The Girls First Fund is seeking Uganda-based consultants to provide training to Girls First Fund’s grantee partner community-based organizations in Uganda who are implementing projects to prevent and respond to child marriage and gender inequality. This engagement is expected to take place over six months between 1st November 2024 – 30th May 2025.
This document contains an overview of the Girls First Fund and outlines expectations for the project and proposal submissions.
Overview of the Girls First Fund
The Girls First Fund is a donor collaborative supported by leading philanthropic organizations and individual philanthropists who have come together to champion community-led efforts so that all girls can live free from child marriage and create their own future. The fund was born out of a foundational belief – shared by the founding donors – that community-based organizations (CBOs) hold a unique position to develop locally relevant solutions, identify and engage girls most vulnerable to child marriage, understand the local cultural norms that enable child marriage to persist, and engage local stakeholders. 170 organizations across six countries[2] are currently implementing strategies to prevent and respond to child marriage and gender inequality with funds from Girls First Fund.
Girls First Fund in Uganda
The Girls First Fund provides grants to 33 community-based and -led organizations in Uganda. These grantees are located across 26 districts throughout Uganda and work to prevent and respond to child marriage and gender inequality primarily through social and behavior communication change, girls’ leadership, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Background to the Assignment
Effective leadership is crucial for ensuring successful implementation of programs, managing healthy teams, navigating complex social and cultural environments, fostering sustainable community impact and being gender transformative. The urgent need to address child marriage and early unions highlights the necessity for strong leadership among leaders of community-based organizations that the Girls First Fund supports. Recognizing this, it is imperative to support the leadership capacities of these leaders to enhance their people management, strategic planning, governance, gender transformative practices, and operational efficiency.
This consultancy aims to address these needs by providing tailored leadership development mentorship and accompaniment to leaders working to end child marriage and early unions. It will equip them with the skills and knowledge necessary to drive the vision of their community forward and achieve greater impact. The consultancy will focus on key areas such as strategic leadership, change management, stakeholder engagement, and adaptive capacity, ensuring that these leaders are well-prepared to meet current and future challenges. This will support their organizations to deliver gender transformative programming to tackle/prevent/ reduce child marriage and also support them to be more adaptable and sustainable.
Purpose of the Consultancy
The purpose of this consultancy in leadership development accompaniment is to strengthen leadership competencies among a cohort of 6-8 grantee organizations’ key leaders. This will enable them to effectively manage their organizations, build team resilience, promote organizational development, mobilize resources, and plan for succession. Each organization will be expected to have 2-3 leaders together attending the training.
OBJECTIVES OF THE ACCOMPANIMENT
By the end of the consultancy participating grantee partner leaders will have:
Approach and Methodology
To deliver on the above objectives, we recommend the following key activities. We also welcome the addition of alternative activities to meet the objectives in submitted proposals, so long as these activities fit within the budget allocated in Section j.
DELIVERABLES
Final deliverables
BUDGET
A maximum budget of $35,000 (USD) is available for this work. This budget includes all consultancy fees, applicable taxes, and consultant travel-related costs. The consultancy rate is subject to change if the estimated number of grantee partners to be accompanied is less than anticipated.
TIMELINE
The consultancy is expected to last for 6 months between 1st Nov 2024- 30th May 2025.
MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING
An in-country Girls First Fund Program Advisor will monitor and coordinate the work by:
KEY COMPETENCIES
PAYMENT TERMS
Payments will be made in the following instalments:
Proposals should be submitted by Monday 21st October 2024.
Proposals should be submitted through SmartSimple, the Girls First Fund’s grants management system.
Step1: Register your application through this link and submit.
Step 2: Once you have registered with smart simple, we will send you additional guidance on how to submit your application through the system.
If you have trouble accessing your Proposal in SmartSimple, please send an email to smartsimple@girslfirstfund.org. If you have questions about the expectations of the project, please send an email to aashaba@girlsfirstfund.org.
Alongside your proposal, please submit the following in SmartSimple.
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