Training Curriculum Developer –Forced Labour and Trafficking

Purpose:

Consultancy to develop training curriculum on preventing, identifying and countering forced labour and human trafficking in conflict and humanitarian settings

Location: Home based, with the possibility of a mission to Turin, Italy

Contract Duration: 30 work days within a period of three months

Start and End Date:

Tentatively 10^th September 2018 to 10^th December 2018

Reporting to:ITCILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Specialist in Turin

1. Background

Having observed and documented the alarming increase in scale and scope of human trafficking and forced labour in conflicts, as well as natural disasters and other protracted humanitarian settings, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) wish to bring in their specific and unique mandates, expertise and experience in developing a joint training curriculum on Preventing, Identifying and Countering Forced Labour and Trafficking in Persons in Conflict and Humanitarian Settings.

This curriculum will be utilized to implement a pilot five-day face to face training course that will be jointly organized and facilitated by the two organizations. An online version (exact format to be determined subsequently) will also be developed to provide distance learning opportunities on the same themes to target audience members that are not able to take part in face to face training activities.

As several recent studies have indicated, conflicts, disasters and protracted humanitarian settings create very conducive conditions for trafficking and forced labour to thrive.

In addition to drivers prevalent in vulnerable communities and fragile situations, conflict and disaster can exacerbate existing trafficking situations and can cause new, crisis-induced forms of trafficking and exploitation, as a consequence of mass displacement, sudden loss of livelihoods, and collapse of rule of law and territorial control by armed groups.

These factors push the affected population to consider resorting to negative coping mechanisms, often leading to trafficking, forced labour and exploitation. The loss of hope and the breakdown of governance also play an important role contributing to the increased vulnerability of the population and to a heightened risk of trafficking and exploitation in situations of crisis. Trafficking prevention and response, however, have thus far either remained unaddressed within the humanitarian response, or not been addressed in a comprehensive manner, nor been perceived as a life-saving intervention.

Due to the absence and/or weak law enforcement and monitoring, limited coordination between different law enforcement authorities, non-reporting of forced labour and trafficking or the impunity perpetrators enjoy, ensuring the right of all workers to freedom from forced labour poses a major challenge in crisis settings. There is thus an urgent need to address these crimes while also responding to the protection needs of the most vulnerable amongst crisis affected groups.

UN humanitarian agencies, humanitarian NGOs, peacekeeping forces, political support missions and local civil society organisations may lack the knowledge and the technical capacity to do so. And evidence suggests there is a need for improved cooperation between the humanitarian community, which starts to operate at the outset of the crisis, and the development community, including local actors, who were present in the country before the crisis broke out.

Several IOM studies have established a clear link between trafficking, exploitation and crisis settings and have pointed to important gaps in the UN humanitarian response mechanisms that need to be urgently addressed.

ILO and IOM have unique technical knowledge and expertise that have significantly contributed to combatting trafficking and forced labour at the global level. The two organizations play key roles in inter agency forums such as the Inter-agency Coordination Group on Trafficking (ICAT) and the Alliance 8.7.

More recently the IOM has been co-leading the Global Protection Cluster’s Anti-trafficking in Task Team, which aims at identifying a mechanism to systematically include counter-trafficking efforts in every humanitarian response.

In 2016, the ILO’s Governing Body adopted the FUNDAMENTALS Branch’s Integrated Strategy on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work 2016-2020. It includes an action-oriented strategy on Promoting Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in Fragile Situations articulated around four pillars: improving public policies and governance; strengthening partnerships and advocacy; empowerment and protection of vulnerable groups and expanding the knowledge base.

2. Training course on preventing, identifying and countering forced labour and human trafficking in conflict and humanitarian settings

ILO and IOM have joined hands to develop a training course with the purpose of building the capacity and enhancing the skills and knowledge of local, sub national and national level practitioners to effectively prevent, identify and respond to trafficking and forced labour in situations of armed conflict, disasters and protracted unrest.

