Over a three-year period, AWDF in collaboration with Ford Foundation West Africa and Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) seek to scale up interventions to address and reduce sexual violence and its deep-rooted drivers across West Africa, specifically in Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal. The Kasa! Initiative has an ambitious agenda to leverage the growing focus on sexual violence and initiate and support a holistic, multi-year initiative focused on grant making, advocacy and campaigning and collaboration.
AWDF is planning to carry out a rapid assessment of the key advocacy challenges and opportunities around sexual violence in the three focus countries, identify strategic advocacy challenges, opportunities and priorities, and design and implement advocacy and campaigning activities.
To do this, we are seeking the services of an organisation/s with a successful track record of conducting advocacy and campaigns focused on gender justice and women’s rights to carry out two-year advocacy and public campaign to address sexual violence in Nigeria, Senegal and Ghana.
The objectives of this consultancy are to:
- Carry out a detailed rapid assessment of key advocacy priorities and opportunities around sexual violence in the three focus countries.
- Identify high-level strategic advocacy opportunities and priorities in the three focus countries.
- Design an advocacy strategy including a campaign based on identified priority areas in the three focus countries.
- Monitor and document learning on effective and impactful advocacy and campaigning in the three countries.
The successful candidate/s must show
- A commitment to the AWDF’s values of feminist leadership, accountability, diversity, respect and solidarity.
- Knowledge of and experience working with women’s rights in West Africa is essential
- Demonstrable experience on projects and programmes focused on feminist advocacy including but not limited to women’s human rights. Experience working to address sexual violence advocacy is desirable.
- Expertise in project management, execution and delivery.
- Expertise in monitoring, evaluation and learning
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a flexible attitude
- Proven ability to work under tight deadlines
- Fluency in French is essential
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