Review of best practice interventions and training curriculums with police and immigration officers. Product 10 stand alone modules comprising a Training Curriculum
Background
CVC/COIN wishes to develop a training manual to conduct training and sensitization with police and immigration on vulnerabilized populations in 3 Caribbean countries. These trainings are essential for reducing stigma and discrimination against sex workers and LGBTQI which is driving the HIV epidemic in the Caribbean and form part of CVC/COINs rights-based programming.
Objectives of the Consultancy:
- Conduct a review of global and Caribbean best practice interventions and training curriculums designed to sensitize immigration and police officers on challenges faced by sex workers and other vulnerabilized groups and the link between stigma and discrimination and HIV/AIDS/STIs and healthcare
- Develop 10 stand alone training modules to comprise a training curriculum which can be piloted in Jamaica and Trinidad.
Methodology
- Liaise with COIN/CVC research team to develop a training which takes into account qualitative interviews conducted with immigration and police officers in the DR, Jamaica and Trinidad, and related research.
- Conduct desk-based review of global and Caribbean best practice and interventions with police and immigration to sensitize immigration and police officer in challenges faced by sex workers and other vulnerabilized groups and the link with HIV.
- Design 10 training modules for piloting in Jamaica and Trinidad starting mid-January 2012.
- Provide technical oversight as the trainings are implemented and produce final training manual by April 2012.
Deliverables
- Review of global best practice
- 10 stand alone training modules
Candidate requirements
- A masters degree in social sciences, social work or behavioral change
- Extensive experience of working with/ for the police and immigration
- Experience of working in HIV and AIDS and with vulnerabilized populations internationally and in the Caribbean context
- Proven experience of developing training materials, manuals and curriculums either in the field of HIV and AIDS or for the military/police/immigration
Reporting lines
The consultant will report to the Technical Coordinator and liaise with the research team as appropriate. The CVC/COIN team will provide support to the consultant in implementation of the pilot training and feedback on the final training manual.
Interested candidates are asked to submit a CV and a sample of their previous related work to ltillotson@coin.org.do copying to coin.cvc.human.resources@gmail.com
The term ‘vulnerabilized’ populations recognizes that sex workers, men who have sex with men, youth, prisoners and drug-users are not inherently ‘vulnerable’ but instead are put at increased risk for HIV and STIs due to structural conditions such as gender-inequality and homophobia, and systematic and institutionalized stigma and discrimination and other human rights abuses. This term recognizes the agency of communities traditionally labelled as ‘most-at-risk’ and ‘vulnerable’ and their power to change the course of the HIV epidemic.