Home-based: Terms of Reference for an Endline Evaluation “My Body. My Decision. My Rights: Reducing Child Early Forced Marriage in Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso”
- Type of assessment: Endline Evaluation
- Project start and end: 26/02/2020- 30/09/2023
- Project duration: 3 Years
- Thematic Areas: Child Protection, Gender Equality, Health, Livelihoods
- Project location: Sierra Leone: Western Rural and Kailahun
- Burkina Faso: Cascades and Hauts-Bassins
- Donor: Global Affairs Canada
- Estimated beneficiaries:
- Sierra Leone: 10,500 direct beneficiaries, 1730 direct intermediaries and 15,665 indirect beneficiaries
- Burkina Faso: 13,200 direct beneficiaries, 1260 direct intermediaries and 15,300 indirect beneficiaries
Description:
Overall objectives of the project: Very Young Adolescent (VYA) and Older Adolescent (OA) girls are able to decide their own future and fulfil their equal human rights, including decisions on marriage in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone
Over the course of three years (26 February 2020 – 30 September 2023), the project “My Body. My Decision. My Rights: Reducing Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Sierra Leonne and Burkina Faso” aims to reduce CEFM, enable girls to make decisions on their own future, and fulfill their equal human rights by addressing the underlying normative conditions which maintain gender inequality, and making alternative opportunities more accessible and meaningful for girls.
As such, the project targeted and addressed the driving factors of CEFM by empowering very young adolescent girls and boys (10-14 years) and older adolescent girls and boys (15-18 years) to make their own informed decisions about marriage and pregnancy; improving the social environment for adolescent girls to make these decisions, and finally strengthening the institutional environment at the national and sub-national levels to accelerate actions on gender equality and the prevention of CEFM. Aligned with the development priorities of Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and its Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP), the project promoted gender equality and girls’ empowerment by working across the socio-ecological model, including adolescent girls and boys, parents, traditional and religious leaders, women and girl-led community groups, civil society organizations (CSOs) including women’s rights organizations (WROs), service providers, sub-national, national, and regional government stakeholders.
The project includes a robust Gender Equality (GE) Strategy which is at the heart of the CEFM approach and interventions. In addition to laying out explicitly gender-transformative approaches to CEFM prevention and girls’ empowerment, the GE strategy included a focus on what was done at the organizational level to support the implementation of the project in terms of gender analysis, staffing, training, gender equality materials, tools, curriculum, etc.
Please follow the link below to our website to see complete details of the Terms of Reference.
How to Apply:
The proposal will be scored on both technical (methodology) and financial (budget) aspects. Complete applications should be submitted electronically in English to the following address: gtimpl@savethechildren.ca with the header: CEFM Endline Evaluation
Closing date for submission of the application package is end of business day on: 05 May 2023
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