Position Overview

Educate! an award winning non-profit social enterprise is seeking a Product Manager to join our ambitious and cross functional Technology team. We are looking for a product professional who is excited and passionate about solving consumer-facing problems, developing product roadmaps, and executing those plans to bring value to end users. The ideal hire will help the product team meet and exceed its goals by translating strategic business initiatives into technology products.

In this role you will have a chance to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to understand requirements for the tech products/solutions, develop product roadmaps and project-manage the entire tech product/solution development cycle.

The ideal hire is passionate about working with data to drive improvements in user experience and excited to work with simpler technology tools such as USSD, SMS, WhatsApp through Telerivet, Echomobile, Textit etc that are easily accessible to youths who don’t have access to smartphones. You’ll join a motivated, passionate, overachieving international team with a vision to design solutions that will impact millions of youth annually across Africa.

You are the right fit for this role if you:

• Are a master coordinator and exceptional project manager


• Are analytical and data driven


• Possess a broad understanding of the tech product development process


• Have independently driven the design of technology products in a team, with a strong focus on the end user


• Have strong communication and interpersonal skills

Sound like you or someone you know? Apply below. To help bridge the learning gap created by COVID-19, we’ve created a product to remotely deliver key components of our proven in-school model during this time. Read here to learn more about Educate!’s distance learning model.

About Educate!

Educate! prepares youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy.

We tackle youth unemployment by partnering with schools and governments to reform what schools teach and how they teach it, so that students in Africa have the skills to attain further education, overcome gender inequities, start businesses, get jobs and drive development in their communities. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. Educate!’s goal is to make this practical, skills-based model part of national education systems.

In 2019, we partnered with the government to pilot in 60+ schools in Kenya, worked in 275+ secondary schools in Rwanda, and 800+ schools in Uganda (25% of the country) reaching over 46,000 students intensively and 470,000 more broadly. Two rigorous external evaluations, including a randomized controlled trial, found that towards the end of secondary school, participants of our program earn nearly DOUBLE the income of their peers. A follow-up RCT found that four years later, our graduates demonstrate large and durable shifts in skills, coupled with significant improvements in education and gender equity-related outcomes. Girls achieve even greater results. Our graduates change their lives and their communities, such as Daniel who leveraged both his medical education and the transferable and business skills gained through Educate! to open a rural health clinic in his community employing two people and conducting about 350 checkups per month.

Educate! supports governments with integrating skills-based curriculum nationally. This includes partnering with Uganda’s government to integrate curriculum and a student business club structure into Uganda's entrepreneurship course nationally and serving as a technical advisor to both Rwanda and Kenya on national education reforms.

Educate! is a non-profit social enterprise with 200 staff and 300 volunteer youth mentors. We have been backed by top foundations such as MasterCard, Big Bang Philanthropy, Mulago, Echoing Green, Ashoka and Global Innovation Fund. Educate! won a 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize (and was featured in a video), a 2015 WISE Award, and was highlighted by Bill Gates, in the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, an Al Jazeera documentary, Forbes 30 under 30, and The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies in their global scaling education learning initiative. Educate! was also selected by the UN’s Generation Unlimited as 1 of 20 innovative youth solutions.

Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.

Performance Objectives

Requirements gathering: Translating Product strategy into product development specifics

• Gather all information from cross-functional teams to translate strategy into clear product specifics.


• Assist business stakeholders to define and refine their requests


• Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to define the relevant personas, user journeys, and functional requirements.


• Drive decision-making with internal partners


• Translate requirements into product designs


• Develop and own a product strategy that is clearly articulated, easily understood, and delivers meaningful value to our customers and business over time


• Identify areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently develop these modifications

User-focused/Customer-centered product design

We need our Associate Product Manager to build processes and practices to continuously gather and address usability issues with our technology products.

• Lead ideation for the needs identified- creating designs based on requirements and strategy


• Construct systems and processes to gather data on how users actually experience it on a day to day basis


• Own process of integrating customer feedback into products

Market Research and User Testing

• Research and analyze the users, and the roadmap for the product


• Plan, prepare and conduct research on potential solutions


• Collect quantitative product data and metrics through market research


• Testing and evaluating new designs/products


• Research and analyse the way our data can be used and then drive improvements in user experience

Project Management

• Build and execute an actionable roadmap that empowers developers to realize the product strategy


• Providing vision and direction to the development team and stakeholders to achieve the product vision


• Collaborate closely with Design, Programs, and M&E teams to drive the execution of the product development team


• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product


• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities


• Developer management: oversee development of product features either through external consultants or development


• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends


• Develop quality assurance procedures

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, and a minimum of 3 years of work experience.


