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Consultancy to conduct evaluation of the PAMOJA Women’s Voice and Leadership Project under implementation by WFT Trust.

Location: Selected regions in Tanzania

WFT Trust is looking for suitable persons or firms to carry out an evaluation of the PAMOJA Women’s Voice and Leadership Project.

Duration: One month

1. Background:

The PAMOJA Women Voice and Leadership (WVL) project is a five-year initiative (2018 – 2023) co-funded by the Irish Embassy and Global Affairs Canada and is implemented by Women Fund Tanzania Trust. This project has been in implementation for the past 3.5 years within a context that is challenging politically as well as socio-economically. The project was designed to specifically address key constraints to the women’s movement, by partly providing women’s rights organizations and networks with direct funding. Some of the key constraints identified at the design stage included:

i) Limited conceptual clarity, articulation, and internalization of the feminist agenda and principles; ii) Poor coordination that has led to fragmented actions, voices, and the operation of Women Rights Organizations (WROs) in silos with inadequate collaboration among them; iii) Inadequate Women Rights Organizations institutional capacities, feminist leadership, and poor programming skills; iv) Intergenerational gap within most women organizations and movement; v) Low number of platforms for popularizing transformative feminism at national and grassroots levels.

The support the project provides is intended to help WRO’s advance gender equality, empower women and protect their human rights by:

• Improving the management and sustainability of local and national WROs. • Strengthening the capacity of WROs to program and advocate to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls • Increasing the effectiveness of local and national women’s rights platforms, networks and alliances to affect policy, legal and social change

Thus, PAMOJA WVL seeks to amplify women's voices, strengthens women organisations and the larger women’s movement in Tanzania. It does so by brokering and facilitating partnerships between organisations, within the women’s movement and beyond. These partnerships additionally build the resilience and impact in advancing gender equality and human rights for women and girls. To achieve the desired outcomes, the project is focusing on two major areas: First is the strengthening of WROs and Women Organizations’ programmatic capacity in the women's movement through better coordination, joint planning and implementation. Non-traditional actors and other marginalised groupings are purposefully included to join the mainstream movement for increased inclusivity and diversity. This deeply grounds the feminist agenda and is an approach that engages women more effectively in promoting social, policy, and legal changes for transformation.

Second is the oversight of WROs that receive funding and institutional capacity building from WFT-Trust to further support the realization of their objectives. The goal is to contribute to a robust and sustainable women's rights movement that is able to effectively deliver the mandate of these organizations through outreach. Since its inception, PAMOJA WVL has invested in interventions that strengthen WROs and other non-traditional actors in Tanzania by supporting them to enhance their performance through collaboration and collective social action. Grants have been made available to support the work and agency of women in different spheres of women political leadership and in strengthening collective action, voice and agency of women across the country in order to leverage sustainable change.

Furthermore, much focus has been directed towards continued support to institutional growth and WROs financial sustainability. To achieve this the project has implemented interventions that focus on enhancing inclusivity, intergenerational and intersectionality of both the agenda and approaches to ensure maximum impacts and sustainable transformative changes that advance gender equality and promote women’s and girls’ rights are achieved.

2. WVL PAMOJA Ultimate Goal and Outcomes.

The ultimate outcome of the project is the increased enjoyment of human rights by women and girls and the advancement of gender equality in Tanzania. To achieve this, the project pursues three intermediate outcomes:

• Enhanced inclusive collaboration and collective social action across the women’s movement of Tanzania to effect policy, legal and social change that advances gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights in Tanzania (1100) • Enhanced performance of women’s rights organizations’ programming to advance gender equality in Tanzania (1200) • Strengthened viability of local women’s rights organizations of Tanzania to advance gender equality and the rights of women (1300)

3. Main objective of the review

The overall objective of this review is to assess the progress made towards attaining the stated results of PAMOJA WVL Project and its effects on targeted beneficiaries (Grantees) including but not limited to what are the measurable benefits based on the four implementation pillars (Capacity Building of WROs, Multi-Year Core Funding to WROs, Fast Responsive Funding and Strategic Alliance Building and Networking)

