Vacancy: Community Based Organization Engagement and Capacity Building

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Community Based Organization Engagement and Capacity Building

Tackling forced and child labour in Ghanaian Cocoa and Gold-Mining project

Funded by the Norwegian ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norad) 

Background

The Rainforest Alliance in partnership with the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and Solidaridad is implementing a project “Tackling forced and child labour in Ghanaian cocoa and gold-mining”, with funding from the Development Aid department of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norad. The project will be working on three pathways:

• It will be working with civil society and government to ensure better coverage and implementation of national commitments to end child and forced labor; 


• it will be supporting the roll-out of gender-sensitive human rights due diligence processes amongst companies and within supply chains; and 


• thirdly, it will be building the socio-economic resilience of vulnerable groups and children. 

As a result, children and vulnerable people in cocoa and gold-mining communities in Ghana will have increased socio-economic resilience and be protected against forced labour and the worst forms of child labor (WFCL).

Focus 

One output of this project is to strengthen and build the capacities of Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) to hold government and companies to account through communities' abilities to track and monitor commitments and enabling communities to demand services in line with commitments. The precise commitments will need to be defined through this consultancy and are expected to focus on the National Action Plans to combat child labour and to combat trafficking as well as the World Cocoa Foundation’s “empowered communities” objectives. As a result of the activities within this pathway, the project will address the lack of accountability in supply chains for forced and child labour. This will be done by:

1. Identifying and mobilizing Ghanaian CBOs and local communities based on needs and capacity


2. Developing training, tools and systems for community monitoring activities, including digitally


3. Building CBOs’/local communities’ capacity on monitoring government commitments and the supply chain commitments of companies 


4. Organizing local workshops with participating CBOs and community representatives to develop advocacy strategies towards the relevant government actors


5. Carrying out monitoring at the community level


6. Holding high-level stakeholder workshops and engagements with government Ministries, the Ghanaian Parliamentary select committee on Child protection, companies, traders, processors etc.

Rainforest Alliance and its partners are therefore looking to contract a service provider to lead the implementation of these activities.  Details of the requirements can be found below.

Service provider: result areas

The Rainforest Alliance is looking to contract a service provider / NGO that can support the following output: “Strengthen the capacities of CBOs to conduct advocacy and track gov't & company commitments on eradicating child labour and preventing forced labour” 

We are looking to contract a service provider to deliver the following activities to realize the above output:

1. Analyze current government, cocoa and gold companies’ commitments to tackle child and forced labour and advice on key commitments to monitor/track.


2. Update existing or develop new tools / systems and training to support community members to monitor child and forced labour commitments by governments & companies, based on best practices / lessons learned 


3. Organize two workshops to 1) discuss feedback and 2) pilot these tools to fine tune these tools / trainings


4. Together with RA and partners, develop Terms of Reference / criteria for community and CSO selection criteria, selection process and support RA in the execution of this process


5. Build CSO/local communities' capacity on monitoring government and supply chain commitments (2 workshops & Trainings) (CSO with consultant)


6. Support CSOs/local communities to use the tools and analyze results


7. Organize local workshops with CSOS & communities to develop advocacy strategy towards government and companies

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