• Possess a broad understanding of the tech product development process; and have created product roadmaps.


• Experienced with using qualitative and quantitative data (especially from A/B tests) to make product decisions.


• Experience working with program delivery and data collection platforms such as USSD, SMS, WhatsApp through Telerivet, Echomobile, Textit, etc


• Preferred: Software Development experience [e.g. USSD system development (PHP or other language), MySQL, server set-up, Python, JavaScript]


• Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here

Terms

• We are open to this position being based in one of our offices in East Africa, in either Nairobi, Kampala or Kigali.


• Benefits & perks include a generous vacation policy, health insurance, and breakfast in the office!

Why You Will Brag About Working At Educate!

• We’ve got the impact.


• Educate! is designed for scale. We quadrupled operations in 2014, going from 54 to more than 200 schools served. We carefully measure our outcomes, and — here’s the best part — we are maintaining quality at four times the size.


• We believe in local leadership — 97% of our on the ground staff is African.


• Our model has gone nationwide in Uganda — Educate!’s model is now incorporated into the national curriculum and exams, impacting thousands more students than we can reach directly.


• Educate is a well-oiled learning machine. We built our model by methodically testing hundreds of assumptions and we are constantly experimenting, evaluating, and improving.


• We’re honored that luminaries and leaders like Oliver Wonekha, the Ugandan Ambassador to the US, and Ann Veneman, a former Secretary of Agriculture and head of Unicef, believe in us enough to have joined our advisory board.

What Is Educate! About?

We’re ambitious. Are you? Educate! is growing fast, so new opportunities are opening up and expanding all the time. We’re inspired by people with drive, and we love to help them reach their full potential. We expect everyone at Educate! to contribute above and beyond their job description, grow their skills, and advance their careers, and we are committed to supporting our staff members on that journey.

1. We Put Youth First - The youth we serve come first. Always. In everything. That means we wake up thinking of ways we can serve youth even better and get the highest impact out of every dollar that we spend. It means Educate! doesn’t own a single vehicle, because we’d rather take the bus if it means one more student can participate. It means making every decision like the future depends on it — because if we get our way, it does.


2. We Are Always Learning - When you work at Educate!, educating yourself is part of your job too. We encourage every employee to find the best book on management; share the latest article on graphic design; bring in your favorite college mentor; or meet the researcher pushing the edge of the field. We are always thirsty for knowledge and love to share.


3. We Only Solve a Problem Once - We are allergic to band-aids so we love the person who brings the new system to solve the problem for good, even problems we haven’t recognized yet.


4. We Are Flexible - We thrive on change — we’re driving it. We are growing every day, so we have to adapt quickly to meet new challenges, and our team keeps up.


5. We Exceed Expectations - We assume we can achieve the impossible because we already have, year after year. We want our staff to create their own challenges, ask the toughest questions, and dream scary big!

Every person at Educate! — from interns to the executive director — is evaluated by how they live up to these five cultural tenets. They are at the core of how we achieve our mission and why we work as well as we do.

Educate is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all who interact in our community. In creating this environment, we encourage people from a variety of cultures, backgrounds and life experiences to join our diverse team.

Sightsavers is looking for a Data Visualisation Officer who is enthusiastic about data, is experienced in capacity building, health data and systems strengthening, and has excellent relationship-building skills.

Contract: 1 Year Fixed Term Contract Salary: Local terms and conditions apply Location: The role will be based at one of the following Sightsavers Offices: Senegal – Dakar, Kenya – Nairobi, Malawi- Lilongwe, Mozambique - Nampula, Zambia - Lusaka, Uganda – Kampala or Tanzania – Dar es Salaam.

Sightsavers is going through a digital transformation in utilising data for key decision making. The organisation is rolling out data analytics through the provision of Power BI reports to all key data users, as a central tenant of promoting a data driven culture. Data analytics is increasingly supporting the management, development and monitoring of programmes and projects throughout Sightsavers Portfolio. To help us continue this process of promoting a data driven culture within the organisation, we are recruiting for a Data Visualisation Officer.

