Terms of References for Engaging Women Right Organization in Bauchi and Sokoto State at Plan International

We are looking for a qualified candidate to fill this position. Project background The ASPIRE Project aims to improve the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for adolescent girls and women, including vulnerable populations, in Bauchi and Sokoto States. Aligned with Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) and Plan International’s Global Policy: Gender Equality and Inclusion (GE&I), ASPIRE will be guided by a feminist, multi-sectoral approach to improving women’s and girls’ agency and leadership, informing and empowering adolescents and young people with the right information and economic leverage to demand adequate SRHR information and services, and advocate for government duty bearers to establish strong policies and programs that respond to their demands.  ASPIRE will pursue partnerships that bring together government, civil society, coalitions, networks, national partners and associations to promote an integrated approach to SRHR, especially for adolescents. This will be achieved through three intermediate outcomes 

• 1100 - Increased individual and collective agency of women and adolescent girls in their diversity to exercise their SRH rights and access to gender and adolescent-responsive and inclusive SRH services 

• 1200 - Strengthened health systems to provide gender and adolescent-responsive, inclusive, integrated and innovative SRHR and protection services for women and adolescent girls and 

• 1300 - Improved responsiveness of local stakeholders to provide evidence-based, integrated, accountable and equitable policies, legal frameworks and SRHR and protection services.

Plan International Nigeria aims to contribute to the advancement of Children’s rights and is committed to achieving program quality, which calls for effective and efficient allocation and use of resources (time, money and staff) for the attainment of its program quality and organization’s objectives. Vulnerable money and staff) for the attainment of its program quality and organization’s objectives. Vulnerable women and adolescent girls and boys in Nigeria continue to have little or no access to quality health information and services needed to exercise their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).  Use of any form of modern contraception by married women aged 15-49 is only 5.2% in Bauchi and 2.1% in Sokoto, both well below the national average of 12%. Likewise, in Bauchi state, 40.7% of adolescent girls aged 15-19 have begun childbearing and 32.1% in Sokoto. The national average is 18.7%. Some poor families from rural Nigeria send their children to Islamic boarding schools in the northern cities of the country. Islamiyah schools are mixed gender that enroll girls and boys; Tsangayas enroll only boys, called Almajiris. There are an estimated 9.5 million Almajiris, the name given to highly vulnerable adolescent boys who attend Tsangaya schools and beg in the s...