Human Rights Trainer

Background:

The Peace Track Initiative (PTI) was founded by Yemeni women inside and outside Yemen who came together in 2015 to support the peace process in Yemen. It was incorporated in Canada as nonprofit incorporation in 2017, hosted at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, at Ottawa University, and is hosted at To Be Foundation for Rights and Freedom in Aden, Yemen. PTI’s working areas include promoting inclusion of women and marginalized groups in the peace and political processes, as well as promoting the protection of women’s rights, and amplifying feminist knowledge and leadership. PTI operations are guided by the CEDAW, UNSCR 1325 resolution, and its subsequent resolutions on Women, Peace, and Security, as well as international human rights frameworks.

The Peace Track Initiative along with Elbarlament and To Be Foundation for Rights and Freedoms have been awarded funds by the European Union for the project “Towards enhancing the resilience of women human rights defenders in Yemen to advocate for women’s and children’s rights” in Yemen.

Description of the Project: The project aims at contributing to enhancing the resilience of women human rights defenders (HRDs) in Yemen to defend human rights, in particular women’s and children’s rights. To reach this goal, we will work on two parallel lines, namely enhancing female HRDs’ protection and improving their capacity to counter human rights violations and engage in advocacy to achieve more accountability.

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to enhancing the resilience of women HRDs in Yemen to defend human rights, in particular women’s and children’s rights. In order to reach this goal, the project follows two parallel but interrelated strands of work that can be subsumed under two specific objectives. Catering to the immediate needs of the project’s target group (women HRDs), the first specific objective is to enhance the protection of Yemeni women HRDs. The second specific objective is to improve women HRDs’ capacity to counter human rights violations and abuses in particular with regards to women’s and children’s rights, as well as engage in advocacy for enhanced accountability.

Project outputs: One of the outputs of the project includes developing a leadership programme for WHRDs that includes strengthening their Human Rights skills related to documentation and accountability. This terms of reference is seeking the soliciting of service to deliver such a training.

Purpose of the Training: The Human Rights training aims at acquinting the participants with principles of protection and Justice. It also aims at familiarising the WHRDs with relevant international norms and legal framework including international commitments that Yemen have ratified. It also focuses on explaining the UN Human Rights mechanisms including the HRC and Special procedures mandate holders. The training will also cover issues related to accountability including how to document human rights violations and abuses, how to submit official submissions and complaints, reports, how to understand the HRC sessions agenda, and how to influence at the HRC level. A special focus will be on advocacy opportunities on Yemen including the upcoming ESCR review planned in 2023.

Responsibilities:

• The consultant will deliver training sessions online to a group of 30 women HRDs covering conflict and gender analysis based on a pre-assessment with the group to customise it to their needs. The training should not be planned more than 3.5 hours a day and no more than 3-5 days in total.
• The consultant will design, develop, review and contextualise lessons and training material in to suit participants and ensure integrated approach in training materials;
• The consultant will develop outlines and templates of different aspects of conflict and gender analysis including to ensure that the women HRDs are able to use the templates smoothly.
• The consultant will design in consultation with PTI a feedback form about the training and will share its results with the project team.

Time frame and deadline:

The training should be delivered within 7 months before the end of April 2023.

Main deliverables:

• Pre-assessment to customise the training for the needs and measure the participants knowledge and post assessment report/knowledge check to measure increased knowledge on the different topics provided in Arabic.
• Tailored training outlines naming modules with relevant links.
• Training materials including tools, presentation, any handouts.
• Final narrative report highlighting challenges and recommendations for future training or follow up and including quotes, photos, and feedback from participants.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Masters degree in relevant field.
• Five years and above experience working on gender in fragile contexts and at least one year of delivering conflict and gender analysis.
• Knowledge of human rights and women, peace and security agenda is a plus.
• Experience working in MENA region and with Yemenis is a plus.
• Fluent in Arabic and English, both written and spoken is essential.