As Data Visualisation Officer, you will work within the Data Analytics and Reporting Team to produce and maintain a suite of Power BI reports. You will support the adoption of data visualisation software into the normal working practices of Sightsavers staff internationally by providing training and capacity building and encouraging a strong culture for data use and visual analytics is at the heart of all our project work.

It is anticipated the position will involve some international travel of up to 8 weeks per year, if/when non-urgent international travel becomes feasible again.

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Data Visualisation Officer responsibilities include:**

• Assessing stakeholders data visualisation needs and designing and building Power BI reports that provide data driven solutions.


• Create Power BI reports for a wide range of organisational user groups with a focus on providing a strong, data focused, user experience that meet accessibility requirements.


• Updating and maintaining Power BI reports, including new software updates and team-specific data sets and visualisations.


• Capacity building and training of Sightsavers staff internationally on Power BI and data analytics.

As Data Visualisation Officer, you will have:

Essential

• Undergraduate degree in international development, data science, statistics, or appropriate equivalent, or equivalent experience.


• Proficiency in the use of Power BI, Tableau or other data visualisation software


• Experience building and embedding data analytics tools into existing work practices.


• Demonstrated experience of developing and implementing a training programme.


• Experience working with and supporting staff on an international basis


• Understanding of international development issues and a commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities.


• Demonstrated ability to communicate information, practices, and ideas to a non-technical audience.


• An understanding of good data cleaning practices to prepare data sets for use in analytics software.


• Proficiency in English language

Desirable

• Master’s degree in international development, data science, statistics or appropriate equivalent, or equivalent experience.


• Experience of working within the International Development or Public Health sector.


• Experience of digital transformation, implementing new software/tools/working practices within an organisation.


• Knowledge and experience of using SQL.


• Proficiency in French language


• Availability to travel internationally up to 8 weeks per year (Covid-19 restrictions permitting).

This is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties requirements. For further information please refer to the Job Description.

Applications must be written in English.

Background

Uganda is often lauded for its progressive approach to hosting refugees. It is one of the pilot countries working to implement the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF), the new global policy for responding to large refugee crises. The CRRF requires a multi-stakeholder approach, that includes participation of local and national actors and of refugees. One of the CRRF’s major objectives to supporting refugee self-reliance.

There is growing international recognition of the potential for refugee-led organizations to support to the goal of multi-stakeholder engagement and in achieving the core CRRF objectives. There is also recognition that supporting the establishment, development, and activities of refugee-led organizations aligns with multiple international refugee and humanitarian policies and objectives that require beneficiary engagement and support for local actors, including civil society. Despite this, there has been little discussion about the centrality of the right to associate to unleash the potential of refugee-led initiatives.

In Uganda, there are many refugees who have successfully registered non-profit organizations, and through them provide critical support to their fellow refugees. Uganda is unique around the world in the relative freedom it allows for refugees to register and operate their own organizations, and access banking services that allow them to receive donor funds. Unfortunately, as a result of growing restrictions on civic space and NGO activities—for refugees and Ugandan nationals alike—refugees have faced increased challenges registering new organizations and ensuring they overcome various bureaucratic impediments to continue legal operations.

Oxfam, together with the Refugee-Led Organization Network (RELON) and the Africa Chapter of the Global Refugee-led Network (GRN), intends to publish a briefing paper that achieves the following objectives:

• Highlight the contributions of refugee-led organizations to the Ugandan refugee response




• Analyse respect for refugees’ right to associate in Uganda, describing challenges, and placing them within the broader civic space context of Uganda




• Make recommendations for how the Ugandan government could improve operating environment for refugee-led organizations




• Increase global attention given to freedom of association as an important element of a favorable refugee-hosting environment

Proposed report outline:

• Refugees in Uganda




• Refugee-led civil society organizations in Uganda




• Freedom of Association in Uganda

o General context and challenges

o Experiences of refugee-led organizations (from sub-county to national level)

• The case for supporting refugee-led organizations




• Recommendations

We are recruiting an individual consultant or firm, with the following scope of work:

• Design research methodology




• Conduct desk and field research within Kampala and possibly other locations, ensuring active participation of RELON and GRN members in research design and data collection




