Consultancy Vocational and Skills training
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– analysinglessons learned, good practices, and suggesting models and ideas for ways forward
Background
Oxfam is working in many fragile and conflict affected countries to deliver timely and effective humanitarian aid to help people affected by crisis and conflicts as well as addressing development challenges.
Conflicts and crisis have in many countries disrupted education, livelihoods and increased dependency on humanitarian aid; andilliteracy and unemployability have become especially high for girls and women. Hence, in many protracted crises, it is increasingly necessary for humanitarian response to include programmes aiming at increasing peoples and particularly women’s livelihood, resilience, voice and dignified lives.
On a general note, access to equitable and good quality learning is one of the most powerful and transformative tools in the fight against inequality and as a gender-responsive investment. Focusing on girl’s and women’s access to learning opportunities supports an integrated approach and links closely to Oxfam’s existing expertise and strategic interest in gender justice, feminist principles, community engagement and local leadership. Girls’ and women’s safety and social, economic and political empowerment are often constrained by strong patriarchal structures in fragile contexts. Identifying strategic entry points for working on gender norms and masculinity, inclusion and power sharing are often challenging. Schools and learning spaces can provide a strategic platform for addressing issues considered highly sensitive in crises-affected areas as it is a space where girls, young women and mothers already engage and where their participation is accepted. It is also most often a common space for both boys, girls, women and men.
As part of learning opportunities Oxfam and partners are working with vocational and skills training activities to improve (emergency) livelihoods options and decent work. Life skills and business training are related activities included in Oxfam humanitarian and nexus programming not least in protracted crises.
In UNESCO (https://unevoc.unesco.org/home/TVETipedia+Glossary/filt=all/id=427) the term technical & vocational skills development (TVSD) refers to the acquisition of knowledge, practical competencies, knowhow and attitudes necessary to perform a certain trade or occupation in the labour market.
Technical and Vocational Skills Development (TVSD) captures both the older category of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and, like the term post-basic education and training (PBET), the newer category of soft skills for employability. (Source: INEE 2010 (Joshua Chaffin), Global)
In an Oxfam context vocational and skills development covers a broad understanding of learning skills important for people to manage daily life from technical skills including business and entrepreneurial skills to life skills (social, practical and communication skills), and cognitive skills (e.g. literacy and numeracy) etc. It empowers people, contributes to improve their livelihoods and enables them to participate in society + contributes to economic justice.
One of Oxfam’s values is empowerment defining that “we acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them”. In this research about vocational training and skills development empowerment will be related to youth and women empowerment and gender equality, and economic, political, cultural, societal empowerment.
With an increased Oxfam focus on youth and the fact that crises affected countries have a young population and many adolescents and youth affected by conflict have not been able to finish even basic education, education and learning opportunities are essential. Working with youth require new tools and approaches and make vocational training and other skills learning programmes even more relevant. Youth widely mentions vocational and skills training opportunities as key priority to their development and as a tool to independence and transition to adulthood.
Objective of the research
During the past years Oxfam and partners have supported different vocational and skills training activities in e.g. South Sudan, Uganda, Jordan, Iraq, Niger and Mali. This includes vocational/skills training as part of livelihood programmes, in support of starting own business or income generating activities, as next step from primary/secondary education or literacy training for youth, for WASH engineers and hygiene promoters, gender related skills training and activities linked to e.g. cash grants. We want to gather and use experiences and learnings from skills training as guidance for how future programming/work with vocational training and skills development can be further developed and designed to be implemented in an integrated manner in Oxfam.
The objective of the vocational and skills training research is to better understand Oxfam experiences and global best practices with this kind of programmes; to learn from the impact of the vocational and skills training interventions and how it contributes most effectively as an enabler for youth, especially young women’s empowerment included improved livelihoods and employability, agency, gender justice and protection.
The research should be carried out by drawing on experiences and learnings from selected Oxfam vocational and skills training activities, and based on lessons learned and best practices suggest opportunities for how vocational and skills development can add value as enabler for participants in an integrated approach in Oxfam’s work especially in humanitarian, fragile and conflict affected contexts e.g. as part of livelihood, IGA, protection, literacy, gender justice or WASH/Public Health Promotion (community engagement and empowerment) projects. The focus should particularly be on how youth and young/adult women can gain from skills training programming and move towards decent jobs and income generation.
