Tearfund Tender

Invitation to Bid for Promoting fair and peaceful elections consultancy The general purpose of this framework is for the consultant(s) to deliver and support Tearfund staff and partners to provide training for church and other religious leaders on supporting fair and peaceful elections, as requested and directed by relevant Tearfund cluster leads and country directors in conjunction with the Fragile States Unit based in Teddington, UK.Participants may also include other leaders such as local community leaders, political leaders and government officials. General Objectives The consultant must be able to complete the following tasks below. These tasks may be grouped together as one project or requested individually on a more ad hoc basis. The exact details of each piece of work will be specified in each individual purchase order. Provide design support to country teams in developing initiatives and projects in the area of supporting fair and peaceful elections: Advice for Tearfund country and partner staff on in-country preparatory work and relationship building with key stakeholders. Support in design of workshops appropriate and relevant for the specific country context. Facilitate relevant and contextualised training on promoting fair and peaceful elections: Providing training to staff and individuals in the areas of (not limited to): Conflict and electoral history analysis Understanding election cycles and the potential for conflict Mapping and engaging with electoral commissions, government authorities, observation bodies, relevant peacebuilding bodies/agencies etc. Developing and delivering conflict prevention strategies and activities Developing and delivering responses to potential conflict Observation and monitoring in elections Facilitate training for local facilitation assistants to prepare them to act as local facilitators and coordinators in support of the consultants when training has to be delivered remotely by the consultants. e.g. how to guide in-person participants of the training activities in objective 2The regions where Tearfund works are known as clusters. These six clusters are East & Central Africa, Southern & East Africa, West Africa, Eurasia & North Africa, Asia and Latin America & the Caribbean. The focus of the Fragile States Unit is currently on the Tearfund fragile state priority countries of: Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Chad, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Iraq, Lebanon and Haiti. It is likely that over the duration of this agreement other countries from different clusters will require work completed under this agreement too.Estimated total value of the framework agreement (covering projects for all consultants) $50,000 TEARFUND,