Kenya: Consultant – Engaging Men and Boys in Girl’s education

Contract Term: January 2016 – December 2016 (Up to 10 days per month – a maximum of 120 days in the course of the consultancy)

World University Service of Canada (WUSC)is a Canadian non-profit organization with a mission to foster human development and global understanding through education and training. We are professionals, students, volunteers, faculty, and community leaders working together to find solutions and provide opportunities to the world’s most marginalized people.

WUSC is implementing the Kenya Equity in Education Project (KEEP) project in partnership with Windle Trust Kenya (WTK).The primary objective of the project is to improve enrolment, retention and performance of marginalized girls in primary and secondary school in northern Kenya (Kakuma and Dadaab) host and camp communities. KEEP will also contribute to the opportunities of refugee girls and their families by investing in their future capacity to succeed.

One of the KEEP’s key outputs is to mobilize community support to keep girls in school as long as possible so they may complete a full cycle of education. The activity entitled“Engaging Men and Boys to mobilize support for girls’ education”is a key activity which will contribute to changing attitudes and behaviors of men and boys toward increasing support for girl’s education.

More specifically, a training program for KEEP Community Mobilizers (CM) led by Canadian organization, White Ribbon Campaign (WRC), a KEEP Innovation partner, took place in 2014 and subsequent refresher in 2015 to provide training on how to effectively engage with men and boys in targeted communities. The goal for the trainings was to strengthen the involvement of men and boys in both refugee camps and their host communities in supporting girl’s education. Through these trainings, KEEP aims to encourage boys and men to advocate in favor of the right of girls to enroll and remain in school, fully participate in educational activities and improve girls’ performance.

As a result of the trainings, Community Mobilisers have formed clusters and identified specific activities that would engage communities promoting greater community and stakeholder support for gender equality. The KEEP is seeking the services of a qualified Consultant to provide program support and coordination services to KEEP staff/community members in planning and executing these activities.

General Duties

The scope of duties includes technical program support, support implementation of training results and provide support on training plans to reinforce learning and implementation of activities, including M & E duties.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with local WTK/WUSC staff from project areas (Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps, Turkana West, Fafi and Wajir South host communities) during trainings and subsequent follow-on visits.


• Work with WUSC and WTK to plan, prioritize and ensure delivery of all expected activities as outlined in the Engaging Men and Boys work plan with Mobilisers.


• Follow up on the Community Mobilisers (CMs) progress following the trainings; supporting planning of the mobilisers clusters activities for effective teamwork and follow-up around project activities.


• Set-up community level men, women and boys structures to fast track community engagement with the KEEP project; help each cluster to identify innovative entry points upon which to anchor their work around men, boys and communities in general.


• Identify key focus issues through pre-training activity research, consulting with WTK/WUSC field staff and WRC staff to develop approaches /program content aimed at increasing parents and community support for girl’s education.


• Provide support to KEEP staff to track activities in process, and collect and document outputs and results from community engagement activities.


• Submit to WUSC an activity completion report and other required documentation as requested.

Qualifications:

· Master’s degree in international development, education, social sciences or other relevant studies, plus at least 5 years of work in the area of community engagement and community development

· Experience working with refugees in Kenya, or other marginalized groups

· Strong understanding of gender equality principles. Direct experience developing programming strategies that engage men and boys in particular

· Training, facilitation and workshop organization skills

· Familiar with results-based programming concepts and tools

· Excellent oral and written Swahili and English skills required

· Ability to analyse programs and results using a gender lens