Capacity Building Associate

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Description

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Community security is an increasing concern in Cox’s Bazaar District. The influx of more than 740,000 Rohingya refugees since August 2017 has created security dynamics. It has also amplified pre-existing issues, such as drug smuggling and human trafficking. The situation in the refugee camps is especially troubling, given an increase in murders and kidnappings in 2019. Camp residents face a range of safety issues, such as theft, lack of lighting, drug use and smuggling, human trafficking, disputes over aid distribution, and gender-based violence. As the situation becomes more protracted, security issues in the camps and the rest of the district will become increasingly interconnected. The host communities are also facing the problem of enormous drug and human trafficking, disputes over livelihood and resource allocation, and domestic and gender-based violations. After successfully implementing the Community Recovery and Resilience (C2RP) Project for the host communities, it has been found that there is a critical need to support the host communities to ensure their safety and easy access to formal and informal justice and establishment of amicable coexistence between host and camp community. 

Based on the achievements, and lessons learnt of the C2RP Project in host communities, in 2020 the UNDP implemented a joint pilot programme in consultation with the UNHCR and IOM to support the camp communities. In this context, UNDP, UNHCR, and IOM have developed a community safety mechanism to strengthen the partnership and coordination among the APBn forces, District Police, District Administration, Judiciary and CiC’s and identify the issues related to security and social tension that need to be reduced and defend the criminal activities in camps and host communities. UNDP, UNHCR, and IOM successfully implemented the pilot programme and considering the lessons of the pilot programme, it is found that it has importance to work with the District Judiciary and District Legal Aid Committee to ensure legal protection, equitable access to both formal and informal justice mechanism of the vulnerable host and camp communities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support in  conducting comprehensive assessments to identify specific training needs within the community on community-based conflict resolution, conflict management, peacebuilding process, GBV and Violence against Children, youths and equitable access to justice for the communities.
• Support in developing training programs, and modules that address identified needs, ensuring alignment with project objectives and community requirements.
• Create accessible and culturally sensitive training materials, modules, learning materials and curricula on community-based conflict resolution, conflict analysis, conflict management legal aid and community peacebuilding process.
• Facilitate training sessions, monthly meeting, and awareness-building activities for community members, local authorities, and stakeholders including Mediators Forum and Union Legal Aid Committee, employing effective facilitation techniques to ensure understanding and participation.
• Support in enhancing  the capacity of community members to actively engage in peacebuilding, conflict resolution and justice-related awareness activities.
• Support in monitoring and evaluating  the effectiveness of the Mediation and Legal Aid programme, gathering feedback, field-level data, and making necessary analyses and providing technical input for programme development.
• Establish partnerships and support in coordination with the local partners, and stakeholders to achieve the overall objectives of the project. 
• Collect data to identify drivers of conflicts and the nexus between identities, culture, and conflict; develop community engagement strategies to support the mediation and legal aid programme in Teknaf and Ukhiya. 
• Support in preparing and sharing reports on training activities, progress on expected outcomes and challenges to project management and UNDP authorities.
• Maintain detailed records of training sessions, participant feedback, and relevant data to support reporting and future planning.

Required Skills and Experience

Min. Academic Education:

• Secondary Education or completion of High school diploma is required or
• University University Degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, or equivalent field will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement.

Min. years of relevant Work experience:

• Minimum six (6) years (with Secondary education) or three (3) years (with bachelor’s degree) of working experience in module developing/training and workshop facilitating/ reporting and documentation in the areas of consensus building/mediation/ADR peacebuilding and or conflict management. 

Required Language(s) (at working level)  

• Fluency in English and Bangla is required.
• Fluency in Local Chittagonian language will be given preference. 

Source: https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/requisitions/job/17625

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