the field.

Module 3: Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving (6 hours excluding breaks)

Successful organizations rely on critical thinking and creative thought leaders who can generate inventive problem-solving answers to the organization’s issues. The objective of this module is to grant the staff the knowledge and skills needed to leverage left- and right-brain thinking, to analyze problems, spur creativity, implement innovative ideas in a practical way, make better decisions by selecting the best decision given the specific situation and develop their personal creativity and transform it into practical solutions.

Module 4: workplace self-care Meditation/Mindfulness/Self-care (3 hours excluding breaks)

Staff are on a daily contact with the most vulnerable people in marginalized areas and are the front-liners absorbing the stress coming from the field, therefore, learning some Self-care techniques will prevent burnout, allow them to have healthy relationships and respond to stress appropriately, leading to higher levels of productivity and higher employee engagement throughout the project.

This will be followed by a team building exercise, and lastly some mindfulness/meditation/relaxation exercises.

The training will start each day at 8:30 AM and finishes at 5:30 PM (breaks included)

The maximum number participants is 20.

RFP Issuing date: 13/07/2021

RFP Closure Date: 22/07/2021 at 10:00 (Beirut Time)