4. Specific objectives of the review:

I. Results Achievement, Areas of improvement and Sustainability • Review WFT Trust’s grantees progress in delivering on the project outcomes for the 4 key implementation pillars:( Capacity Building of WROs, Multi-Year Core Funding to WROs, Fast Responsive Funding and Strategic Alliance Building and Networking) • Assess WFT Trust grantees’ focus based on rural urban funding distribution based on WFT Trust’s approach of intersectionality, inclusiveness and intergeneration • Assess how WFT grantees’ beneficiaries have benefited from their involvement with WVL PAMOJA Project. • Assess the results of WFT Trust movement building strategies and their effectiveness. II. Lesson learnt and recommendations • The consultant is expected to generate and document lessons learnt in the course of delivering the project, and provide relevant recommendations.

5.Scope of review

The consultancy is expected to use the OECD DAC Network on Development Evaluation (EvalNet) evaluation criteria –( relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability)will focus on the following key areas of inquiry:

1. Reach: The review will cover 60% of peripheral grantees and 40% of national grantees funded by Irish Embassy through WFT-Trust (List can be found in our website) 2. Sample size: Proposed sample from 12 regions of Tanzania mainland and covering at least a sample of 15 – 20 grantees funded by WFT Trust.

6. Deliverables

• An inception report to detail how the consultant has understood the scope of the assignment and the terms of reference. • A comprehensive review report highlighting all main aspects of the review i.e.; methods, findings, lessons and recommendations not exceeding 30 pages. • A short document (2-3 pages) summarizing insights from the main report.

7. Confidentiality

All information (including the documents provided) concerning the assignment shall be considered as confidential and not to be released to any third party. The Consultant should maintain such confidentiality at all times, be it during the assignment or thereafter. The Consultant will also agree that all knowledge and information not within the public domain which may be acquired from WFT Trust or its employees by virtue of this assignment, shall for all times and for all purposes be regarded as strictly confidential, and shall not be directly or indirectly disclosed to any whatsoever, except with WFT Trust written permission.

8. Consultant qualifications

I. Relevant academic qualification and experience in development studies, gender equality, social accountability and women and children empowerment agenda II. Strong experience with and knowledge of qualitative and quantitative evaluations with feminist analysis. The knowledge of the OECD DAC Network on Development Evaluation (EvalNet) will be an added advantage III. Excellent analytical skills and strong proficiency with data analysis IV. Proven experience in conducting baseline and reviews, study surveys, and evaluations with a focus on transformative change V. Excellent communication and written skills in English and where possible, knowledge of local languages and the ability to present data concisely and clearly. VI. Experience working on women rights agenda and gender equality frameworks.

9. Sexual Harassment Exploitation and Abuse, Anti -corruption and Child Safeguarding

The consultant agrees to adhere to WFT Trust’s Sexual Harassment Exploitation and Abuse Policy, Child safeguarding and No tolerance stance on corruption.

10. Miscellaneous

The consultant is responsible for ensuring that appropriate arrangements, processes and procedures are in place for the successful execution of this assignment, considering the environment they will be working in and the level of risk involved in delivery of the contract.

11. Contact information and deadline for submissions.

Interested applicants (firm or team of consultants) should send their applications no later than the 2nd January 2023 using the following address: Women Fund Tanzania Trust 17 Rufiji Street, Masaki P. O. Box 79235, Dar Es Salaam Tanzania Or via this e-mail; info@wftrust.or.tz

Applicants not notified by 20th January 2023 should consider their bids unsuccessful

Job Purpose

The Senior Program Officer- Capacity strengthening will be working closely with the program team, to lead the implementation of the organizational capacity strategy that provides feminist framework and a guide to WFT-Trust capacity enhancement needs and, that of its partners and women and girls’ movement actors. The position will also strengthen the feminist culture of learning and accountability of our work and beyond. The position will also be responsible in developing capacity enhancement plans, tools and materials to support and addressing the needs of WFT-Trust and partners, and provide ongoing technical assistance and monitor learning progress. For coordinated function and better results the position will link and work with the all departments within the Fund and especially Grant Making team.

