CONSULTANT- GENDER SPECIALIST

TERMS OF REFERENCE

• Review the project workplan and provide guidance and suggestive activities for the advancement of gender equality and empowerment of women and girls.
  
• Provide advice on gender-responsive activities at all levels of the intervention (institutional, community, and individual).
  
• Develop a gender theory of change.
  
• Develop a template for compiling gender related updates on country field activities and progress towards gender related outputs. 
  
• Provide inputs into project reports and data collection tools for process and output monitoring.
  
• Build capacity and awareness of key project staff and partners to understand gender mainstreaming and how it related to agriculture and nutrition.
  
• Facilitate GALS change catalyst workshops with gender and nutrition champions. (Training of Trainers for Gender and Nutrition champions on GALS).
  
• Develop a workplan to roll out the GALS training by Gender and Nutrition champions in the project sites/district /wards.
  
• Support GALS champions to facilitate Community dialogues on gender and climate change and its impact on nutrition and access to markets.
  
• Monitor and mentor GALS Champions as they roll out training
  

   
  

  DELIVARABLES
  

  • Submission of a gender mainstreaming concept note with specific guidelines and suggestions of gender-responsive activities that the program can implement at all levels of the intervention (institutional, community, and individual) for the advancement of gender equality and empowerment of women and girls.
    
  • Submission of a draft gender theory of change based on the submitted concept note and the related data collection tools and reporting templates for process and output monitoring.
    
  • Deliver a training session to project staff and key partners on gender mainstreaming within the program as well as on proposed project activities and theory of change as outlined in the submitted concept note.
    
  • Develop and roll-out a GALS Training of trainer's (TOT) program with change catalysis and champions and submit a training report at the end of the training.
    
  •  Submit a draft workplan for the roll out of GALS training by Gender and Nutrition champions in the project sites/district /wards.
    
  • Provide technical backstopping and support to GALS champions on community dialogues and roll-out of the GALS training program.
    
  • Submit a progress report on the GALS training roll-out by trained GALS Champions. 
    
    
    

    Requirements

    ·  A minimum of a bachelor's degree in social sciences or any other related field.
    

    · Demonstrated experience and success in mainstreaming gender in nutrition and /or agriculture programs using the GALS approach.
    

    ·Possession of a valid class 4 driver's license acquired no less than two years ago would be an added advantage.