Consultant for the Development of WEWB’s Staff Capacity Development and Annual Professional and Technical Training Plan

Introduction

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Project Context and Scope

Bangladesh is one of the world’s largest labour-sending countries, and labour migration continues to make an important contribution to national development. Ensuring the protection, welfare and sustainable reintegration of migrant workers requires strong institutions with capable personnel, clear functions and systems that can respond effectively to evolving migration realities.

The Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment (MoEWOE) provides policy leadership on labour migration and migrant welfare. The Wage Earners’ Welfare Board (WEWB), as an affiliated institution of MoEWOE, plays a key role in delivering welfare, assistance and reintegration-related services to Bangladeshi migrant workers and returnees. Strengthening the institutional and human-resource capacity of WEWB is therefore important for improving the quality, consistency and sustainability of services across the migration cycle.

The Organizational and Institutional Development Framework (OIDF) provides a structured approach to assess organizational capacities, identify institutional development priorities and translate them into practical actions for improved organizational performance. In line with the OIDF approach, strengthening staff capacities is an integral part of institutional development, ensuring that personnel have the professional and technical competencies required to effectively perform the functions and responsibilities of their respective positions. The proposed staff capacity development initiative will therefore translate WEWB’s OIDF priorities into a structured and phased capacity-building framework, directly contributing to the operationalization of the OIDF and the strengthening of WEWB’s institutional capacity and service delivery.

Under the European Union-funded “PROTTASHA II – STRENGTHENED SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED MIGRATION MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE REINTEGRATION” project, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is supporting the Government of Bangladesh to strengthen migration governance, institutional coordination and service-delivery systems.

Building on the priority areas identified by WEWB through the OIDF process, IOM intends to engage a consultant to develop a practical and phased Staff Capacity Development Plan for WEWB. The assignment will identify the professional and technical competencies required for different positions and functional roles within WEWB, taking into consideration the responsibilities and functions assigned to those positions, and assess the capacity-development needs of personnel to effectively perform these roles. Based on this assessment, the consultant will establish an annual training and capacity-building framework specifying what training is required, for whom, at what stage and frequency, and through which appropriate modality. The plan will serve as a practical institutional roadmap for systematic staff development and capacity-building planning.

Organizational Unit to which the Consultant will be contributing: The Migration Policy and Sustainable Development (MPSD) Unit of IOM Bangladesh, in support of the Government of Bangladesh, particularly MoEWOE and WEWB, for strengthening institutional capacity and staff development in line with the OIDF priorities of WEWB.

Category B Consultant: Tangible and Measurable Outputs of the Assignment 

The Consultant will develop a comprehensive, practical and implementable Staff Capacity Development and Annual Professional and Technical Training Plan for WEWB. The plan will translate WEWB’s OIDF priorities into a structured staff-development framework and provide a basis for annual planning, budgeting, sequencing and delivery of professional and technical capacity-building interventions.