This course will focus on how to prevent and address those violations in the context of conflict and humanitarian settings, specifically, before, during and after the crisis, and, will emphasize operational best practices.

More specifically, it will:

• Familiarize participants with forced labour and trafficking, explaining their conceptual and legal frameworks, how they are interlinked.
• Enhance participants’ knowledge of how conflict and humanitarian settings impact on forced labour and trafficking, and challenges in preventing and combatting forced labour and human trafficking;
• Strengthen participants’ knowledge on the indicators of trafficking and forced labour and the modus operandi on a referral mechanism to access protection and assistance for victims;
• Provide specific guidance to participants on establishing or making use of basic referral mechanisms to support victims in crisis and non-crisis settings;
• Strengthen participants’ understanding of the UN Cluster System in conflict and disaster settings, as well as its strengths and weaknesses;
• Present participants with examples of best practices in addressing trafficking and forced labour in crisis settings and the current action to improve the humanitarian response and coordinate efforts;
• Explore and analyse with participants best practice and recommended actions to address trafficking and forced labour before, during and after a crisis;
• Increase participants’ understanding of the various mandates capabilities and limitations of relevant actors and stakeholders in their country settings and enhance participants’ skills to effectively engage with them;
• Introduce participants to established and potential coordination and collaboration mechanisms and share knowledge on how different actors can collaborate to combat trafficking and forced labour in crisis more effectively;
• Expose participants to existing tools and mechanisms that are relevant to combatting forced labour and trafficking;

The list of topics to be covered by the training include:

• Concepts and definitions of trafficking and forced labour;
• International legal framework on forced labour and human trafficking;
• Specific instruments that deal with forced labour and trafficking in conflict and humanitarian settings;
• Indicators of trafficking and forced labour;
• Operationalization of legal frameworks at national level, gaps and challenges
• The establishment or use of National Referral mechanisms and contingency planning in preparation of a crisis.
• Relevant national level actors, their mandates and capabilities.
• Relevant humanitarian actors, the UN Cluster System and its modus operandi.
• The rationale behind the engagement in crisis to respond to trafficking and forced labour (current challenges and gaps);
• Establishing or making use of existing coordination forums to improve the effectiveness of the response
• Community based action to prevent and combat forced labour and trafficking.
• Mainstreaming forced labour and trafficking concerns in humanitarian response including in Protection, Child Protection and Rule of Law responses and in relevant UN Clusters;
• Establishing or making use of referral mechanisms to assist victims
• Introduction to existing ILO, IOM and inter-agency resources, tools, guidelines and principles relevant to trafficking and forced labour

· Good practices and lessons learnt in preventing and combatting trafficking and forced labour in conflict and humanitarian settings.

· Specific actions for specific organizations/institutions (to be immediately operationalized in countries in crisis)

This five-day course is intended for staff of international and national agencies and civil society organizations which are active in combatting forced labour and trafficking, in crisis and non-crisis settings.

It is also addressed to protection and child protection practitioners, law enforcement actors including labour inspectors, police officers and prosecutors, as well as other professionals who are likely to encounter forced labour and trafficking in the course of their work, such as trade union and NGO representatives or health and safety inspectors, social workers, health practitioners, media personnel, etc.

3. Purpose of consultancy

The purpose of this consultancy is to develop the curriculum of a five (5) day training course on preventing, identifying and countering forced labour and human trafficking in conflict and humanitarian settings.

Expected output of consultancy

The expected output of this consultancy is the content of a curriculum of a five day (5) training course on preventing, identifying and countering forced labour and human trafficking in conflict and humanitarian settings.

