CFPs: Implementation of Project on Youth Leadership and Advocacy for LGBTIQ+ Inclusive Education in Japan

Deadline: 23-Sep-2024

The UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok (UNESCO Bangkok) seeks the services of a youth-led/serving organization in Japan to lead the design, implementation, progress monitoring and reporting of a maximum 15-month project aimed at enhancing inclusive education spaces for (LGBTIQ+) youth learners in formal education institutions in Japan.

Specific activities under this program will include co-creating an advocacy approach with students/ student networks, building their advocacy skills for inclusion in education, working closely with them to carry out their advocacy activities, and share with their peers, members of their education community, and the public about the results of their efforts and experiences of their advocacy journey. The advocacy initiatives carried out by young LGBTIQ+ students together with their allies will support dialogue with educators, parents, student-peers, and other youth organizations for creating an enabling education climate that combats discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression (SOGIE) and where all learners feel safe, included and valued.

Recognizing that no country can achieve inclusive and equitable quality education for all if learners experience violence or feel unwelcome at school, UNESCO Bangkok is keen to engage with youth leaders and learners in the LGBTIQ+ community in Japan to design and implement a suite of work that delivers on the following two outcomes:

• Youth members of LGBTIQ+ networks have strengthened technical and advocacy skills to promote the creation of LGBTIQ+ inclusive learning spaces; and,
• Learning spaces become more LGBTIQ+ inclusive through implementation of tools and approaches by LGBTIQ+ youth leaders, working in partnership with the education sector.

Eligibility Criteria

• The consultancy is open to suitably qualified youth-led or youth-serving institutions/ organizations working in Japan.

For more information, visit UNESCO.