Our Theory of Change is that if vocational and skills training, including business and life skills for youth and women is integrated with livelihoods, IGA and protection, literacy, gender, community engagement and empowerment activities then greater collective outcomes in relation to entrepreneurship, income generation/business establishment and/or decent employment can be achieved.
Key issues to be addressed in the vocational and skills training research:
The research must address the questions below:
Key Outputs and Obligations
The consultant is expected to undertake the following tasks and deliver according to the timeline specified in paragraph 5:
Timeframe and deliverables
The research should take place in November and December 2020 (to be finalised by 20th December 2020)
Desk study (including key informant interviews) 6 days
Analysis and report 5 days
Total research 11 days
A research report intended for internal and external use, to inform programming and Oxfam strategies, and written in a clear and concise language, shall be delivered. The length should be approximately 10,000 words equal to 20 pages, including executive summary, research methodology, analysis and recommendations.
Qualification Requirements
Signing Oxfam’s safeguarding and anti-corruption policy and professional silence and guiding principles will be required.
Application
Please submit your application via the ‘send application’ button and include your motivation letter and CV. Brief proposal/inception note on how to accomplish the consultancy including budget in USD/EUR and availability
At least one example of previous relevant work.
Deadline for application is 28th October 2020.
Candidate will be selected on an ongoing basis. Only selected candidates will be contacted
Please note, that only application sent through our recruitment system will be accepted.
For further queries contact: Else Oestergaard, [email protected]
Oxfam IBIS is committed to equal employment opportunity we therefore encourage everybody – irrespective of age, gender and of religious, sexual, national or ethnic affiliation – to apply for this position. Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.
Oxfam IBIS is a movement of people who do not want to find themselves in poverty and inequality. We are part of the global confederation Oxfam.
That means we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. When disaster strikes, we help people build better lives for themselves, and for others. We take on issues like land rights, climate change and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty.
We are an international confederation of 20 organisations (affiliates) working together
with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. All our work is led by three core values: Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness.
Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.
Note: All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and may be subject to appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.
Background
Oxfam is working in many fragile and conflict affected countries to deliver timely and effective humanitarian aid to help people affected by crisis and conflicts as well as addressing development challenges.
Conflicts and crisis have in many countries disrupted education, livelihoods and increased dependency on humanitarian aid; andilliteracy and unemployability have become especially high for girls and women. Hence, in many protracted crises, it is increasingly necessary for humanitarian response to include programmes aiming at increasing peoples and particularly women’s livelihood, resilience, voice and dignified lives.
On a general note, access to equitable and good quality learning is one of the most powerful and transformative tools in the fight against inequality and as a gender-responsive investment. Focusing on girl’s and women’s access to learning opportunities supports an integrated approach and links closely to Oxfam’s existing expertise and strategic interest in gender justice, feminist principles, community engagement and local leadership. Girls’ and women’s safety and social, economic and political empowerment are often constrained by strong patriarchal structures in fragile contexts. Identifying strategic entry points for working on gender norms and masculinity, inclusion and power sharing are often challenging. Schools and learning spaces can provide a strategic platform for addressing issues considered highly sensitive in crises-affected areas as it is a space where girls, young women and mothers already engage and where their participation is accepted. It is also most often a common space for both boys, girls, women and men.
As part of learning opportunities Oxfam and partners are working with vocational and skills training activities to improve (emergency) livelihoods options and decent work. Life skills and business training are related activities included in Oxfam humanitarian and nexus programming not least in protracted crises.
In UNESCO (https://unevoc.unesco.org/home/TVETipedia+Glossary/filt=all/id=427) the term technical & vocational skills development (TVSD) refers to the acquisition of knowledge, practical competencies, knowhow and attitudes necessary to perform a certain trade or occupation in the labour market.
