Terms of Reference Recruitment of Consultant to Provide Trauma Management and Psychosocial Support Services during Story Telling Exchanges in Yobe State at Plan International

Background: Plan International Nigeria is implementing the BMZ ÜH Project to Restore the Peaceful Coexistence and Social Cohesion of the Population Affected by the Conflict in the Lake Chad Basin. With the aim to promote social cohesion through the rehabilitation of social infrastructure and the integration of IDPs and refugees, the project will ensure that adolescent girls and boys, as well as young women and men in Yobe state of Nigeria have access to appropriate and timely SRHR services and structures and also, that Community mediation structures are in place in the project areas in Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger to prevent and deal with conflicts between members of the community and to promote non-violent conflict resolution and peaceful coexistence of the various different groups living there.

In the field of social cohesion and peaceful coexistence (all three countries), the target groups (beneficiary and/or target) are host communities, IDPs and refugees, as well as conflict resolution structures to be strengthened. These conflict management structures are already existing community committees (in most communities), which are functional and recognised by the communities as conflict resolution bodies. By supporting the structure-building activities (sub goals 1-3) by strengthening the (already existing) community committees, tensions and conflicts between the various groups should be resolved peacefully and thus ensure the long-term impact of the development outcomes. At the same time, it should be ensured that these communities do not take a "step backwards" and become stabilising communities again. To this end, the community committees must be strengthened and legalised (support that the state cannot provide). In addition, conflict-sensitive mechanisms for referring conflict cases to the competent authorities should be developed, a conflict database set up and conflict analyses carried out.

The mandate of the committees is to resolve emerging tensions and conflicts within and between the various population groups, e.g. to resolve access to basic social infrastructure, access to land, etc., to deal with cases of gender-specific violence and to resolve emerging tensions and conflicts between different age groups (young people - adults) or groups of different sexes (women and men, young women and men).