- Background
Trócaire is an Irish organisation that works in partnership with communities in over 16 countries to
- Defend human rights,
- Achieve climate and environmental justice,
- women’s girls’ protection, voice and influence,
- Save lives and protect human dignity and
- Mobilize the public to achieve global justice
Facilitator for Business Training for Income Generating Activities
Since 1992, Trócaire Somalia has been providing comprehensive, safe and inclusive humanitarian and development programme in the Gedo region of the Southern Somalia by integrating health, nutrition, WASH, protection, resilience and basic education to address needs among the most marginalised and vulnerable people during emergencies and building resilience of communities to prepare for and mitigate future emergencies.
While our work in the Gedo is best understood as an ongoing humanitarian programme in a complex emergency, Trocaire Somalia is committed to addressing longer term recovery, by linking essential relief/lifesaving work to resilience and ‘building back better’ in most of its programming.
Trocaire Somalia is seeking for a training facilitator to conduct business training for women participants for income generating activities (IGA).
Target Group: Vulnerable Women in Gedo.
Sourcing-Local Hire (National).
Project Location-Gedo
Specific Districts: Luuq, Dollow, Belet Hawa.
Duration –May 2023 (Actual Number of days to be discussed at inception meeting).
- Project Overview
Conflict has propelled women in Somalia to take on breadwinner positions. According to the World Bank,[1] more than half of Somali households are headed by women, and approximately half of female headed households are living below the poverty line. Sixty-nine percent of the population covered by a 2016 World Bank survey live in poverty, ranking as one of the world’s poorest countries. Poverty is higher among rural and IDP households, and households without remittances.
Somali society includes a sizeable group of ‘minorities’ who have historically faced significant discrimination and abuse, enjoy the least protection from armed violence, and are often a difficult group to access with basic services and humanitarian aid, as aid targeting them can easily be diverted by stronger groups. Households from clans considered ‘guests,’ which include internally displaced persons (IDPs) in a dominant clan’s area, also enjoy fewer rights.[2]
In light of these prevailing circumstances and the fact that low social economic status is a leading cause in child malnutrition, Trocaire is implementing a five-year Nutrition project funded by Irish Aid to address immediate lifesaving nutrition needs. The core component of the project is to provide life-saving nutrition services to children under the age of 5 years and pregnant and lactating women with acute malnutrition at health facilities and remote outreach sites.
To further address some of the underlying causes of malnutrition, Trócaire through the Irish Aid grant will adopt a nexus approach by women whose children have received nutrition services from our facilities by providing business grants to them with the core agenda of weaning off children from nutrition programs, preventing those at risk from becoming malnourished and relapses. 300 women will be targeted in the five years with the first cohort of 150 covered in year 1 and 2 of the project. The improvement of household income through IGA activities is expected to contribute to good nutrition outcomes by ensuring access to basic household needs such as food. The program will deliberately target the traditionally excluded groups; Women from Internally Displaced Populations, women from minority clans, women from very vulnerable households from the host community including female-headed households.
An initial Business training will be conducted prior to the selection of the business and disbursement of the grants. The participants are mostly illiterate or semi illiterate women thus the training will be conducted in local Somali language. The facilitator is expected to develop the training Manual that is adapted to the context and is expected to have skills on how to conduct training to this group. The Facilitator will be guided by the Program Coordinator but will need to have basic knowledge and skills on income generating activities and also be able to prepare simplified handouts in local language. Owing to the high illiteracy levels, the facilitator is expected to be creative and innovative in delivering this training and prepare handouts with visuals and other relevant means of communication.
**Training Schedule-**The training will be conducted for 4 days per training targeting 50 women per district. Because it is not possible to train such a large number at once, the training will be conducted in two parts in each district thus 6 trainings in total will be conducted. There will be no afternoon sessions considering the participants are mothers and caregivers who have other household chores to attend to.
- Deliverables
- The trainer is expected to review and improve an existing training Manual with Modules used for the training of the previous cohort that cover the topics below: –
Course Contents
- Course Introduction
- Pre-Test
- Session 1: Introduction to Business
- Session 2: Businesspeople
- Session 3: How to do a Market analysis.
- Session 4: How to Choose a Business
- Session 5: How to Start a Business
- Session 6: How to Define, Develop or Produce a Product
- Session 7: The Customer
- Session 8: Costs and Prices (Selling)
- Session 9: Records & Business Plan
- How to Develop a business plan/proposal.
- Session 10: How to Develop a Business plan/proposal.
- Session 11: Savings and Loans schemes – introduction and awareness to savings schemes from the beginning in order to introduce the culture of saving. (A detailed Savings and Loans training will be done 3 months after establishing the IGA)
- Evaluation: Conduct a review of the training.
- Post-Test.
- Prepare a training agenda and plan.
- Develop a training report after completion of the trainings in the 3 districts.
- Desirable Qualifications:
- Degree in Economics, Community Development, Social Sciences or Business Administration from a recognised institution.
- Previous experience working in Livelihood projects in Somalia.
- Previous experience conducting business trainings for IGA and livelihood activities.
- Must be Somali Speaker
- Ability to provide an integrated learning approach where adults can learn and adopt equally.
