TERMS OF REFERENCE
RE-ADVERTISMENT DEVELOPMENT OF BEACON TEACHERS’ TRAINING MANUAL
ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ EDUCATION IN SOMALIA PROJECT
Title
Development of Beacon Teachers’ Training Manual and Tools for Silence Mentorship
Purpose
The purpose of the consultancy is to:
Locations
Mogadishu, Somalia
Duration
21 days
Start Date
TBC
Reporting to
Gender and Safeguarding Advisor
Background
Adolescents and youth between the ages of 15 and 29 comprise 23 percent of household members in Somalia, with a higher proportion of women among them. Despite substantial progress made during the past decade, access to education remains limited in Somalia, presenting a major barrier for adolescents’ and youth’s participation in the country’s economy. The gross primary enrolment is only 27 percent (29 percent for boys, 25 percent for girls). Most of today’s Somali youth has never attended school or have had limited access to education, with boys more likely to be attending school at all levels. Overall, 75 percent of the women ages 15-49 have never attended school, but this proportion is likely much higher among marginalized ethnic groups, minority clans, displaced pastoralists, and girls with disabilities. The proportion of women without formal education is also likely much higher in rural areas, reflecting limited service provision and barriers posed by affected adult girls. The baseline study for the AGES project, conducted in Banaadir, South West and Jubaland, showed that among young women ages 20-24, those who have a disability, belong to a pastoralist household, face food insecurity and/or live in an insecure location were less likely to ever have been enrolled in school.
Results from the Quarter 15 third party monitoring report and girls’ survey (May 2022) pointed out that 7% of teachers practice corporal punishment through caning, slapping, and beating while 10% of headteachers indicated that they also practice corporal punishment. In addition, 28% of students indicate they experienced physical punishment while 19% of respondents indicated that they witnessed abusive language/shouting.
The Overall Goal of the Project
The AGES project works with communities, private providers, MOEs, religious leaders to provide tailored, sustainable solutions to develop literacy, numeracy, and key life skills for more than 80,000 of the most marginalized girls in South Somalia between the ages of 15-25 who have never enrolled in school, have dropped out in grade 1, or only had access to short-term courses, without acquiring basic literacy and numeracy skills.
Project Outcomes
Project Intermediate Outcomes
Project Outputs
Target Group
The project targets 38,475 adolescent girls and young women ages 15-25 who have never enrolled in school, have dropped out in grade 1, or only had access to short-term courses, without acquiring basic literacy and numeracy skills. This age group has been selected due to the lack of opportunities for education and training for older adolescents and youth in South Somalia, which has a particular impact on young women, given the gender gap in access to education and the greater barriers faced by girls to attend school in comparison to boys. The project will prioritize adolescent girls and young women from the subgroups of the population most likely to be out of school as per AGES’ findings, including occupational minorities; individuals with disabilities; married and divorced girls; single mothers; minority language speakers; and displaced pastoralists. A large proportion of the older adolescent girls and young women targeted by the expanded activities is likely to be married or divorced and already engaged in some form of work.
Objectives of the TOR
Even though 93% of the learners are aware of the feedback, complaints, and response mechanism (FCRM), the project has noted that very few cases are reported through the system. Most of the cases reported are through quarterly surveys and focus group discussions with the girls, making it a challenge to follow up on cases and to provide timely support and guidance on referral services if needed. All the reported cases have yielded no results upon investigation as the girls have recanted their initial reports. The project seeks to find alternate ways of helping the girls to voice their concerns in a space in which they feel safe.
The objective of the consultancy is to develop a “beacon teachers’[1]” training manual on beacon mentorship and additional skills in “silent mentorship[2]” as an approach to empower the existing teachers in schools and to train selected trainers in the MoE and project staff. The main objective of a silent mentorship approach is to provide the beacon teachers with relevant skills needed for silent mentorship aimed at getting the girls to talk about and to confide in trusted adults about their fears. The aim of using the silent mentorship approach is to help girls feel close to at least one supportive adult at school. The consultant is expected to focus on areas such as gender, child protection and safeguarding, and positive discipline when developing the training manual and the silent mentorship tool.
Scope of Work
The consultant will be expected to undertake the following tasks:
Time Frame
The consultancy will be for a maximum of 21 days for the entire process effective from date of signing of the contract until sign-off by the department technical staff
Deliverables
Required/desired skills and qualifications
How to apply
Interested candidates should send the following documents to the email address to the email address som.consultant@care.org by 17th October, 2022.
How to apply
Interested candidates should send the following documents to the email address to the email address som.consultant@care.org by 17th October, 2022.