National Consultant to Conduct Training on Participatory Rural Assessment Tools (PRA) and Counselling Skills

Terms of Reference (TOR)

Vietnam National Consultant to conduct a training on

Participatory Rural Assessment tools (PRA) and Counselling skills

for Nghi Son Refinery Petrochemical Company staff

to conduct successful household visits

towards livelihood assessment and development

 

  1. Introduction

 

Pact is an international non-religious, non-political non-governmental organization with headquarters in Washington D.C, United States. Pact is currently working in 25 countries, implementing more than 100 programs. Through trainings, technical assistance, mentoring and direct financial support, Pact strengthens local organizational and institutional capacity to further development goals in health, livelihoods, natural resource management, and other sectors.

 

Pact is implementing Livelihood Extension Service project (LES) in Tinh Gia district, Thanh Hoa province. LES is supporting the resettlement households (HHs) that have been relocated away from their traditional livelihoods of agriculture and shore-based gathering activity. LES will contribute to the achievement of restoring livelihoods of resettlement affected HHs, which is in line with the International Financial Corporation’s Performance Standard 5: Livelihoods and standard of living must be restored to the same or better than prior to resettlement.

 

After 1 year of implementation, LES has visited:  

  • 1,518 HHs to collect information on HH’s livelihood situation

  • 614 members of HHs who have needs in livelihood activities to connect them to other relevant projects in the local areas

  • 500 HHs to facilitate their sell-development and implementation of household development plans (HDP). The HDPs set objectives for livelihood restoration and create an action plan for the HHs to achieve these objectives

 

To reach these achievements, LES project staff used PRA tools (socio gram, Venn diagram, etc.) and Visitation form developed by LES to collect data from HHs; PRA tools for planning and analysis (SWOT, vision journey, Gantt chart, etc.),  LES also applied case management approach in which field project staff act as case workers to manage real household-based cases in working with PAP households .

 

Pact is implementing a 3-month extension of LES, from June 1 through August 31, 2017 to continue supporting affected HHs and then handover LES to NSRP. In order to strengthen capacity of NSRP staff to perform the whole livelihood restoration process with PAP HHs, a five-day training will be conducted to assigned NSRP staff focusing on the following:

  • Case management approach including knowledge and skills on counselling and communication with beneficiaries and managing cases to be in charge during a project lifetime

  • PRA tools to support data collection for Visitation form and development of HDP

 

  1. Scope of work

The consultant will:

  • Meet with Pact to discuss and understand the project and assignment.

  • Conduct desk review of current project’s documents in order to propose contents and methodology delivered during the assignment for approval in advance. The training should be on both theory (40%) and practice (60%).

  • Prepare training materials, including theory of case management approach and PRA tools

  • Conduct 5-day training with approved training curricula.

  • Develop a training report.

The consultant will report to Pact Livelihoods Program Manager.

 

  1. Deliverables

  1. Training agenda, curricula and materials

  2. Five-day training to be conducted in Thanh Hoa Province

  3. A report after the training.

 

  1. Schedule

Timeframe: From July 10 to July 14, 2017

Consultant will be required to deliver a draft of each key document, then a set of final products for approval based on a timeline mutually agreed upon between Pact and the consultant.

 

No

Activities

Tentative number of days and timeframe

1

Meet with Pact to discuss and understand the project and assignment and conduct desk review of current project’s documents

 

0.5 day

 

2

Develop a need assessment survey to assess current level/knowledge of NSRP staff and analyze results to identify the training needs.

0.5 day

3

Design and prepare training agenda, materials and curricula based on identified needs (for both the draft and final set of docs).

1.5 days

 

4

Conduct the training

5 days

5

Develop a training report

 

0.5 day

 

 

Total

8 days

 

  1. Qualifications and Experience

  • Relevant academic qualifications and advanced studies preferably in social science, psychology and/or other relevant fields

  • Proven relevant experience in developing and conducting similar training and counselling to similar targeted groups, particularly affected people by resettlement projects

  • Proven skills in facilitation and counseling

  • Familiar with DFID sustainable livelihood development framework

  • Good linguistic skills (both English and Vietnamese) in reading and writing

  • Ability to meet deadlines with good quality

  • Being culturally and socially sensitive.

 

  1. How to apply

Interested parties are required to send their CV, technical proposal (in Vietnamese is acceptable) and proposed budget to Pact Vietnam at Suite 501- 502 B1 building, Van Phuc diplomatic compound, 298 Kim Ma, Ba Dinh, Ha Noi, or to [email protected].

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the position will remain open until filled. Early-submitted applications by July 2, 2017 will be prioritized. Please do not make phone calls.  

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

 

 

Job Details
Organisation Name: 
Pact
Application Deadline: 
Sun, 2017-07-02