Save the Children Consultancy for Gender Sensitivity and mainstreaming Training for Save the Children’s Partners and Staff

Terms of Reference (TOR) for Consultancy for Gender Sensitivity and Mainstreaming Training for Save the Children’s Partners and Staff 

Background
 

Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since 1984, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners. 

Current programming focuses on child protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV and AIDS, livelihoods, nutrition and WASH. 

Save the Children has an operational presence in Dadaab Refugee Camp, Eldoret, Habaswein, Mandera, Meru and Wajir and has a logistics hub in Garissa. Currently, we have a staff complement of approximately 370 staff and expenditure of approximately US$30 million.
 

With funding from CIDA and in partnership with four national organizations, Save the Children is currently implementing a five year project named Children Lead the Way (CLW). 

This participatory child-focused programme focuses on working girls and boys, and children affected by HIV and AIDS with a view of securing their rights to survival, protection, education, health and participation. 

The project takes a stand in favour of working children and realizes that children above the minimum age of employment (16 years in Kenya) who must work for their survival should access decent work in terms of wages, working hours, and working conditions.
 

At the same time, the project advocates strongly for the elimination of all Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) in Kenya.
 

Gender is a cross cutting issue in the project and it has necessitated capacity building for the implementing partners in gender sensitivity and mainstreaming in order to achieve the desired project result. 

Save the children therefore seeks consultancy services for this training for project partners and staff.
 

Training Objectives
 

The training will bring together Children Lead the Way (CLW) project team with the following key objectives:

• Building foundational understanding of key gender concepts & gender within Save the Children
• Building understanding of gender in the Kenyan context
• Exploring how gender can and should be built into the various stages of the project cycle
• Mapping vital gender considerations within the program, and identifying solutions/strategies for gender sensitive work
• Building capacities for applying gender analysis and utilizing gender sensitive tools for engaging children and youth (i.e. Gender Maps Toolkit)

 Specific tasks for the Assignment
 

The Consultant will be responsible for the following activities:

• Reviewing key CLW documents and any relevant literature related to gender
• Together with the key Save the Children team, design a gender workshop
• Developing training materials. Training materials include PowerPoint presentation, discussion questions/exercises, and virtual modules (as needed).
• Actual facilitation and skills delivery
• Documentation and reporting –both in hard and soft copies for all training materials

Responsibility of Save the Children

• Develop the TOR and draw the contract for consultancy services for the training
• Provide necessary project background materials
• Provide technical and logistical support to the consultant during the training/workshop period
• Mobilize and schedule teams and the key programme staff to participate in the training
• Review and provide comments to the workshop design, training materials/documents and workshop report
• Cover the costs of the consultant as per the contractual agreement

Duration of the Assignment
 

The task right from the documents review all through to the actual training will take not more than six days
 

Consultant’s Skills and Experience

• A Master’s degree in Gender and Development. If a Master’s degree is missing, at least 8 years of relevant work experience in programming , institutional development & capacity building in the area of gender and development.
• Knowledge of child rights, child protection and labour issues
• Demonstrated facilitation/training skills
• Demonstrated strong oral and written communication ability;

The Consultant must abide by the Save the Children Child safeguarding protocol, which is a statement of Save the Children’s commitment to preventing abuse and protecting children with whom it comes into contact. This extends not only to children with whom and its partners work directly, but also includes children whom staff is responsible for. Save the Children believes that the situation of children must be improved through the promotion of their rights as set out in the United Nations

Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This includes the right to freedom from abuse and exploitation.
 

Application Procedure
 

Interested candidates are requested to apply with the following to email:
Kenya.jobapplications@savethechildren.org
 

Included with the application should be your:

• Curriculum Vitae
• Calendar and work plan based on the specific tasks for the assignment above
• Expected daily rate
• A brief account of relevant past work

Incomplete applications or applications received after the closing date (17th January 2013) will not be given consideration.
 

Please note that only applicants who are short-listed will be contacted.