Consultancy- Strengthening Social inclusion and mitigating GBV in Sports at International Rescue Committee

Project Objectives

The project’s overarching objective is to improve adolescents’ boys and girls mental wellbeing, social inclusion, and cohesion using sport-related platforms. Through interaction with parents, community leaders, and other duty bearers, coaching and other duty bearer training, and support for the youth in terms of psychosocial development and life skills, the project will increase the participation of adolescent girls, young women, and boys in sports activities. The goal of this activity of curriculum creation and training is help target groups understand the GBV risks in sports, how to mitigate, improve capacity and increase awareness of GBV prevention while also ensuring that AGYW and boys at risk of GBV continue to engage sports.

Objectives

To develop “Risk of GBV in Sports for AGYW and Boys” curriculum will guide project implementation and train ToTs (Adolescent girls’ young women and boys) targeted in the Project.

Scope of Work

In liaison with the Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE) Program Team, guidance from UNFPA and input from partners, the consultant will be required to:

• Undertake a desk review of Risk of GBV in Sports, Sport for Protection documents and GBV prevention and response documents to ensure that the curriculum is contributing to the overall goal
• Review the existing risks of GBV in Sports curriculums, including Sports for Protection curriculums and assess the relevance, and ability, and use the findings to develop a curriculum relevant to the AGYW and boys.
• Conduct consultations with relevant stakeholders and use the recommendations to enrich the curriculum.
• Engage the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development to input and later to adopt it for wider use.
• Produce a draft play-based curriculum and share it with relevant stakeholders for review and recommendation
• Pre-test the draft curriculum and use the feedback to improve the final curriculum.
• Appendix evaluation tools to enable facilitators to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum.
• Develop a final curriculum. The final version (with sign off) approved by the relevant stakeholders.
• Submit the approved curriculum to IRC  
• Train 30 ToTs using the developed and adopted curriculum

Deliverables / Outputs

• Inception report defining the approach, methodology, and tools that will be used to collect information from target groups
• Power point presentation of the summarized curriculum
• Develop a complete curriculum with sections divided into two: for ToTs and AGYW and ABYM Trainers.
• Submit a draft copy for review by the IRC and UNFPA
• Facilitate validation and training workshops in Kakuma with participants from the sport fraternity (coaches, youth engaged in sports, agency staff working with youth in sports and mental health and psychosocial support) on the curriculum developed to ensure that it is applicable for target groups in  Kakuma and Kalobeyei context.
• Present the complete curriculum to IRC and UNFPA with the layout ready for publishing.
• Printed 5 copies of curriculum for “Risk of GBV in Sport for AGYW and Boys”
• Complete training for 50 ToTs using training manual

Date and Duration of Consultancy

The consultancy period shall be for 25 days.

Qualifications

The ideal consultant should have: -

• A post-graduate degree in social sciences or another relevant field with training in the field of health, Gender, and development.
• Over 7 years’ experience conducting gender studies with evidence of publications or field reports on gender issues with experience in women and adolescents programming.
• Documented experience in developing life skills and protection curriculums.
• Experience in working with adolescents and youths and working collaboratively with government and other development partners.  
• Experience with use of sports and gaming activities to help model behavior of adolescent and youth, address gender issues and build social cohesion and inclusion
• Experience working with marginalized and special groups.
• Ability to communicate in English and Kiswahili and in local languages in Turkana or Garissa is an added advantage.

The successful candidate will be required to:

• Follow protection guidelines when engaging with all participants in the assessment.
• Adhere to organization policy of different partners that will be involved in the assessment.
• Adhere to human rights, Protection Principles, socio-ecological, systems strengthening and MHPSS approaches.
• Be guided by the spirit of collaboration, cooperation, partnerships, balance of power, meaningful engagement of marginalized voices and women, girls, young people, vulnerable, persons living with disability among others.