Sunday, November 18, 2018

Yayasan Plan International Indonesia Need Consultant for YEE Project

TERM OF REFERENCE
Development of Soft Skills Entrepreneurial Module Yayasan Plan International Indonesia – Mata Kail Project
Background
Plan International is a humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. In Indonesia, known as Yayasan Plan International Indonesia (YPII), it is currently implementing its country strategic 4 (CS4) covering a fiscal year of 2018 to 2022 with the main objective of identifying and facilitating the removal of obstacles that prevent children from enjoying their rights and participating fully in Indonesian society”.
SWITCH Asia II is EU Funded Project, focuses on promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in the Fish Processing Sector in three districts in NTT (Sikka, Lembata, and Nagekeo). The project is designed to address key problems related to sustainable fish processing, underemployment of young people (and specifically young women), and poor nutrition at village level. More specifically, the project will assist fish actors to reduce spoiling fish due to processing inefficiency and limitation of equipment’s, to prevent chemical contamination during fish preservation, to increase employment, and to recover nutrition of malnourished families (stunting) particularly for those in remote and semi-remote villages. The proposed action will support the implementation of a range of interrelated activities described below to achieve the overall objective of promoting sustainable economic growth and employment opportunities of marginalized youth, particularly young women, in the fish-processing sector in Indonesia.
In improving the entrepreneurial abilities of young people, one of the things that needs to be improved is the ability of self-management (soft skills). For this purpose, YPII will work with the university team to develop soft skills modules. This developed module is expected to be widely used for training organized by the Government to reach out to parents or the community in general.
Goal, objectives and the key questions
    1. Assignment to external consultant
The assignment is to develop certain soft skill modules on entrepreneurship based on best practices and existing modules.
    1. Overall and specific objectives of the assignment
The main objective of this assignment is to develop some new modules on entrepreneurial soft skills by incorporating important messages pointed out on several existing modules related to:
GET TO KNOW YOURSELF AND ENTREPRENEURIAL CHARACTER:
  1. Interest and Abilities
  2. Need for Achievement
  3. Dealing with Risks
  4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Creativity and Innovation
  5. Independence and Self-Responsibility
    SOCIAL SKILLS:
  1. Communication, Negotiation and Public Speaking Skills
  2. Team Work and Conflict Resolution
  3. SELF MANAGEMENT SKILLS:
  4. Healthy Lifestyle include Reproduction Health
  5. Planning and Organizing
  6. Marketable Skills
    ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS:
  1. Resource Efficiency or Wise Use of Resources
  2. Sustainable Consumption and Production Lifestyle
Ethical and child protection statements
The University team and Plan International staff have to adhere to Plan International Child Protection Policy. The University Team must follow Ethical Principles for involving human subjects in a research and obtain written/ verbal consent from the human subjects. Permission from elder must be sought if the children under 18 years are involved as subjects. Signed informed consent of each child and his/ her parents need to take after explaining purpose of the study and its usage. Training on this will be part of the training provided for the survey team.
Selection criteria for evaluators
The proposal has to be developed by a high qualified Team University with strong capacity in conducting gender sensitive study in Youth Economic Empowerment particulary in fisheries sector in target areas of SWITCH Program. Consultant interested in submitting a proposal should have the following criteria:
  • At least 5 years of experience and skills of conducting field research, data analysis, report writing and module development. Preferably from university team at NTT Province.
  • Demonstrable experience in module develop.
  • Expertise in gender issues and young women’s economic empowerment in Indonesia;
  • Experience in Soft Skills Entrepreneurial Module
  • Proficient in both English and own local language (oral and written)
  • Good communication skills, with ability of explaining complex problems or concepts in simple and understandable language.
  • Experience of working with participatory methodologies
  • Has strong experience in facilitating
Submission Protocol
First step: Consultant send application to: Mexy.Nenobais@plan-international..org: George.Manu@plan-international.org; and CC to  Ajun.Khamdani@plan-international.org; with subject line: “Expression of Interest for Module Development of MATA KAIL Project_Name of applicant” before 5 PM, 30 November 2018 by enclosing the following required documents:
  1. Organizational Profile (for institutional consultant) or a CV (for Team Consultant).
  2. Letter of interests to apply
  3. General budget proposal ( excel file )
Seconds Step: Based on received letter of interest, budget proposals and organization profile, Yayasan Plan International Indonesia will shortlist candidates and invite them to present strategic plans for these research activities. Yayasan Plan International Indonesia will afterwards proceed with selecting and appointing a consultant.
Only shortlisted consultant will be contacted for recruitment.

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