Job Description

11     Background

Save the Children has been working in Somalia for over 40 years. Save the Children Somalia country office is implementing integrated humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations in Baidoa in 6 IDP camps and 7 Host Community (listed below) through the provision of basic Education, Child protection and FSL interventions to the continued humanitarian needs of a population that has been through one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. The needs of IDPs are multi-dimensional and interrelated. An integrated approach aims to ensure the complex and inter-related needs are met with the most efficient use of resources, whilst addressing the underlying causes of vulnerability, in order to achieve the greatest impact.

The Lot HUM/DEV SPA programme aims to ensure strengthening the capacity of local actors in Education, Child protection, MHPSS, and increasing the resilience of children adolescent youth, and their families through a partnership with local actors including youth-led CSO in Baidoa. The target for the SPA programme will include the vulnerable children in Baidoa, including the IDP children, host communities, CwD, returnees, minority groups, vulnerable youths and adolescent, boys and girls. A needs assessment, employing different tools (gender analysis indicators, CwD-Washington Group tools, Key Informant Interviews, focus group discussions involving the Southwest (SW) state MoE, CEC, CWC, religious leaders and partners will be conducted to identify the specific locations, and beneficiaries, based on needs and vulnerabilities. Child protection cases will be identified together with community-based structures, such as CWCs, IDP committees etc., as well as other institutions, e.g. schools and clinics, which have regular access to children and women at risk. Child protection cases will also be identified and referred by local authorities, community leaders, parents, and from other humanitarian response teams such as health, nutrition, livelihood and education within SC, and other organizations operating in the target areas.

The purpose of this project is to increase the enrolment of vulnerable girls and boys with and without disabilities, in inclusive and protective learning environments, and improve teachers’ professional competencies; 2) to strengthen the capacities of local education and protection actors, including ministries and community-based structures, and integrate MHPSS in teacher training, peer-to-peer child club activities, and throughout protection activities; 3) Invest in capacity strengthening, access to

funding, and local leadership of NGOs and CSAs to advocate participation and fulfillment of child rights; and 4) Mobilise adolescents and youth for life skills training, psychosocial wellbeing, employment skills development, and strengthened interaction with duty-bearers to have an active role in employment conferences and innovative initiatives for climate change adaptation and job creation. The action aims to achieve four key result areas:

✓    Education: Vulnerable children, adolescents, and youth in Baidoa will acquire the appropriate skills and learning competencies in an inclusive and protective learning environment.

✓    Protection: Vulnerable children, adolescents, and youth in Baidoa will be protected from violence, abuse, exploitation, and neglect through a preventive and friendly environment.

✓   Protection: Local CSAs, including child- and youth-led CSAs, will have increased leadership in advocacy and coordination and be able to hold duty-bearers, the government, and the international humanitarian system to account for child rights.

✓   Child Poverty reduction: Adolescents and youth in Baidoa will be empowered economically, socially, and environmentally, with a particular focus on their voice and mental health and psychosocial wellbeing and be able to create a 

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