Consultancy to Design and Deliver Nine Training Workshops on Digital Skills

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**Consultancy to Design and Deliver Nine Training Workshops on Digital Skills**

## Background

The Arab Women Organization of Jordan (AWO) is a women’s rights and human rights organization established in 1970 and operating across all governorates of Jordan. AWO works to eliminate discrimination and violence against women and to advance women’s political, economic, and social participation. Through the Mosawa Network, established in 2005, AWO collaborates with more than 100 women-led community-based organizations across Jordan, enabling broad grassroots outreach and participatory programming.

With support from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), AWO is implementing the “Women’s Political Participation and Empowerment Programme.” The programme aims to strengthen women’s commitment, capacities, and opportunities for active participation in political and social life through a women’s rights and gender equality approach. It contributes directly to SDG 5, particularly Target 5.5 on women’s effective participation and equal leadership opportunities and Target 5.b on the use of enabling technology to promote women’s empowerment.

Activity A.1.3 will design and conduct a structured nine-training workshops on digital skills for 180 selected women activists. The activity responds to identified gaps in digital bullying, digital literacy, technology access, and the effective use of digital tools for advocacy, networking, public communication, civic engagement, and personal development. It is expected to contribute to Result 1 and the programme indicator that 180 women complete the digital skills training and achieve improvement in digital competency scores, measured through pre- and post-training assessment.

## Purpose of the Consultancy

AWO seeks a qualified consultant or a team of consultants or a specialized training firm to design, prepare, and deliver an inclusive, practical, and context-sensitive nine digital skills training workshops for 180 women activists across Jordan. The assignment shall combine curriculum development, participant-centred facilitation, competency assessment, documentation, and recommendations for follow-up learning.

The programme shall be designed for women with diverse levels of digital experience and different social, geographical, and accessibility needs. It must link digital skills to women’s leadership, advocacy, civic and political participation, organizational engagement, and safe public communication, rather than treating digital literacy as a purely technical subject.

## Assignment Objectives

- Be aware of participants’ digital competencies, training needs, access constraints, and preferred learning methods.
- Develop a coherent, modular, and practical digital skills curriculum tailored to women activists and grounded in women’s rights, gender equality, and civic participation.
- Deliver nine participatory trainings to 180 women activists through appropriately sized cohorts and accessible learning formats.
- Improve participants’ ability to use digital tools safely, ethically, and effectively for communication, advocacy, networking, information management, and public engagement. Side by side, empower women activists to address and deal with digital-facilitated Gender-Based Violence.
- Achieve and document measurable improvement in participants’ digital competency, with an improvement between pre- and post-assessment scores.
- Provide AWO with training materials, assessment tools, and practical recommendations for refresher sessions, mentoring, and future replication.

## Target Participants and Inclusion Requirements

The programme will serve 180 selected women activists. Participants are expected to include women with backgrounds or interests in community leadership, women’s rights organizations, civil society, local initiatives, political participation, and public advocacy. The wider project targets women across Jordan.

The consultant shall therefore apply an intersectional and inclusive approach, including adaptation for differences in literacy, digital proficiency, disability, age, language, geographic location, connectivity and access to devices. Training examples and exercises must be culturally appropriate and relevant to women activists in Jordan.

## Scope of Work and Key Tasks

### Curriculum and materials development

- Develop a modular Arabic-language curriculum and facilitator guide.
- Prepare presentation slides, practical exercises, case studies, digital templates and pre-/post-assessment tools.
- Ensure all materials are accessible, gender-responsive, and rights-based.

### Training delivery

- Deliver the approved programme through nine training workshops to all 180 women activists in cohorts agreed with AWO.
- Use adult-learning methods, demonstrations, guided practice, peer exchange, group work, simulations, real-world assignments, and structured reflection.
- Provide differentiated support to part