Ref: R-Oct-19/31

Date: 21st Nov, 2019

TERMS OF REFERENCE

for
Resource Persons/Individual Consultants Required for Conduction of Various Training Events

Published on 21st Nov, 2019 in daily the News (RWP-ISD) and daily the Mushriq (Peshawar)
National Rural Support Programme:

Established in 1991, NRSP is the largest Rural Support Programme in the country in terms of outreach,
staff and development activities. It is a not for profit organization registered under Section 42 of
Companies Ordinance 1984. NRSP's mandate is to alleviate poverty by harnessing people's potential and
undertake development activities in Pakistan. It has a presence in 67 districts in all the four provinces
including Azad Jammu and Kashmir through Regional Offices and Field Offices. NRSP is currently working
with more than 2.5 million poor households organized into a network of 170,328 Community
Organizations. With sustained incremental growth, it is emerging as Pakistan's leading engine for poverty
reduction and rural development.

Background / Rationale

NRSP is implementing the PPAF funded project titled as “Livelihood Support and Promotion of Small
Community Infrastructure Programme LACIP – II in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”. The project is focusing in 4
union councils of Buner district.
District Union Council

Buner Pander, Shalbandai, Krapa and Aba khel

Project Objectives:

The overall objective of the project is to contribute towards the up-graduation of the overall living
conditions and quality of the poor communities and households in the four union councils of Buner
district. The project has three main components as follows:

Objective 1: Increased access to and sustainable utilization of social and economic infrastructure by the
population of project region.

Objective 2: Increased employment and income opportunities, especially for the poor

Objective 3: Strengthening of the local civil society and enhanced participation of the population in the
decision making at local level.

Duration of the project is from July 2019 to September 2020. There are various interventions in the
project. Capacity building of the communities (support to community institution) under Institutional
Development is one of the components among various interventions of the project.
NRSP is looking for potential Male and Female candidates for imparting Institutional Development
training under LACIP –II project in District Buner for community institutions already established in the
project districts. In order to strengthen these community institutes, the various training(s) (as listed
below) are being offered with purpose to building their capacity. Eventually these trained communities
could work around their capacity on several themes as proposed.
Scope of Work

Roles and responsibilities of the resource persons are as under:

 Coordination of training event (facilitation, registration, attendance, etc.)

 Finalization of each training schedule
 Collection of required resource material
 Preparation of training sessions
 Conduction of pre and post-test for evaluation of capacity building of training participants
 Conduction of training / training sessions
 Use participatory and adult training methodologies which includes two-way communication,
group work, brainstorming, roll play, presentations etc.)
 Compile and submit a short training report on the completion of each training highlighting the
training objectives, contents, methodology, group photo, expected outcome, participants’
satisfaction with the training resource person and training methodology, main conclusions and
recommendations.

Deliverables

 Training schedule / agenda prepared and shared with NRSP along with handouts furthermore will
be shared to PPAF for approval.
 Conduct/coordinate/facilitate the training programme for potential trainees on the basis of
provided training modules.
 A detail Action Document of each training as per requirement of donor
 Evaluation of training that should be the part of each report.
 Final training report along with verified complete registration forms, group photo, complete and
signed attendance sheets.
 Soft copies of all training sessions

Location of the assignment

The training will be conducted in the project area (district Buner)

 VCs and Village levels (mentioned above)

Details mentioned in the “Training Portfolio” as listed at the end of this document

Duration of the assignment

All agreed training activities will be conducted from December 24, 2019 till July 30, 2020. Resource person
/consultant are supposed to complete his/her work within agreed time frame, NRSP will monitor training
conduction progress very closely, if resource person /consultant will fail to conduct training as per agreed
work plan than NRSP has right to terminate his/her contract with immediate effect without giving any
notice.
Evaluation criteria and weighted value

Evaluation criteria Maximum Marks

Master degree in relevant subjects from renowned institutions 20

General experience 20
Experience in conducting training session 20
Experience in relevant subject 20
Report writing and presentation skills 20

Payment procedure

 Payments will be made upon the completion of agreed activity

 Payment will be made through cross Cheque
 All government taxes are applicable and will be deducted from each payment.

Requirement

 Covering letter/letter of intent and availability, (Clearly mention the name of training you are
applying)
 Detailed CV of Resource Person /Individual consultant. (CV should include all details as required
evaluating education, experience, previous assignments completed, relevance, writing skills,
sample report and presentations, effective communication and presentation.)
 Brief training design, contents, schedule and methodology of each training for which proposal is
being submitted.

