Introduction
The world’s youngest country, South Sudan is among the poorest, least developed, and most unpredictable. In 2013, two years into independence, the country broke out into brutal civil war. Though a ceasefire was reached in 2020, the country continues to struggle with inter-communal conflict and displacement, as well as a highly vulnerable economy controlled by a handful of elites and poor infrastructure repeatedly assaulted by climate disasters such as drought and flooding. It consistently falls near the bottom on indexes measuring corruption, prosperity, human development, and democracy. A 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) provided a roadmap to a planned election in 2023, yet to date, few of the agreement tasks have been implemented, including the completion this year of a full country census. During this fragile transitional period, credible, independent media have an essential role to play in keeping citizens informed, mitigating conflicts, and facilitating a peaceful, democratic society.
In designing an approach to bolster independent media amidst a wide range of obstacles, IREX’s locally-led approach will improve access, sustainability, and quality of independent radio. Grounded in a Do No (More) Harm approach and fully integrating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion throughout implementation, SIMA will approach sustainability from three angles: financial sustainability, institutional sustainability, and social sustainability, grounded in an understanding that the true sustainability of any media investment is journalism’s overall impact on society, individual behaviors, and systems of governance.
To achieve this, Sonke Gender Justice leads in SIMA’s Training of Trainers approach on GESI, ensuring that GESI is appropriately and effectively utilized to strengthen and build the capacity of organizations and individuals in the media sector. This includes addressing issues of gender disparity in access to opportunities in journalism. SIMA will work with local partners to integrate gender transformative approaches and strategies into ongoing institutional programming in the communities where they work.
Assignment
Sonke Gender Justice has been developing a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Training Manual to facilitate capacity building of media practitioners in South Sudan in contribution to the larger SIMA objectives. The draft manual has been populated with GESI content to cover the scope of the GESI/GTA knowledge gaps identified amongst media practitioners in South Sudan.
Sonke therefore seeks services of an individual consultant to review, standardize, quality improve and finalize the draft manual to produce a ready for print and distribution Training Manual. The Consultant will review the content of the Manual to ensure accuracy of content and structure, and assess and improve the quality of manual topics/sessions information and training activities.
Contract type
Individual Consultancy
Timeframe
15 Days (inclusive of weekends and holidays)
Purpose
Standardization, Quality Improvement and Finalization of the SIMA Draft GESI Training Manual
Duty station
Home-based (South Africa)
Deliverables and expected timelines
| 1st Draft of Manual | 7 days |
| Revised Draft Manual | 4 days |
| Final document submission | 4 days |
Main duties
- Review the manual to identify incomplete sections and topics, and other areas for improvement.
- Provide content and accompanying training activities to the incomplete sections and topics.
- Add appropriate graphics/animations to content and training activities.
- Standardize the uniformity of the order of sessions in each topic and the overall manual structure.
- Trim or add to the content of manual where appropriate.
- Ensure the quality and accuracy of the entire document to pass as final training manual ready for distribution.
Required selection criteria
- Master’s Degree in Gender, Human Rights, or a Related field;
- Demonstrated understanding of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, Inclusion
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in developing gender, GBV, Human rights training manuals.
- Demonstrated experience in developing professional capacity building documents;
- Experience in translating and editing social science and gender related documents will be considered favorable;
- Demonstrate effective organizational skills and ability to handle work in an efficient and timely manner;
- Fully proficient in computer skills.
Evaluation
The award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
- Reasonable/Responsive/Compliant/Acceptable, and;
- Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.
Criteria Weight
- Qualification: 20
- Relevant experience: 60
- Financial proposal: 20
Budget
R100,000.00
For each service required the payment will be made as follows:
- First payment (30%) upon receipt of the Draft Manual initial review report/presentation identifying areas of improvement,
- Second payment (40%) upon receipt and approval of the modifications to the identified incomplete sections and other areas of improvement,
- and final payment (40%) upon receipt of the Final Draft manual with a standardized structure and finalized content including animations/graphics to activities.
All payments shall be processed based on the delivery of good quality work and shall be approved by the Chief of Party.
Application
Qualified interested candidates should send their CV, together with a motivation letter and financial proposal (provide costs by word) to: Motlatsi@genderjustice.org.za and Vusi@genderjustice/org.za (submit a copy to Fredalene@genderjustice.org.za) by 10th February 2024 no later than 1700Hrs SAST.
Late and incomplete applications will be disregarded.
