Search for Common Ground Indonesia

Terms of Reference
Local Partners on the Implementation of Youth Digital Art and Cultural Fellowship Program and Campaign

Search for Common Ground (Search) Indonesia invites applications from non-government/civil society organizations/firms/research organizations to prepare and organize the following activities intended to promote freedom of religion and belief (FORB) in Indonesia:
1. Two (2) workshops on the Use of Youth Digital Art and Culture for FORB campaigns
2. Online Mentorship on the Use of Digital Art and Culture for FORB campaigns
3. 1 (one) community event to showcase the arts and cultural works for FORB campaigns

These activities encourage youth-to-youth interaction through multidimensional and dynamic lenses and seek to create a nexus of social volunteerism and religious advocacy through art and culture in greater Jakarta, greater Bandung, and Cirebon. 1 (one) qualified local organization will be selected as a Search local partner to implement these activities.

I. The Organization
Search for Common Ground (Search) is an international peacebuilding organization promoting peaceful resolution of conflicts. Search’s mission is to transform how individuals, organizations, and governments deal with conflict – away from adversarial approaches and toward cooperative solutions. Search seeks to help conflicting parties understand their differences and act on their commonalities. Search implements projects from 56 offices in 35 countries, including Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.
Search has been working in Indonesia since 2002 and is implementing programs in conflict transformation, peacebuilding, prison reform, conflict-sensitive journalism, electoral participation, and initiatives with youth, media, government agencies, informal religious leaders, and women’s groups across the country.
Background

The realization of Freedom of Religion and Belief (FORB) in Indonesia faces several challenges. One of the challenges comes from the ongoing religiously linked conflicts that hinder members of religious and ethnic minorities from exercising their religious freedom. To address this problem, in November 2023, Search for Common Ground (Search) launched SHIFT, “Strengthening Interfaith Forums and Youth Engagement in Indonesia to Promote Tolerance.” The project intends to achieve the following two objectives:

Objective 1: Strengthening the capacity of youth leaders and religious figures to promote religious freedom and tolerance through a transformative approach and respond to violations in Jakarta, Bandung, and Cirebon.

Objective 2: Enhancing collaboration among targeted youth leaders and religious figures to collectively promote religious freedom and safeguard rights in the mentioned areas.

Under the objective 1, collaborating with CSRC UIN Jakarta (Center for the Study of Religion and Culture), PeaceGen (PeaceGeneration), and INFID (International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development), Search is implementing three FORB training programs in three regions: Greater Jakarta, Greater Bandung, and Cirebon. These three FORB trainings are as follows:
1. Training on the Use of Art and Culture for the FORB campaign was provided for religious youth (those who represent diverse religious communities, including non-believers). The training targeted at least 60 religious youth from three regions (20 in each).

2. Training on the Use of Art and Culture for the FORB campaign for creative youth (defined as active in arts and culture scenes and digital media, with at least 2,000 followers on a single social media platform). This activity also targeted at least 60 creative youth from three regions (20 in each).

3. Training for religious seniors on using Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to deal with religiously-linked conflict. This activity also targeted at least 60 religious seniors from three regions (20 in each).
Moving ahead, under the objective 2 of enhancing collaboration among targeted youth leaders and religious figures to collectively promote religious freedom and safeguard rights in those three areas, Search will provide an opportunity for the religious and creative youth leaders that have joined the training activities to collaborate in the creation of meaningful works of digital art and culture that promote FORB and tolerance. Search will select 9 (nine) groups of religious and creative youth leaders to join fellowship and mentorship processes for the collaboration. The fellowship program will be wrapped up with a community event as a platform to showcase the results of the collaborative work to the public.

The fellowship program will run with the following sequence:
1. Aspiring fellowship program participants must submit a group proposal outlining their ideas for creating art or cultural works that promote FORB and cross-cutting issues such as gender, mental health, climate change, natural disasters, and education.
2. Search, and the local partner will then select the groups with the best proposals to receive a mini-grant from Search to implement their planned works in the proposal. Selected groups will then meet with mentors from Search, the local partners, and religious actors from mediator training to further refine their proposed ideas in a two-day workshop and receive additional capacity development on mini-grant management.
3. After the workshop, those group fellowship recipients will return to their local communities to create arts or cultural works and amplify their work through small campaigns on social media or in the communities. During the process, Search and the local partner will provide mentorship services to ensure the works are relevant to FORB issues and completed according to the agreed timeframe.
4. At the end of the fellowship program, Search and the local partner will organize two events: one, a final community event to showcase the fellows’ arts and cultural works to the public, and the other, an in-person gathering (workshop) to mutually share stories and learnings among religious actors and youth leaders who are involved in the collaborative activities, including those who received a small grant to conduct intergenerational collaborative initiatives on mediation (alternative dispute resolution, ADR) in religiously-linked conflicts that Search previously provided under SHIFT Program.