• Conduct interviews with refugees, government officials, UNHCR, and other relevant stakeholders




• Develop targeted and specific policy recommendations for relevant stakeholders




• Draft a policy paper, for external publication, of approximately 8,000 words




• Draft a 2-3 page policy note summarizing findings and recommendations




• Develop an advocacy strategy jointly with RELON and GRN members and support initial advocacy engagements




• Present findings in a virtual webinar

Specific deliverables:

• Inception report outlining proposed research plan and timeline




• Briefing paper for external publication, including findings and recommendations




• Short policy note to support advocacy engagements




• Advocacy strategy and coordination/accompaniment for 2-3 specific advocacy engagements




• Virtual presentation on findings

Application requirements:

Interested candidates in the position are expected to provide the following documentation:

• A technical proposal with detailed response to the TOR, with specific focus on addressing the scope of work and methodology to be used




• Sample of previous research and policy papers or related work, etc.




• Initial work plan based on methodology outlined, and indication of availability




• A financial proposal detailing the daily rate expected, transportation costs, accommodation costs, etc. and initial work plan




• Company/organizational profile or CV including a minimum of 3 traceable, recent and relevant references to this task

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

Adeso is an expanding and vibrant African based international development and humanitarian organization. We work with communities to create environments in which Africans can thrive. Our belief that economic, social and environmental security is the bedrock of a healthy community drives the nature and intent of our programming.

Adeso is an exciting and dynamic organization experiencing managed rapid growth. It offers sound employment conditions with opportunities for personal growth and development.

POSITION SUMMARY

Under the supervision of the Executive Director, the core function of this position is the coordination of activities (operations and planning) and ensuring timely flow of information to and from the executive office. The successful candidate will have a proven ability to independently manage multiple tasks and projects with competing priorities and deadlines, screen and prioritize communications and opportunities from external and internal sources, and organize and maintain administrative processes essential to this position. This is a high demand position requiring someone who can be available at the request of the Executive Director and her schedule.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

· Serve as the ED’s administrative liaison to Adeso’s Senior Management Team and Heads of Department.

· Passion for helping others and managing an extremely active and dynamic calendar of appointments; completing expense reports, composing and preparing correspondence that is sometimes confidential; arranging complex and detailed travel plans, itineraries, and agendas; compiling documents for travel related meetings; coordinating activities, such as conferences, field visits, internally and externally organized workshops; and other tasks that facilitate the ED’s ability to effectively lead the organization.

· Adaptable to the changing requirements and the influx of various requests from Executive Team members and external organizations

· Keen attention to detail, ability to exercise initiative, and work independently

· Work closely and effectively with the ED to keep her well informed of upcoming commitments and responsibilities, following up appropriately and keeping the ED apprised and updated.

· Prioritizes conflicting needs; handles matters expeditiously, proactively, and follows through on projects to successful completion, often with deadline pressures.

· When the ED chairs meetings: Prepare an agenda in advance; assist with and provide research/background information, content development, and creation of presentations, coordinate meetings and take meeting notes.

· Manage the daily schedule of the ED, ensuring that she knows her schedule 24 hours in advance and keeping appointments and meetings on time or changing schedules when necessary.

· On own initiatives process/compose correspondence/reports for ED’s and/or executive teams replies.

· Manage external contacts for ED, proactively understanding who they are, which priority contacts are and keeping track of periodic communication needed for priority contacts.

· Anticipate the ED’s needs and proactively bring together appropriate people and resources to support the executive in addressing issues.

· Plan and coordinate all aspects of quarterly board meetings, including tracking, monitoring and following the progress of action items, drafting the agenda, setting the timetable and following up on board material preparation and producing accurate Board minutes at each meeting when in attendance.

· Manage effective contacts and relationships with Board Members, including arranging board member travel arrangements, expense reimbursements, and board meeting logistics, and acting as a first point of contact for Board Member queries.

· Perform liaison services on behalf of Adeso to donors, Government Officials, other relevant partners Review correspondence (mail and email) addressed to the ED and take the appropriate follow-up actions as required.

· Must abide by the policies and procedures of the organization.

· Adhere to the organization’s compliance system and understand organizational policies and procedures necessary to ensure appropriate decision-making protocols are followed.

· Handle confidential information in a professional and discreet manner.

