Latest Job Vacancies at ActionAid (AA) Nigeria, 3rd April, 2019

AA Nigeria is an affiliate of ActionAid International, which is a global alliance of organisations working towards achieving a world without poverty and injustice in which every person enjoys the right to a life with dignity. As a large and visible development organisation, we work in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and America. Our expertise lies in communityled approaches to development and working through partnerships with the poor and other grass root organisations.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Consultant – Mapping of Women and Girls’ Rights Organisations and their Movements/Coalitions/Platforms in Project States and National

Location: Nigeria

Background
The Women’s Voices and Leadership- Nigeria Project:

• 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.
• Nigeria is one of the recipient countries and is being managed by ActionAid Nigeria. Actions of the project includes provision of funding to local women’s rights organizations and their movements in six projects states of Bauchi, Cross River, Enugu, Lagos, Kebbi and Kwara. This is in recognition of funding gap that local women’s rights organisations face. In providing this funding, the project aims to assist these organizations and their movements in their efforts to eliminate discrimination and rights violations in policy and legislation (including implementation) and the provision of services, as well as harmful social beliefs and practices.
• Objective of the Mapping To generate a database of local women’s rights organisations and their movements/networks/coalitions/platforms in Nigeria1. Generate information on programme focus/type of intervention, geographic location and spread; and their strength, weakness, opportunities and threats (SWOT) for achieving gender equality and advancing women and girl’s rights in project states and national.

The Task

• Map and document existing feminist and/or women and girls’ rights organizations in project states and national;
• Map and document existing feminist and/or women and girls’ rights movements; coalitions; networks and platforms in project states and national;
• Map and document each organization/movements/coalition/network/platform geographic location and spread
• Identify and detail feminists and/or women and girls’ right actors, principally focusing on the type of support they provide (financial or technical);
• Identify and examine the focus area(s) and/or interventions each organization or network/movement/coalition/platform focuses on in project states or national;
• Assess the spread and scale of their programme interventions in project states and national;
• Assess their experiences and strengths in advocacy and lobbying for policy and legal reforms for gender equality, and/or women and girls rights advancement in project states and national, focusing on their successes and constraints, their achievements and limitations;
• Examine their capacity for mobilization and engagement/organizing; identification of factors and interests, and capacity needs for advancing gender equality and promoting women and girl’s rights in project states and national;
• Analyze, interpret and categorize the organizations in clusters of strength/weakness, focus areas and programme location/spread;
• Based on the categorization, make recommendations for working with the organizations and networks/movements/coalitions/platforms.

Approach and Methodology:

• This will involve desk review and field visits to the project states.

Expected Outputs
A detailed report highlighting amongst others:

• Database of local women and girls’ rights organizations in project states and national.
• Database of the existing women’s rights movements; coalitions; and platforms in project states and national.
• Database of key actors within the feminist/gender/women and girls’ rights advancement in project states and national.
• Information on types of programmes/actions/interventions of the local women’s rights as well as the geographic locations/spread of these interventions in project states and national.
• Information on the policy and legal landscape in project states and national.
• Key issues, challenges and opportunities for achieving gender equality and women and girls’ rights advancement in project states and national.
• Recommendations.
• Detailed prefix and references.

Qualifications and Criteria for Selection 

• We are seeking researchers with extensive experience and skills in feminist and women’s rights analysis. In addition, to showing evidence of previous related work. Minimum of Master’s degree or equivalent of 10 years’ experience in research and feminist analysis.

Place of Work & Administrative Support:

• Though they will be expected to work independently from any base location, however, the consultants will be expected to visit the 6 project states in addition to the desk review. For this purpose, AAN will provide necessary logistics to support the delivery of the process.

Timelines for Submission of Deliverables
Key Activity and Number of working days:

• Inception meeting – 1
• Desk review – 2
• Field Visit to project states – 8
• Report Writing – 4

Total: 15 working days – Date: April 2019

Ownership of outputs:

• Outputs of the work done as stipulated in the call for expression of interest belongs to ActionAid.

Mode of Payment:

• Please note that only a flat fee will be paid.
• ActionAid shall however deduct the statutory 5% With Holding Tax (WHT) for individuals and 10% for limited (LTD) and public companies (PLC); and remit to relevant authority. The successful applicant would be required to provide AAN his/her Tax Identification Number (TIN) for the purposes of remittance.