The position will report to the Head of Program

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing conceptual leadership and technical inputs in guiding the framing, designing, implementation and monitoring of organizational capacity enhancement strategy with transformative feminist results at various levels.
• Ensuring that organizational feminist approach to capacity building stems from the realization that own self-transformation emanates through development of individual agency and work towards social transformation that challenge the existing social structures and power relations.
• Strengthening a framework that promotes a process of strengthening individual abilities, organizations, and systems to perform core functions sustainably, and to continue to improve and develop over time.
• Providing day to day leadership in provision of relevant technical trainings, tools, mentorship and coaching support aimed at developing and strengthening WFT-Trust work and that of the grantees’ organizations and their constituent.

Capacity development program and Reflection spaces

• Review, assess and update capacity development framework, systems and tools for the WFT-Trust continued learning and adaptation by grantee partners and for their ongoing technical assistance.
• Design safe spaces for women and girls’ trainings and reflection meeting that will strengthen their technical skills and a greater sense of solidarity with each other.
• Work closely with Monitoring Evaluation, Learning and Accountability and the Communication programs to draw on WFT-Trust experiences and lessons as a national Women Rights Fund working on promoting transformative social change issues with women’s rights organizations and Networks/Platforms at different stages of organizational growth.

Strengthen the feminist culture and ethos

• Strengthening feminist organizational cultures- together with other staff and our key partners/stakeholders exploring questions of power, inclusivity and diversity, building the agency of staff and the people that organizations is engaged with, and in nurturing the growth of organizations with a ‘soul’.

Advocacy Support

• Work closely with feminist movement building program to conceptualize strategic advocacy campaign plans and monitoring performance progress.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of work experience, in a similar role in a nonprofit organization with exposure to feminist work either by research, training or in organizing social justice work
• Bachelor degree in women/gender/feminist studies, social sciences, communications, or another relevant field.
• Demonstrated experience, knowledge, and skills in training and capacity building, as well as in deploying creative learning modules.
• Strong communications and partnership building experience.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English and Kiswahili, including presentation skills.
• A keen analytic, with an eye for detail and good problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to motivate and inspire change.

Job Purpose

The Senior program officer- Feminist Movement Building and Partnership Building provides conceptual leadership in strengthening and promoting our organizational feminist strategies and approaches in women and girls’ transformation, collective voice and action for changes at various levels including: policies, legal, structures, negative cultural and public discourses and narratives meant for disempowering women and girls in Tanzania. The position plays an exciting and pivotal role in the execution of WFT-T’s mission and the attainment of its vision through strengthening of strategic alliances and links between women’s rights organizations and women’s movement (s) in Tanzania and beyond for collective reflection, strategizing and taking action in achieving women' and girl’s rights.

The position is also responsible for leading initiatives that support and sustain feminist movement building in Tanzania, which includes organizing and supporting WFT-T’s role as a convener and thought leader, develop advocacy resources, coordinating networks, coalitions and bringing together diverse actors to form strategic alliances built on the foundations of inclusion, diversification and intersectionality.

The position will report to the Head of Program

Key Responsibilities:

• Support WFT-Trust staff, Board members, Women Rights Organizations (WRSOs), grantee partners to enhance their feminist conceptual clarity and technical inputs through putting in place effective mechanisms for joint learning, experience sharing and peer support.
• Strategically support WROs and grantee partners to position feminist approaches at the center of their programming design based on intersectional, inclusivity and intergenerational approaches to ensure robust feminist movement building processes are implemented.
• Study and analyze the social economic political context and produce position papers to support WROs, and grantee partners to articulate and advocate for women and children rights based on empirical evidence.
• Build and maintain collaborative relationship with governance and coordination structures that affects rights of women’s, their political and social participation and inclusion in the broader women rights’ spheres across the country.
• Connecting women rights organizations with each other and cross-border social justice movements in fostering solidarity, activist mobilizing and collective decision making.
• Contribute to the further growth of an effective body of knowledge and analysis in feminism and women’s rights issues in Tanzania and beyond.
• Support development and implementation of collective care, activist wellbeing and emotional/ mental health program work and activities within WFT-Trust and grantee partners.

