Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Deadline: 24 August 2022
Job Description
Freedom Fund seeks a consultant or consultancy team to prepare and conduct capacity development training for partners including government duty-bearers and other key stakeholders working with Child Domestic Workers (CDWs). The consultant is expected to design and facilitate a module on the topic of Case Management and Protection for CDWs. The module should be developed, co-designed and co-delivered with Freedom Fund implementing partners in Ethiopia and should prepare participants to facilitate the training to be delivered for government duty bearers and other stakeholders working with CDWs. This process aims at enhancing partners’ capacity for future sustainability. Please use this Framework Review to help guide prospective proposals.
Summary
Freedom Fund seeks a consultant or consultancy team to prepare and conduct capacity development training for partners including government duty-bearers and other key stakeholders working with Child Domestic Workers (CDWs). A Training of Trainers (TOT) will already have been conducted for implementing partners to build facilitation skills and understanding of adult learning principles in training design and delivery. The consultant is expected to design and facilitate a module on the topic of Case Management and Protection for CDWs. The module should be developed, co-designed and co-delivered with Freedom Fund implementing partners in Ethiopia and should prepare participants to facilitate the training to be delivered for government duty bearers and other stakeholders working with CDWs. This process aims at enhancing partners’ capacity for future sustainability. The rights and participation of child domestic workers is highly important and should be integrated throughout the module. The module has been divided into three (3) sessions:
• Module 3.1: Introduction to child protection
• Module 3.2: Introduction to child development and the impact of trauma
• Module 3.3: Working within the National Child Protection Case Management Guidelines and the National Referral Mechanism to protect CDWs.
Freedom Fund works on issues around both internal and cross-border migration in Ethiopia, with a particular emphasis on CDWs. Their programming on CDWs seeks, as its primary objective, to reduce the prevalence of domestic servitude amongst girls in Ethiopia and improve migration outcomes for Ethiopian women and girls through the US Department of State Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS). PEMS involves five implementing partners working with Freedom Fund to carry out five projects in Addis Ababa. Specifically, the program focuses on the working conditions of CDWs in Ethiopia who are particularly at risk of domestic servitude by holding employers and traffickers accountable through strengthening actions of law enforcement, labour, and social affairs officials. Freedom Fund aims to strengthen local buy-in and enhance effectiveness by working through local frontline organisations.
Reporting and Working Language
The consultant will report in English to the Freedom Fund Program Manager in the UK and Freedom Fund Programme Officer in Ethiopia, who will be the focal point for this assignment. All deliverables will be developed and submitted in English to Freedom Fund, unless the consultant is specifically requested in writing to provide particular documents in Amharic.
Required Skills and Expertise
The consultant or members of the consultancy team in the aggregate must have:
• Strong knowledge (5+ years) of the international and/or Ethiopian context relevant to the objectives of this consultancy, including experience working with CDWs, vulnerable children, trafficking in persons, human smuggling, and/or labour migrants (if a consultancy team, the lead consultant must meet this minimum requirement);
• An academic background in law, migration, social work, community work, child development, development assistance, or other relevant field of study;
• Experience working and/or liaising with Government of Ethiopia officials and other migration, child rights, labour rights, and/or CDWs stakeholders in Ethiopia;
• Knowledge of the National Child Protection Case Management Guidelines (the Guidelines) and the National TIP Referral Mechanism in Ethiopia and/or experience of working with referral systems for children and/or trafficking survivors.
• Knowledge on the human rights of child domestic workers, including but not limited to the CRC;
• Knowledge of child protection, and forms of child abuse and exploitation facing CDWs and experience of working within child protection systems;
• Knowledge on child development, and how this is impacted by trauma;
• Experience in designing and facilitating interactive training, including TOT;
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of migration context in the Horn of Africa region required, including knowledge of the context in Ethiopia around forced displacement, mixed migration, and irregular migration flows;
• Excellent professional command of English and Amharic;
• Ability to work in an international team; and
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with a multi-cultural team.
The deadline for submissions is 5pm GMT+1, 24 August 2022.