Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, July 30 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) is a membership-based Pan-African Non-Governmental Organization that operates through 34 National Chapters in 34 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to promote girls’ and women’s education. FAWE was founded in 1992 and has its head office in Nairobi – Kenya. FAWE’s vision, mission and goal focus on quality education for girls and women. FAWE Rwanda is one of 34 National chapters. FAWE Rwanda Chapter was started in 1997 by a group of Rwandan women whose common goal was to build the country and promote national development through girls’ and women’s education. Since its inception, FAWE Rwanda has grown to become a reputable partner and focal point on female education in Rwanda.
FAWE Rwanda with support from the FAWE Regional secretariat is implementing Make Way Project a 5-year program whose mandate is to mobilize a critical mass of Civil Society Organizations to increasingly advocate for the rights of marginalized youth with compounded vulnerabilities so as to claim and exercise their Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). The program aims at breaking the barriers to SRHR by creating a new way of looking at and organizing SRHR issues through an intersectional lens because SRHR are human rights that allow people to make informed decisions about their bodies, family planning, sexuality and wellbeing.
FAWE Rwanda has in place the Intersectional Tuseme SRHR Manual that guides Trainers and facilitators of Tuseme clubs on how to engage youth on different aspects SRHR inclusive. In an effort to support youth in Tuseme clubs learn and understand better their sexuality FAWE is developing a user friendly SRHR Tuseme guide. The user-friendly guide should be developed to include evidence-based interventions, interactive and engaging age-appropriate approaches for increasing Adolescent access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and information in rural and urban environments.

RATIONALE
Marginalised youths with compounded vulnerabilities are at higher risk of facing discrimination and exclusion from mainstreamed sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services, policies and planning. The Make Way programme aims to get at the root of this issue. By applying an intersectional lens, we can identify how interlocking vulnerabilities exacerbate existing barriers, and which societal and systemic changes are necessary to overcome these. An intersectional lens will also help us assess assumptions, prejudices, ideologies, power imbalances and determine how these affect both traditional (e.g., religious, cultural) and modern SRHR practices (e.g., policies, regulations) of marginalized groups of young people.
The end-goal of the five-year program is that youth with compounded vulnerabilities are empowered to make their own decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in a more informed manner. With this user friendly Tuseme SRHR guide, youth in Tuseme clubs will develop story lines, poems and drama related to SRHR. Alongside these outputs are community mobilization activities that target adults, adolescents out of schools and youth groups. Use of the user friendly Tuseme SRHR guide will go a long way to reach the adolescents through community dialogues and interactive drama on SRHR. This will contribute to long-term social and behavior change by increasing knowledge, shaping positive attitudes and practices, and by challenging unhelpful norms to support youth agency and decision-making power.

The assignment shall be done in a period of 30 calendar days from the date of signing contract.
Interested consultants should submit proposal that includes:
1. Consultant profile (One page maximum) outlining relevant experience and suitability for the assignment.
2. At least 2 certificates of good completion in developing education materials that are related to SRHR related topics in Rwanda.
3. A detailed work plan and the methodology the consultant would use for the assignment.
4. Post-graduate degree in a related discipline (e.g. Gender studies, Public health, and Education);
5. Strong experience working with NGOs and Civil Society Organisations especially in the education sector. Please attach 2 proofs.
6. At least 2 Proofs of conducting training and understanding of the Tuseme process.

Skills
The consultant is expected to demonstrate the following skills set:
1. Ability to build up a good relationship in short period of time;
2. Demonstrated results in facilitating group discussions on preferably sensitive issues and/or value clarifications.
3. Expertise in working with individuals from different cultural backgrounds and with different identities
4. Strong analytical skills;
5. High-level oral and written communication and must be fluent in English and Kinyarwanda.

Deliverables:
• Develop an inception report of desk review process and outline of methodology and conceptual framework that will be used in developing the user friendly Tuseme SRHR guide.
• Hold at least 2 consultative sessions with both in and out of school youth to capture Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Develop a user friendly Tuseme SRHR guide which will include short stories and images to support and guide the youth
• Test the draft user friendly Tuseme SRHR guide in a validation workshop with Make way consortium partners and adolescents and youth to provide feedback on the draft.
• Revise the user friendly Tuseme SRHR guide based on feedback from the validation workshop.
• Share the final reviewed draft with the FAWE Rwanda team.
• Final well-designed hard copy and a soft copy of a Tuseme SRHR user friendly guide.

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education:

Job application procedure
Interested candidates should submit their proposals to FAWE Rwanda offices at REB Premises Remera not later than 5th August 2024 at 4:30pm

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