THE UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND (UNFPA)

Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean invites applications from suitably qualified individuals

 

JOB ID NO:	2023/JCFTOT-001
CLOSING  DATE:	Thursday, May 25, 2023
CATEGORY:	Individual Consultancy
POST TYPE:	Non-rotational
DURATION	Approximately Three (3) months
ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT:	UNFPA Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PURPOSE OF CONSULTANCY

 

During 2022, the collaboration between UNFPA and the Domestic Violence Unit of the Community Safety and Security Branch (CSSB) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) saw the training of approximately 500 police, between DV intervention care centre managers, station commanders, representatives of CISOCA, chaplains, peer counsellors, among others. These training aimed to build capacity among police constables - most of them first-line respondents - to appropriately respond to cases of gender-based violence, including when police officers are among the perpetrators or survivors. The training was delivered in line with Jamaica's policy framework as well as international standards including the survivor centred approach and Essential Service Package (ESP).

In order to guarantee the sustainability of this initiative beyond the Spotlight Initiative, it is key to equip the JCF, especially the CSSB and CISOCA, and the National Police College of Jamaica (NCPJ), with trained trainers that then will be able to guarantee the implementation of continuous training and pre-service training for the police sector.

Accordingly, in the framework of the phase 2 of the Spotlight Initiative, the Community Safety & Security Branch, in partnership with the National Police College of Jamaica, will host two (2) Training of Trainers on domestic violence.

The aim of the training is to develop a cadre of trainers drawn from divisions across the island and to have trainers at the NCPJ. Their role is to conduct domestic violence sensitization and training of police officers in their respective divisions and areas; as well as future police constables. The Trainer of Trainers course will build upon the training material that was already created and used for the training in 2022, improved as needed on the basis of the feedback received by the trainees.

The course will have five (5) modules, and its delivery will span approximately six (6) weeks. It will include participatory adult learning techniques, including role plays, analysis of scenarios, presentations, and a final entire week of practicum exercises that will permit to assess both the knowledge and the skills acquired as trainers. The first training of trainers is expected to take place between  June and July 2023 as a pilot reaching a first group of approximately 21 trainees, trainers of the NPCJ and corporal sergeants with previous teaching experience. After the finalization of the course the trainees will pilot it (with police officers in the college or in divisions where there are trainer constables) to provide feedback for improvement.

BACKGROUND

The Spotlight Initiative (SI) Jamaica Country Programme will use a multisectoral, multi-layered, interlinked community-centered approach to the implementation of the interventions on the following six Outcome Areas based on the socio-ecological model for addressing SGBV:

• Pillar One: Legislative and Policy Frameworks
• Pillar Two: Strengthening Institutions
• Pillar Three: Prevention and Social Norms
• Pillar Four: Delivery of Quality, Essential Services
• Pillar Five: Data Availability and Capacities
• Pillar Six: Supporting the Women’s Movement and CSO

The SI in Jamaica will address three key priority areas within the overall focus on Family Violence against women and girls: 

1. Child Sexual Abuse, 
2. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) 
3. Discrimination against vulnerable groups. 

The approach will be guided by the ecological theory that underpins the connections between family and society. According to the Women’s health Survey (2016), 25.2% of Jamaican women have experienced physical violence by a male partner, and 7.7 per cent have been sexually abused by a male partner. Lifetime prevalence of intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence against Jamaican women is 27.8 per cent. 28.8 per cent of Jamaican women have suffered emotional abuse, and 8.5 per cent report having experienced economic abuse.

To combat violence against women and girls in Jamaica, it is necessary to provide survivors and persons at risk of gender-based violence (GBV) with quality and timely access to comprehensive multi-sectoral services. These incudes psychological/psychosocial support services, health care services, as well as police and justice response services. Increasing the quality and accessibility of these services is essential in mitigating the consequences of violence including the effect violence has on the wellbeing, health, and safety of survivors, breaking the cycles of violence women and girls face, assisting in their recovery, bringing perpetrators to justice and empowering women and girls.

The work of the JCF is a core component of the multi-sectoral response to Gender Based Violence in Jamaica. Police have a crucial role to play in combating GBV. For example, under the Domestic Violence Act (DVA) the JCF is responsible for and obligated to assist survivors of IPV/DV in obtaining
protection orders, enforcing these orders, filing reports of IPV/DV, and laying charges against perpetrators.

Nevertheless, according to the Women Health Survey, in 2016, 63% of abused women DID NOT seek help from any of the critical services (Source: The Women's health survey). UNFPA leads Pillar 4 of the Spotlight Initiative that focuses on supporting CSOs and government institutions in improving the quality of coordinated services for survivors of GBV. 
 

Scope of work – inter alia

Overall Objective:
Support to the Community Safety and Security Branch of the JCF, the National Police College of Jamaica and UNFPA to organise the training package for the Training of Trainers (ToT) in the police response to DV using the materials already existing.

