Terms of Reference
Developing interactive, innovative Human-Centered Design Learning Methodologies and Resources
World Vision Somalia
SomReP Program- Somali Response Innovation Lab
Background
Since 2013, the Somali Resilience Program (SomReP) has been working with communities to develop and package interventions geared to build community resilience to the cyclic shocks that face Somalia. SomReP has worked to harness best practices from partner agencies and invested in research to identify intervention approaches that when combined deliver the most impact for communities residing in rural and peri-urban locations and constantly face significant losses as a result of the climatic shocks.
Over the last 2 years, SomReP through SomRIL has been implementing a BHA project: Community- Led Capacity Strengthening for Fragile Contexts (C4FC). The goal of the project is to improve self-reliance and sustainability for local organizations on the front lines of providing humanitarian assistance in Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan through organizational capacity strengthening. The project is being implemented by World Vision (WV) and its consortium members CARE International-Somalia and Sadar Institute (formerly Somalia Disaster Relief International–SDRI) who will improve the self-reliance and sustainability for 31 Local Non-government organizations (LNGOs) in the 3 countries.
SomReP/RIL and its consortium members as part of C4FC has worked to expand and promote an ecosystem for peer-to-peer learning, scaling, and adaptive management to strengthen the organizational systems of 31 LNGOs across Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan. The C4FC is supporting established humanitarian architectures in Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan and provides innovative approaches to strengthen the capacity of local organizations who are on the front-lines of responding to humanitarian disasters. Building on a base of the CDR curriculum and its fictionalized case studies from the country of Atlas and village of Treeville, along with the accompanying games and simulations, there is an opportunity to use Human Centered Design (HCD) principles to engage front-line actors in deeper reflection on their practices. The HCD course will also build on the work of the RIL and its work in challenge mapping.
Traditionally training materials available for humanitarian and development actors use didactic methods that lack opportunities for deep engagement with training content and opportunities to learn by doing. Content is too often generic, lacking contextualization for diverse and particularly fragile contexts. There exists an opportunity to address some of these gaps by expanding on the work begun by Somali Response Innovation Lab’s (SomRIL) in partnership with Somalia Resilience Programme ( SomReP) related to Community-Driven Resilience (CDR) which is part of the Community-led Capacity Strengthening for Fragile Contexts (C4FC) project in partnership with USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). As part of the C4FC, the CDR curriculum was co-designed and field tested with local academia, government partners and humanitarian clusters within Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan. This new added element of the curricula design can provide specific skills for front line staff in human centered design (HCD) while enhancing the existing modules. A specific opportunity exists to:
1. Create a HCD module with virtual and multimedia reusable components; and
2. Work with C4FC partners to pilot the HCD content and make modifications
The HCD module can employ value for money principles by utilizing the Reusable Learning Objects 1 (RLO) or Shared Content Objects (SCO)s that can be:
1) Utilized across an infinite number of courses, modules, trainings and digital content
2) Expanded or built upon by learning designers, and local practitioners globally with new knowledge shared back to SomRIL.
Scope of Work
Goal: To utilize interactive, and innovative learning methodologies to create an HCD course that complements existing CDR curriculum. In particular, we will design such methodologies such as simulations, interactive board games, humanitarian response content for the HCD module.
The objectives are to:
Key Deliverables
Evaluation Criteria
Mandatory Requirements
Technical Evaluation
Applicants need to clearly articulate on the following, but not limited to: –
Financial Evaluation
Interested individuals and firms should submit their proposal accompanied with a cover letter, in English by email to somo_supplychain@wvi.orgon or before 7th April 2023.
Proposals should be submitted in three distinct/separate attachments, namely Mandatory Requirements, Technical Proposal and Financial Proposal
Email title should be; – Developing interactive, innovative Human-Centered Design Learning Methodologies and Resources – Somali Resilience Program.