· Act as the ED’s representative and ambassador to external contacts as directed.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies or related qualification with a Diploma in Legal studies or a related field.

• Minimum 5 years or equivalent work-related experience supporting senior level Executives; experience working with Boards of Directors desirable.

• Demonstrated ability to handle confidential information appropriately.

• Highly proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

• Extensive experience in preparation of board and donor presentations.

• Excellent writing, proofreading and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to stay focused, efficient, and effective in managing multiple priorities.

• Professional demeanor and ability handle sensitive situations in a calm and professional manner.

• Strong interpersonal skills and good judgment.

• Proven ability to work independently to achieve accomplishments.

• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and outside contacts.

• Experience working in an International arena a plus.

• Proven ability to effectively collaborate with internal team, cross-functional team, and external parties in a rapidly growing environment

• Ability to provide after hour and flexible support a must.

• Ability to travel 5%.

1. OVERVIEW

Horn Africa Consultants Firm (HACOF) supports clients ranging from governments and non-governmental organizations across the Horn of Africa region to operate more effectively. HACOF helps using proven strategies; methodologies and road maps thus provide relevant, insightful, and cost-effective research, organizational development, democracy, governance & peacebuilding, and Media Monitoring & Analysis portfolios. For more info on the firm, please visit our website https://hacof.com

2. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking to recruit a result-oriented professional to support both quantitative and qualitative studies. This is a key role in ensuring the quality of research outputs and bids with the view of securing our competitive advantage and improving performance.

The Research and Business Development Associate will be responsible for writing high-quality reports, bid proposals, and control the quality of data collected during field works.

Key Requirements

· Post-graduate degree in social sciences, statistics, economics, or equivalent qualifications or evidence of equivalent experience.

· At least 5 years of experience in empirical research, data analysis, and in writing evidence-based reports with practical recommendations.

· Demonstrable knowledge and experience in resource mobilization, business outsourcing, soliciting, and defending proposals.

· Excellent oral presentation, communication and networking skills, and interpersonal ability.

· Excellent skills in managing and delivering a range of research projects quality control and solid outputs.

· Excellent organizational and planning skills, that ensure work is effectively prioritized to meet deadlines.

· Ability to develop and utilize appropriate methods and tools to support high-quality research.

· Practical and theoretical understanding of certain portfolio areas such as governance, media peacebuilding, etc.

· Ability to work under own initiative with a proactive approach to problem-solving.

· Proven skills in report writing for and presentation of high-quality research findings, including experience in developing conclusions and policy & practice recommendations from research evidence.

· Ability to use quantitative and/or qualitative data analysis software packages

(for example, R, STATA, SPSS, Nvivo, etc.).

3. JOB DESCRIPTION

The position may require occasional travels and overnights to certain field locations. The key tasks will include but are not limited to:

· Compile, analyze, and report data for evaluations (baseline, midline or end-line), Third Party Monitoring, assessments, and other reports.

· Conduct internal audits and data quality control measures as well as ensure field data is of high quality and meets the clients’ standards.

· Support the Senior Research Manager in the development and utilization of appropriate research methodologies and methods, evaluation strategies, and research tools including innovative technology tailored methods.

· Deploy primary research tools (questionnaires design –sampling- interviews –focus groups) and conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis in relevance to the assigned studies.

· Lead presentation to relevant clients on research findings and outcomes.

· Work Senior Research/Business Development Manager in the development of new project ideas, including the development of funding proposals with a particular emphasis on research, TPMs, and evaluations.

· Working with the Business Development Unit and Chief of Operations, to contribute to the production of concept notes, expression of interest, and bid proposals.

· Lead the preparation of competitive bid proposals and expressions of interest.

· Perform any other relevant researches and studies.

Introduction of Organization

Womankind Kenya is a national NGO registered in 1995.The organization particularly works with women and children, the most vulnerable members of the society; and addresses issues of Education, sustainable Livelihood, Water Sanitation & Health, Women Empowerment, Good Governance and emergencies interventions. The organization works with the pastoral communities at large to address core problems.

