Beschreibung der Beschaffung
The tasks tendered in this service contract relate to ARILA"s economic component (Output 2), which contributes to enhancing income-generating opportunities for vulnerable people in the conflict-affected area of Anbar. The main target groups of the measures foreseen under this assignment are unemployed youth and women. The services to be provided by the contractor aim at improving the target group"s perspective for dependent employment in selected economic areas outside the agricultural sector. The contractor is responsible for the provision of labour-market relevant short-term trainings for selected occupational profiles. These training courses need to be complemented by job matching services. Moreover, the contractor is expected to closely cooperate with the (organised) private sector to ensure that employers" needs are considered in the training contents.
In detail, the contractor will be responsible for the preparation, implementation and monitoring of four Work Packages (WP):
Work Package 1 (WP 1):
Developing short-term trainings to provide labour-market relevant skills for the non-agricultural labour market
WP 1 foresees the development of six (6) short-term trainings for selected occupational profiles. The final selection of the occupational profiles is to be based on the actual HR demands in the Anbar region. Special attention must be paid to defining occupational profiles and developing trainings which are suitable for women.
In close co-operation with the Vocational Training Center (VTC) in Ramadi City and its two satellite locations in Fallujah and Heet, the contractor is to either update existing or newly develop these short-term training courses (including training concept, curriculum, methods, materials).
It will be paramount to include regional employers in the development process of the trainings to ensure their relevance for the targeted occupational profiles and the comprehensiveness of the foreseen skills sets. The new curricula should move beyond theoretical teaching and learning but include a variety of practical training elements.
Work Package 2 (WP 2):
Improving managerial and teaching capacities of the Vocational Training Center (VTC)
WP 2 aims at enhancing the effectiveness and quality of TVET offers in Anbar. With the VTC in Ramadi being the central, state-funded institution to provide such offers in the region, the contractor"s task will be to build the managerial and teaching capacities of the Center.
Based on an institutional needs assessment, technical support to the VTC shall focus on improving the Center"s internal structures and processes. Additionally, communication and marketing measures are needed to reach out to and attract the relevant target groups to participate in the VTC"s trainings. Finally, the Center needs to establish a stable network and regular exchange with employers in the region to react swiftly to new or changed training demands.
For the teaching staff of the Center, methodological and subject-specific trainings shall be provided to enhance the implementation quality of the trainings.
Work Package 3 (WP 3):
Developing and facilitating a pilot phase of newly developed short-term trainings
The aim of WP 3 is to ensure that the newly developed short-term trainings (see WP 1) will be implemented in high quality. To this end, the contractor is to foresee a pilot phase, during which she actively supports the first round of implementing the new trainings offered by the VTC - both organizationally and technically.
The contractor"s organizational support to the VTC during the pilot phase includes communication measures to attract a high number of participants from the relevant target groups. It also entails consultancy on the selection and admission of participants. The technical support during the pilot phase is to concentrate on facilitating the actual teaching process. The contractor is requested to develop and implement a set of instruments - e.g., mentoring for the VTC teaching staff, provision of experienced co-teachers / co-trainers - to help the local teachers improve their technical and methodological competencies.
Finally, the pilot phase needs to be evaluated with a focus on necessary revisions of the newly developed curricula (WP 1), teacher trainings (WP 2) and organisational structures and processes within the VTC (WP 2) after the first round delivering the new short-term trainings.
Work Package 4 (WP 4)
Matching of training participants with potential local employers
WP 4 aims at matching the participants of the newly developed short-term trainings with companies in the Anbar region. Additionally, institutional linkages between the VTC, other training providers and companies shall be strengthened.
Matching of training participants to companies shall be achieved either by organizing respective matchmaking events (e.g., job fairs) or, alternatively, companies shall be able to directly file requests for trainees or staff. The matching scheme is to follow a needs-based approach and should especially consider the needs of and constraints for women in Anbar to find employment. Additionally, the contractor shall develop a concept on how to integrate traineeship placements into the newly developed short-term trainings at the VTC.
To foster permanent institutional linkages between the VTC, other training providers and Anbar employers beyond the matchmaking scheme, the contractor is to establish a respective stakeholders" network and initiate an "Anbar Skills Development Council". This Council is meant to strengthen ownership and self-governance among the stakeholders with the goal to produce a labour-market-oriented workforce in the region.