Introduction to the project:

The Afghanistan Community Resilience and Livelihoods Project is a new initiative of the  World  Bank  and  the  Afghanistan  Reconstruction  Trust  Fund  (ARTF)  with  the objective  to  provide  short-term  livelihood  opportunities  and  deliver  urgent essential services in rural and urban areas.  The Project has a total budget of US$ 265  million  and  aims  to  cover  an  estimated  1  million  households  (approximately  7 million people) as direct beneficiaries for its livelihoods and social grants components, and a total population of around 9 million people in the same areas as beneficiaries for the services generated. The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is the main Implementing Partner (IP) of the project.

The project has the following four components:

Component 1:  Emergency  Livelihoods  Support  and  Services  in  Rural Areas ($141  million). This component will provide assistance in the form of cash-for-work and support for the rehabilitation of small-scale basic infrastructure services in around 6,450 rural communities in around 25 provinces, benefitting an estimated 6.8 million people.

Component 2:   Emergency Livelihoods Support and Services in Urban Areas  ($65  million):  This component will provide livelihood opportunities for unskilled and semi-skilled labor and respond to urgent service delivery needs in urban areas through small-scale Labor-Intensive Works (LIWs) in 8 cities, benefitting an estimated 2.5 million people.

Component 3:  Social Grants for Women and the Most Vulnerable in Rural and Urban Areas ($18 million):  Vulnerable households (such as female headed households and households with disabled persons) who are unable to participate in the paid labor under Components 1 or 2 will be targeted using  social  grants.  It is estimated that a total 132,000 such households will benefit from this Component.

Component 4:  Strengthening Community Institutions for Inclusive Service Delivery, Especially for Women ($27 million). Underpinning the interventions in Components 1,2 and 3, this Component will provide assistance to build the capacity of Community Development Councils (CDCs) and other local community institutions by supporting NGOs’ activities related to community mobilization, planning, implementation, monitoring, and training on a variety of topics. Working with CDCs will be especially important as an entry point for supporting women, safeguarding some of the critical gains made over the past  18  years and providing a safe space for women to meet.  Supporting CDCs will also build  strong  accountability  mechanisms  at the community level for monitoring of activities and resolving grievances

Duties & Responsibilities:

• This position is conditional upon award of funding)
• Plan, Manage and coordinate over all training activities of project staff at provincial and national level
• Attend all training sessions held by client and other partners to strengthen the performance of ANCC and partners staff in facilitating ACRLP implementation.
• Support the implementation of project through building the capacity of and supporting ANCC and partner staff to effectively implement the training modules included in the operations manual.
• Conduct/ Facilitate training workshops to project team if needed.
• Train newly recruited staff about ACRLP and the modules included in the operations manual, undertake training needs assessments for ANCC ACRLP existing staff in coordination with Provincial Team, and develop & organize on-the-job refresher training to address any gaps and build capacity.
• Develop mechanisms that lead to enhanced capacity amongst citizens for collective action, enabling them to raise their voices and engage with and hold government staff and other social actors accountable.
• Evaluate regularly the impact of all conducted trainings.
• Undertake regular field visits for monitoring of ACRLP training sessions and support for field staff.
• Collect data/information about specialized training resource persons, courses, modules (inside and outside ANCC) through collaboration of the CO training department.
• Develop a data base and filling system to keep records of all training institute, training conducted or attended by staff at provincial and national level.
• Incorporate training evaluation findings in the information hub.
• Act as an information bank on staff development and provide information to the concerned persons as and when solicited Performs other related job duties as assigned