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Project Overview

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. The project which is in its 5th and final year, provides financial and technical support to 100 plus Local Women’s Rights Organizations (LWROs), Community Based Organizations (CBOs), Networks and Movements in six projects states of Bauchi, Cross River, Enugu, Lagos, Kebbi and Kwara and at the national level with the aim of assisting these organizations and their movements in their efforts to eliminate discrimination and rights violations in policy and legislation, provision of services, and in combating harmful social beliefs and practices in Nigeria.

The Ultimate Outcome of the project is to contribute to towards the increased enjoyment of human rights by women and girls and the advancement of gender equality in Nigeria.

While its Intermediate Outcomes are as follows:

1. Improved management and sustainability of local women’s rights organizations in Nigeria
2. Enhanced delivery of programming and advocacy to advance gender equality by local women’s rights organizations in Nigeria.
3. Increased effectiveness of sub-national, national, and regional women’s rights platforms, networks, and alliances to affect policy, legal and social change in Nigeria.

Purpose of this Call

The Women’s Right Unit of ActionAid Nigeria is seeking a consultant(s) with capacity to support the AAN Women’s Rights unit in the development of a comprehensive resource toolkit for the deployment of tailored capacity building on women’s rights programming along selected range of areas- system strengthening and programmes based on WVL-Nigeria experience.

The toolkit will be designed to serve as a comprehensive resource to meet both institutional and technical programmatic needs for building capacities of small to large organizations in the delivery of women’s rights programme within the Nigerian context. It is expected that the toolkit will contribute to improving the capability of end users in the management and sustainability of their organizations. Hence, it should be enriched with learning mechanisms and techniques to allow practitioners’ easy understanding for knowledge and skills transfer.

Major contents in the toolkit will be drawn from training contents, lessons, and experiences from the implementation of the Women’s Voice & Leadership-Nigeria Project.

The toolkit should among others would cover areas:

• Institutional Capacity Building & Systems Strengthening
• Technical Capacity Development for Feminist and Women Rights Programming
• Feminist Monitoring & Evaluation

The Consultants shall team up and in consultation with the AAN WVL-Nigeria project team and selected representatives of partner LWROs lead the development of this comprehensive toolkit working with a combination of content sourced and fit for purpose and those provided.

Qualifications and Criteria for Selection

• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in Institutional Capacity Building & Systems Strengthening.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in implementation of Women’s Rights Programming in both the Humanitarian & Development Sectors.
• Previous experience in Curriculum/Resource Toolkit Development especially in related area.
• Bachelor/master’s degree in social sciences, Arts/Humanities, or any other relevant field.
• Excellent communication skills; oral, written and presentation.
• A good knowledge of educational techniques with the ability to plan, co-ordinate and instruct training sessions.
• Considerable knowledge of visual and audio instructional aids and the ability to employ such devices effectively.
• Evidence of having undertaken similar assignments in the past
• Availability within the period marked for the consultancy.

Place of Work & Administrative Support 

1. The consultant will work out of his/her own location except during a 5-day Write shop, using his/her own tools.
2. The selected consultants will sign a contract with AAN for the purpose of this consultancy.

Duration of Contract

The duration of this contract is 30 days.

Interested candidates are invited to apply by sending a resume detailing competency and links to previous work done. Applications must be submitted electronically in one Microsoft Word file to: Procurement-Staff.Nigeria@ActionAidGlobal.onmicrosoft.com using the subject line ‘Consultancy for the development of a Resource Toolkit on Deployment of Tailored Capacity Building for Women’s Rights Programming In Nigeria’ not later than Monday 5 February 2024.

Please note that only the successful applicant will be contacted.

Job Type: Contract

Closing Date: Thursday 29^th  February 2024