Technical and Vocational Skills Development (TVSD) captures both the older category of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and, like the term post-basic education and training (PBET), the newer category of soft skills for employability. (Source: INEE 2010 (Joshua Chaffin), Global)
In an Oxfam context vocational and skills development covers a broad understanding of learning skills important for people to manage daily life from technical skills including business and entrepreneurial skills to life skills (social, practical and communication skills), and cognitive skills (e.g. literacy and numeracy) etc. It empowers people, contributes to improve their livelihoods and enables them to participate in society + contributes to economic justice.
One of Oxfam’s values is empowerment defining that “we acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them”. In this research about vocational training and skills development empowerment will be related to youth and women empowerment and gender equality, and economic, political, cultural, societal empowerment.
With an increased Oxfam focus on youth and the fact that crises affected countries have a young population and many adolescents and youth affected by conflict have not been able to finish even basic education, education and learning opportunities are essential. Working with youth require new tools and approaches and make vocational training and other skills learning programmes even more relevant. Youth widely mentions vocational and skills training opportunities as key priority to their development and as a tool to independence and transition to adulthood.
Objective of the research
During the past years Oxfam and partners have supported different vocational and skills training activities in e.g. South Sudan, Uganda, Jordan, Iraq, Niger and Mali. This includes vocational/skills training as part of livelihood programmes, in support of starting own business or income generating activities, as next step from primary/secondary education or literacy training for youth, for WASH engineers and hygiene promoters, gender related skills training and activities linked to e.g. cash grants. We want to gather and use experiences and learnings from skills training as guidance for how future programming/work with vocational training and skills development can be further developed and designed to be implemented in an integrated manner in Oxfam.
The objective of the vocational and skills training research is to better understand Oxfam experiences and global best practices with this kind of programmes; to learn from the impact of the vocational and skills training interventions and how it contributes most effectively as an enabler for youth, especially young women’s empowerment included improved livelihoods and employability, agency, gender justice and protection.
The research should be carried out by drawing on experiences and learnings from selected Oxfam vocational and skills training activities, and based on lessons learned and best practices suggest opportunities for how vocational and skills development can add value as enabler for participants in an integrated approach in Oxfam’s work especially in humanitarian, fragile and conflict affected contexts e.g. as part of livelihood, IGA, protection, literacy, gender justice or WASH/Public Health Promotion (community engagement and empowerment) projects. The focus should particularly be on how youth and young/adult women can gain from skills training programming and move towards decent jobs and income generation.
Our Theory of Change is that if vocational and skills training, including business and life skills for youth and women is integrated with livelihoods, IGA and protection, literacy, gender, community engagement and empowerment activities then greater collective outcomes in relation to entrepreneurship, income generation/business establishment and/or decent employment can be achieved.
Key issues to be addressed in the vocational and skills training research:
- to explore how Oxfam and partners have worked with vocational and skills training activities as empowerment for youth and women (affected by conflict), both stand-alone training and training integrated into responses improving e.g. livelihoods and decent work, protection, gender justice, WASH/community engagement and empowerment;
- to collect information, and document outcomes and learnings from implementation of vocational and skills training interventions, including where linked to other programme activities e.g. youth activities, livelihoods, entrepreneurship, community engagement, gender interventions, literacy & education in selected Oxfam programmes;
- to discuss and analyse lessons learned and good practices;
- to recommend, based on the analysis and findings, models and future ways of working to further develop and integrate vocational and skills training most effectively in livelihoods, IGA, gender justice, literacy, protection and WASH/community engagement in humanitarian response activities as enabler for youth’s and women’s empowerment, agency and increased opportunities for decent work.
The research must address the questions below:
- Reaching vulnerable youth and women and ensuring gender justice:
- How flexible and effective have vocational/skills training activities been in reaching out to those most in need, included people with impairments?
- Did vocational/skills training activities/projects have a specific focus on gender justice?
- Did Oxfam support or intend to support groups of learners e.g. PTAs, VSG’s, farmers groups, drop out students with the skills training?
- Which safeguarding and accountability measures were taken to ensure a safe and secure environment for participants?
- Decent work and income generation
- Did the vocational and skills training have longer term effect on youth and women’s income generation? And were any impact assessment of the vocational/skills training programmes carried out?
- How were the participants followed up after the training?
- Did participants after the training realise new and decent job opportunities or innovative business opportunities?
- What was important parameters for being able to get these new opportunities – was it due to the training, due to renewed life skills, due to other parameters?
