Deadline: 28-May-22
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is calling for applications for Potential Financial Education Trainers to improve the livelihoods of host communities and refugees, including through enterprise development and Financial Education.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) is part of a Partnership on Inclusive Jobs and Education for Host Communities, Refugees and other Forcibly Displaced Persons, known as PROSPECTS. The Partnership is a multi-year programme, funded by the Government of the Netherlands, that brings together five agencies (ILO, World Bank, IFC, UNICEF, UNHCR) to motto collaborative and innovative approaches for inclusive job creation and education in contexts characterized by forced displacement.
The program encompasses three pillars, namely Education, Jobs, and Protection and operates in eight countries across East Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East employing an area-based approach, in which the partner agencies jointly focus their activities on selected regions in each country.
Uganda, the partner agencies have selected Arua, Madi-Okollo, Terego and Isingiro districts to focus local economic development interventions. Under the partnership, the ILO, together with IFC and World Bank.
Training of Trainers in Financial Education
- To facilitate Financial Education, the ILO has developed a training curriculum that will be used to extend financial education to refugees, host communities and other Forcibly Displaced Persons (FDPs). The implementation modality of the ILO Financial Education Program is based on a multiplication scheme through Trainings of Trainers (ToTs), followed by Trainings of Beneficiaries (ToBs).
- The ToT participants will have the possibility of becoming ILO certified national trainers through the fulfillment of a series of criteria, including the roll out of at least 3 full cycles of trainings with target beneficiaries.
Trainers’ profile
- Proven experience as an adult trainer and/or facilitator of participatory activities with the target audience.
- Have close ties and/or experience with the target audience (refugees and host communities).
- Knowledge of financial education and/or knowledge of the Ugandan financial system.
- Knowledge and experiences of forced displacement settings.
- Commitment and availability to replicate the training to final beneficiaries in an autonomous way in 2022, 2023 and beyond.
- The following aspects will also be assessed:
- Experience in organizing training events and/or institutional support to do so.
- Experience in managing groups and good communication skills
- Experience with other ILO training tools (Making Microfinance Work, SIYB, GET AHEAD, MyCOOP or others ) .
For more information, visit https://www.ilo.org/global/programmes-and-projects/prospects/countries/uganda/WCMS_844643/lang–en/index.htm?shared_from=shr-tls
