*about fòs feminista*
fòs feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the global south, fòs feminista works as an alliance of organizations in 40+ countries worldwide to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. As the connecting fabric of this alliance, fòs feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action, amplifies partners’ work, and promotes south-south learning and collaboration toward achieving common objectives.
Together with our partners, we provide access to sexual and reproductive health care, including contraception, abortion, and care for victims of gender-based violence, and we reach young people with comprehensive sexuality education. We recognize that the ability of women, girls, and gender-diverse people to make free and informed choices about sexual and reproductive lives, including to access safe and legal abortion, is central to their life plans and to achieving gender and reproductive justice. As such, we are at the forefront of advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights from an intersectional lens in national, regional, and global spaces, coordinating with our partners to ensure that diverse experiences, priorities, and voices of the global south are represented in these spaces.
*about the centers of learning and exchange*
keeping in mind the transformative power of feminist solidarity and the creative resilience generated by mutual learning, in 2020 fòs feminista established centers of excellence to enable cross
- learning across the global south. These were the centre for evidence-based advocacy (ceba), the centre for comprehensive sexuality education (cse) and youth friendly services (yfs), center for legal responses (clr), and the center for transformative narratives (ctn).
In 2023, fòs feminista extended an invitation to all alliance partners across the global south to co-lead existing fòs feminista alliance centers. Simultaneously, centers are also in the process of re-strategizing their role and rethinking their objectives in light of the ongoing work across the alliance. This revamp is intended to amplify our partners’ capacities both regionally and globally and disrupt the dominant north
- south flow of capacities, expertise, information, resources, and technologies.
*summary of consultancy*
*this consultancy is an opportunity to work with the centre for cse and yfs*, hosted by cies (bolivia), aahung (pakistan), women for a change (cameroon) and fòs feminista to develop a needs assessment, that will:
- map existing technical expertise, capabilities and other relevant resources on cse and yfs within the fòs feminista alliance as well as needs and gaps in areas of expertise, knowledge, funding, support for narrative building, etc.
- identify current advocacy strategies implemented by partners, including those that seek to neutralize conservative discourse on cse and yfs.
- find interconnections between partner work and identify potential links to build upon through exchange and learning opportunities.
The insights gathered from this assessment will be essential for the alliance to strategize its overall efforts and offer clarity on how partners can better collaborate with each other and fòs feminista, in order to expand or improve cse and yfs programs implementation.
Scope of work
the consultant will support the center for cse and yfs hosts in developing a methodology to collect data from the fòs feminista alliance as well as analyze and systematize the data and provide a clear visualization of the current situation and opportunities highlighted by partners, by region, and globally.
The findings from this process will be used by the center for cse and yfs to refine the work plan in order to meet the needs of partners and identify resources and expertise currently existing in the alliance.
In close collaboration with the center for cse and yfs, the consultant is expected to fulfill the following responsibilities:
- establish an agreed upon methodology with a clear outline of roles for the hosts of the center for cse and yfs.
- execute methodology including but not limited to tool development, data collection, translation, transcriptions, analysis, and reporting.
- create a powerpoint presentation of high-level findings from the research and present these findings to the center for cse and yfs hosts for validation and feedback in a virtual meeting.
- write and edit a final report detailing findings, including regional and issue-wise
- attend routine check-ins with center for cse and yfs hosts throughout the research, as
*key deliverables*:
- final methodology, including data collection tools, which are to be approved by the center for cse and yfs
- presentation of powerpoint of high-level findings for center for cse and yfs
- final report, broken down by regions an