- What was decency measured against - social security, insurance, good pay, number of working hours, formal job?
- Were innovative business opportunities linked to entrepreneurial mindset of youth and women? Did the training intervention encourage youth and women to move towards the entrepreneurship sectors or were there any other hindering factors that should be addressed besides the skills aspect, e.g. legal framework for refugees to start businesses in certain sectors. Were any successful practices found on entrepreneurship and innovation.
- Integrating vocational and skills training with other sectors incl. advocacy/influencing
- Did Oxfam through the vocational and skills training activities link to or intent to link to livelihoods, IGA/saving groups, gender justice, WASH/ community engagement and empowerment, youth engagement, literacy etc.?
- Did vocational and skills training activities start as a mean of empowerment of youth and women or did it start as livelihood/IGA/WASH/Protection/Gender activities/projects with needs for vocational and skills training defined by the participants later?
- Was there any link between programming with policy/advocacy on vocational and skills training activities in for instance promoting systemic changes in job creation or planning and structuring of TVET?
- Local leadership
- What role has partners played in vocational and skills planning and programming and advocacy? Has Oxfam been part of strategic alliances or platforms?
- Did Oxfam collaborate with existing vocational/skills training institutes, labour market parties and/or organisations?
- How was the training organised?
- Were life skills an integrated part of the vocational/skills training? If yes, which components of life skills was included and how was it perceived by the participants?
- Was and business training an integrated part of the vocational/skills training?
- Were specific learning methodologies used?
Key Outputs and Obligations
The consultant is expected to undertake the following tasks and deliver according to the timeline specified in paragraph 5:
- Agreement with Oxfam IBIS on number of countries to be included and contact persons in countries;
- Desk study including:Review lessons learned and best practices based on relevant documents from Oxfam IBIS and Oxfam Country Office (CO) staff. Key informant interviews (online) with Oxfam CO staff (in the selected countries), partners, Oxfam IBIS staff and other relevant Oxfam staff (e.g. GHT team leaders for protection, gender, cash, livelihoods and WASH/PHP)
- Produce a draft report to be shared with Oxfam IBIS and Oxfam key informants, and incorporate relevant feedback into the final evaluation
- Final evaluation report of max 20 pages (excluding annexes).
Timeframe and deliverables
The research should take place in November and December 2020 (to be finalised by 20th December 2020)
Desk study (including key informant interviews) 6 days
Analysis and report 5 days
Total research 11 days
A research report intended for internal and external use, to inform programming and Oxfam strategies, and written in a clear and concise language, shall be delivered. The length should be approximately 10,000 words equal to 20 pages, including executive summary, research methodology, analysis and recommendations.
Qualification Requirements
- Advanced university degree in International Development, Education, Social Science or other relevant discipline;
- Excellent technical expertise from vocational and skills training programmes; practical field experience and/or theoretical experience;
- Knowledge of community involvement in programming and planning;
- Knowledge of education in emergency programming and youth programming;
- Field experience from work in humanitarian responses;
- Demonstration of previous involvement in evaluations and/or research.
Signing Oxfam’s safeguarding and anti-corruption policy and professional silence and guiding principles will be required.
Application
Please submit your application via the ‘send application’ button and include your motivation letter and CV. Brief proposal/inception note on how to accomplish the consultancy including budget in USD/EUR and availability
At least one example of previous relevant work.
Deadline for application is 28th October 2020.
Candidate will be selected on an ongoing basis. Only selected candidates will be contacted
Please note, that only application sent through our recruitment system will be accepted.
For further queries contact: Else Oestergaard, [email protected]
Oxfam IBIS is committed to equal employment opportunity we therefore encourage everybody – irrespective of age, gender and of religious, sexual, national or ethnic affiliation – to apply for this position. Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.
Oxfam IBIS is a movement of people who do not want to find themselves in poverty and inequality. We are part of the global confederation Oxfam.
That means we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. When disaster strikes, we help people build better lives for themselves, and for others. We take on issues like land rights, climate change and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty.
We are an international confederation of 20 organisations (affiliates) working together
with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. All our work is led by three core values: Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness.
Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.
Note: All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and may be subject to appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.
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