BACKGROUND
Oxfam in Kenya works with others to alleviate poverty and inequality for the most vulnerable communities living in the arid and semi arid lands in Northern Kenya and in the impoverished slums of the capital of Nairobi. Oxfam through its partners works in Turkana, Wajir and the informal settlements of Nairobi, namely Mukuru, Kibera and Korogocho.
As part of its livelihoods diversification and improvement programmes, Oxfam has an elaborate business skills improvement intervention that targets an estimated 4,000 small traders, majority of whom are women. The programme seeks to improve such business aspects as identification and evaluation of business opportunities, basic book keeping, business planning, access to financing etc.
In the past two years, Oxfam has used the traditional capacity building models, which involved the physical interaction between a facilitator and traders. The facilitator would take the traders through the course content in groups of 15-30 for a period of one week (or as appropriate). The training content would be replicated over several geographical locations, often taking several days making it repetitive and costly.
Oxfam has since reviewed its training and capacity building processes and is considering piloting the use of professionally developed digital content that will be tailored to meet the needs of adult learners as well as the increasing numbers of youth seeking to engage in business and trade. Oxfam has already developed a training brochure for the business skills improvement programme. We are looking for expertise that will creatively disseminate the content to an adult audience with low literacy levels in diverse geographical and social cultural contexts across the country. Effective use of appropriate audio-visuals will form a key part of this assignment.
Once the content is developed, discussed and approved, it will be made available to interested stakeholders who will then host the content in open source web based platform, where the content can be easily accessed and regularly updated.
The key objective of this consultancy will be to evaluate the appropriateness of this proposed model, and if feasible, develop the required digital content and to advice on modalities of managing the rollout process.
OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSULTANCY
i. Evaluate the appropriateness and make practical recommendations for using digital content and proposed methodology to undertake business skills improvement programme within the proposed project areas
ii. Develop and pilot appropriate digital content for use in the business skills improvement programme. Key considerations will be given for use of appropriate audio visuals to ft the specific project contexts.
iii. Advice on the appropriate language(s), and hardware equipment required to deliver the digital training content to the end users in the ASALs and informal urban settlements
iv.Advice on modalities for development of appropriate Open source web based platform.
How to apply:
Please read the full Terms of Reference and submit your application and CV including a day time contact by applying online at www.oxfam.org.uk/jobs using INT0759