Deadline: 16-Nov-20
UNDP has announced the project “Supporting the Western Balkan’s collective leadership on reconciliation: building capacity and momentum for the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO)”. UNDP is implementing an activity that seeks to train and mentor young activists on leadership, peacebuilding, advocacy and conflict-sensitive research, to empower youth to be actors of change in the region and to provide structured opportunities for networking across conflict divides.
As part of the project’s outputs, Output 4 seeks to create opportunities for youth from diverse backgrounds to identify common peace and security priorities and enter in constructive dialogue with their peers across divides, enhance confidence in and dialogue with decision-makers, and strengthen youth capacities to become actors for change. The implementation of this output is guided by UNDP who will closely coordinate inputs across the activities from a task force, consisting of representatives of UN, RYCO and other stakeholders.
Objectives
The objective of the assignment is to design and conduct online training and mentoring sessions on the use of behavioral insights for community-level peacebuilding and advocacy for the group of 23 young activists from the Western Balkans. The young participants will have prepared initial ideas for their potential small-scale initiatives on community-level peace and reconciliation and grouped into small groups of 2-4 people.
Specific objectives include:
- Developing the understanding of the participants on the use of behavioural insight concepts and experimentation approaches and their application to the fields of peacebuilding and advocacy;
- Zooming in on community-level peacebuilding: processes for advancing conflict transformation and peacebuilding at the community level (such as dialogue, mediation), behavioural and attitudinal aspects and cognitive bias hampering conflict resolution;
- Developing participants’ skills on successful advocacy from a behavioural economics standpoint, helping participants understand how to deliver a message to peers or interact with decision-makers and policymakers;
- Supporting participants’ capacity and skills to construct small-scale peace/reconciliation initiatives using behavioral insights, and to build credible and applicable proposals for the UN grant.
Expected Outputs
Under the supervision of UNDP, the Contractor will:
- Design a work plan for 6 online trainings sessions of 120 minutes each, to fulfil the above-mentioned objectives and adapted to young civic actors. This will include getting familiar with the project goals and the initial ideas that the youth groups have prepared, as well as a method for ascertaining the youth group’s prior knowledge and experience as well as interests to inform the design of the sessions. The sessions must consider both the limitations and opportunities that the online modality will create, employ interactive, engaging methods and follow a logical structure allowing for each session to build up to the next one (tentative timeline by the end of December 2020);
- Draft training materials according to the chosen methodology in coordination with UNDP, to reflect the profile of the youth group and their interests, submit to UNDP for approval, and conduct 6 training sessions to the youth participants, all to be held online and based on the adopted methodology and training schedule (tentative timeline by the end of January 2021);
- Deliver three 1-hour long online mentoring sessions for each small group on the development of the small initiatives and proposals and accompany them in the process of submitting these for the UN grant (tentative timeline by mid-February 2021);
- Participate in the formulation of the grant terms and in the evaluation panel for the proposals of the above-mentioned small initiatives, conduct an evaluation of the online training and mentoring and deliver a final report on the overall success of activities and lessons learned (tentative timeline by mid-March 2021).
Criteria
The eligible contractor must fulfil the following general criteria:
- The service provider should be officially registered (commercial, non-profit, non-governmental, educational establishment);
- At least five years of proven experience in conducting training courses on behavioural insights in the field of policy and project cycle is required;
- Availability of human resources to ensure high-quality and timely completion of the assignment required;
- Availability of own technical resources for preparing the necessary material for the courses and conducting them online is required;
- Experience in conducting training for young people or on peacebuilding is an asset;
- Previous work in the Western Balkan context is an asset;
- Experience working with international organizations and donor agencies is an asset.
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