The African Women's Development and Communications Network
1.About FEMNET.
The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) is a pan-African, feminist and membership-based network based in Nairobi, Kenya with over 800 individual and institutional members across 50 African countries and in the diaspora. FEMNET envisions a society where African women and girls thrive in dignity and well-being, free from patriarchal and neoliberal oppression and injustices.
FEMNET recognizes that the commitment to alter relations of power, structural injustices, and systemic oppression lies at the heart of feminism. FEMNET is therefore committed to pushing towards altering power structures that perpetuate gender inequality by nurturing the African women’s movement to enable women and girls in their diversity to effectively claim, affirm, and use their collective power to end all forms of exclusion, oppression, exploitation, and injustices against them.
Founded in 1988, FEMNET exists to facilitate and coordinate the sharing of experiences, information, and strategies for human rights promotion among feminists, activists and women’s rights organizations as a strategy for collective organizing; policy influencing & advocacy; strategic communication; capacity strengthening as well as feminist solidarity and movement building.
Over the years, FEMNET has strategically positioned herself as a convener, organizer and facilitator of critical dialogues around women’s economic justice and rights; transformative women’s leadership; sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); climate justice and natural resource governance as well as, ending all forms of violence and harmful/ discriminatory practices against women and girls.
FEMNET continues to be intentional in influencing decisions made at national, regional and global levels, constantly ensuring African women voices are amplified and their needs, priorities and aspirations are prioritized in key policy dialogues and outcomes that have direct and indirect impact on their lives. FEMNET mobilizes African women to hold their States accountable to women’s rights and gender equality commitments.
Vision: African women and girls thrive in dignity and well-being, free from patriarchal and neoliberal oppression and injustices.
Mission: To mobilize African women for the achievement of gender equality and the realization of women’s and girls’ rights at all levels.
FEMNET’s Core Values
- Feminist solidarity
- Respect for diversity
- Intersectionality
- Integrity
- Commitment to women’s rights
- Professionalism and learning
2.About the project .
FEMNET with support from Oxfam Novib seeks to conduct a study on Gender Impact analysis of irresponsible corporate behaviour in regional trade and value chains. The study is part of a series of activities and in country projects under the FAIR for ALL (F4A) Program.
3.Objective/ Purpose of Assignment .
The objective is to contribute to the body of knowledge and inform policy reforms aimed at transforming dominant agricultural and extractive commodity value chains and increase local share of the value generated within these chains through:
- Improved respect for human, land, labour and environmental rights, including more equitable prices and improved livelihoods for women, small producers and mining affected communities, better working conditions and economic returns for ASM producers;
- Maximise domestic resource mobilisation including fiscal returns for investment in gender responsive public services;
- Building natural resource based regional economic linkages and diversification at local, national and regional levels.
4.Scope of Work and Terms of Reference.
The study shall cover three Regional Economic Communities namely the ECOWAS, COMESA and SADC focusing on corporate behaviour in regional trade and value chains in the agriculture and extractives sectors. The consultant is expected to provide a detailed methodology highlighting sample selection, enumeration and data collection approaches.
5.Key Deliverables and Outputs .
The following deliverables are expected at the end of the consultancy period.
1.A detailed inception report demonstrating clear understanding of the TORs, the approach and methodology for the study and demonstrated capabilities of the consultant(s).
2.Draft report. The research reports should:
- Be well written with references and acknowledgement of sources, endnotes and bibliography at the end of the report.
- Have a table of contents, list of tables, glossary and list of acronyms if any.
- Contain an executive summary, and a section on key findings, conclusions and recommendations.
- Provide illustrative examples related to corporate behaviour in trade and regional value chains at both continental/African level and national level.
- Make reference to various regional initiatives including the EITI and the Africa Mining Vision
3. A publishable final paper on “Gender impact analysis of irresponsible corporate behaviour in regional trade and value chains”.
6.Required Qualification, Skills and Competencies.
Academic Qualification
- The consultant, or team of consultants should have advanced degree(s) in related fields preferably economics, law, human rights, public policy, development and social sciences.
Technical Expertise
- The consultant should demonstrate a formidable background in economic justice and rights, global gender and economic justice architecture. Training in gender and feminist analysis plus additional training in the extractives sector will be an added advantage.
Other attributes
- The assignment should employ triangulation methodology including doctrinal analysis of publications, case studies, in-depth desk reviews, expert interviews and in-depth primary interviews with affected persons (specifically women and girls).
7.Duration of Assignment.
FEMNET will contract the services for 25 working days within the period specified below.
Activity – Date
Inception Report – 1/02/2023
Draft Research Report – 5/02/2023
Validation meeting – 1/02/2023
Final Research Report – 25/02/2023
8.Liaison, Coordination and Reporting.
The consultant will report to Femnet’s Economic Justice and Rights Lead and work closely with the Fiscal Justice Officer to fulfil the tasks while observing the dates stipulated under the duration of assignments.
9.Selection of Consultant.
The consultant shall be contracted by FEMNET. The contract will include Withholding Tax (WHT) deduction in line with laws of contracting where FEMNET is headquartered. A WHT certificate will be issued to the consultant. Payment will be done through bank transfer to the consultant bank account. FEMNET will not meet the costs of bank charges. Payment schedule will be agreed upon with the consultant upon successful selection. In case of team/firm applicants, a designated assignment contract manager will be the contact between FEMNET and the team and responsible for all deliverables.
10.Intellectual Property Rights.
The consultant expressly assigns to FEMNET any copyright arising from the outputs produced while executing the service contract. The consultant may not use, reproduce, disseminate, or authorize others to use, reproduce or disseminate any output produced under the service contract without prior consent from FEMNET.
11.Terms of Service.
This is a non-staff contract and therefore the consultant is not entitled to insurance, medical cover or any other status or conditions as FEMNET staff.
How to apply
Interested applicants should send the following:
- Technical proposal (not more than 3 pages responding to the scope of work outlined in 4 above). The technical proposal should include a work plan outlining how the consultancy days will be utilized.
- Not more than a 1-page financial proposal.
- CV/ CVs of not more than 3 pages for each consultant/team member which includes names and contacts of 3 professional referees
- Sample work from relevant assignments
Applications are by e-mails only, sent to: [email protected]. Please indicate the reference on the subject line as ‘FNT/EOI/04/2023 – Gender impact analysis of irresponsible corporate behaviour in regional trade and value chains Deadline for submission of applications is on 31st of January 2023.
Please note: Our recruitment and Selection procedures reflect our commitment to safety for all in all our activities. FEMNET is committed to welcoming people from the widest possible diversity of backgrounds, culture, and experience. We will make any practical adjustments to enable people with a disability to participate fully in an inclusive working environment. Please let us know in advance if you have a disability and require any special assistance in making your application. FEMNET upholds the highest ethical standards. We are committed to the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment as well as other ethical breaches.
Only complete applications will be reviewed and applicants who have been shortlisted for an interview will be contacted.
Closing date: 30-Jan-23