Digital Skills Training in Kakuma and Dadaab at World University Service of Canada

Purpose and Objective of the Digital Skills training

• The Digital Skills Training for Students is specifically designed for young refugees’ in Kenya’s refugee camps (Kakuma and Dadaab) under the complementary pathways program awaiting to join Canadian and US Higher Education Institutions. The training is aimed to equip students with essential basic and advanced digital skills necessary for their academic journey and to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) effectively into their learning.

Scope of work

The training will be delivered across a 3 month window starting January to March 2024 in both Kakuma and Dadaab camps concurrently.

• Conduct needs assessment: Assess the needs of the candidates and identify their entry levels for each cohort
• Curriculum development: Design a detailed basic and advanced digital skills fundamentals
• Content creating: Develop training materials and relevant learning materials
• Alignment with objectives: Ensure that the curriculum aligns with the main objectives
• Develop assessment tools: Ensure that the students are assessed at different levels of learning
• Develop evaluation tools to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum
• Review and revise the curriculum based on the recommendations from the stakeholders

Expected deliverables

The selected Consultant will have overall responsibility of working in collaboration with WUSC staff to ensure the above mentioned consultancy objectives are achieved and the quality of all deliverables.

The consultant is expected to deliver the following:

• Comprehensive tailor made digital literacy curriculum for 3 months
• Secure, conducive and convenient training venue for the students
• Enough learning resources
• Evaluation and assessment tools for assessing the curriculum and content effectiveness
• Conduct assessment and evaluation
• Participate in meetings

Training delivery/Location:

• The expected duration of delivery is 3 months with a minimum of 4 contact hours per week.
• The students are based in 3-4 different locations within both Kakuma and Dadaab Refugee Camp

Qualifications of Consultant(s)

• Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in computer/digital fundamentals
• Demonstrated ability to provide services in different areas in the camps (Kakuma and Dadaab)
• Demonstrated ability to provide tailor made curriculum to the candidates
• Ability to produce high quality work under tight and fluid timeframes.
• Demonstrated understanding of refugee context
• Ability to deliver with minimum supervision