The curriculum will be composed of the following:

• Course description and timetable

• Contents including key take away messages of six (6) modules (Overview of the issues: how conflict and humanitarian contexts affect fundamental human rights including the rights of workers; legal and policy frameworks and conceptual definitions of forced labour and human trafficking ; Identifying vulnerable groups and victims; countering human trafficking; Protecting at risk groups; Improving Inter agency coordination and action as well as action between the humanitarian and donor community, local actors and states)

• Session plans for each of the sixteen thematic sessions (see above list of topics); each session plan should stipulate the objectives of the session, the key messages to be conveyed and the relevant module (s)they pertain to, the methods to be used to deliver the session, the duration of the session (maximum 90 minutes per session) and the pedagogical and didactic material required

• Power point presentations, exercises, case studies and other relevant reference material for each one of the sixteen thematic sessions

The curriculum will make use of participatory as well as experiential learning methods and will be action oriented. The contents of the curriculum will be developed based on existing evidence including research and studies, good practices, and lessons learnt. However, it is acknowledged that although relatively more evidence exists in combatting forced labour and trafficking, specific evidence relating to conflict and humanitarian settings is currently growing.

The curriculum is also expected to draw from select training tools as well as operational guidance on forced labour and trafficking.

The content is to be drafted in English in a precise, concise and clear manner. The use of illustrative visuals including graphics, pictures and videos is encouraged in order to ensure the visual appeal of the content.

The following aspects are to be mainstreamed throughout the content: victim centred approaches, gender, ethnicity, evidence based practice, do’s/don’ts and other lessons from ongoing and past experience at national, regional and global levels.

Main tasks

The development of the course curriculum will entail the following key tasks:

i. Provide inputs into the design of the knowledge and skills gap analysis

ii. Based on findings of the knowledge and skills gap analysis and the structure and list of topics from the course concept propose a draft course description

iii. Review reference documents and literature

iv. With input provided by ITC-ILO, ILO and IOM on the contents, structure and length propose a draft outline for each of the six modules

v. Following agreement on the module outlines develop the contents of the six modules

vi. If needed conduct secondary research (literature, websites, email surveys to key experts) to obtain additional contents on approaches, intervention models and/or country examples

vii. Integrate into each module any content developed separately by IOM,ILO, ITC or other actors (sub committees)

viii. Following agreement on the modular contents propose session plans for sixteen training sessions (maximum 90 minutes each)

ix. Following agreement on the individual training session plans develop a draft agenda for a 4.5 day training course and the contents of sixteen training sessions

x. Submission of final drafts under ii., iv., v. viii., and ix. for IOM, ILO and ITC review and comments

xi. Consultant feedback on comments received; agreement on revisions.

xii. Revision of drafts; finalization of documents

Timeline and number of days of work

Tentative timeline for completion of work: September to December 2018

Number of days of work foreseen: 30 days. (To be confirmed following consultation with consultant).

Payment

First instalment of USD 4,500 upon satisfactory completion of tasks 1 to 4.

Second instalment of USD 4,500 upon satisfactory completion of tasks 5 to 9.

Third and final instalment of USD 4,500 upon satisfactory completion of all other remaining tasks.

In addition, the consultant will be paid DSA and travel costs according to standard UN rates for travel undertaken for the assignment.

Data sources

1. IOM and ILO reports, studies and project documents

2. IOM and ILO field network (information to be requested)

3. Secondary literature, reports, studies and publications of other UN agencies, websites (research work)

At present it is foreseen to offer the face to face training in English, as well as French, Spanish and Arabic.

The consultant is therefore requested to provide the references to any of the sourced material that may exist in languages other than the original language in order to aid the subsequent translation of the curriculum into the other course languages once the drafting of the course curriculum has been successfully completed.

Key competences, technical background, and experience required

• Advanced university degree in Social Sciences, Education, law or relevant discipline.
• Minimum 8-10 years of professional work Experience in developing training tools, training materials, manuals, guidelines and learning material.
• Experience in programmers involving one or more of forced labour, trafficking, child labour, protection, child protection
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Strong drafting, editorial skills and experience.
• Experience working on interagency initiatives is an advantage.

Interested candidates should send a brief covering note and their Curriculum Vitae/resume on or before the 20^th of August 2018 to the following email address: Ils-clflt@itcilo.org with the subject line titled: FL-Trafficking Consultancy