Strategic Alliance and Linkages

• Play a (pro) active role in linking up with other Women funds and like-minded social justice organizations and networks in Tanzania and beyond through active participation, organizing for joint action and learning.
• Provide leadership in strengthening feminist strategies and approaches in women empowerment, collective strategizing, and decision making for the enhancement of women’s and girls’ rights.
• Representing WFT-Trust in key external engagements and foster mutually beneficial linkages and networks in policy and advocacy spaces, feminism, and collaborate with donors, social movements and allies.

Knowledge Management and Advocacy

• Working closely with the coalitions and wider women movement actors to produce feminist conscious information for internal and external use, support feminist analysis, advocacy and documentation for increased women transformative empowerment, advocacy and agency.
• Work closely with the Grants and Communications programs to produce feminist-based information and analysis about grant making and grants managed in relation to movement building
• Raise the visibility of WFT-Trust through convening and information sessions in liaison with the Communication team

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of work experience, in a similar role in a nonprofit organization and exposed to feminist either by research, training or organizing social justice work
• Bachelor degree in social sciences studies women/gender and feminism studies or another relevant field. Master’s degree in similar field will be an added advantage
• Demonstrated experience, knowledge, and skills in feminist organizing and movement building, as well as how to build a community of practice through partnership building.
• Strong communications experience and passionate on feminism, women and girls’ rights and social justice agenda.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English and Kiswahili, including presentation skills.
• A keen analytic, with an eye for detail and good problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to motivate and inspire a team.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the WFT-Trust Head of Resource Mobilization & Communications, the Program Officer (Communications) will steer effective and interactive communication of across different mediums, as well as through the design, writing, production and distribution of communication materials. They will ensure that effective communication flows to and with WFT-Trust’s different partners throughout the year. This position will also contribute in growing and strengthening the communication unit of our Fund for effective sharing of its mission, achievements, herstories and popularize the work of our grantees as women and girls’ heroes in the country.

The position will report to the Head of Resource Mobilization and Communication

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing conceptual and technical inputs in developing, framing organizational Communication strategy, tools and processes in this programming area
• Developing and fostering high standards of publications and other communication in and across WFT-Trust, in line with communications standards.
• Encouraging a ‘knowledge atmosphere’, where information flows well and freely across the organization.
• Writing and producing high quality communication materials, and effectively communicating these across key audiences, promoting the image and objectives of the organization
• Monitoring WFT-Trust in the media, analysing emerging trends to learn, and to inform WFT-T internal communication planning

WFT-T website and online presence

• Working with the Program Officer (IT/Digital) to update and manage the WFT-Trust website and social media pages, ensuring regular updates and posting of information with content that is up to date, accurate, and compelling.
• Devising and implement strategies to reach out to more people, increase website traffic and provide stakeholders with interesting and informative content
• Linking WFT-T rust achievement and fundraising efforts to WFT- T’s social media presence
• Identify ways and means to build linkages between WFT-Trust website and social media channels and increase members participation at all these forums

Advocacy Support

• Support local, regional and international advocacy engagement of the Fund by working with like-minded organizations, especially Women Funds at regional and international level, to identify key spaces, target audience and key messages, including social media presence during advocacy engagement.
• Editing materials (papers, briefs, power point presentations, etc) in English and Kiswahili.

Knowledge building and resource platform

• Communicating clearly and in a timely fashion with external audiences, face-to-face, through email and telephone, conferences where appropriate, and other forms.
• Developing and maintaining good links with the media, organising media events, and sharing press releases.
• Managing knowledge documentation, supporting documentation and publication of work and lessons.

