Deadline: 14-Aug-20
Save the Children (as part of Breakthrough Action Malawi) is hence seeking a local NGO to implement the Community and Social mobilization component of the CEFM project in Machinga and Chikwawa districts.
Breakthrough ACTION Malawi is part of the global USAID funded flagship program being led by Johns Hopkins – Centre for Communication Programs (JHU-CCP) with Save the Children as a sub. In Malawi, the initiative has focused on ending Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM) through a 1-year project that aims at sparking a social movement through organized diffusion to jointly challenge the entrenched normalization of child marriages, in order to effectively prevent and stop the practice.
The CEFM Action will utilize multiple approaches to achieve the goal of sparking a social movement including working with adolescent girls and young women, their caregivers, and the community at large to ensure wider community involvement, ownership of the effort, and a supportive environment for social change.
Funding Information
- The total project budget under this call for proposal should be between USD100,000 – USD120,000, and not exceed USD 120,000.
The local NGO is expected to:
Lead community and social mobilization interventions around CEFM in the two districts of Chikwawa and Machinga, through the application of the Community Action Cycle and REAL fathers, approaches, specifically adapted to address CEFM:
- Strengthen the capacity of existing local structures and networks to enable them to plan, apply, monitor and improve community-led, social and behavior change initiatives to address CEFM and other harmful traditional practices
- Foster greater strategic coordination amongst community members, local structures, relevant stakeholders, and other USAID implementing partners.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be a registered local NGO in Malawi with a valid registration certificate. Copies to be included in the proposal submission.
- The NGO must be capable of being a subawardee according to USAID requirements which include having or developing an Anti-Trafficking in Persons Plan.
- NGO must not be in violation of the US Government’s Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy (a policy which aims to ensure that U.S. taxpayer funding does not support foreign non-governmental organizations that provide or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning).
- NGOs with existing relationships with District Councils may have an added advantage. Relevant relationships/partnerships with the government must be disclosed in the submission.
- The eligible NGO should have the capacity to conduct community and social mobilization with demonstrable experience of using participatory approaches and community engagement models, working with community development and governance structures and adolescent youth.
- The eligible NGO should have lobbying and advocacy capacity especially at the district level
- The eligible NGO should have the technical capacity to deliver training and build the capacity of community development/governance structures.
For more information, visit https://malawi.savethechildren.net/careers/details?jid=51045