Active Citizens Program University of Peshawar - Terms of Reference

Programme Overview

• Implement Citizenship Education and Community Engagement Programme - Active Citizens at the University of Peshawar, as a non-weightage three credit hour course for the under graduate students and ensure their participation in the programme.
• Develop the capacity of 30 faculty members of the University of Peshawar as Facilitators by organizing a training of facilitators at the University of Peshawar.
• Develop Monitoring & Evaluation Process to monitor the social action projects initiated by the University of Peshawar students
• Award programme completion certificates to the students who will complete their social action projects as per the criteria
• Offer programme opportunities (exchanges, seminars, policy dialogue etc.) to the University of Peshawar students

The Key Objectives

The Partnership aims to engage with a variety of stakeholders in Pakistan and United Kingdom, altogether at individual, organizational and community level. The programme is designed to engage with the following audiences:

• Students of the University of Peshawar
• Faculty members of the University of Peshawar
• Policy makers
• Local authorities
• Other Partner organizations
• Heads of Institutions/NGO/CBO organisations
• Local dignities
• Media
• Community leaders.
• Community members

The Project will be complete when

• All Key Objectives are met
• Initially the project will be implemented as a pilot phase for one year

Schedule 1 

Roles and Responsibilities (Table A)

Activity	British Council	University of Peshawar
To ensure the delivery of Citizenship Education and Community Engagement Programme - Active Citizens as a non-weightage three credit hour course for under graduate students at the University of Peshawar. Citizenship Education and Community Engagement Programme - Active Citizens consists of 96 hours, 32 hours of module delivery to be completed in 16 weeks and remaining 64 hours are to be utilized for Social Action Projects.	Assure	Lead
To designate one staff member as Citizenship Education and Community Engagement Programme -Active Citizens coordinator for all correspondence, follow ups and implementation procedures as well as Monitoring & Evaluation of the Programme.	Assure	Lead
To provide narrative reports to British Council.	Assure	Lead
To keep and submit the record of the following: ·         Students’ database, profiles and agreements ·         Workshop reports ·         Facilitator supervisions, assessments ·         Social Action projects reports ·         Students feedback (baseline forms, workshop evaluation forms, SAP event forms, end line forms) documented as required for the quarterly report ·         Documentation of all Monitoring & Evaluation forms	Assure	Lead
To support the students to implement their social action projects.	Assure	Lead
To provide mentors support for the students during project life cycle and ensure support systems for implementation.	Assure	Lead
To Monitor the Social Action Projects (SAPs) and award participants with Programme completion certificate upon completion of their SAPs as per criteria developed by British Council and the University of Peshawar.	Assure	Lead
To identify 25 - 30 faculty members for training of facilitators and to host the training in terms of managing logistical cost i.e. venue, refreshment, stationery for faculty members etc.	Assure	Lead
To develop action plan in terms of which month / year Citizenship Education and Community Engagement Programme - Active Citizens will be initiated at the University of Peshawar along with activity timeline to be shared and agreed with British Council before MOU signing.	Assure	Lead
To ensure the delivery Citizenship Education and Community Engagement Programme - Active Citizens as a non-weightage three credit hour course for the under graduate students of the University of Peshawar as per agreed action plan and activity timeline.	Assure	Lead
To award programme completion certificates to the students who will complete Citizenship Education and Community Engagement Programme - Active Citizens and Social Action Projects as per the criteria i.e. i) To complete 32 hours of Citizenship Education and Community Engagement Programme - Active Citizens module delivery in the University of Peshawar in 16 weeks. ii) To initiate and complete Social Action Project while utilizing 64 hours in remaining 32 weeks	Lead	Assure`
To review agreed action plan / activities after 6 months to monitor the performance of Citizenship Education and Community Engagement Programme - Active Citizens at the University of Peshawar	Lead	Assure
To ensure IPR - intellectual property rights of Citizenship Education and Community Engagement Programme - Active Citizens content, methodology, Monitoring & Evaluation framework shall remain the exclusive property owned by British Council.	Lead	Assure
To ensure that British Council’s logo / name is used in any publicity or advertising material by first obtaining British Council’s written consent	Lead	Assure
To provide technical support in facilitation development of the University of Peshawar faculty by organizing one training of facilitators in collaboration with the University of Peshawar.	Lead	Assure
To implement facilitators’ professional development framework with facilitators and ensure learning & development opportunities are availed by facilitators	Lead	Assure
To provide programme delivery manual and Monitoring &Evaluation framework to the University of Peshawar.	Lead	Assure
To provide technical support to the University of Peshawar for implementation of Monitoring & Evaluation framework.	Lead	Assure
To provide technical support to maintain record keeping (database templates, reporting formats, Monitoring & Evaluation framework).	Lead	Assure
To provide technical support for the evaluation of social action projects and support to develop mentoring capacity.	Lead	Assure
To support the University of Peshawar in developing Monitoring & Evaluation plan for their students’ Social Action Projects.	Lead	Assure
To provide networking opportunities to the University of Peshawar students  through national and international exchanges, events, conferences, dialogues etc.	Lead	Assure

Action Plan / Activity Timeline (Table B)

Activity	Duration	Month / Year	British Council	University of Peshawar
Identity and Culture	8 hours	September 2015	Assure	Lead
Debate and Dialogue	8 hours	October 2015	Assure	Lead
Society and Citizenship:	8 hours	November 2015	Assure	Lead
Social Action Projects (SAPs)	8 hours	December 2015	Assure	Lead
SAP Delivery / Execution	64 hours	January – April 2016	Assure	Lead

For the purpose of the table above:

1. Lead: the party that has principal responsibility for undertaking the particular task, and that will be authorised to determine how to undertake the task.  The Lead must act in compliance with the Key Objectives and Principles at all times, and consult with the other party in advance if they are identified as having a role to Assure the relevant activity;
2. Assure: the party that will defer to the Lead on a particular task, but will have the opportunity to review and provide input to the Lead before they take a final decision on any activity.  All assurance must be provided in a timely manner.  Any derogations raised must be limited to raising issues that relate to specific needs that have not been adequately addressed by the Lead and/or concerns regarding compliance with the Key Objectives and Principles.