Provide across the board administrative support

• Provide administrative support for both in person and virtual meetings including by taking minutes and documenting actions and outcomes.
• Attend movement events and WFT-trust own events such as retreat to support with administration, communication and photography

Required Skills and Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience related to a communications function with exposure to feminist journalism either by training/short courses or practical work experience.
• Bachelor degree in Media and Public relations, Information Communication, and Technology, Mass communication, Development Studies or related degree in the similar field preferred.
• Demonstrated interest in issues related to women rights, economic and social justice, gender studies, human rights and or related field
• Computer proficiency including web-based applications.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English and Kiswahili languages,
• Flair for working with visual materials, and a very creative eye able to present information in a visually-appealing format.
• Keen understanding of traditional media, social media and uses of new technologies for communication.
• Experience in using Google analytics and developing monthly and quarterly communication reports, collecting data ad producing analysis and recommendations
• Creative thinker, with ability to exercise judgment and be a proactive problem solver
• Excellent interpersonal and team player skills

Job Purpose

Reporting to the WFT-Trust Head of Finance & Administration, with a dotted reporting line to the Head of Grants on functions pertaining to the management of grants. The Finance and Grants Officer will be responsible for WFT-Trust’s portfolio of grants, including overall financial management such as budgeting, reporting, compliance assurance, and audit coordination. In addition, this position will be responsible for grants accounting and General Ledger reconciliations, cash flows as well as institutional financial reporting various other on-line statutory filings. The Grants Finance Officer ensures timely financial disbursements, compliance with grants’ financial management policies, monitors all grant expenses, and provides regular updates on grant status. The role also provides operational and technical assistance as required to build capacity of local partners & grantees. This position also requires an individual with high level of integrity and committed to feminist agenda around feminist grant making.

The position will report to the Head of Program

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for financial grants management including projections and planning, performance analysis, budgeting, reporting and oversight for the WFT-Trust’s grants portfolio.
• Compiling, reviewing, and submitting quarterly reports to respective donors
• Assisting in the development of budgeting and reporting tools, templates, and realignments
• Supporting with development of proposal budgets.
• Liaising with the field offices on the financial management component of grants-i.e. the Shinyanga office.
• Preparing a ledger of ‘at risk grantees’ (assessing their reporting timeline and quality of the reports) and working closely with them to reduce their risk.
• Preparing quarterly status of accounts receivable, annual General Ledger (GL), and project control worksheets (PCW) reconciliation for all grants. Record GL entries for grants expenses and income as per the donor codes.
• Coordinating with relevant entities, completing the entire cycle of processing donor reports and its submission on a periodic basis as required by various donor agencies.
• Reviewing vouchers and payment requests, and processing payments for grants.

Financial Projections, Planning, & Adaptation

• Supporting the development and implementation of processes and controls to ensure compliance with donor rules and regulations as well as WFT-Trust protocols in close coordination with the Director of Finance and Operations, and grantmaking team.
• Working with the relevant departments and field offices on integrated management of all project finances to ensure effective use of resources to achieve programs objectives in compliance with all donor requirements.
• Developing budget tools, templates, and guidance.
• Designing and implementing systems and procedures following WFT-Trust’s quality assurance standards and conditions yet ensuring adequate internal controls and minimizing risks

Government Audit & Statutory Filings

• Assisting with the annual/semi-annual filings, audits, and preparing various audit schedules.
• Compiling time-sheets and allocating expenses to various cost centres in line with the budget.
• Assisting with statutory online filings such as PAYE, WHT, NSSF, SDL, WCF,P9&10
• Obtaining year-end audit confirmation for all grants and third parties as requested by the auditors.
• Assisting with data entry, filing, and report preparation as requested by the management together with processing of payments and allocating all costs to proper budget codes.
• Assisting with developing the WFT-Trust annual budget related to grants.
• Completing accounting entries in the WFT-Trust accounting software for expenses and revenues of grants.
• Training grantees on good financing practices and compliance.
• Preparing various schedules for filing and reconciliations at the end of the month.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of work experience in a nonprofit organization.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent and a CPT(T) is mandatory.
• Experience working with Sage Evolution accounting software is a plus and highly desired
• Demonstrated knowledge, skills in accounting, data entry, and donor grants management.
• Nonprofit accounting, IPSAS, and grants experience.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English and Kiswahili, including presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and culturally diverse environment.
• A keen analytic, with an eye for detail and strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to work as part of a team.