Consultant

at Danish Refugee Council
Location Kampala, Uganda
Date Posted January 2, 2024
Category Management
Job Type FULL_TIME
Currency UGX

Description

Consultancy on Developing/Reviewing and Updating an Agent Training Curriculum - RFP-UGA-SERV-2023-010

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) intends to engage a consultant/company to develop/ review and update an Agent/sub agent Training Curriculum that is in line with the Technical Assistance needs of its partner Omia Agribusiness Development group. The consultant/ company will review and update any existing training curriculum and roll it out to Omia agents/sub agents in an inclusive and gender sensitive manner to meet Omia’s needs. The consultant / company is also expected;

To develop/review and update any existing training curriculum on any of the 3 aspects of Value chains,Demo garden management ,Marketing and financial literacy
To work closely with the Omia and DRC RIF contact persons to ensure congruence with training curriculum needs and expectations;
To design training curriculum and a training script that can be easily used by The
Omia Agents and sub Agents; iv. To facilitate Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshops to 60 Omia agents/sub agents to rollout the Training Curriculum.

Background

The Refugee Investment Facility ( RIF) seeks to address the challenges of unemployment, lack of economic opportunity and limited access to services and goods that are faced by refugees and their host communities. The impact-linked loans provided through the RIF will allow the enterprises to maintain or build their focus on refugee and host community populations, grow their businesses, and be financially rewarded through interest rate reductions for direct and measurable impacts they have on the refugee and host communities they are serving. The RIF invests along four impact themes: increasing the employability of displacement affected populations; increasing decent employment for displacement affected populations; improving financial inclusion of displacement affected populations; and increasing access to relevant products and services for displacement affected populations.

Through the RIF, enterprises receive two types of support: (1) favourable financing through impact-linked loans and other financial instruments, (2) technical assistance for business development and refugee impact.

Impact-linked loans provide financing at concessional rates to impact organizations that are rewarded for achieving pre-agreed development outcomes. These loans will have longer tenors (~3-5 years) with the interest rates tied to achievement of outcomes (“better terms for better impact”). The more impact the organization achieves over the term of the loan, the lower its cost of financing. For the RIF, the interest rate for each company will be linked to one or more KPIs that relates directly back to impact themes of the facility, resulting in measurable impacts on decent work, capacity and skills, financial inclusion, and access to goods and services.

The RIF Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) is established to provide technical assistance to the RIF’s investees to support business growth and impact targets. While the impact-linked loans deployed by the RIF addresses key financing challenges for such enterprises, enabling business expansion, product and service delivery, and job creation by tailoring financing terms to the local context and individual enterprises, the target enterprises for the RIF will often need business development services and advisory on how to maximize impact in refugee communities to make the best use of the financing provided through the RIF.

Objective of the consultancy

The purpose of this consultancy is to support DRC in offereing Techincal Assistance in the form of quality Agent trainings to Omia’s Agents/Sub Agents through the development/ review and updating of a Training Curriculum in the areas of Value chains,Demo garden management ,Marketing and financial literacy

Scope of work and Methodology

A selected consultant/s will be expected to employ suitable methods/approach to develop/ reveiw and update the Agent’s training curriculum. The assignmnet design is expected to conform to ethical standards with clear quality control measures and adherence to ‘Do No Harm’ principles.

The Training Curriculum development/ review and updating should apply, but not be limited to, the following data collection methods:

Desk review

A review of training curriculum developed by any partner.
Gaps and needs assessment for Omia to understand its areas of focus with the three aspects mentioned above.
Field Visits

Undertake a physical training curriculum roll out with Omia’s Agents/sub agents in Arua district
Expected deliverables

Indicative description tasks

Phase 1

Develop/Review and update an Agent Training curriculum

Draft Training curriculum developed/reviewed and updated

The consultant/ consulting firm develops an agent training curriculum to support Omia’s training

Phase 2

Roll Out of the training curriculum( ToTs) training workshop

ToT Training workshop conducted

Conduct workshops with over 60 Omia agents/sub agens to rollout the developed/reviewed and updated training curriculum

Phase 3

FinalAgent Training curriculum

developed/reviewed and updated

Feedback from Omia ,DRC and Igravity to submit the final training curriculum