Context:

Project Context and Scope Transnational communities and diaspora organizations are becoming increasingly recognized as key actors not only in the local and national development agendas, but also at the global level, as influential partners in addressing major societal and humanitarian challenges and crises as well as across humanitarian, peace and development nexus. Their potential to create bridges between societies and countries to transfer skills, knowledges and technologies, connect and create transnational networks and bring economic and social development benefits to their communities of origin have been widely acknowledged in the global international agendas and forums.

In particular, diasporas have been recognized as contributors to the development by the 2030 Agenda (in particular, to the SDGs 8, 9, 12 and 17) and by Objective 19 of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) which calls to “create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries”. At the national level, many countries of origin are gradually adopting strategies and developing programmes to engage with diasporas and facilitate their contributions to local and national development programmes and plans, humanitarian assistance and sustainable reintegration strategies.

At the same time, a growing number of countries of destination are engaging with diaspora organizations as partners to support economic and social inclusion of migrants, promoting cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, combatting xenophobia, addressing labour market shortages, and stimulating economic growth. Such wide recognition of diasporas as vital development and humanitarian relief actors creates the need to support diaspora associations in enhancing their organizational and operational capacities to become “engaged, enabled, and empowered” and to contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals on the equal footing with other organizations. Adopted in April 2022, the Dublin Declaration specifically calls to “make available the necessary resources to boost the capacity of diaspora leaders and organizations, including through training, exchange learning programmes, technical and financial support, development of dedicated guidelines leading to formal recognition and institutionalization”.

In response to the current need in enhancing capacities of diaspora organizations and their members, IOM is planning to engage with the consultant or a group of consultants for the elaboration and development of a comprehensive training toolkit for diaspora organizations which could be then further adapted to the national, local or project contexts and used for specific trainings activities organized by IOM and its partner organizations, including governments and specialized training institutions in their training curricular.

Organizational Department / Unit to which the Consultant is contributing:

Within the framework of the Global Programme on Making Migration Work for Sustainable Development, the Consultant(s) will provide expert support in the development of a comprehensive training toolkit for diaspora organizations and their members, based on the analysis of existing tools and training programmes and in close collaboration with diaspora engagement experts and representatives of diaspora organizations. The scope of the assignment will include thorough review of existing training programmes and capacity tools which specifically target diaspora organizations, elaboration of the concept of diaspora training toolkit (its scope, structure, content and necessary elements), development, peer review and testing the toolkit.

Core Functions / Responsibilities:

Tasks to be performed under this contract

1. Facilitate creation and liaison with the Technical Advisory Board to secure expert technical advice and quality assurance during all phases of the development of the training toolkit.

2. Conduct diaspora capacity development needs assessment, in the form of consultations, roundtable discussions and/or an online survey to identify major capacity gaps and key areas where capacity development support is needed for diaspora members and what formats and types of training activities will be most suitable for diaspora representatives.

3. Conduct mapping and analyzing existing IOM and non-IOM training guides, tools and training programmes for building capacities of migrant/diaspora organizations and their members, paying particular attention to the projects and activities which were developed and implemented by international organizations, governments and diaspora associations themselves. This should be done in consultations with thematical experts and practitioners working in the area of Page 2 / 6 diaspora engagement and capacity building.

4. Based on the results of needs analysis and resource mapping, elaborate the concept of diaspora training toolkit (including the structure, content and preferred formats of training activities), in consultations with diaspora engagement and training experts, representatives of diaspora organizations (members of the Technical Advisory board and beyond if needed) and IOM staff from the Country and Regional offices working on diaspora engagement projects.

5. Based on the results of the consultations and analysis of existing tools, develop the detailed outline for the structure, content and format(s) of the training activities for diaspora organizations which would form the basis for the training toolkit.

6. Present and discuss the detailed outline for the training toolkit with IOM and the members of the Technical Advisory Board (formed by diaspora engagement experts, trainers and diaspora representatives) as well as with the members of iDiaspora Advisory Board.

7. Develop draft diaspora training toolkit, in line with the proposed detailed outline.

8. Pilot main modules of the diaspora training toolkit in several online trainings organized for diaspora representatives from the countries of the Global Programme.

9. Present and discuss the results of the pilot training with IOM and the members of the Technical Advisory Board. 10. Based on the results of discussions, finalize the training toolkit.

Methodology of the assignment To ensure the content and structure of the training toolkit responds to the current needs of diaspora organizations and its format is adjusted to their learning preferences, the assignment will apply a highly participatory approach using several forms of engagement with diaspora representatives and experts:

(i) The Technical Advisory Board will be formed, comprised of the members of diaspora organizations, diaspora experts and trainers who have direct training/capacity development experience with diaspora organizations;

(ii) Consultations and discussions will be organized with the members of the Technical Advisory Board during all key stages of the process, to receive inputs and to ensure the deliverables are validated via peer review;

(iii) Additional small group discussions with colleagues from IOM Regional and Country offices and representatives of diaspora organizations and national will be organized for review and validation of the key deliverables of the assignment;

(iv) Piloting of the main modules of the toolkit will be organized with the representatives of diaspora organizations to test its content and format in practice. The results of the end of pilot training survey will be used to finalize the training module;

(v) Specific examples of case studies and practices of diaspora organizations will be identified, discussed and included as one of the content elements of the training toolkit;

(vi) Additional feedback and validation methods, incl. project specific evaluation tools and mechanisms could be proposed by the consultants for specific stages of the process, to improve the quality of the final product.

How to apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications via PRISM, IOM e-Recruitment system, by 28 September 2022 at the latest, referring to this advertisement.

IOM only accepts duly completed applications submitted through the IOM e-Recruitment system.

The online tool also allows candidates to track the status of their application. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. For further information please refer to: www.iom.int/recruitment Posting period: From 15.09.2022 to 28.09.2022