Civil Peace Service (CPS) Advisor (m/f/d) for Dealing with the Past (DwP) and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) at THARS and the CPS Regional Programme for Burundi, Eastern DR Congo and Rwanda at Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (HQ)

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The Civil Peace Service (CPS) is a programme for violence prevention and peacebuilding in crisis and conflict regions. CPS professionals provide long-term support to local organisations in their commitment to promote peace, dialogue and human rights. The GIZ' regional CPS programme "Fostering peace literacy and civil society networks in the Great Lakes Region" aims to create and link existing cross-border civil society peace initiatives in the region. Since 2019, partner organisations (POs) of the three countries form communities of practices to adress conflict issues using collaborative processes and standards to implement peace projects in areas such as youth empowerment and critical thinking, nonviolent conflict transformation and dialogue, sexualised and gender based violence, digital peacebuilding and media literacy. Through annual meetings of all POs and regular exchanges during workshops, trainings and joint activities, a stable regional civil society network has been established, which will be further consolidated and extended in the coming years.

• Capacity development and advice to THARS; supervision of the THARS counsellors
• Support and advice in planning, monitoring and evaluation of THARS projects
• Support and advice for the development of strategies to make the organization (and others in the CPS regional program) economically sustainable
• Facilitation of contact, exchange, cooperation and mutual technical support with the other partner organizations of CPS GIZ and in the Consortium ZFD
• Support of networking activities with other local, regional and international organizations working in the field of peacebuilding, particularly DwP and MHPSS in the region
• Capacity development and advice to other partner organisations of the programme, in the three countries; supervision to other POs who engage in MHPSS
• Accompany all POs in the setup of mental healing within their organisations and as accompanying measure of peacebuilding activities; advice at programme level
• Collect an overview of the situation in each country on needs and available services and resources in relation to DwP and MHPSS
• Advise the programme coordination and develop a concept on how the programme could engage in DwP as a basis for strategic discussion with the partners

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