Financial Proposal which includes:

o Lump sum /event (this cost should be inclusive of all applicable taxes, NRSP will
deducted as per law of land)
o Maximum available budget per day is Rs.25,000/- (inclusive of all applicable taxes)
Note:
1. Selection of Resource Person /Individual consultant will be ensured in the light of guidelines
provided by PPAF; financial proposal will be requested from short listed candidates as per PPAF
procedures.
2. Each resource person/individual consultant will be fully responsible to conduct complete
training event independently. Sessions related to project and NRSP/PPAF will be conducted
through NRSP own resource person(s).
3. Arrangements related to selection of training venue, confirmation and participation of trainees,
stationary, training banner, participants boarding lodging, training equipment and tools will be
responsibility of NRSP. So do not include any cost of these items in financial proposal.
4. Last date of submission of Proposal is December 05, 2019 to the below address in sealed
envelope clearly marked as
“CV/Proposal for Resource Person/Individual Consultant for
 conduction of training {name(s) of training- R-Oct-19/31}
Senior Programme Officer (Procurement)
National Rural Support Programme, IRM Complex, 7, Sunrise Avenue, Park Road,
Near COMSATS University, Islamabad. Ph:+92-51-8746170-3.
5. Resource person/individual consultant can apply only up to TWO TRAINING TOPIC.
6. Weighted value of the evaluation will be divided in to two parts; technical and financial, 80%
will be given to technical and 20% will be for financial quoted budget.
7. PPAF guidelines will help resource person/ consultants to develop the contents of training
(Annex-1).

Portfolio of Training

Sr# Training Name No. of # Resource No. of No. of

Days person Participants Events
/consultant (per event)
required

Community Training

1 O&M Trainings of CPIs (Operation and Maintenance) 3 2 20 5

Community Training on environment and Social 2

2 1 20 8
management

Community Training on Peace, Pluralism and Harmony 2

3 2 20 4
for Participatory Development

4 Conflict Resolution & Negotiation Skills 2 2 20 4

Community Training on Disaster Risk management and 2

5 2 20 4
infrastructure

6 Formation of CIG and its role in business growth 3 2 20 11

Annex-1

Training Portfolio

Training Title Content Details

Community Training

 Introduction to PITD/CPIs scheme and process to implementation

of scheme at community level.
 Participation of women in PITD scheme.
 Project identification, planning and implement of community
O&M Training of CPIs
infrastructure schemes
 Implementation, operation and maintenance and record keeping
of all CPIs (DWSS, Communication, Drainage & Sanitation,
Irrigation, Disaster resilient structure and climate change, solid
waste management etc.) schemes at UC and village level.
 Introduction to ESM
 Introduction to ESMF/ESSF
 Preventing execution of interventions with significant negative
environmental and social impacts
 Minimizing potential negative impacts by incorporating
mitigations at the design stage; and
Community Training on  Implementing mitigations at the implementation stage of the
environment and Social interventions.
management  Banned Pesticides

Major Environmental Issues

 Air pollution Water Pollution, Water Conflicts, Land

degradation, Solid & Hospital Waste, Hazardous Waste, Loss of
Biodiversity, Climate Change

Training will focus tolerance, brotherhood, religious harmony, conflict

Community Training on Peace,
management, pluralism and patriotism at local level. A ceremonial Peace
Pluralism and Harmony for
Walk is suggested at the end of the event in main town to educate
Participatory Development
general public.

Training will provide community members with number of ‘tools’ to use

Conflict Resolution & Negotiation when dealing with conflict. It will help persons involved in the
Skills (for VO Members) community development to resolve interpersonal differences,
specifically during implementation of project interventions.

 Introduction to Disaster risk management

Community Training on Disaster Risk  Component of disaster risk management
management and infrastructure  Factors of disaster risk
 Objective of DRR and DRM
 Types of Disaster
Training Title Content Details

 How to reduce disaster risk

 Preventions of disaster

 Introduction to CIG (Common Interest Group)

 Structure of CIG
 Difference between Formal development group and CIG
 Formation of CIG
a. Awareness and preparation
b. Group mobilization
Formation of CIG and its role in
c. Common interest dream and identification
business growth
d. Market Survey
 Role & responsibility of CIG
 Required financial and other resources
 Record keeping
 Planning for common interest
Business linkages growth