Consultancy: Development of a CDTD’s advocacy and lobbying strategy. At Center for Domestic Training and Development

Centre for Domestic Training and Development (CDTD)

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Consultancy: Development of a CDTD’s advocacy and lobbying strategy.

1. Organizational background:

Centre for Domestic Training and Development is a National, Non-Governmental Women Rights Organization that works towards better human rights and employment outcomes for Domestic Workers, especially girls and women in Kenya, through advocacy, skills training, job placement, education and protection. Established in 2001, CDTD’s mandate is to equip unskilled women and prospective local and migrant domestic workers from vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds with transitional skills for survival and employment. CDTD implements numerous programs to mitigate the vulnerabilities faced by girls and young women at risk of abuse and exploitation, while creating opportunities for them to recover and reintegrate into society. Over the years, CDTD’s holistic programming has benefitted child and adult victims and survivors drawn from: Abusive Domestic Work, Worst forms of child labor (WFCL), SGBV – Sexual and Gender Based Violence; illegal migration; refugees and asylum seekers; forced migration, local and cross-border trafficking settings among others.

CDTD offers courses in labour relations and rights, life skills, entrepreneurship education, housekeeping, laundry, childcare, food production and service, literacy and continuing education, and HIV/AIDS education. CDTD has endeavoured to dignify domestic work using a five-pronged approach of Protection, Skills Training, Economic Empowerment, Mobilization, and Advocacy. Owing to their vulnerability, occasioned by poverty and lack of education, most program beneficiaries have suffered untold abuse and human rights injustices in the hands of employers. To counter the gross abuse of human rights in the Domestic Labour Sub-sector, CDTD equips the youths and young women not only with skills but also empowers them with information on their rights and obligations so that they can negotiate fair terms and conditions of employment.

1. Project background:

In 2021, CDTD was selected as a beneficiary of the URAIA Trust, Women Voice and Leadership (WVL) program, funded by the Global Affair Canada (GAC) through CARE International and CARE Kenya. The WVL project is anchored on Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) which puts gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls at the heart of international development, humanitarian peace and security. The overarching goal of the project is to contribute to gender equality and the increased enjoyment of human rights on women and girls in Kenya. WVL’s objective is to strengthen Women Rights Organizations (WROs) in Kenya to enhance their governance, management, programming, and sustainability by enhancing their ability to deliver quality services and increasing the effectiveness of their platforms to effect policy, legal and social change.

3.0 Assignment Objectives:

It is on this background that CDTD is seeking the services of a qualified consultant or individual to support in the development of CDTD’s advocacy and lobbying strategy. Once developed, this advocacy and lobbying strategy will be implemented to enable CDTD to influence policies to advance and improve the lives of the target beneficiaries**.** The assignment will seek to strengthen the technical capacities of CDTD staff and affiliates with a focus on enhancing their analytic and methodological skills that are needed to support policy decisions, develop strategies, resource allocation plans, and conduct monitoring and evaluation.

4.0 Project deliverables:

In a bid to have the Gender Policy and other related tools developed and implemented, the consultant will be expected to;

• Develop and deliver a CDTD advocacy and lobbying strategy.
• Hold a meeting with CDTD staff and train them on the developed advocacy and lobbying strategy.
• Produce a report on the training meeting held with the staff within 7 days of the training.

5.0 Duration and timelines:

The development of the advocacy and lobbying strategy is to take 5 days and the training for the staff 1 day. Total Consultation days are 6.

6.0: Consultancy Competencies, Experience and Skill Requirements

It is expected that a consultant will conduct this task with strong policy advocacy and lobbying capacity building background and expertise.

For this assignment, CDTD requires a consultant with expertise as follows:

• Post graduate degree or equivalent in advocacy, international relations; development studies; social sciences or humanities.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in advocacy and Lobbying work.
• At least 5 years of proven experience working with Women Rights Organizations, NGOs, INGOs, government agencies or other organizations on advocacy and lobbying-related issues.
• Excellent advocacy, communication, analytical, planning and writing skills
• Must be result-oriented, a team player, exhibiting high levels of enthusiasm, tact, diplomacy and integrity
• Evidence of having undertaken similar assignments
• At least 5 years of proven experience in advocacy-related work.
• Strong facilitation and capacity development skills.

7.0 Payment and submissions:

CDTD will finance the cost of the consultancy to undertake the work. The amount to be paid will be negotiated with the consultant based on their proposed budgets. 60% payment shall be done upon contracting after a successful selection process and the balance shall be settled after approval of the CDTD’s Gender Policy and other related tools and a training report.