Facilitator Of Fundraising Training at ActionAid Rwanda (AAR): (Deadline 12 January 2023)

Facilitator Of Fundraising Training at ActionAid Rwanda (AAR): (Deadline 12 January 2023)

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR HIRING A FACILITATOR OF FUNDRAISING TRAINING   

1. Background information

ActionAid Rwanda (AAR) is a local non-Governmental organization and an Affiliate Member of ActionAid Global Federation, an Anti-Poverty Agency working with people living in poverty with focus on women and girls to eradicate poverty and injustice. AAR uses human rights-based approach (HRBA) as a programming model to tackle structural causes of poverty and injustice through empowerment, solidarity, and campaigning.  In its CSP under Operational Objective 1” Resource Mobilization” AAR seeks to ensure financial sustainability through the increase, diversification, and appropriate management of income for effective and efficient program implementation. Despite the COVID-19 effects on donors, AAR wants to increase its fundraising capacity to remain resilient in challenging economic situations while exploring new emerging funding opportunities both in-country and globally. It is with the above context that ActionAid Rwanda is recruiting a fundraising consultant to technically facilitate the training on resource mobilization for its staff.

2. Overall purpose of the fundraising training

The main objective of this training is to empower AAR staff with technical skills in development of quality concept notes and fundable full proposals as well as effective donor engagement

Specifically, the facilitator will:

• Prepare and share with participants the current fundraising challenges and required capacities to adapt new changes in resource mobilization
• Considering the ActionAid programme priorities: priority 1” Address the structural causes of violence against women and girls and secure women’s economic justice” and priority 2”. Strengthen resilient livelihoods and secure climate justice”; identify and share with participants the potential donors (both in-country and global donors) and their funding priorities as well as potential networks/platforms to timely access information on call for proposals (CFPs)
• Equip AAR staff with technical skills on how to analyse call for proposals and how to effectively develop a quality concept note that responds to donor expectations as set in the call for proposals (CFP) but also aligned with AAR programme priorities.
• Ensure AAR staff have acquired practical skills in developing fundable concept notes and full proposals include but not limited to effective problem analysis, setting SMART objectives, outcomes/outputs, activities and activity costing with advanced understanding of a critical pathway and problem tree analysis.
• Through group exercises, facilitate participants to identify key community issues for funding and fill the AAR existing concept note template with initial ideas

3. Expected Results

It is expected that by the end of the training, AAR staff will have the following fundraising capacities:

• Ability to analyse any call for proposals/funding opportunity with a written summary of key information about the CFP to inform GO/NO-GO decision.
• Increased capacity to identify potential donors and their funding priorities
• Ability to use critical pathway and problem tree analysis during concept notes development
• AAR staff are aware of current fundraising challenges and adaptation strategies to new funding models
• Advanced skills in development of quality concept notes and full proposals with practical skills to develop project budget and MEL Framework/logframe

4. Duration of the training

The training will last for five (5) working days starting from 16^th to 20^th January 2023

5. Qualifications and competencies 

• Applicants should demonstrate practical experience in concept notes/full proposal development preferably in the areas of GBV prevention and resilient livelihoods
• The facilitator must possess at least a Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Economics, Development Studies, Public Policy or any related studies with at least 5 years of experience  in facilitating similar trainings
• Must have proven experience in training, coaching, mentoring, and developing others
• Facilitator should have relevant experiences in donor scoping and intelligence mechanisms
• At least having more than 5 years working experience in developing funding concept notes/proposals on humanitarian action
• Track records on accomplishments of related assignments
• Ability to engage people in conversation and record feedbacks clearly and accurately
• Excellent facilitation skills
• Fluency in English. Speaking Kinyarwanda/French is an added value
• Organizational and team engagement skills
• Must have knowledge and comply to Sexual Harassment, Exploitation, Abuse and Safeguarding principles, policies, and procedures at work and in community

6. Application guidelines

Invited and qualified consultants should submit CV with 3 reference contacts from similar assignments, technical and financial proposal to Actionaid.Rwanda@actionaid.org  not later than 12^th January 2023 at 1:00 PM. Please indicate in the subject line: Consultancy to facilitate fundraising training

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