CALL FOR A GIRL CENTRED ORGANISATION IN JIGAWA STATE
Reporting line: Girl Hub Nigeria Senior Insight and Strategy Manager
Location: Jigawa, Nigeria
Company: Girl Hub Nigeria
1. Introduction
Girl Hub is a strategic collaboration between the Nike Foundation and the UK Department for International Development (DFID), based in the UK, currently operating in three African countries, and with plans to open in India and elsewhere.
The Nike Foundation is a powerful agent for real change and poverty alleviation in the developing world. The Foundations’ focus is on adolescent girls – its investments are centered on programs and initiatives that enable young girls to realize their potential and transform their world, so unleashing a ripple effect of change. The work of the Nike Foundation is designed to get girls on the global agenda and drive resources to them; ensuring ideas become real solutions that deliver tangible and sustainable results.
In this way, the Nike Foundation fuels the girl effect (www.girleffect.org) - the unique potential of 250 million adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world.
Girl Hub Nigeria (GHN) is seeking a girl centered organization in Jigawa state who will recruit and build the capacity of 20 Girl Ambassadors in Jigawa State.
The Girl Ambassadors (GAs):
GAs are a cohort of girls aged between 16 -22 who champion girls’ issues by being the voice of girls and representing girls in a way that brings their context to programming tables. In addition, GAs are expected to provide advice where relevant in designing girl-centered activities.
Specifically:
- Girl Ambassadors will be girl champions capable of bringing girls’ voices into important meetings and events
- Girl Ambassadors’ will position knowledge and will have ability to represent girls
- Girl Ambassadors will help remove barriers to reaching girls.
- Girl Ambassadors will develop authentic insights from girls.
- Girl Ambassadors will maintain a wide network of girls with a potential to have an extensive reach
The GHN Girl Ambassadors initiative is presently being implemented in Kano, Kaduna and Zaria
Objectives:
- To identify girls aged16 to 20 who can speak for and on behalf of girls of Jigawa state
- To build their capacity as spokes persons and representatives of their peers
- To create a resource pool within Northern Nigeria that can be leveraged for research, insights, monitoring and advisory purposes.
Scope of Work
The successful organization will have experience in peer-to-peer research and working with adolescent girls.
In particular the successful organization will:
- Recruit and manage Girls’ Ambassadors on behalf of Girl hub.
- Organise and set up safe meeting venues with girls. Liaison with community to ensure gate keepers are well informed and are supportive of girl ambassadors.
- Work with closely with GHN to plan and implement training and research activities.
- Provide refreshments and stationeries for working with girls.
- Act as chaperon during out of location trip with girls by Girl hub
- Maintain the code of conduct for working with girls and ensure girls comply with safe
GHN will support the organization:
- To build the capacity of the girls on qualitative research methods such as focus groups, 1-1 meetings, and observations. GHN will also enable the girls to conduct technology-enabled research and participatory M&E.
- To sustain regular meetings and activities to build the girls’ confidence to work within and outside their communities.
- With technical support and materials to facilitate building the girls’ skills on research, confidence building and feedback mechanisms.
- To ensure adherence to the Girls Safeguarding Policy (GSP) as well as parental consent for each participating girl and support for the activities.
- To pay girls’ stipends for specific activities and events where they participate as resource persons
The Girls will commit to:
- Becoming girl ambassadors.
- Working with Girl Hub as young researchers.
- Attending trainings and events relevant to building their capacities in providing insights on different contexts for the Arewa Girl
- Maintaining behaviors and views that represent promoting the Arewa girl.
- Comply with Girl Hub girl safe guarding policies, rules and regulations.
Deliverables for the successful Organization
- 20 Girl Ambassadors to be recruited, and to be mentored and trained on an agreed schedule
- Participate in Girl-led learning journey and Girl hub Girl safe guarding policy training and adhere to Girl Hub global policy and procedures
- Secure parental consent to include travels to Abuja, media release and health release
- Chaperon, coach, mentor, and accompany Girl ambassadors to relevant events, meetings, workshops and activities within and outside Jigawa state.
- Set the scene and mobilize community for any Girl Ambassador research and activity in the community
- Organize and supervise girl researchers to participate in all GHN activities that they are required to attend from November 2014 to May 2015
- Organize and supervise girls to participate in insights film on girls
Expected Outcome:
- 10 Girl Ambassadors established and acting as advisers
- Girl confidence, interpersonal skills and capacity built.
- Girls confident and able to represent Arewa girls in relevant meetings and events
Key Skills and Experience
- At least three years’ experience in similar scope of work.
- Excellent knowledge of Jigawa state and the context of girls lives
- Good training and coaching skills
- Strong interpersonal, and communication skills
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
- High attention to detail and ability to adapt to changing situations
- Excellent oral, written, presentation and communications skills in Hausa and English.
- Good knowledge of working with young people.
- Proven record of Good relationship with community leaders and gate keepers
Time Frame:
The period for this training is expected to cover the Girl Hub calendar year of FY 15, which ends in May 2015.
How to apply:
PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF BIDS
Deadline for Applications is on the 30h of October 2014
All bids must be typewritten and presented in the following format:
a) Cover letter: A one-page cover letter signed by responsible official of the bidding organization. The letter must contain the name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number and other relevant contact information of the bidder.
b) Introduction: A brief overview of the assignment as understood by the bidder and a brief statement of the bidder’s overall approach.
c) Capability statement: background and other relevant information that qualifies the organization to undertake such an assignment. Experience with similar projects should be provided. The bidder must also indicate the individual staff members assigned to this project and their relevant experience.
d) Annexes: Any documents, such as curriculum vitae, or other information, which the bidder thinks will assist the proposal review team in evaluating the proposal may be attached as annexes.
Each bid document should be no more than 10 pagesSUBMISSION OF BIDS
Complete proposals (electronic copy) must be submitted latest
On: 30th October 20, 2014
To: Amina Adamu Aliyu at Amina.adamualiyu@girlhub.org and include “Girl centered organization in Jigawa state” on the subject line of the e-mail.
CONTACT INFO
If you have any questions concerning this request for bids, please contact Amina Adamu at ghninfo@girlhub.orgGirl Hub Nigeria at Mercy Corps office at No. 5 Peka Close off Buchannan Crescent Wuse II Abuja
GHN will not pay or reimburse agency/organization for bids submitted.
