TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR
HIRING OF INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT
FOR TRAINING ON WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP

Terms of Reference for Hiring of individual Consultant for Training on
Women in Leadership Role and have access to public services & economic empowerment

 

Introduction of Taraqee Foundation:

Taraqee Foundation, a national level NGO, registered with Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) under the Company’s Ordinance 1984 and engaged since 1994 in different development sectors of Balochistan i.e. Health, Education, Environment & Infrastructure, Livelihood and emergency response.

 

Background Information and Rationale:

Taraqee Foundation has engaged with PPAF in implementing a project on Institutional Development in UC Saddar Muslim Bagh of district Killa Saifullah from March 2015.  The project is mainly working with communities in five different areas i.e. Social Mobilization, Health, Education, Community Physical Infrastructure and Livelihood.  The first phase of the project was purely on community mobilization and involving community to form Community Organizations (COs), Village Organizations (VOs) and Local Support Organization (LSO).  Each CO will be formed by involving 15 – 25 household members and their office bearers will move further to form VOs and LSO.  The community institutions also finalized their Village Development and Union Council Development Plans to identify their needs and its solutions.

The second phase of the project was initiated by meeting the requirements of Village/UC Development Plan.  It was discovered that community institutions should be awared with several social aspects which will support in resolving many other social matters.  Currently the third phase of the project is going on and which is the extension of second phase.  One of the activities is designed for women community members to understand the involvement of women in leadership role so that they have access to public services & economic empowerment.  Taraqee Foundation is intended to impart this training women to members of COs, VOs and LSO especially office bearer as they are holding leadership role.  For the purpose, Taraqee Foundation would like to hire an individual consultant (female) to conduct this training at field level and support them in understanding the topic.

 

Specific Objectives:

1. To understand the leadership role of women in our society and discuss the life of inspirational women leaders in Pakistan.
2. To understand the concepts that without involvement of women as leaders, their issues cannot be considered and resolved.
3. To understand how women leaders can access and support public services including health, nutrition, education, and livelihood.
4. To understand the importance of women’s economic empowerment and how it will support society in development.

 

Scope of Work:

The consultant will impart the training to women community members who are holding leadership role in community institutions formed by Taraqee Foundation and meet the above-mentioned objectives.  Consultant will prepare a manual along with handouts for the same and must be in Urdu language.  The manual will be submitted to Taraqee Foundation before imparting the training that covers the areas identified in the objectives.  Consultant should impart training at VO level or in the field office of TF based in Muslim Bagh for which travel, food, and accommodation will be facilitated by TF. Rest of the logistics will be the responsibility of Taraqee Foundation including banner, certificates, stationery and photocopies.  At the end of training, consultant will be responsible to provide training report along with feedback of the participants and action plan for next 1 year.

Consultant should follow the simplest approach to impart the contents with frequent use of local language.  The methodology of the training would be participatory with use of plenary lecture, brainstorming, role play, story-telling and any other method seems suitable for better understanding.   All the contents should be delivered by giving daily life examples and demonstrate the same where required.  Medium of instructions for the training should be Pashto (Primarily) and Urdu (Secondarily).

 

Eligibility of a Consultant:

• Must have Degree in gender studies or relevant subject.
• Must have 5 years of experience with social sector.
• Must have 3 years of experience in conducting trainings.
• Must have 3 years of experience in imparting trainings on gender/women issues and development approaches through women.
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills.

 

Deliverables:

• Training Manual
• Training handouts in Urdu as per the manual.
• Day-wise schedule of trainings with contents and methodology.
• Training report for every separate session.

 

Contract Duration:

The assignment will be completed within 20 days after signing of agreement including report submission and other related documents.  Expected dates of training will be communicated later by TF.

 

Budget and Payment Schedule:

• Consultant will quote the budget in Pak Rupees.
• Agreed amount will be paid 50% at the time of initiation of training and 50% after completion of sessions and submission of manual, handouts and reports.
• Consultant will quote per day training cost in which preparation time for training, days spent in preparing manual cannot be charged.
• Consultant will charge manual only; travel, food and accommodation separately arranged by TF.

 

Selection Method for consultant:

Selection of consultant will be finalized after scrutiny based on following criteria:

1. Educational Qualification (20 Marks)
2. Total Working Experience (20 Marks)
3. Experience in conducting training sessions (20 Marks)
4. Experience in relevant subject (20 Marks)
5. Report Writing and Presentation Skills (20 Marks)

 

Interested individual consultants must send their CVs along with Cover Letter, and proposal for the activity highlighting the working experience session cost/budget on [email protected] by 4^th of August 2017 before CoB.