Life skills training development for trainers in Libya

Life skills training development for trainers in Libya

COMMUNITY STABILIZATION - DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY TRAINING-OF-TRAINERS ON LIFE SKILLS
CLIENT: IOM Libya
COUNTRY: Libya
START - END DATE: May-November 2020 (extended/expanded to March 2021)
VALUE (EUR): 29,500.00 €
PARTNERS: N/A
PROJECT DESCRIPTION

For communities in the south of Libya to have a chance to rebuild, there is a real and immediate need for programming focused on community cohesion and peacebuilding.

Due to the precarious economic and security situation for youth vulnerable to joining armed groups, participating in violent conflict, and exacerbating social cleavages in the south, there is an urgent need for interventions that encourage involved youth to be able to identify, empathize with and reach out to marginalized and at-risk communities. Skills in critical thinking, communication, and cooperation must be increased so these same youth are empowered to not only challenge proscribed narratives but propose new narratives that emphasize elements of commonality rather than exclusion and enhance social cohesion. 

Objectives:

The goal of the youth empowerment project is to directly contribute toward wider social cohesion and support communities in addressing drivers of community-level instability, which may also foster violent conflict. The project will be geographically focused in the southern Libyan city of Sabha, which is a place of insecurity, inter-tribal fighting, and competition amongst militias for control over illegal commercial activities and smuggling routes. The project’s goal will be achieved by training a cohort of 13 active students and faculty as trainers of peacebuilding and critical soft skills and supporting their implementation of local sessions for the wider student body. 

SERVICES PROVIDED

Aries Consult ltd made an expert available for the development of a training of trainers (TOT) for Sabha University students and faculty, with a focus on critical soft skills, as well as for the development, implementation and analysis of a training needs assessment.

  • Develop a perception survey to be disseminated among students and faculty at Sabha University, and provide analysis of survey results
  • Develop and facilitate a ToT for 15 students and faculty, including overall training plan, ToT learning objectives, relevant content and materials, guidance for trainers on the delivery of training, and Pre- and Post-Questionnaire
  • Design a Training Manual and supplementary materials
  • Edit the ToT curriculum and Trainer Manual in line with IOM comments/recommendations, results of perception survey, as required
  • Develop and facilitate a follow-up session with student and faculty trainers, including agenda, objectives, relevant content, and evaluative questions