[1] Somali High Frequency Survey Wave I (February 2016) Overview and Preliminary Results, Utz Johann Pape and Johan A. Mistiaen, Global Poverty and Equity Practice, The World Bank July 21, 2016
[2] USAID Strategic Framework for Somalia: 2016 – 2019
- Background
Trócaire is an Irish organisation that works in partnership with communities in over 16 countries to
- Defend human rights,
- Achieve climate and environmental justice,
- women’s girls’ protection, voice and influence,
- Save lives and protect human dignity and
- Mobilize the public to achieve global justice
Since 1992, Trócaire Somalia has been providing comprehensive, safe and inclusive humanitarian and development programme in the Gedo region of the Southern Somalia by integrating health, nutrition, WASH, protection, resilience and basic education to address needs among the most marginalised and vulnerable people during emergencies and building resilience of communities to prepare for and mitigate future emergencies.
While our work in the Gedo is best understood as an ongoing humanitarian programme in a complex emergency, Trocaire Somalia is committed to addressing longer term recovery, by linking essential relief/lifesaving work to resilience and ‘building back better’ in most of its programming.
Trocaire Somalia is seeking for a training facilitator to conduct business training for women participants for income generating activities (IGA).
Target Group: Vulnerable Women in Gedo.
Sourcing-Local Hire (National).
Project Location-Gedo
Specific Districts: Luuq, Dollow, Belet Hawa.
Duration –May 2023 (Actual Number of days to be discussed at inception meeting).
- Project Overview
Conflict has propelled women in Somalia to take on breadwinner positions. According to the World Bank,[1] more than half of Somali households are headed by women, and approximately half of female headed households are living below the poverty line. Sixty-nine percent of the population covered by a 2016 World Bank survey live in poverty, ranking as one of the world’s poorest countries. Poverty is higher among rural and IDP households, and households without remittances.
Somali society includes a sizeable group of ‘minorities’ who have historically faced significant discrimination and abuse, enjoy the least protection from armed violence, and are often a difficult group to access with basic services and humanitarian aid, as aid targeting them can easily be diverted by stronger groups. Households from clans considered ‘guests,’ which include internally displaced persons (IDPs) in a dominant clan’s area, also enjoy fewer rights.[2]
In light of these prevailing circumstances and the fact that low social economic status is a leading cause in child malnutrition, Trocaire is implementing a five-year Nutrition project funded by Irish Aid to address immediate lifesaving nutrition needs. The core component of the project is to provide life-saving nutrition services to children under the age of 5 years and pregnant and lactating women with acute malnutrition at health facilities and remote outreach sites.
To further address some of the underlying causes of malnutrition, Trócaire through the Irish Aid grant will adopt a nexus approach by women whose children have received nutrition services from our facilities by providing business grants to them with the core agenda of weaning off children from nutrition programs, preventing those at risk from becoming malnourished and relapses. 300 women will be targeted in the five years with the first cohort of 150 covered in year 1 and 2 of the project. The improvement of household income through IGA activities is expected to contribute to good nutrition outcomes by ensuring access to basic household needs such as food. The program will deliberately target the traditionally excluded groups; Women from Internally Displaced Populations, women from minority clans, women from very vulnerable households from the host community including female-headed households.
An initial Business training will be conducted prior to the selection of the business and disbursement of the grants. The participants are mostly illiterate or semi illiterate women thus the training will be conducted in local Somali language. The facilitator is expected to develop the training Manual that is adapted to the context and is expected to have skills on how to conduct training to this group. The Facilitator will be guided by the Program Coordinator but will need to have basic knowledge and skills on income generating activities and also be able to prepare simplified handouts in local language. Owing to the high illiteracy levels, the facilitator is expected to be creative and innovative in delivering this training and prepare handouts with visuals and other relevant means of communication.
**Training Schedule-**The training will be conducted for 4 days per training targeting 50 women per district. Because it is not possible to train such a large number at once, the training will be conducted in two parts in each district thus 6 trainings in total will be conducted. There will be no afternoon sessions considering the participants are mothers and caregivers who have other household chores to attend to.
- Deliverables
- The trainer is expected to review and improve an existing training Manual with Modules used for the training of the previous cohort that cover the topics below: –
Course Contents
- Course Introduction
- Pre-Test
- Session 1: Introduction to Business
- Session 2: Businesspeople
- Session 3: How to do a Market analysis.
- Session 4: How to Choose a Business
- Session 5: How to Start a Business
- Session 6: How to Define, Develop or Produce a Product
- Session 7: The Customer
- Session 8: Costs and Prices (Selling)
- Session 9: Records & Business Plan
- How to Develop a business plan/proposal.
- Session 10: How to Develop a Business plan/proposal.
- Session 11: Savings and Loans schemes – introduction and awareness to savings schemes from the beginning in order to introduce the culture of saving. (A detailed Savings and Loans training will be done 3 months after establishing the IGA)
- Evaluation: Conduct a review of the training.
- Post-Test.
- Prepare a training agenda and plan.
- Develop a training report after completion of the trainings in the 3 districts.
- Desirable Qualifications:
- Degree in Economics, Community Development, Social Sciences or Business Administration from a recognised institution.
- Previous experience working in Livelihood projects in Somalia.
- Previous experience conducting business trainings for IGA and livelihood activities.
- Must be Somali Speaker
- Ability to provide an integrated learning approach where adults can learn and adopt equally.
[1] Somali High Frequency Survey Wave I (February 2016) Overview and Preliminary Results, Utz Johann Pape and Johan A. Mistiaen, Global Poverty and Equity Practice, The World Bank July 21, 2016
[2] USAID Strategic Framework for Somalia: 2016 – 2019
How to apply
Interested Candidates should submit their CV and cover letter by 20th April 2023 to procurement-som@trocaire.org.
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