About the Job
Background
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) has been actively engaged in transitional justice (TJ) initiatives in Ethiopia. Findings from national and international bodies, including the joint investigation conducted by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have established that the northern conflict resulted in widespread violations of international human rights, humanitarian, and refugee law.
As part of its contribution to Ethiopia’s transitional justice process, LHR has supported various initiatives aimed at ensuring truth, accountability, reparations, and guarantees of non-recurrence. Building on this experience, LHR has facilitated the establishment of informal consortium of civil society organizations (CSO) networks on transitional justice in Tigray, Afar, and Amhara.
Stakeholder mapping and roundtable discussions conducted by LHR demonstrated strong interest among CSOs to engage meaningfully in the transitional justice process. However, these consultations also identified significant capacity gaps, particularly in the areas of transitional justice advocacy, monitoring, and reporting. In response, LHR plans to implement a structured capacity development program for informal CSO networks in the three regions.
To support this initiative, LHR will compile and share relevant reference materials and the consultant engaged under this ToR will be responsible for consolidating, contextualizing, and transforming these materials into training presentations and tools, as well as delivering the training in the three regions.
Objective
The overall objective of this consultancy is to strengthen the capacity of CSO networks in Afar, Tigray, and Amhara to effectively engage in Ethiopia’s transitional justice process through evidence‑based advocacy, systematic monitoring, and credible reporting.
The consultancy aims to:
Strengthen the capacity of informal CSO networks in Afar, Tigray, and Amhara regions to contribute to Ethiopia’s TJ process;
Develop practical, context-appropriate training materials for civil society engagement.
Enhancing skills specifically in TJ advocacy, monitoring, and reporting.
Scope of Work
Preparation of the Training Material
Develop a PowerPoint presentation that includes an introduction to TJ in Ethiopia, international and national TJ standards and mechanisms, advocacy strategies for CSOs, monitoring frameworks, reporting standards and formats, survivor-centered, gender-responsive and trauma-informed approaches, and case studies and simulations
Produce complementary documents such as advocacy strategy templates, monitoring checklists, reporting formats, and consent forms and ethical guidelines
Ensure all materials are user-friendly, practice-oriented and aligned with Ethiopia’s TJ framework
Reference and adapt existing materials from LHR-compiled resources, Ethiopian Human Rights Commission reports and guidelines, UN OHCHR manual on Human Rights Monitoring, ACHPR guidelines and relevant CSO documentation
Delivery of the Training
Equip participants with skills in TJ concepts, mechanisms, and institutional frameworks.
Train participants on strategic advocacy and engagement with formal TJ institutions.
Provide instructions on monitoring and reporting on the TJ process.
Cover evidence-based advocacy using documented violations and designing public outreach campaigns.
Focus on strengthening coordination and collective action through regional networks through participatory methods (group discussions and role-play simulations), practical networking tools, collective action exercises (mock campaigns and group drafting of sample regional position paper), and follow-up mechanisms (training reports and recommendations)
Conduct two training sessions in each of the capital cities for the three target regional states, each lasting two days.
Methodology
The training will apply adult-learning principles and emphasize participatory, practice oriented approaches to ensure participants gain both conceptual understanding and practical skills. The methodology will include:
Brief lectures: concise presentation to introduce key TJ concepts, advocacy strategies, monitoring frameworks and reporting standards
Facilitated discussions: guided group discussions to encourage peer-to-peer learning and exchange of experiences, and debriefing after exercises to consolidate lessons learned
Hands-on exercises: mock documentation and reporting, role-play and case-studies
Deliverables
One PowerPoint presentation from LHR-compiled materials
Complimentary training tools, handouts, or toolkits for advocacy and monitoring, as well as pre- and post-training questionnaires
Completed training delivery in the three target regions.
Brief regional training reports summarizing participation and participant data, key discussions, and recommendations.
Timeline
The consultant is expected to prepare the training manual within 25 working days from the date of the contract.
The consultant shall be available for delivering the training at a date and place to be determined by LHR.
About You
Consultant Qualifications
Advanced university degree in law, human rights, or transitional justice.
At least 7 – 10 years of professional experience in advocacy, monitoring and reporting of human rights violations and TJ.
Experience in developing and delivering capacity-building training for CSOs, in particular on advocacy, monitoring and reporting of human rights violations and TJ, demonstrated through at least three major projects. Applicants should provide references or examples of these projects
Strong understanding of survivor-centered, gender-responsive, and trauma-informed approaches.
Familiarity with Ethiopia’s human rights and TJ landscape.
Requirement Skill
Strong understanding of survivor-centered, gender-responsive, and trauma-informed approaches.
How To Apply
Submit an application letter, CV, and technical and financial proposals to consultancy@lhrethiopia.org , cc: info@lhrethiopia.org
Applications must be submitted within 5 days of the announcement. The subject line must read: “Consultancy for Capacity Development Trainings on TJ Advocacy, Monitoring, and Reporting”.
To apply for this job email your details to consultancy@lhrethiopia.org