II. Scope of Work:
The local partner will assist Search to implement the following activities:
1. Organize the selection processes among those who have joined the training activities in 3 (three) regions to receive the fellowship from Search. 9 (nine) groups of religious and creative youth leaders, consisting of 4-5 persons for each group, with the best proposals, will be selected to receive a mini-grant or fellowship.
2. Organize 2 (two) two-day intensive workshops for the 9 (nine) groups whose proposals are selected to receive a Search fellowship. The first workshop aims to refine their proposed ideas further and receive additional capacity development on the mini-grant management. The second workshop aims to generate achievement, best practices, and lessons learned from the implemented campaign and collaboration. This event will involve at least 30 participants, including Youth Digital Art and Culture fellowship group recipients and those who received a small grant to conduct intergenerational collaborative initiatives on mediation in religiously linked conflicts.
3. Provide at least 9 (nine) online mentorship meetings to the group fellowship recipients to assist them in successfully creating digital arts and cultural works for the FORB campaign.
4. Organize 1 (one) final community event with at least 45 participants to showcase the arts and cultural works produced from the fellowship program and feature stories and learnings of religious actors and youth leaders involved in the collaborative activities, including successful collaboration practices between religious actors and youth on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) initiatives, which were supported under SHIFT Program.

III. Locations and the Target Groups
The activities will be implemented in one of these 3 (three) cities/regions: Greater Jakarta, Greater Bandung, and Cirebon. Search will select one local organizational partner to implement the project activities that cover fellowship recipients from all 3 (three) cities.

IV. Deliverables
1. The inception report and work plan were completed within the first 7 (seven) days. The inception report should have a detailed project implementation plan, including the design, location, schedule/rundown, approach to recruiting participants, potential facilitators/moderators, equipment, and steps on processes needed to complete the assignments. The inception report will be written in English and submitted in MS Word. The report needs formal approval from the SFCG Indonesia team before the assignment implementation starts.
2. Report on the recruitment process of fellowship recipients. The report should comprise the process for selecting fellowship recipients, including short-listed recipients.
3. 2 (two) Two-Day Workshops for Fellowship Recipients Groups activity report. The report should include highlights from the activity implementation, including critical presentations, discussion points, lessons learned and recommendations, participant lists, and photo documentation.
4. An online mentorship activity report should comprise the activity’s implementation highlights, including key presentations, discussion points, lessons learned and recommendations, participant lists, and photo documentation.
5. One Community Event activity report. The report should include highlights from the activity implementation, including key presentations, discussion points, lessons learned and recommendations, participant lists, and photo documentation.
6. One final report on the Youth Digital Art and Culture Fellowship Program includes the recruitment process, workshop, mentorship, community event, and in-person gathering activity. The report should summarize the initiative (5W1H), outputs, potential for sustainability, lessons learned and recommendations, and photo documentation. It should be submitted in English in MS Word format.

V. Contracting
Within the program implementation period, the local partner will be contracted under a service contract and expected to complete the scope mentioned above of work. The payment schedule and some payment milestones will be determined through a discussion between Search and the local partner and formalized in the contract, detailing the activity deliverables and payments.
The partnership period will be between June 14, 2024, to December 31, 2024.

VI. Expected Timeline
The project is expected to follow the following timeline. Adjustments may be made according to the agreement between Search and the consultant.

1.  Application deadline May 28, 2024
2.  Signing of the contract June 14, 2024
3.  Inception report submission June 21, 2024
4.  TOR for the planned activities June 28, 2024
5.   Completed implementation of the planned activities November 30, 2024
6.   Final Report December 13, 2024

VII. Supervision of the local partner(s)
The local organizational partner(s) will work under the Program Manager and collaborate with SFCG Indonesia’s program staff.

VIII. Qualifications:
a. Strong networks with interfaith forums, including youth from interreligious and minority communities;
b. Strong networks with creative youth communities;
c. Proven track record of fellowship implementation, preferably with a youth audience;
d. Strong writing, high-quality, fully edited report in Bahasa; strong English report writing will be an asset.

IX. Application process:
Interested candidates should send their technical proposal, a financial proposal detailing the cost calculations and a budget narrative, and an organizational portfolio/team CVs demonstrating the organization’s or individual team members’ experience with youth capacity strengthening on FORB or tolerance. The technical proposal should include the following information:
1) To plan the steps for recruiting the fellowship recipients group, who will be involved, and what methods will be included.
2) Planned steps on facilitating 2 (two) workshops, a rundown to demonstrate how it will be implemented effectively, and a list of proposed facilitators/resource persons.
3) Mentorship strategy to conduct effective mentorship that can assist fellowship recipient groups to succeed in delivering their campaigns.
4) The planned steps for conducting 1 (one) community event to showcase the arts and cultural works produced from the fellowship program, the exhibition concept, the rundown, and who will be involved.
5) Plan steps for conducting 1(one) in-person gathering to generate achievement, best practices, and lessons learned from the implemented campaign.
The financial proposal should embed operational costs within the program/activity costs and not as a separate budget line.
Please send your proposal package to [email protected] by May 28, 2024. For further information, please get in touch with [email protected]