WASH Training Facilitator at Save The Children

 

2.0 Project Information and Background

Stop Diarrhea Initiatives (SDI) Project is funded by Reckitt Benckiser (RB) and is being implemented by Save the Children Nigeria in conjunction with Government of Nigeria to tackle diarrhea as a public health challenge and reduce the number of children who die from childhood preventable diseases. The project is being implemented in the entire communities, selected Schools and PHCs in Shomolu LGA and Bariga LCDA.

Community oriented resource persons (CORPs) are community volunteers established through the community development officials in their respective community. These people will be used to deliver services to household members on prevention and treatment of Diarrheoa especially for children under five. Relevant trainings and materials will be given to them to enhance effective delivery of their services in the communities; one of such trainings is water sanitation and hygiene (WASH). A manual has been developed to this effect and the State has developed Pool of Master trainers who have been trained on the WASH Manual with support from SC.

Save the Children in partnership with the Lagos State Government aim to fully implement the WHO/UNICEF 7 point plan as a Signature Programme in Shomolu LGA, the components of the plan are;

1. Rotavirus and Measles Vaccination
2. Promotion of early and exclusive breastfeeding and Vitamin A supplementation
3. Promotion of hand washing with soap
4. Improved water supply quantity and quality, including the treatment and safe storage of household water
5. Community wide sanitation promotion
6. Fluid replacement to prevent dehydration- Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS)
7. Zinc treatment

The focus of this consultancy services will be to deliver quality trainings to the CORPs in order to achieve our major objectives and goal of reducing child mortality and morbidity especially amongst children under five.

Currently, SC has developed a Manual on WASH for Community Oriented Resource Persons with inputs from all Stakeholders. This is the Training Manual that would be used to conduct the trainings in batches to all the CORPs across the life of the project – 4 years (2015 – 2018)

3.0 Objective

The general objective of this consultancy services is to build the capacity of CORPS to deliver relevant WASH services to household members in the Communities vis-à-vis the Stop Diarrhea Initiative (SDI) Programme. The specific objectives are to:

· Train the CORPs with an approved WASH manual for the implementation of the Save the Children stop Diarrhea Programme

· Enhance the knowledge of CORPS on how to make their drinking water safe, how to store their drinking water safely and good sanitation and hygiene practices and subsequently transfer the knowledge gained to the household members in our target communities.

· Build confidence of CORPS through practical demonstration, role play, interactive sessions, and group activities and, individual and group demonstrations on how to make their drinking water safe, store their drinking water safely and effectively transfer same to the community members on especially on good sanitation and hygiene practices.

4.0 Role and Responsibilities

The role of the Lead Consultant is to perform but not limited to the following;

· Train community oriented resource persons (COPRs) and Community Development Officers (CDO) annually based on the design of the project. To coordinate a team of not less than four trained co-facilitators/master trainers

· To also make agreed payments directly to the co-facilitators used during the training

· Train CORPS on conducting simple water quality tests in order to ensure that the quality of drinking water at household levels is in accordance with the WHO minimum drinking water quality standards as stipulated in the existing manual

· To use the MIKIKIR Job aid approach as described in the manual for negotiating improved practice and how it facilitates a focus on behaviour

· To also identify major barriers and motivators to the 3-key practices from the household members point of view

· Train the CORP members on the distribution and demonstration of chlorine tablets (water disinfectant tablets) to target households during their home visits in order to raise awareness about water treatment practices and to ensure an acceptable quality of water available for drinking

· This engagement would be recurrent annually

5.0 Scope of the Training consultancy

The scope of the consultancy service will be determined on a yearly basis by Save the Children;

This year activity is expected to be completed within 19 working days. Length of engagement is mainly for CORPs training, Community development Officers (CDO) and writing of training report

Planned ActivitiesDuration Training of CORPs and CDO (in batches) 6 Days Training Report 3 DaysTotal number of days for the actual activities 9-Days

Proposed date of commencement – 21^st July 2015

Proposed termination Date – 15^th August 2015

6.0 Outputs

Consultants shall prepare first draft which shall be submitted to SCI WASH unit for review within five (5) working days of commencement. The expected outputs from the consultant are but not limited to the following;

· Well trained CORPS with relevant information on their expected outcomes

· Training report

· Post training monitoring plan developed for the LGA Community Development Officers (CDO)

7.0 Reports

The consultant shall furnish to the SCI the following report and documents. All reports and documents shall be in English.

· Comprehensive training report with photos and sketches - soft copy

· Used training materials including flip chats

8.0 Target audience

The target audience for this year are one hundred and twenty (120) CORPs and Sixteen Community Development Officers (CDO). The target audience for the subsequent year will be determined at the beginning of the project year which will be communicated with the consultant.

9.0 Trainers

The trainers are some of the already trained master trainers on the use of the manual. These people will serve as co-facilitators while the lead facilitator will lead in all the supervision and quality of the training sessions.

10.0 Training Methodology

The training methodology is well stipulated in the manual which consists but not limited to the following;

· Practical demonstration

· Role play

· Interactive sessions

· Group activities and

· Individual and group demonstrations on how to make their drinking water safe, store their drinking water safely and effectively transfer same to the community members especially on good sanitation and hygiene practices and

· Community engagement and steps in carrying out the process in the household

11.0 Desired consultant should possess the following

The Consultant must have demonstrated expertise and experience, gained through years of experience working in development, Government ministries or other relevant industries (including academic). Candidate must demonstrate experience in some of the following areas:

· Familiarity with the WASH Manual developed for CORPs

· Proven experience with extensive community intervention work

· Able to demonstrate supervisory skills in monitoring and coordinating co-facilitators to be used for the training

· Able to demonstrate technical skills in training and coordinating community people

· Ability to relate to stakeholders in the States and communities

· The consultant should demonstrate extensive knowledge of WASH activities especially the basic for prevention of diarrhea for the children under five

· Have experience in developing basic sanitation and hygiene practices in communities

· Excellent facilitation and presentation skills

12.0 Education and qualifications for the Lead facilitator

The lead facilitator should possess minimum of Master’s degree in Water/Chemical/Environmental Engineering, Physical sciences, in public health or environmental sciences. Additional Qualifications in science based course, Development courses or any related field is essential.

13.0 Managerial and organizational Skills

· At least 7 years’ work experience working in WASH in government structures, Local NGOs or INGOs

· Experience of working with local communities in implementing WASH interventions is essential

· Ability to work effectively both independently (with minimal supervision) and as a member of a team

· Commitment to gender equity, child rights, community empowerment, and grassroots development approaches

· Effective planning and organising skills

· Effective interpersonal skills – oral and written communication skills

· Computer literacy skills – MS Office applications, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

· Strong facilitation and presentation skills

14.0 Education and qualifications for the other facilitators

Lagos State Government in conjunction with Save the Children has trained co-facilitators. These are people with wealth of experience in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) with educational qualification of minimum of master’s degree. In line with sustainability arrangement for the project, some of them will therefore be selected for this training and this will be determined by the SCI WASH team.