 

Job Title: Consultant – Political Economy Analysis (PEA) of Gender Equality and Women’s Rights Programme in Nigeria

Location: Nigeria

Background
The Women’s Voices and Leadership- Nigeria Project:

• 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.
• Nigeria is one of the recipient countries and is being managed by ActionAid Nigeria. Actions of the project includes provision of funding to local women’s rights organizations and their movements in six projects states of Bauchi, Cross River, Enugu, Lagos, Kebbi and Kwara. This is in recognition of funding gap that local women’s rights organisations face. In providing this funding, the project aims to assist these organizations and movements in their efforts to eliminate discrimination and rights violations in policy and legislation (including implementation) and the provision of services, as well as harmful social beliefs and practices.

Problem Statement:

• The violation of the rights of women and girls is pervasive across all spheres of life in Nigeria, including economic disempowerment, political exclusion, and sexual and gender-based violence. Gender equality is undermined by patriarchal systems and beliefs that favour the interests of men above those of women.
• The complex socio-political environment of having both a federation and a tripartite system of civil, customary, and religious law makes it very difficult to harmonize legislation and remove discriminatory practices against women and girls in Nigeria. These discriminatory laws and practices affect a wide range of issues, such as freedom of movement, marriage, and inheritance. Legal recourse is problematic for women, as legal services are limited and difficult to access. Child and early forced marriage, maternal mortality, and gender-based violence rates are extremely high.
• On the other hand, the Nigerian women’s rights movement is fragmented, and local organizations face significant barriers in improving the status of women, including limited resources and weak capacity and poor political will for the prioritisation of women and girls’ right issues.

Deliverables

• The political economy analysis is aimed at scanning the women’s rights programming and gender equality advancement environment from different perspectives. This seeks to determine the factors hindering or contributing to the current realities.
• The PEA would review current global, national and project states trends and how these would impact the achievement of gender equality in project states specifically and in Nigeria generally.
• It will involve gathering relevant information on the political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal environment, and analysing and interpreting these findings. Specifically, the task is groups thus:

Part A:

• Analyse the current context of women’s rights programming in the project states, and in Nigeria;
• How local women’s rights organisations and movements are organised and how they are organising in project states and Nigeria;
• Identify funding sources for women’s rights organisations;
• Identify donor priorities to funding women’s rights organisation; and granting models/alternatives;
• Identify gaps between available funds for women’s rights organisation and the actual funding needs
• Identify utilisation approach by the local women’s rights organisation and their movements;

Part B:

• Identify core issues on women and girls’ rights in the project states and Nigeria;
• Identify and review the legal and policy frameworks that promotes or impedes the realisation of women and girls’ rights in Nigeria making connections to international and global frameworks;
• Make recommendations on core areas/issues for intervention in the project states

Part C:

• Analyse, interpret the implications of all the issues identified and the interconnectivity between each of these. Based the findings, draw up policy implications and recommends for programming.

Approach and Methodology:

• This will involve desk review and field visit to selected project state(s) where necessary.

Expected Outputs and Deliverables 
A detailed report highlighting amongst others:

• Conceptual analysis of the political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal context of women’s rights programming in Nigeria.
• Conceptual analysis of the political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal context across the globe and how it affects Nigeria and project states
• Key issues, challenges and opportunities for women’s rights programming and the achievement of gender equality.
• Analysis, Interpretation and Implications for Programming
• Detailed prefix and references.

Qualifications and Criteria for selection 

• We are seeking feminists, academia and/or research institutions with extensive experience/ skills in feminist and women’s rights analysis. In addition, to showing evidence of related previous work.
• Minimum of Master’s degree or equivalent of 10 years’ experience in research and feminist analysis.

Place of Work & Administrative Support:

• The consultant(s) will be free to work independently from any base/location. S/he/they will be expected to provide her/his/their own work equipment. However, for the purposes of field visit, AAN will provide accommodation and other necessary logistics.

Timelines for Submission of Deliverables 
Key Activity and Number of working days:

• Inception meeting – 1
• Desk review – 6
• Field Visit (negotiable) – 4
• Development of draft repor – 3
•  Submission of draft report –
• Feedback on draft report/ Finalisation of report  – 2

Total working days – 16 days  –  Date April, 2019.

Ownership of Output:

• Outputs of the work done as stipulated in the call for expression of interest belongs to ActionAid Nigeria.

Mode of Payment

• Please note that only a flat fee will be paid
• ActionAid shall however deduct the statutory 5% With Holding Tax (WHT) for individuals and 10% for limited (LTD) and public companies (PLC); and remit to relevant authority. The successful applicant would be required to provide AAN his/her Tax Identification Number (TIN) for the purposes of remittance.

 

Deadline: 7th April, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications electronically to: procurement.nigeria@actionaid.org The subject line of their application should be “Mapping of Women and Girls’ Rights Organisations and their Movements/Coalitions/Platforms.”

Note: Only successful applicants will be contacted.