Consultancy- Strengthening Social inclusion and mitigating GBV in Sports

Job Description

GBV in Sport Project****Title

The title of the project is: “Risk of GBV through Sport for Adolescent Girls & Young Women (AGYW) and Boys.”

Overview

Sports encourage fair play, and integrity but can still be grounds for abuse due to its competitive nature. Due to gender inequalities and abuse of power, gender-based violence still happens in sport. Gender-based violence has been reported between athletes who are grouped together, between coaches and their athletes, and between athletes and other members of the sports community (such as managers, referees, medics, and physiotherapists).

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.

Target Group

This project directly targets 13,000 adolescent girls and young women (15-24 years) in the Kakuma Refugee Camp (5,000) and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement (3,000) and the host community (5,000). The project will also target 11,000 adolescent boys and male youth in the Kakuma Refugee Camp (3,000) and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement (3,000) and the host community (5,000). Majority of the refugee beneficiaries are of South Sudanese descent while those in the host community are mostly from the Turkana ethnic community. The manual will be used to train coaches, peer leaders, parents targeted by the project in Kakuma.

Risks of GBV in Sports for AGYW and Boys manual development Consultancy

IRC is looking for a consultant to develop a “Risk of GBV in Sports for AGYW and Boys” curriculum that will include identified risks of GBV in sports amongst AGYW and boys, mitigation measures, strategies to prevent GBV in sports, how to identify avenues for abuse and how to respond to GBV in sports. The curriculum should incorporate context specific games as part of the curriculum. The Consultant will also train identified facilitators using the developed manual.

Rationale

The “Risk of GBV in Sports for AGYW and Boys” curriculum will standardize training in humanitarian sites. It should be adapted to serve refugees and host communities and should contribute towards GBV prevention activities and fostering protection in the communities. The manual developed should be in sync with Sport for Protection Toolkit guide, other national approved adolescents’ GBV prevention and mitigation in sports curriculums developed under the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development and global adolescents’ protection in sports manuals. Besides, the manual should enable AGYW and boys to participate in sports, identify the risks, know how to prevent, respond and train other in their communities.

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.

Note that: The Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

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.

The IRC Role:

- The IRC will fully engage the project lead consultant. - The IRC will facilitate transport for the consultant to and from Kakuma. - The IRC will pay for his/her including accommodation and logistics during the stay. - The IRC will support with logistics in Kakuma including office space and movements in the camps. - The IRC will facilitate taxi pick up and dropping to and from the Airport at a ceiling of 8000. - Facilitate consultant flight charges to and from Nairobi or Eldoret.

Application

Interested applicants should submit their CVs and technical and financial proposal to the IRC careers cornerstone portal not later than 7 DAYS starting from the announcement date.

Consultants who meet the qualification above must submit the following documents:

- Statement including a CV with experience details. - Technical proposal summarizing understanding of ToR, methodology and tools to be used. - Workplan - Financial proposal providing cost estimates. - Contact details of three organizations/ previous clients. - All the required legal documents including VAT registration certificate.

Terms of Payment:

The IRC will pay the project lead consultant full consultancy fee in Kenya shillings less 5% withholding tax.

Payment will be done based on the delivery of the Key deliverables of the consultancy.

- 50% of the fees will be paid upon submission of a draft copy manual, - 50% printing the agreed validated copy.

Standards of Professional Conduct: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability and Equality. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowance.

Kenyan nationals are encouraged to apply. International allowances are not available for this position. Salary and employee benefits are compliant to the Kenyan NGO Sector.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Disclaimer:

Please take note that International Rescue Committee (IRC) does not ask for any fees in connection with its recruitment processes.