Terms of Refrence (ToR)

For

First Aid Training Manual Development

Doaba Foundation is a humanitarian organization working in disaster prone areas envisions the “Disaster Prone Communities Becoming Self-Reliant in Pursuit of Their Common Interests”. Doaba’s mission is to improve the quality of life among rural people and, true to its name, concentrates on communities prone to flood disasters. It believes in achieving the goal through optimal utilization of available resources i.e. physical-biological, moral and human. It seeks to build capacity of such communities incorporating even the relief activities into program of preparedness interventions, facilitating emergence of self-reliant communities.

The Project titled “Community based disaster risk management” is being implemented by Doaba Foundation with the financial support of welthungerhilfe. CBDRM committees have been formed under CBDRM project. There is need to enhance community skills, awareness, linkages establishment to equipped communities and make them able to cope up with emergencies in daily life and during disaster too.      

Purpose and Scope of Work;

Doaba Foundation is interested to develop First Aid Training manual. First Aid Training manual is to enhance skills of directly first aid committee’s members and indirect all CBO members on providing aid in case of any emergency at initial level before approaching any physician.  

The manual’s purpose would be to provide clear guidelines, tools, techniques for effectively and efficiently providing first aid. First aid manual will be developed in Urdu language so community can easily understand it and replicate it on their own. Printed manual will be helpful for first aid committee members to refresh training contents in future. This will also beneficial for dissemination of information to illiterate community members as it will also contain pictorial material.   

Key Components of manual would be as under but not limited to;  

·         First aid basics

·         Objectives and importance of first aid

·         Who may be first aider?

·         Human body and its functions

·         Order of treatment priority

·         Types of cuts and bleeding

·         Fractures and dislocation of bones and joints

·         Bandage and its types

·         CPR for adults and children

·         Obstructed airway

·         Angina pectoris and heart attack

·         Every day emergencies and first aid

• Daily life work injuries
• Burn types
• Hypothermia
• Immunization
• Fainting
• Different types of fever
• Choking
• Eye, nose and throat injury
• Head injury
• Animal & insect bites
• Fractures, sprains & strains
• Poisoning
• Diabetic emergencies
• Electric shocks
• Drown
• Sun stroke
• Shocks, semi unconscious and unconscious
• Emergency during child birth
• First aid during flood disaster
• First Aid Kit
• Action plan for first aid committees

First Aid manual must include;

·        70% theoretical knowledge

·        30% practical knowledge with daily life examples

·        Pictorial material to elaborate the contents

·        Manual will be in Urdu language

·        Easy words should be use so community may easily understand

Conditions for manual;

·        Consultant/ firm should not replicate already developed manual

·        Manual must cover all contents mentioned in ToR

·        Manual must reflect CBDRM approach

Who can submit Proposals?

·        Consultant / Firm having expertise in developing First Aid manual

Deliverables and Timeframe;

The general idea for subjects and time line is as under;   

First Aid training manual
Sr. No	Subject	Time Line
1	Consultant meeting with CBDRM team	October 15 , 2012
2	Sharing of first draft of first aid manual (must include pictorial material) with Doaba Foundation	October 20, 2012
3	Feed back by Doaba Foundation	October 22, 2012
4	Sharing of final draft (must include pictorial material) of first aid manual with Doaba Foundation	October 25, 2012
5	Publication 200 copies by Consultant/firm (Color print in shape of user friendly hand book) based on feedback by Doaba Foundation	October 26, 2012

Content of the Proposal:

The Consultant / Firm are required to submit a detailed Technical and Financial proposal for Doaba First aid training.

Technical Proposal:

The technical proposal must contain:

1-     Contact person and/or organization name, number, and address

2-     Profile

3-     Proposed Methodology as per TORs

4-     Training agenda and schedule/duration

Financial Proposal:

The Financial proposal must contain i) Detailed Budget and ii) Validity period of the quoted price.  

Submission Procedure:

The technical and financial proposals (could be sent in both- soft via email and hard via post/courier should be sent in sealed envelope.)

Please submit Proposals to:

Address: Human Resource Department, Doaba Foundation, House No. 1, Street No.2, Shalimar Colony, Bosan Road Multan

Email: doaba.foundation@doabafoundation.org.

The last date for submission of proposal is 10 October, 2012.

Proposals received after the submission deadline will not be entertained under any circumstances.

Doaba Foundation reserves the right to accept or reject the proposals without assigning any reason what so ever