CONSULTANT – Curriculum Development Expert for Nabadaynta Transformative Training

SCOPE OF WORK

November 25, 2024 – January 31, 2025

Position Title: Curriculum Development Consultant – Nabadaynta Transformative Training Program.

Background

The Nabadaynta Program is an initiative to strengthen security and access to justice in Somalia’s Southwest and Jubaland states. Due to decades of conflict and weak formal justice mechanisms, marginalized groups such as women, IDPs, PLWD, and traditionally marginalized clans face significant barriers in accessing fair justice. This program includes a transformative training to empower key justice and security actors to become agents of change, using a trauma-informed, reflective approach to address inequality, discrimination, and harmful social norms.

Nabadaynta Soomaaliya Programme

Since 2022, Equal Access International (EAI) has led a consortium to help Somalia rebuild its security and justice sectors as the social and behaviour change (SBC) prime partner under the Nabadaynta Soomaaliya program. The program is overseen by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). EAI works with partners BBC Media Action, Perspective Media, Wajir South Development Association (WASDA), Active in Development Aid (ADA) and Gargaar Relief Development Organization (GREDO) to support Somalis in achieving visible, practical change in its security and justice systems in both Juba land and Southwest State.

Given each of their long-term commitments to working closely with communities to build solutions in targeted areas, EAI and our partners have the support and trust of communities across Jubaland and Southwest State. Building on this trust, each is instrumental in coordinating the project’s social and behavior and norms change interventions in partnership with local media organizations as part of the Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) and Security & Justice components of Nabadaynta.

The aim of Nabadaynta is to improve how Somalis view and access services by identifying security and justice priorities through the Area Based Problem identification process. Through community-led discussions, this process pinpoints the top priorities by Somalis in violence-prone areas, where people are compelled to work together toward lasting solutions.

Consultant Responsibility - Scope of Work

EAI is seeking a consultant to design and develop a transformative, contextually appropriate, and trauma-informed training curriculum and materials that will empower justice and security actors to serve as change agents in their communities. The curriculum should promote critical reflection, address social and gender norms, and introduce concepts of trauma awareness, trust-building, and power dynamics in the Somali context.

This consultancy will be undertaken between November 25, 2024, and January 31, 2025. The consultant will work closely with the Nabadaynta Program's GESSI Lead, Technical Director and Somali Master Trainer to deliver the following outputs:

1.    Curriculum Design and Development

o    Develop an interactive, modular curriculum based on transformative learning strategies to explore the follow five key modules:

▪       Individual beliefs, social and gender norms

▪       Trauma awareness and trust building

▪       Power and privilege

▪       Leadership for justice and security

▪       Commitment to action

o    Integrate Somali context, trauma-informed principles, and Islamic-based perspectives on justice, inclusion, and equality into all training materials.

o    Ensure curriculum promotes reflective practices, positive deviance, and leadership development aligned with social cohesion and equity.

2.    Training Material Preparation

o    Prepare facilitator guides, participant workbooks, multimedia resources, and other necessary materials to support dynamic and engaging training sessions.

o    Adapt existing and provided training content to be inclusive and accessible to participants from both formal and informal justice sectors, including representatives from local security and justice structures.

o    Develop an Early Adopter training toolkit containing relevant basic facilitation skills to prepare a select group of participants to facilitate peer-led training sessions in subsequent cohorts.

3.    Capacitate Master Trainers

o    Prepare Nabadaynta Master Trainer team to pilot training materials with a sample cohort and to gather feedback. Use online simulation sessions to test materials and transformative approaches with the Master Trainers in preparation for delivery.

o    Following the training, suggest revisions based on pilot feedback, ensuring relevance and accessibility.

4.    Monitoring and Evaluation Plan

o    Design tools to assess participants’ engagement and transformation during and after training.

o    Suggest mentoring resources and tools for quarterly follow-up sessions, supporting participants' ongoing commitment to action.

Core Deliverables

Deliverable 1: Brief inception report detailing the training methodology, curriculum framework and modules, and timelines for review and feedback by EAI team. It should also reference where materials exist and sessions to be developed from scratch.

Deliverable 2: Curriculum and Training Materials including overview of the training to support Master Trainers understanding of each session in PowerPoint or Word format. Detailed facilitator guides and supporting documents. Early adopter toolkit with basic facilitation skills sessions.

Deliverable 3: Revised Curriculum and Final Training Materials based on feedback from pilot testing with the Master trainer and EAI team

Deliverable 4: Monitoring and evaluation tools to evaluate knowledge retention, behaviour change, and collect participant feedback from the training.

•       Advanced degree in education, psychology, social sciences, or a related field.

•       At least 10 years of experience designing and delivering transformative or reflective learning programs, with a strong background in trauma-informed approaches, social norms, and power dynamics in conflict affected contexts.

•       Demonstrated expertise in gender, social norms, power dynamics, and trauma-informed approaches.

•       Demonstrated ability to design training materials which facilitate sensitive discussions through a do-no harm approach on gender, power, trauma, and which promote social change.

•       Familiarity with Islamic cultural and religious contexts

•       Familiarity working with or designing training curriculums for security and justice actors, government officials and senior leaders is a plus.

•       Fluency in written and spoken English

Duration and Reporting

The assignment is expected to take place from 25th November 2024 until 31st January 2025. The consultant will report to the Technical Director and working closely with the GESSI Lead. For the first phase of the training the expert will be required to develop training materials and evaluation tools, develop master trainer's toolkit, capacitate master trainers on the tools. Following the first training in December, the consultant will be required to support revisions to the curriculum based on findings from the initial training in Baidoa and develop mentorship resources and tools.

Interested and qualified persons are requested to send their statement of interest and Curriculum Vitae to [email protected] with the consultancy title as the subject. Deadline for application is 24th November 2024. Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.