Search for Common Ground Indonesia
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Curriculum Development for Capacity Building for Youth on Digital Literacy
Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Indonesia invites applications from individual consultants/firms/research organizations to develop a training curriculum to build the capacity of youth on digital literacy, that will be held in Jakarta, Bandung, Solo, and Yogyakarta.
The training aims to strengthen the capacities of young social media influencers to detect hate speech via mass media and social media and create content that promotes freedom of religion and belief (FORB) and peaceful messaging.
The Organization
Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is an international peacebuilding organization that promotes the peaceful resolution of conflicts. SFCG's mission is to transform how individuals, organizations, and governments deal with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and toward cooperative solutions. SFCG seeks to help conflicting parties understand their differences and act on their commonalities. SFCG implements projects from 56 offices in 35 countries, including in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.
SFCG has been working in Indonesia since 2002 and is implementing programs in conflict transformation, peacebuilding, prison reform, conflict-sensitive journalism, electoral participation, and initiatives with youth, media, government agencies, informal religious leaders, and women's groups across the country.
Background
The Indonesian public is particularly prone to provocation when it comes to issues of religion and ethnicity both offline and online. Online, the lack of digital literacy or ability to critically evaluate content on social media results in difficulties identifying factual information from false and inflammatory content. The Digital Civility Index (DCI) Report published by Microsoft in 2020 ranked Indonesia 29th of the 32 countries analyzed, meaning that Indonesian internet users are among the most exposed to risks in online interactions, such as trolling, mean behavior or harassment.
Indonesian youth are most at risk of exposure to hate speech and other negative aspects of online engagement as eight out of ten internet users in Indonesia are under 36 years old. Their heavy use of social media facilitates freedom of speech among youth and instills this freedom as a core pillar that fosters democracy, yet it is also a medium through which propaganda from hardline groups with exclusionary narratives target at-risk populations that lead to their intolerant sentiments and actions against members of religious and ethnic minorities.
Meanwhile, government and civil society actors continue to struggle to find effective strategies to counter this messaging and prevent vulnerable groups from engaging in intolerant and violent extremist activities. While a broad range of media actors are engaged in promoting positive alternative narratives, including promoting religious tolerance, there are gaps in their capacity that need to be addressed. A Social Media Use Needs Assessment for At-Risk Groups & In-Depth Analysis of Use of Social Media in Indonesia carried out by Search identified the needs of positive narrative actors, such as youth influencers, including a greater understanding of problems and root causes they seek to tackle, clarity on the objectives and design of their communication campaigns, and measures of success.
Under the project of Supporting Youth and Credible Actors' Initiative to Promote Religious and Ethnic Freedom (CREDIBLE), Search seeks to strengthen the capacity of young influencers on social media to increase understanding about the importance of religious tolerance and rights.
Objective of the Consultancy Service:
For the purpose of strengthening the capacity of young influencers on social media that can increase understanding about the importance of religious tolerance and rights, Search seeks a consultancy service to help build a training curriculum/modules on the use of digital literacy for the promotion of religious tolerance and rights. In addition to covering the theme of media tools, techniques and strategies, the training will also address concept of tolerance based on the applicable national and international standards and the non-adversarial Common Ground Approach (CGA).
In collaboration with an external partner, Search will implement the capacity building trainings for Youth on Digital Literacy training in four cities: Jakarta, Bandung, Solo, and Yogyakarta.
Development of the training curriculum/modules
The consultant(s) will be required to collect and review the existing literature (books, reports, articles, etc.) and training materials on human rights-based tolerance and non-adversarial common ground approaches (conflict transformation, alternative dispute resolution), and the use of on/offline media for their promotion. The consultant(s) will also be required to invite inputs from Search and the key project partners' team members especially of Indika Foundation and Campaign.com on the training contents that will best serve the training purposes.
Based on the review and the consultation, the consultant(s) will be required to produce an outline of contents for the training curriculum/modules. Once the outline is mutually agreed upon with the Search team, the consultant(s) will be required to develop the draft of the training modules/curriculum, lead the consultation and testing processes through a two-day training of trainers (TOT) with Search and its project partners, and incorporate inputs or feedback generated from the processes. Last, the consultant(s) will finalize the training modules/curriculum.
Methodology
The analysis will be primarily based on a qualitative methodology to gather key data to develop the training modules/curriculum on the use of digital literacy for the promotion of religious tolerance and rights. Furthermore, the consultant(s) will be requested to conduct several stages of analysis, including:
- Document reviews regarding current practices and gaps in existing modules/curriculum trainings such as on the use of media for the prevention of violent extremism, the non-adversarial and human rights-based approaches in advocating FORB, and the journalist's guidance to report FORB issues.
- The consultant(s) must work closely with the SFCG team to make sure all relevant documents and materials available inside and outside SFCG repositories are collected, reviewed, and used as a reference for the training modules/curriculum development processes.
- When necessary, the consultant(s) should also conduct individual interviews or focus group discussion with relevant experts in the field of the media campaign for the promotion of tolerance and protection of minorities in Indonesia.
