Call for Application: Social Cohesion Guideline Review Consultant
Search for Common Ground, Nigeria

About Search for Common Ground:Search for Common Ground (Search) is an international non-profit organization that promotes the peaceful resolution of conflict. With headquarters in Washington, DC and Brussels, Belgium, Search’s mission is to transform how individuals, organizations, and governments deal with conflictaway from destructive approaches towards cooperative solutions. With more than 600 staff worldwide, Search implements projects in more than 30 countries across the globe.
Search for Common Ground (Search) is part of a consortium and is responsible for implementation of objective 1 in Borno State, in partnership with Action Against Hunger and Neem Foundation. This will contribute to the creation of the conditions for a broad alliance in these territories by recreating social links between and within the communities most affected by the crisis and by helping victims of violence overcome their traumas and to resume trust. Collective and participatory activities will make it possible to offer means of analysis and shared actions to peacefully manage conflict, access and use of limited natural resources.
About the RESILAC Project:The overall objective of the RESILAC project is to contribute to the economic recovery and to the strengthening of the resilience and the social cohesion of the territories of the Lake Chad basin most impacted by the Lake Chad crisis and the climate change. The specific objectives of the project are:1. Strengthening human capital, social cohesion and collective and sustainable management of natural resources in targeted territories;2. Promoting economic recovery in targeted areas and the resilience of the most vulnerable populations, especially young people and women, through access to employment and agro-sylvo-pastoral production systems intensified and adapted to climate change;3. Valuing and consolidating the actors of the targeted territories by encouraging dialogue and commitment, and reinforcing their capacities according to the skills and roles of each one; and4. Producing useful knowledge for the quality of project activities in a crisis context and for decision-making by local actors.
Purpose of the ConsultancySearch is working with community and government stakeholders towards building community resilience to conflict, building social cohesion and management of natural resources. This is being achieved through community structures supported by the project to utilize community led initiative towards addressing issues militating against access and utilization of resources and delivery of a full range of project activities.
Search for Common Ground at the onset of the project May to September 2019 designed a social cohesion guideline to serve as a tool for local or international NGOs, civil society groups, or local peace champions and community leaders wishing to implement activities targeted at building social cohesion in their community. The document includes foundational information on social cohesion and step-by-step guidance for designing, planning, implementation, and reflection processes. Various planning tools and discussion outlines are also included through the document, as well as example activity outlines. During the implementation of Activities from September 2019 to date, it was discovered that there is need for review of the guidelines to include other activities and as well to translate to local language in an easy to read format.
Search for Common Ground is seeking to hire a consultant that will lead the process of community engagement, reviewing the guidelines, translating and converting into an easy to read and understand format by the community. The consultant will revise the guideline to include a pictorial representation of the content. He/She will be responsible for designing, translating and adapting the tools to suit the context. More specifically, the Consultant will have the following roles and responsibilities:Deliverables:

• Conduct a desk review of the already existing Social cohesion guidelines thoroughly while keeping in mind the context and culture of the benefiting communities.
• Coordinate community consultation in an effort to understand the social cohesion activities that are viable and strengthen social fabrics.
• Summarize and transform the social cohesion guidelines into an easy to read format to include pictorial representation of the activities set out.
• Lead the translation of the transformed guideline into local languages using any available resources.Lead the validation process of the reviewed guidelines with community members in close coordination with Search for Common Ground.
• Ensure that guidelines are in the correct format for printing.

Reporting LineThe Consultant will work under the direct supervision of RESILAC Project ManagerReporting Line

• The Consultant will work under the direct supervision of RESILAC Project Manager