Consultant (Mapping of Women and Girls� Rights Organisations) at ActionAid (AA) Nigeria

AA Nigeria is an affiliate of ActionAid International, which is a global alliance of organisations working towards achieving a world without poverty and injustice in which every person enjoys the right to a life with dignity. As a large and visible development organisation, we work in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and America. Our expertise lies in communityled approaches to development and working through partnerships with the poor and other grass root organisations.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Consultant - Mapping of Women and Girls’ Rights Organisations and their Movements/Coalitions/Platforms in Project States and National

Location: Nigeria
 
Background
The Women’s Voices and Leadership- Nigeria Project:

• The Women’s Voice and Leadership Project is a five-year Global Affairs Canada development assistance with the goal to support the capacity and activities of local and regional women’s organizations and movements seeking to empower women and girls, advance the protection of women’s and girls’ rights and achieve gender equality. 
• Nigeria is one of the recipient countries and is being managed by ActionAid Nigeria. Actions of the project includes provision of funding to local women’s rights organizations and their movements in six projects states of Bauchi, Cross River, Enugu, Lagos, Kebbi and Kwara. This is in recognition of funding gap that local women’s rights organisations face. In providing this funding, the project aims to assist these organizations and their movements in their efforts to eliminate discrimination and rights violations in policy and legislation (including implementation) and the provision of services, as well as harmful social beliefs and practices.
• Objective of the Mapping To generate a database of local women’s rights organisations and their movements/networks/coalitions/platforms in Nigeria1. Generate information on programme focus/type of intervention, geographic location and spread; and their strength, weakness, opportunities and threats (SWOT) for achieving gender equality and advancing women and girl’s rights in project states and national.

The Task

• Map and document existing feminist and/or women and girls’ rights organizations in project states and national;
• Map and document existing feminist and/or women and girls’ rights movements; coalitions; networks and platforms in project states and national;
• Map and document each organization/movements/coalition/network/platform geographic location and spread
• Identify and detail feminists and/or women and girls’ right actors, principally focusing on the type of support they provide (financial or technical); 
• Identify and examine the focus area(s) and/or interventions each organization or network/movement/coalition/platform focuses on in project states or national; 
• Assess the spread and scale of their programme interventions in project states and national;  
• Assess their experiences and strengths in advocacy and lobbying for policy and legal reforms for gender equality, and/or women and girls rights advancement in project states and national, focusing on their successes and constraints, their achievements and limitations;
• Examine their capacity for mobilization and engagement/organizing; identification of factors and interests, and capacity needs for advancing gender equality and promoting women and girl’s rights in project states and national; 
• Analyze, interpret and categorize the organizations in clusters of strength/weakness, focus areas and programme location/spread;
• Based on the categorization, make recommendations for working with the organizations and networks/movements/coalitions/platforms.

Approach and Methodology:

• This will involve desk review and field visits to the project states.

Expected Outputs
A detailed report highlighting amongst others:

• Database of local women and girls’ rights organizations in project states and national.
• Database of the existing women’s rights movements; coalitions; and platforms in project states and national. 
• Database of key actors within the feminist/gender/women and girls’ rights advancement in project states and national.
• Information on types of programmes/actions/interventions of the local women’s rights as well as the geographic locations/spread of these interventions in project states and national.
• Information on the policy and legal landscape in project states and national.
• Key issues, challenges and opportunities for achieving gender equality and women and girls’ rights advancement in project states and national.
• Recommendations. 
• Detailed prefix and references.

Qualifications and Criteria for Selection 

• We are seeking researchers with extensive experience and skills in feminist and women’s rights analysis. In addition, to showing evidence of previous related work. Minimum of Master’s degree or equivalent of 10 years’ experience in research and feminist analysis.

Place of Work & Administrative Support:

• Though they will be expected to work independently from any base location, however, the consultants will be expected to visit the 6 project states in addition to the desk review. For this purpose, AAN will provide necessary logistics to support the delivery of the process.

Timelines for Submission of Deliverables
Key Activity and Number of working days:

• Inception meeting - 1
• Desk review - 2
• Field Visit to project states - 8
• Report Writing - 4

Total: 15 working days - Date: April 2019

Ownership of outputs:

• Outputs of the work done as stipulated in the call for expression of interest belongs to ActionAid.

Mode of Payment:

• Please note that only a flat fee will be paid.  
• ActionAid shall however deduct the statutory 5% With Holding Tax (WHT) for individuals and 10% for limited (LTD) and public companies (PLC); and remit to relevant authority. The successful applicant would be required to provide AAN his/her Tax Identification Number (TIN) for the purposes of remittance. 

Application Closing Date
7th April, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications electronically to: [email protected] The subject line of their application should be "Mapping of Women and Girls' Rights Organisations and their Movements/Coalitions/Platforms." 

Note: Only successful applicants will be contacted.