Feminist Training of trainers’ pedagogy – From gender technical knowledge to developing a feminist critical thinking

Oxfam’s vision is a just world without poverty: a world in which people can influence decisions that affect their lives, enjoy their rights, and assume their responsibilities as full citizens of a world in which all human beings are valued and treated equally.

Oxfam’s vision is a just world without poverty: a world in which people can influence decisions that affect their lives, enjoy their rights, and assume their responsibilities as full citizens of a world in which all human beings are valued and treated equally.

Oxfam in Tunisia is looking for:

Consultancy: Feminist Training of trainers’ pedagogy – From gender technical knowledge to developing a feminist critical thinking

1. Project Background

This training of trainers sits in between the gender justice agenda and the gender mainstreaming ambition of Oxfam in Tunisia. It aligns with Oxfam in Tunisia's ambition to play a role in moving gender from being a checklist and to achieving gender justice. It aims to ensure a core team at Oxfam that can help the organization to meet these ambitions by supporting their journey to be as transformative as possible and providing them with the training tools to offer this also to their colleagues and partners. This training aims to strengthen the capacities of its staff to be critically self-engaged, engaged with the national feminist civil society, and engaged with the other programs and partners of Oxfam in Tunisia.

1. Project definition

Objectives of the training: To build a pool of trainers equipped to mainstream gender in development projects, and to develop agenda, tools, and facilitating skills for gender and transformative leadership dialogues and training.

Expected results: (1) A pool of Oxfam trainers qualified to plan, organize, and facilitate basic and advanced training on gender, gender mainstreaming, and building feminist agendas; (2) An Oxfam team equipped in training with feminist methodologies and tools; (3) A team equipped to facilitate innovative interactive training sessions; (4) A pool of trainers with increased critical thinking and ability to shape their training with this approach.

Areas of expertise of the modules:

1. Gender. Empower participants to train on gender with a transformative approach. Here participants will develop a technical approach to integrate gender in a cross-cutting way into projects and do gender training in a development context.

2. Feminism. Empower participants to think critically about intersectional feminism to understand both its ideology and its meaning as a journey and in everyday practices. Participants will deepen their knowledge of key concepts of feminisms so that they can grasp the vision and framework of analysis that allows them to approach any issue with a critical feminist approach. It will also be about enabling participants to reflect on the language and communication used in their narratives around feminisms. This strengthening of the understanding of feminism as a critical approach should enable participants to question dominant practices and discourses and play a facilitating-training role in transformational leadership and convening within feminist circles.

3. Training. To train participants with training skills and competencies and equip them with feminist pedagogical approaches and principles. Here participants will be trained to become trainers and thus be able to develop the tools (agenda, tools development, pedagogical choices, training plan) and attitudes necessary for training with a feminist approach.

The approach of the modules:

• Participants and language: The training will be provided to 10-15 participants, in English.

• Participants already work on gender (in)directly, and therefore have at least a general and basic knowledge of gender concepts. The participants are in different stages in their feminist journey and the training should adapt to that to ensure it is still challenging and is transformative to all the participants.

• The training journey will be composed of an assessment - evolutive modules and coaching sessions. An assessment of the skills and knowledge of the group members is required as a starting point for the preparation of the training.

• Coaching sessions: the participants will have to develop a project of facilitation of their choice during this training, and the coaching will be about this preparation. The coaching session will also be supporting the personal reflection on feminism.

• At the end of each day, participants should be able to recognize and know how to use the tools used during the day.

• Participants will be continually challenged to reflect on both the individual (introspective) and their environment.

• At the end of the training-coaching process, participants will be delivered a certificate of trainers.

• Deliverables:

Deliverables

1. Concept note and working methodology : deadlines: 2 weeks after confirmation of the assignment
2. Detailed training plan (with the proposed tools and outputs of the training) deadlines: 1 week after the concept note and working methodology
3. The implementation of the training deadlines: deadlines: 1 week after the confirmation of the working methodology.
4. A trainer's manual containing the entire curriculum with the (improved based on experience) tools used during the training deadlines: deadlines: 3 weeks after the training
5. A final report synthesizing the course of the training and possible recommendations for the group. deadlines: 2weeks after the last coaching session

The written deliverable should be provided in digital version, in a format that can be owned by Oxfam.

1. Profil:

a) >9 years in facilitating transformative feminist leadership that links the individual to the systemic and uses an interactive pedagogy that balances ideology theory and practice.

b) Facilitation team with a technical approach to gender and an intersectional feminist approach and embedded in the decolonization agenda. Participants' practices are deeply rooted in the complexity of the field. Specific context knowledge is not required, but the consultants should be in the capacity to train participants to reflect between theory and practice, with decolonial and intersectional theories, applicable and relevant to the country context.

c) Good experience in facilitating gender, feminism, and feminist pedagogies in the South

e) The course is given to a group with different levels of English proficiency. Ensuring to adapt your level so that you are understood by all is required

f) >4 years of training trainers with innovative interactive training sessions

g) Experience with other international (I)NGO’s to be mentioned (specify if this was at the country of implementation level)

Duration of the whole mission: February to April. Dates are flexible, alternatives should be suggested in the offer.

Number of days: 30 working days

1. Assessment of the Prices

The maximum budget for this evaluation is €25,000 (excluding VAT). The contractor will have to make provisions for covering all costs associated with the assignment. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Desk research, instrument development, tools, report writing, and editing costs.

• The consultant will oversee the secretarial and logistic arrangements for all consultations with stakeholders.

• Transportation and accommodation costs must be explicitly specified in the offer

How to apply:

The application should include a CV, methodological and financial offers, a description of the organization if relevant, and an example of previous training. Each bidder will have to specify the unit price (excluding taxes and including taxes) of its services.

If you are interested and think you meet the requirements for this position, please send your application in writing and mention the title "Consultation ToT - Oxfam in Tunisia" to the following 3 addresses Recruitment.Tunisie@oxfam.org; ramla.ayadi@oxfam.org; soufia.galand@oxfam.org by January 13th, 2022 at the latest.