Sexual and Gender-based Violence Evaluation Consultant

I. GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE

1.1 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. Fòs Feminista is both the connective tissue that links these diverse partners in an alliance and an active participant in the broader ecosystem of actors working on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ). Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action by connecting partners throughout the SRHRJ ecosystem, amplifying innovative partner-led solutions to SRHRJ issues, and catalyzing funding and political will for an intersectional feminist agenda on SRHRJ.

We recognize that the ability of women, girls, and gender-diverse people to make free and informed choices about their sexual and reproductive lives, including to access safe and legal abortion, is central to their life plans and to achieving gender and reproductive justice. Together with partners in the Alliance, we provide access to sexual and reproductive health care and services, including contraception, abortion, and care for victims of gender-based violence, and we reach young people with comprehensive sexuality education. We are at the forefront of advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) 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. And we strengthen intersectional feminist movements and organizations by creating and holding space for partners to participate in an international community built on feminist values of sharing power, diversity, mutual learning, and solidarity, and to access resources to strengthen their work.

II. SCOPE OF WORK

2.1 Objective & Role of the Consultancy

The Consultant will complete an evaluation for a large project working to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Latin America, which is implemented in close partnership with local organizations in Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. The 3-year project, launched in 2022 and anticipated to run through 2025, aims to achieve three intermediate outcomes: 1) positively change individual beliefs, attitudes, and practices through evidence-based SGBV primary prevention interventions in schools, health centers, and communities; 2) increase access to services and resources for SGBV survivors via a strengthened the health response to SGBV by project partners; 3) increase government commitment and accountability to prevent and respond effectively to SGBV in the target countries, as well as throughout Latin America. This will contribute to the ultimate outcome of enhanced gender equality and empowerment of women, girls, and those who have other gender identities in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Consultant will be responsible for designing and applying non-experimental evaluation of the effect of the project on risk and protective factors for SGBV that are related to gender equality and empowerment of women, girls, and gender diverse people. This evaluation must be tailored to the contexts of Ecuador, Mexico, and Paraguay and draw from existing evidence on SGBV risk and protective factors related to gender equality, such as the RESPECT framework from UN Women and the World Health Organization as well as relevant context-specific data from secondary sources. The evaluation consultant will also be responsible for aligning and integrating this evaluation with existing project activities, particularly the surveys applied by local partners in Ecuador, Mexico, and Paraguay to evaluate the project, which includes a locally adapted Gender Equitable Men Scale and other survey questions that assess attitudes condoning violence as acceptable.

The evaluation will have three phases: baseline data gathering prior to March 31, 2023, a midterm analysis by March 31, 2024, and final assessment on March 31, 2025. This limited term consultancy will specifically focus on developing the evaluation methodology, creating guidance and tools to apply the methodology, and implementing them to establish baseline figures against which improvement will be assessed. While this consultancy will take place in early 2023, the methods and tools must be designed so that they can consistently and appropriately applied by other team members during subsequent years of the project in a manner that generates comparable results.

2.2 Consultant Deliverables

In close collaboration with project partners, Fòs Feminista, and other team members, particularly project technical leads, the SGBV Evaluation Consultant will complete the following deliverables:

1. Identify risk and protective factors for SGBV affected by this project that are related to enhanced gender equality and empowerment in each context (Ecuador, Mexico, and Paraguay).

2. Design an evaluation to assess improvement in the factors related to enhanced gender equality and empowerment for women, girls, and gender diverse people in Ecuador, Mexico, and Paraguay that increase or mitigate the likelihood of sexual and gender-based violence.

• This shall include creating all plans, methods, guidance, and tools for the evaluation in Spanish, such as developing evidence-informed, context-appropriate questions for project participants that are integrated into existing surveys applied by project partners, identifying, tracking, and/or analyzing any relevant data from secondary sources, and the design and collection of any additional data or information. It will also include ensuring appropriate sampling and selection of participants, as well as ethical considerations.

• All materials and guidance must be compiled in a toolkit so that the evaluation can be effectively applied during subsequent measurements in 2024 and 2025.

3. Implement the initial evaluation at baseline (no later than March 31, 2023).

4. Process, analyze, and report on baseline results by April 25, 2023. This shall also include guidance in the toolkit for future team members to replicate analyses so that their results are comparable to baseline figures.

2.3 Consultant Profile

A broad diversity of skills, capabilities, expertise, knowledge, attitudes, and experiences will be considered for the role, but the ideal candidate has:

• Experience monitoring, evaluating, and/or researching sexual and gender-based violence and gender equality in Latin America
• Knowledge of risk and protective factors related to sexual and gender-based violence
• Fluency in Spanish and English
• Deep knowledge of the gender equity and sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean (or other areas of the Global South)
• Ability to adapt the evaluation to challenges and opportunities emerging during its design or implementation, as well as the capacity to be a self-starter capable of troubleshooting challenges as they arise and seeking swift solutions
• Experience designing, implementing and/or evaluating gender-transformative and intersectional feminist approaches to ensuring sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice
• Excellent planning skills and the ability to work under tight deadlines
• Superb interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in multicultural settings
• Proficiency in various computer tools for automation and data management (for example, Excel and others)

III. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

3.1 Duration

Limited term consultancy starting February 2023, continuing through May 30, 2023, with an estimated commitment of 20 hours per week.

3.2 Location

Fully remote, based anywhere in the world (preferably in the Americas, Africa, or Asia). Work will be done virtually. The Consultant must be willing to adjust to different time zones.

3.3 Reporting

The Consultant will report to the Associate Director, Business Intelligence, Evaluation & Research.

IV. EVALUATION METHOD AND CRITERIA

For consideration, a proposal must be submitted in English containing the following documents:

• Updated curriculum vitae that demonstrates professional experience in monitoring, evaluating, and/or researching sexual and gender-based violence and gender equality
• Cover letter explaining the motivation for applying and explaining how qualifications and skill set are suitable
• Economic offer in USD which includes rates plus all taxes and liens that this type of consultancy requires

The criteria for the evaluation of the proposals will be based on:

• Professional experience (50%).
• Amount of the financial offer (50%)

The proposal must be sent no later than February 10, 2023.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Fòs Feminista is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice and dismantling inequities from an intersectional feminist lens.  Reproductive justice, racial justice, and diversity are driving forces for us.

Fòs Feminista provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender expression or identify, health status, history of conflict with the law, migrant status, national origin, parental or pregnancy status, partnership status, political belief, poverty, race, religion, sexual identity of orientation, sex, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected category under federal, state, and local laws.

At Fòs Feminista we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from all kinds of backgrounds to build a workforce that is diverse and inclusive of people who are from marginalized or excluded groups.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.