Scope of Work
The scope of work of the consultant(s) will include the following:
- Undertake the document reviews, interviews, or consultative meetings with Search and its key project partners to collect relevant materials, current best practices, and gaps in the trainings on the use of media and youth engagement for campaigning tolerance, protection of minorities, human rights based and non-adversarial approaches.
- Develop a training module/curriculum on the use of digital literacy for the promotion of religious tolerance and rights that can be used to train youth influencers both in person and through online platforms.
Key Duties of Consultant(s)
- Collect, analyze, and document information related to the use of media and youth engagement for campaigning tolerance, protection of minorities, human rights based and non-adversarial approaches in Indonesia and other countries.
- Interview key experts in the field of media and youth engagement for campaigning tolerance and protection of minorities and consult with SFCG and its project partners on themes to be included in the training modules/ curriculum.
- Propose outline of contents to be included in the training modules/curriculum on the use of digital literacy for the promotion of religious tolerance and rights with human rights based and non-adversarial approaches.
- Produce a draft of training modules/curriculum on the use of digital literacy for the promotion of religious tolerance and rights with human rights based and non-adversarial approaches.
- Lead or participate in the interview or consultative meetings with Search and its project partners to invite inputs and feedback to drafts of the training modules/curriculum.
- Incorporate feedback and inputs generated from the stakeholder's consultation into the revision of the draft.
- Lead or participate in the user testing processes of the training modules/curriculum (a 2-day TOT).
- Incorporate inputs and feedback generated from the user testing processes into the drafts.
- Finalize drafts of the training modules/curriculum.
Deliverables
Within the consultancy period, the consultant(s) is expected to complete the above-mentioned scope of work. The deliverables are as follows:
- Inception report and work plan completed within the first 7 days. The inception report should have detailed steps on processes needed to complete the assignments including the methodological approach that will be used and a list of preliminary documents that are relevant to the training modules/curriculum. The inception report and the list of preliminary documents need formal approval from the SFCG Indonesia team before starting the processes to work on assignments.
- Draft of the outline of contents to be included in the training modules/curriculum and key aspects of each content. The report is subject to the SFCG Indonesia team's review. The report should be submitted in Bahasa Indonesia, in an MS Word document format.
- First draft of training modules/curriculum. The draft should include at least the objective of each learning session, its methodology, its processes, its hand-out materials, and a tool to assess progresses in learning.
- Second draft of training modules/curriculum, the draft should be tested and revised incorporating feedback and inputs from the testing processes with SFCG team and/or SFCG stakeholders.
- Final drafts of the training modules/curriculum. The review and feedback may take multiple rounds depending on the quality of the report. No final payment will be made until the report is formally approved by the SFCG team. One copy of the final report should be submitted in Bahasa Indonesia, in MS Word format.
The consultancy period will be between May 17 to June 30, 2023. The applicant is expected to propose the minimum number of person-days required for the assignment. The consultant(s) preferably should be based in Jakarta.
| SN | Activities | Deadline |
| 1 | Application Deadline | May 12, 2023 |
| 2 | Signing of the contract | May 17, 2023 |
| 3 | Inception report submission | May 19, 2023 |
| 4 | Proposed outline of contents to be included into training modules/curriculum | May 24, 2023 |
| 5 | 1st draft of the training modules/curriculum report submission | May 29, 2023 |
| 6 | 1st draft review by Search and partners | May 31, 2023 |
| 7 | 2nd draft of the training modules/curriculum report submission | June 5, 2023 |
| 8 | 2nd draft review by Search and partners | June 7, 2023 |
| 9 | Preparation and implementation of TOT/testing of Training modules/curriculum | June 12-14, 2023 |
| 10 | Final draft of the Training modules/curriculum | June 19, 2023 |
Remuneration
The schedule of payment of the consultancy fee is as follows:
1. 20% will be paid upon approval of an implementation plan and Inception Report.
2. 20% will be paid upon approval of the 1st draft of the training modules/curriculum report submission.
3. 20% will be paid upon approval of the 2nd draft of the training modules/curriculum report submission.
4. 40% will be paid upon approval of final draft of the training modules/curriculum report submission.
No Payment (second installment) will be made unless the report is approved by the SFCG Indonesia team.
Supervision of the Consultant(s)
The consultant(s) will work under the Program Manager in collaboration with program staff of SFCG Indonesia.
Qualifications:
- Strong expertise in human rights based approaches, especially in the area of freedom of religion and protection of minorities;
- Experience in training and module/guideline development;
- Proven track record of writing a high quality fully edited report in English and Bahasa;
- Strong understanding of violent extremism, conflict, social analysis in the context of Indonesia is highly desirable;
- Work experience in Indonesia;
- Fluent in English and Bahasa Indonesia.
Application process:
Interested candidates should send their CV, technical proposal, financial proposal (detailing the cost calculations), and one sample of a training module produced by the applicant to phandayani@sfcg.org by May 12, 2023. For further information and clarification, please contract grespati@sfcg.org.
Only short-listed offerors will be contacted for further consideration. Telephone calls and office visits for inquiries are not entertained and may lead to the applicant's disqualification.
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