ActionAid International seeks Expressions of Interests
(EOIs) from consultants in the sector with technical expertise in gender and
M&E to prepare a global baseline report.
Deadline: May 10, 2014
Location: Global
Organization: ActionAid International
ActionAid International Young Urban Women’s project:
Terms of Reference for hiring a consultant for preparation of baseline report
ActionAid International seeks Expressions of
Interests (EOIs) from consultants in the sector with technical expertise in
gender and M&E to prepare a global baseline report.
About ActionAid:-
ActionAid International is an international NGO that puts
women’s rights and gender equality at the centre of its work. One of the five
strategic objectives of ActionAid’s 2012-2017 strategy is to: “Ensure
that women and girls can break the cycle of poverty and violence, build
economic alternatives and claim control over their bodies.” The “Young
Urban Women” programme contributes to meeting this organisational objective.
The “Young Urban Women” programme aims to influence both decision-makers at a
local and national level in India, South Africa and Ghana as
well as decision-makers at the international level. The programme
targets women’s Economic Participation and Sexual and Reproductive Health and
Rights (SRHR). It is innovative in that it attempts to bring together these two
key areas of ActionAid’ s women’s rights work that are frequently dealt with
separately in development interventions despite the strong linkages between
these two issues in women’s lives. In targeting both, ActionAid foresees that
this programme will have a greater impact by empowering young women to claim
their rights.
Project background and overview:-
The Young Urban Women programme is a multi-country programme
that is currently being implemented in seven poor urban and peri-urban areas
across India, South Africa and Ghana. These three countries were carefully
selected among the 45 countries that are part of the ActionAid Federation
because of their large young urban populations, their influence
within regional and international forums, and the geographic
spread across two continents which continue to witness high levels
of poverty and inequality. ActionAid also considered the significant political
space available within these emerging democracies to raise the visibility of
young women’s rights to decent work and sexual and reproductive health
services.
Programme goal: Our goal is that in 3 years,
5,800 young urban women living in poverty in India, Ghana and South Africa will
have greater dignity through more economic independence and control over their
bodies, and their voices will be heard and recognised in international
forums.
Expected outcomes:
- Outcome
1: Young women have safe and decent work and livelihoods, and can
exercise greater control over their income
- Outcome
2: Young women's informed choices about their sexual and
reproductive health are increasingly realized
- Outcome
3: Young women in the areas we programme in are empowered and
supported by allies and responsible stakeholders to effect change in their
own lives, their families, their communities and different levels of
government
Target group and indirect beneficiaries: There
will be 2,800 young women direct beneficiaries in India; 1,000 young women
direct beneficiaries in South Africa and 2,000 young women direct beneficiaries
in Ghana. Across the programme, there will be 5,800 direct beneficiaries.
National and international advocacy of putting young women’s rights to decent
work and SRHR on the international development agenda is anticipated to have a
wide impact on young women globally.
Objective of the assignment:-
Currently a baseline is being undertaken in the three
project countries which are slated to be finished in the 1st week of June. The
3 countries would be producing three national baseline reports of approximately
30-40 pages which would need to be compiled into a single global baseline report
for the project.
The objective of this assignment is to develop the global
baseline report for the Young Urban Women’s project
Scope of the assignment:-
Using a feminist approach to monitoring and evaluation, the
consultant will develop the global baseline report based on the 3 country
reports of the baseline survey process for the YUW project. It is intended that
the global baseline report will provide: a) baseline data for the project based
on the project Results Framework b) information that will assist in designing
the project’s Monitoring and Evaluation plan and c) information that will
assist in identifying relevant policies, guidelines and frameworks for
supporting project implementation and advocacy.
The consultant will undertake the following tasks:-
- To
review the relevant YUW project documents as well as relevant ActionAid
documents.
- To
review the national baseline reports coming out of India, Ghana and South
Africa.
- To
capture key data with regards to the Results Framework of the project in particular:
- Current
status of each of the project indicators in the implementation sites.
- Barriers
and challenges in respect to the above.
- Emerging
legal and policy aspects with respect to young women’s SRHR, access to
Decent Work and unpaid care work.
- To
work with ActionAid’s International Women’s Rights Team for the above
processes and finalise the same.
Time-frame:-
The national baseline reports will be available from the
countries in the first week of June. The global baseline report will need to be
completed between the 1st to the 30th of June.
Consultant specifications:-
- Extensive
experience of working on monitoring and evaluation (MEL) systems including
baseline from a feminist lens. Extensive technical expertise on gender,
particularly on young women.
- Able
to provide evidence of producing high quality assessment/evaluation
reports and working within tight timeframes
- Significant
experience of synthesizing and analysing quantitative and qualitative data
from sample surveys.
- Immediate
availability in June 2014.
Application procedure:-
Please share the following documents as part of the
application procedure:-
- A cover
letter with an updated CV.
- A
tentative budget.
- Examples
of previous baseline/evaluation reports undertaken.
Please email the above-mentioned documents to YUW
International Project Manager Baishali Chatterjee at
baishali.chatterjee@actionaid.org by 10th May, 2014