Womankind Kenya Mission: - To build confidence, raise self-esteem and empower the community we work with to participate fully in their own affair and decision making to facilitate community -based projects. This is aimed to exploit the natural and human resources available in the region whilst sustaining and improving the environment for the benefit of the livelihoods. The organization aims to bring together the local community with their expertise and experience and the development agencies with their resource to confront Ignorance, Diseases, Poor Livestock Husbandry, Environmental Degradation and the resultant Poverty and Retrogression.

Womankind Kenya forms the basis for networking with Development Stakeholders both national and international to create a resource center and coordination platform to forge an inclusive planning for a sustainable community development on challenges affecting the pastoral community. While also integrating the existing unexplored opportunities and successful model projects for improvement of socio-economic status of the target population.

Background of Consultancy

Garissa, Wajir and Tana River Counties are among the 22 counties mapped by the Government of Kenya as hot spots for the continued practice of FGM. Garissa and Wajir Counties are inhabited by Somalis who have the highest FGM prevalence in Kenya of 94 per cent while Tana River County is inhabited by Somalis ,Wardei and Orma accounts 87 Per cent^[1]. This means that the Somali, Wardei and Orma communities have FGM prevalence four times above the national FGM prevalence which stands at 21per cent (Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2014). The practice reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against girls and women. The reasons given for the continuation and support for FGM includes religion requirement, preservation of virginity and to reduce sexual urges and prevent premarital sex.

Apart from health consequences, FGM has an indirect impact on early child bearing age with young women age 15-19 have begun childbearing in Tana River (28 per cent), and Wajir (17 per cent) and Garissa (10 per cent)^[2]. Evidence show adolescent childbearing has many negative health, social, and demographic consequences. Children born to women age 15-19 are more likely to die in infancy and early childhood than children born to older mothers. Women who start having children young often do not complete secondary school, limiting their future employment possibilities and other life choices.

In its partnership with UNICEF Kenya, through the Accelerating Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation (AAFGM) project, Womankind Kenya is working to accelerate efforts towards the abandonment of FGM, fulfill the rights of girls and women by actualizing the transformation of undesirable social and gender norms by the end of 2022 The project implementation framework envisions four outcomes;

i. Country has an enabling environment for the elimination of FGM practices at all levels and in line with human rights standards

ii. Girls and women are empowered to exercise and express their rights by transforming social and gender norms in communities to eliminate FGM

iii. Girls and women access appropriate, quality and systemic services for FGM prevention, protection and care

iv. Country has better capacity to generate and use evidence and data for policymaking and improving programming.

Purpose

The consultancy service is to develop an all-inclusive costed action plans with a communication plan, monitoring and evaluation for Garissa, Tana River and Wajir Counties that will provide key strategic guidance on the institutional framework and pillars necessary for realization of accessibility of quality services for FGM prevention, protection and care.

The Action plans will include the associated risks and assumptions, a monitoring and evaluation framework, communication plan, which is well spelled out with implementation timeframes..**

Objective of Consultancy

The overall objective of the consultancy is to develop county-specific costed plan of action to accelerate abandonment of FGM, with communication plan, monitoring and evaluation framework. The following are specific objectives of the consultancy:

1. To conduct stakeholder analysis and consultations with different actors both at National and County Levels to realize a multisectoral plan to scale up efforts to end FG, that will engage positively both in knowledge and leveraging of resources.




2. To design a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework to facilitate clear tracking of the indicators of success within the costed plan of Action on ending FGM in Garissa, Tana River and Wajir Counties




3. To develop a communication plan for the costed plan of Action on accelerating abandonment of FGM in Garissa, Tana River and Wajir Counties

Scope of the consultancy

Womankind Kenya is seeking a professional Consultant/Consulting Institution, with the appropriate profile, for a short-term consultancy to Develop County Level Costed Action Plans to end FGM in Garissa, Tana River and Wajir Counties.

The Consultant will be required to;

§ Conduct a desk review of available documents and assessments on Female Genital Mutilation and develop a road map for the assignment.

§ Identify relevant County, sectoral Agencies and key national ministries at the County level and conduct the institutional assessments in terms of FGM elimination.

§ Facilitate the design and organization of consultations, meetings, Interviews with stakeholders to gather data and information to support the development of the plan of action to accelerate abandonment of FGM.

§ Prepare a SWOT Analysis of County Gender Departments/Desks to identify and prioritize key strategic areas to be addressed in changing social norms and ending FGM

§ Develop interventions/ activities based on the key strategic areas on ending FGM to be included in the first draft.

