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Date Posted: Friday, October 15, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Consultancy- Call for Proposals Baseline Study
Sexual and Reproductive Health & Economic Empowerment – Supporting Out-of-school Adolescent Girls’ Rights and Skills (SHE SOARS) Program
Terms of Reference – National Consultant for Baseline Study
Introduction
CARE International is a global network of independent national organizations working together across more than 100 countries to save lives, end poverty and fight social injustice. CARE is a humanitarian and development non-governmental organization committed to working with people of all genders, especially women and girls, communities, and institutions to have a significant impact on the underlying causes of poverty. CARE seeks to contribute to economic and social transformation, unleashing the power of the most vulnerable women and girls.

As long as gender inequality persists, we cannot eradicate poverty and social injustice, or realize our goals for economic and climate justice, health equity, the right to food, water and nutrition, and equitable access to humanitarian assistance. Gender equality is therefore the central organizing principle of CARE’s strategy and the heart of CARE’s programmatic and organizational ambitions and targets.

SHE SOARS Project
Project Name: Sexual and Reproductive Health & Economic Empowerment – Supporting Out- of- school Adolescent girls’ Rights and Skills (SHE SOARS)
Funding: Global Affairs Canada
Implementing partners: Restless Development, Youth Coalition, Center for Reproductive Rights
Project ultimate outcome: Increased enjoyment of health-related human rights by the most marginalized and vulnerable women and girls’ rights holders, particularly out of school adolescent girls in Kenya, Uganda & Zambia.
Type of study: Mixed methods baseline study
Proposed key approach and methodology: Household survey, Focus Group Discussions, Key Informative Interviews and Individual In-depth Interviews
Purpose of the study: Establish baseline values for indicators. Examine the current knowledge, attitudes and practices related to sexual reproductive health and gender equality among adolescents, particularly out-of-school adolescents, to inform project implementation.
Study population: Adolescents, particularly out-of-school adolescents their families and networks
Geographic area; Zambia: Chadiza, Kasenengwa and Mambwe districts in Eastern province
Proposed start date: Nov 1st 2021
Proposed end date: Jan 30th 2022

The project aims to increase the enjoyment of health-related rights on the part of extremely vulnerable and marginalized women and girls, particularly out-of-school adolescent girls between 10 and 19 years of age in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. The project will provide training and support for educators and health care providers to ensure that adolescents have access to comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and will provide CSE directly through skills and training packages for youth groups in all three project countries. The project will work with local groups, health providers, and government ministries to build capacity and improve access to high-quality, evidence-based comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for out-of-school adolescents in an inclusive and adolescent-friendly environment. The project is informed by consultation with out-of-school and at-risk adolescents in the project countries and will work with local organizations and governments to advocate for sustainable transformations in the social, economic, and legal environments so that adolescents, particularly adolescent girls, can more easily access sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and exercise their sexual and reproductive rights.

CARE will deliver the project in partnership with Restless Development, the Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, the Center for Reproductive Rights and through partnerships with local Women’s Rights, and Youth-Led Organizations. The project will reach an estimated 203,370 out-of-school girls aged 10-19 years old, who are consistently excluded from traditional adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (ASRHR) programming, are difficult to reach and often have the greatest need for support. The project will indirectly reach an estimated 777,314 women and girls and 657,269 men and boys to support an enabling environment for adolescent health and rights. These figures are based on initial estimates.

The project will increase the enjoyment of health-related human rights on the part of extremely vulnerable and marginalized women and girls, particularly out of school adolescent girls aged between 10 and 19 years old in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia through three interconnected pillars: (1) increased equitable use of SRHR health services by diverse groups of women, adolescent girls, and children’s rights holders, particularly out-of-school adolescent girls; (2) improved provision of gender-and adolescent-responsive, inclusive and accountable health services by health care providers for diverse groups of women, adolescent girls, and children’s rights holders, particularly out-of-school adolescent girls; and, (3) improved effectiveness of key stakeholders, particularly women’s and girls’ rights organizations to advocate for evidence-based, accountable and equitable adolescent SRHR policies, legal frameworks and services.

Project activities include: 1) providing training and support for educators and health care providers to ensure that adolescents have access to comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), and providing CSE directly through skills and training packages for youth groups in all three project countries; 2) working with local groups, health providers, and government ministries to build capacity and improve access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services for out-of-school adolescents; 3) financial and capacity support to Women’s Rights Organizations and Youth-Led Rights Organizations to conduct advocacy on SRHR to influence legal and policy change; 4) deep community engagement and accompaniment to transform social and gender norms that are barriers to adolescent girls’ and boys’ rights, including the right to bodily autonomy.

Baseline Study Purpose, Objectives, and Rationale
The purpose of the baseline evaluation is to:
• Establish baseline values for all indicators for the SHE SOARS project in Zambia., as set out in the Performance Measurement Framework (PMF)
• Examine the current knowledge, attitudes and practices related to sexual reproductive health and gender equality among adolescents, particularly out-of-school adolescents, to inform project implementation
• Contribute to the evidence base surrounding Gender Equality and Sexual Reproductive Health outcomes for adolescents.
• Identify programmatic priorities and approaches through key informant interviews with stakeholders such as government staff, community leaders, health care providers and staff from other sexual reproductive health rights projects.

Scope
This piece of work will encompass a cross-sectional mixed methods approach:
1. A coverage survey at household level that targets households with at least one female adolescent member (15-19 years old), uses a structured questionnaire about sexual reproductive health and gender equality and allows for sex, age and in-school/out of school disaggregated quantitative data
2. A qualitative gender analysis study that provides contextual information about beliefs and behaviors related to sexual reproductive health and gender equality among adolescents, particularly out-of-school adolescents, their families, and networks.

Research Question
The following are the key questions to be addressed by this study:
• What are the current knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and practices related to sexual reproductive health and gender equality among adolescents, particularly out-of-school adolescents?
• How do the knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors of families and networks of adolescents, particularly out-of-school adolescents influence their behaviors and practices?

Approach and Methodology
In Zambia, baseline data collection will take into consideration for the following aspect:
• Covid- 19 Adaptation protocols and adherence. At a minimum, the Consultant must demonstrate how they will mitigate risks of transmission (both for enumerators and community members).
• Data source (primary and secondary) adaptation of provided data collection tools for the country context.
• Data collection in the target communities of Kasenengwa, Mambwe and Chadiza districts.
• Data analysis & interpretation of quantitative data
• Sharing of qualitative data with Gender consultant for analysis and interpretation

Coverage survey:
The coverage survey will follow John Hopkins University (JHU) RADAR guidance (https://www.radar-project.org/coverage-survey) and DHS methodology (https://dhsprogram.com/methodology/Survey-Types/DHS-Methodology.cfm). The consultant will conduct data collection on randomly selected households with at least one female adolescent member (15-19 years old) in areas where the project will be implemented. In each household up to 4 members will be interviewed if present: a female adolescent, male adolescent, female adult and male adult. The interview with each member should last less than 1 hour. The questionnaire will contain social-demographic questions, sexual reproductive health questions and gender equality questions sufficient to provide data for calculating project indicators as described in the Performance Measurement Framework (PMF). Data collection must strictly observe COVID-19 transmission mitigation measures as established in Zambia which may evolve during the timeframe of the data collection). Supervisors and enumerators must be fluent in local language(s).

Further Information
Please click on the link below to download the full terms of reference:
Terms of Reference – National Consultant for Baseline Study.

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