Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) Trainer
Role Summary
Detailed description available on the official website.
About the Organisation
Trócaire is an international NGO. We work with local partners in the world’s most at-risk communities and with people in Ire-land to tackle the underlying causes of poverty and injustice and respond to the crises they create. Together we bring about positive and lasting change for a just world. Trócaire works in up to 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
Trócaire works with local partners and civil society actors to support communities in over 20 countries with a focus on localisation, resource rights, women's empowerment, and humanitarian response. With our partners we work with some of the world's poorest and most marginalised people, supporting women, men, and communities for long-term change. More information about Trócaire is available at [www.trocaire.org](http://www.trocaire.org/).
Trócaire is a partner-oriented organisation, committed to the principles of localisation of development and humanitarian aid, including building the capacities of its local partners wherever it works to ensure their ability to operate effectively and respond to humanitarian emergencies or crises with measurable impact.
Trócaire is currently implementing a project funded by RDPP, in collaboration with three partner organisations who work as both protection and advocacy actors in Lebanon, including under the project's Masidama component (“thinking differently”), which works with beneficiaries to challenge and shift social norms, particularly around gender roles, through life skills training and community-level initiatives that beneficiaries themselves organise to amplify this message. It aims to strengthen the partners' practical understanding and consistent application of HRBA principles across their programmes, including their protection and advocacy work. The intervention provides an opportunity for shared learning among the three partners.
This training is the first of three complementary capacity-strengthening trainings delivered to the three partners under this project this year, followed by Sphere Standards and then Conflict Sensitivity. This training introduces the rights-based framework, including duty-bearer and rights-holder analysis, that the Conflict Sensitivity training will build on for actor and power analysis; the trainer should establish this vocabulary clearly, as it will not be re-taught in the other sessions.
Minimum Requirements
- University degree in human rights, law, social sciences, development studies, international relations, or a related field.
- Proven experience applying the Human Rights-Based Approach in development programming.
- Proven experience designing and delivering participatory HRBA trainings for NGOs, civil society organisations, or development actors.
- Experience integrating HRBA within protection or GBV programming is an asset.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
- Arabic language is a must; training materials should be available in Arabic.
- Ability to work collaboratively with diverse partners.
- Strong analytical and report-writing skills.
Working Conditions
- Develop and deliver a 2-day joint training session for relevant partner staff and focal points. The trainer is expected to propose and include appropriate evaluation tools to measure transferred knowledge pre- and post-training. Training material will be reviewed and signed off by Trócaire prior to the workshop.
- The training should include the following:
- Day 1: Introduction to Human Rights and HRBA
- Outline of human rights key concepts and standards
- What is a Human Rights-Based Approach in programming and why is it important
- Overview of a Human Rights-Based Approach in programming – illustrated using a range of examples relevant to partners’ RDPP project activities
- Conducting a problem analysis from an HRBA perspective
- Identifying duty bearers and rights holders (roles, responsibilities, and power relations), illustrated with examples relevant to the partners' own operating environment, e.g. national and local duty bearers such as the Internal Security Forces (ISF), Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA), and Ministry of Interior and Municipalities (MoIM), and relevant international actors such as UN bodies, where applicable
- Day 2: Applying HRBA in Practice
- Integrating HRBA into programme design and planning
- Applying HRBA principles in programme implementation, for example, meaningful community participation and engagement, non-discrimination and equality, empowerment of rights holders, and accountability via processes such as Feedback and Complaint Handling Mechanisms (FCHM)
- HRBA in MEAL, covering both programme processes and outcomes
- Partner application and action planning: each partner identifies one current or planned piece of work (e.g. an advocacy engagement, a service design element, or a project tool) and develops a short, specific action note applying an HRBA lens to it, to feed into the partner-specific section of the final report
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