§ Conduct a participatory meeting with relevant national & county departments, development partners, civil society stakeholders and community representatives to discuss the first draft of the action plan to end FGM.

§ Cost the agreed upon County Action Plan activities, with consultation with key stakeholders involved in budgetary allocations.

§ Submit the Three Costed Plans for inputs from UNICEF & Womankind Kenya.

§ Conduct a validation workshop based on the inputs received from key stakeholders.

§ Budget the County Level Action Plans on ending FGM.

§ Develop a communication plan for the costed plan of action to end FGM

§ Develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for the costed plan of action to end FGM

§ Finalize and submit the Costed Action Plans based on the validation inputs.

The assignment will entail reviewing previous reports and documents relating to Womankind Kenya’s Accelerating Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation (AAFGM) Programme, Joint Programme on ending FGM by UNICEF/UNFPA, National and regional policies documents for eradication of female genital mutilation, FGM County Specific Minimum Packages developed and identification of strategic pillars to anchor the Action Plans. Consultations will be held with with relevant multisectoral technical working groups at county level and finally develop Costed Plans of Action that are holistically owned by the County Stakeholders to end FGM. The Plans of Action should include a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, which will be owned by different stakeholders involved in eliminating FGM and should clearly spell out the various mechanisms of measuring performance, means of verification and ways of utilizing the decisions made.

Methodology

The County Action Plans development process will adopt participatory approach. The Costed County Action Plans will set out the prevention, protection and response strategies needed to advance the eradication of FGM within the three counties.

The Costed Action Plans will serve to develop the capacities of both county and national government officials, civil societies for FGM eradication, assist the development of advocacy tools and strategies to be used by different partners to end FGM, provide the platform for the implementation of a functional monitoring and evaluation system to support the elimination of FGM and the same time provide the basis of review and reporting the progress for the two counties in their efforts to end FGM.

Duration and Consultancy Deliverables

The assignment is expected to take a total of 90 days (30 working days per County) from Inception to final report submission, disaggregated per deliverable as follows:

DELIVERABLES

ESTIMATED DURATION TO COMPLETE

1. Inception Report detailing the agreed-upon methodology of executing the assignment




2. Initial Report after desk review of available documents and assessments of national and county gender institutions on efforts aimed at ending FGM.




3. A SWOT Analysis for the potential plan developed

15 days

1. Consultations with UNICEF, Womankind Kenya, Anti-FGM Board, Department of Children’s Services, County Gender Department and other relevant CSOs

7 days

1. Institutional assessment and consultation with allied sectors of education, heath, safe homes, legal, psychosocial services providers at the three counties.

7 days

1. Girls, women, boys, men, community and religious leaders, focus group discussions on the development of contextualized County Action Plan

7 days

1. Development of the first draft of the three Counties Action Plans to end FGM for Garissa, Tana River and Wajir Counties

21 days

1. County Action Plan Costing exercise completed and submitted for feedback.

5 days

1. Communication Plan and Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the Costed Action Plan completed and submitted for feedback

10 days

1. Presentation of the first draft of the costed plan of action with communication, monitoring and evaluation to UNICEF, Anti-FGM Board Woman Kenya, Department of Children’s Services, County Gender Department and other relevant CSOs

3 days

1. Comments and insights from the stakeholders’ workshop and workshop report submission

6 days

1. Validation of the Second Draft of the Costed County Action Plans to end FGM, with Communication Plan and Monitoring and Evaluation of Garissa, Tana River and Wajir Counties

a. Validation will be at community and county level (4 validation exercise @per day)

4 Days

8 Final Costed County Action Plans to end FGM with Communication Plan and Monitoring and Evaluation of the three counties based on the final validation comments submitted

5 days

The assignment is expected to be accomplished by mid of December 2020.

Key Qualifications

§ Post-graduate qualification in Public policy, Public Finance, Sociology, Anthropology, Development Studies, Community Development, Communication Development or any other relevant field of study with over 10 Years’ experience in the relevant field.

§ Prior engagement with research and situational analysis on FGM will be an asset

§ Excellent communications and report writing skills

§ Good knowledge of child protection and child rights issues, FGM, Gender issues in the Kenyan Context

[1] KDHS 2014

[2] https://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/ATR16/ATR16.pdf