Consultant to Prepare and Deliver Regional Training on HW Identification and Classification for Custom Officers - Cairo

Increasing the knowledge of the participants of the basic principles of the Basel Convention (for example the waste import and export procedures, waste identification and classification and the duty to return illegally trafficked waste);Getting familiar with various inspections and enforcement methods and strategies;Increasing the collaboration in the region by sharing good practices and experiences and considering mechanisms to facilitate cross-border cooperation in the region;Identifying the role and responsibilities of the law enforcement agencies involved in monitoring transboundary movements of waste;Providing options to establish and /or improve inter-agency collaboration at national level between all involved law enforcement agencies responsible for monitoring waste movements and management;Improving the effectiveness and efficiency of inspection and enforcement actions by gaining knowledge on risk and threat assessments and profiling.

Specific Tasks to be performed by the Consultant

Identification of training needs and training agenda. The consultant will assist BCRC-Egypt in identifying training needs, drafting and circulating the training agenda based on information on the training participants which will be communicated by BCRC-Egypt.

Preparation of the training material. The training material will be prepared in due time before training start. Tentatively, the training material should be delivered at least one week in advance before training. It will contain both multimedia presentations (computer slides, hyperlinked electronic text as necessary) as well as 3 hardcopies of the relevant material to be distributed during the training. In the course of the development of the training materials, the information received by BCRC-Egypt on training needs will be duly taken into account to ensure that the training fits the specific training needs of the participants.

Preparation of materials and methodology for assessing training effectiveness; as one of the main difficulties of training is to ensure its effectiveness, a methodology for the evaluation of the training effectiveness will be established and submitted for approval of BCRC-Egypt before start of the training. This will include: a preliminary test, based on questionnaires with closed-ended questions specific for each training topic; a final test, based on desk exercises based on real cases as well as questionnaires; and a feedback form to be distributed to the participant for evaluating the trainers and for providing suggestions for improvement of the training. The evaluation material will be prepared along with the preparation of the training materials, however it will be obviously released only at starting of training activities.

Conducting Training and Training Content. 2 sessions, around six hours each, of classroom training shall be delivered.

Assessment of training effectiveness, including the performance of the trainers. Based on the outcome of the preliminary and final tests and exercitation, and adopting the methodology approved by BCRC-Egypt for training evaluation, the training effectiveness will be assessment. The assessment will include: quantitative increase in the level of knowledge of the participants, before and after the training, based on the analysis of closed-ended questionnaires; capability of the trainee to address e-waste issue and to elaborate e-waste policies, as from the exercitation outcome. On the side of trainer evaluation, the scoring and areas of weakness / strength will be assessed based on the analysis of feedback forms returned by the participants to BCRC-Egypt.

Reporting and certification. A final training report shall be delivered after training closure. It will include the preparatory material, training material, outcome of training need assessment based on questionnaire delivered before the training, assessment of training effectiveness, assessment of trainers performance, proposal for further improvement, and attendance sheets. A training participation certificate will be prepared by the consultant and released by BCRC-Egypt to all the participants who have attended all the three days training and who have participated and passed in tests and exercitation.

Deliverables of the Consultancy:

Training workshop plan and agenda;Training materials;Three days Training workshop;Workshop Report including test and assessment results.

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