The content of the ToT will include:
Module 1 – Preparation of trainers

• Introduction to training
• Basic training skills
• Developing training plans
• Writing training and learning objectives
• Preparing for presentation
• Participatory adult learning techniques
• Dealing with participants reaction
• Raising awareness of self and the others / Psychology of self / revision of personal biases
• Evaluating training

Module 2 – Fundamental concepts related to gender and Gender-Based Violence

• Gender awareness, roles, and messages
• What is Gender-based violence, root causes, contributing factors and consequences.
• Gender-based violence the Global context
• Perpetrators of GBV

Module 3 – Jamaican policy and legal framework related to Domestic Violence and the role of the DVICARE centres

• What is domestic violence, types, causes and cycle.
• Risk Assessment
• JCF SOP on domestic violence intervention
• EWARs tool for response and prevention
• The laws on domestic violence
• DV involving police (perpetrator, victims and supervisors)
• Prevention of Sexual Harassment, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
• Develop a standard methodology and resource package templates and guidance, based on lessons learnt in the region and globally, which can then be adapted at the national level, by countries wishing to start the process of the ESP implementation or revise and improve the process in which they are already involved.
• Conduct a consultation with countries that have developed their own tools for the assessment, planning and implementation of the ESP, to gather information highlighting best practices and challenges, as well as templates used in the Caribbean and with selected global examples in other regions globally.
• Conduct a set of consultations with key stakeholders from the different sectors of work and government partners, so as to inform key components of the resource package that can speak to their preferences, capacity and main needs in the planning of and implementation of the ESP.
• Develop the standard methodology and resource package for the planning and implementation of the ESP for the Caribbean, including assessment tools, costing plan guidance, relevant administrative and technical templates, M&E Framework, and capacity building plan based on gaps identified.
• Present the resource pack during a validation session, following which, tools will be finalized.
• Review and finalize the final draft of the lessons learned study, identifying the key lessons learned in the implementation of the ESP at national levels across the region.
• Review the current draft of the study and make sure it is comprehensive, technical and strategically positions UNFPA as GBV lead in the implementation of the ESP as well as the ESP CoP (with special focus on sustainability recommendations).
• Reach out to countries and territories that have not yet been able to provide feedback, to give them another chance to do so and incorporate their inputs and preferences.
• Based on data collected from the ESP Study, organize the data and allow for key information to be used in the development of a dashboard outlining the work being done across the region.
• Work with graphic designers to make sure the study is properly reflected in the website and ready to be launched.

Module 4: Response to Domestic Violence according to the national policy framework and international quality standards

• International standards in the response to GBV (Essential Service Package and survivor centered approach)
• The service providers survivor centred communication skills
• Roles and functions of the CSSB and DVICARE centres
• Interviewing techniques
• Recording of incidents and data collection and analysis guaranteeing confidentiality
• Safety planning
• Danger to safety protocol
• Roles and function of the Bureau of Gender Affairs
• Response in case of sexual assault (CISOCA and other agencies)
• The role of the health, justice, judiciary and social service sectors and the agencies networking for the continuum of care
• Referral pathway and warm referrals
• Understanding domestic violence at the regional level, case study

Module 5 – Practicum exercises
The consultant, with the guidance of and in collaboration with the coordinators of the training (DSP at the DV Unit and the SI Focal Point at UNFPA) will have to:

• collect the PowerPoint and content delivered in 2022.
• identify any possible gaps and collect missing materials from the proposed participators.
• coordinate with the team of facilitators to secure agreements on the topics to be presented and on the way the presentation will be conducted and the existence of material to be handed over to the trainees at the end of each module.
• building upon the PowerPoint and the inputs received from the facilitators, draft the facilitator’s guidelines per each module, if they do not exist.
• organise the already existing material so that for each module there are comprehensive PowerPoint presentations, a detailed facilitator’s guidelines, case studies, role plays, ad-hoc pre- and post-tests, assessment forms to be used by facilitators to assess the knowledge acquired and the skills improvement of each trainee (and to identify areas to be further strengthened), evaluation forms to assess the quality of the training (to identify limitations, areas of improvement, relevance of the training with the expected results/objective), a report form on each module to outline achievements, gaps identified and other noteworthy observations from the training conducted. The package for each module will have to also include the handouts that will have to be referred to including the methodology for their use in the facilitator’s guide.

 

Submission Details

Interested Individual Consultants should submit their Application packages by Thursday, May 25, 2023 23:59 Hrs (EST) by email to vacancy.sroc@unfpa.org ONLY and register in UNFPA Consultants Roster via this link: http://consultantroster.unfpa.org.  

 

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To apply, kindly submit application letter and CV to:

 

Vacancy #: 2023/JCFTOT-001

The Spotlight Initiative

14-20 Port Royal Street, Kingston
Email:  vacancy.sroc@unfpa.org

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

 

 

Note:

• There is no application, processing or other fee at any stage of the application process. 
• UNFPA does not solicit or screen for information in respect of HIV or AIDS and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status. 
• UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, teamwork, respect for diversity, integrity and a healthy balance of work and life. We are committed to maintaining our balanced gender distribution and therefore encourage women to apply.