CONSULTANT : DATA ANALYSIS

The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) is a civil society coalition bringing together grassroots women’s rights organizations from Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, and Uganda. It was established in 1995 by a collection of women’s rights activists, with the view of strengthening the capacity of women’s rights organizations in the Horn of Africa. SIHA aims to contribute to unlocking the massive potential of women’s rights movements in the Horn of Africa, by improving the capacity of local organizations, and to build a strong network of grassroots civil society members that are able to interact and support one another in advocating for effective change. SIHA operates as a regional platform for the mobilization of activists, vulnerable and marginalized groups of women, men, and girls to harness resources that include, but are not limited to knowledge and information, capacity building and financial support aimed at challenging the root causes of problems and challenges faced by women and girls in the Horn of Africa Region. More information about SIHA is available at www.sihanet.org.

B. Project Context and Background

The Greater Horn of Africa (GHoA) is a politically and strategically complex region. Conflict and religious extremism are common struggles in many parts of the region, coupled with entrenched patriarchal norms. Women and girls in the GHoA face some of the most challenging obstacles to gender equality on the continent. Though the region is complex and diverse, it is interconnected by social and political histories, linked ecosystems and populations, tightly connected political and economic agendas, and cross-border mixed migration. Similarly, the status of women and girls WCW KAP Assessment varies both within and between countries of the GHoA; however, in all cases, gender equality is hindered by weak or non-existent legislation, often with poor implementation of gender favorable policies/laws.

Against this background, SIHA in partnership with other organizations that are explicitly focused on women’s empowerment throughout the Greater Horn of Africa (GHoA), is scheduled to implement a 5- year project titled “We Cannot Wait: Towards an Inclusive and Diverse Women’s Movement in the Greater Horn of Africa (WCW)”.

The project which is targeted at Women Rights Activists and Organisations (WRA/Os) aims at achieving 2 broad objectives:

1. Strengthening women’s leadership and women’s participation in (political) decision-making

2. Strengthening women’s economic empowerment and improving the economic climate for women participation. Project Theory of Change: The long-term objective of the WCW project is that Women in the Greater Horn of Africa will be leading and defining the political, sociocultural, and economic agenda through a gender lens at all levels.

For this to be achieved, the project will focus on three key outcomes outlined below:

1. Women’s rights activists and organizations (WRA/Os)in GHoAare advocating for policy, law reform, and social norms.

2. WRA/Os in GHoA form an inclusive and diverse coalition with shared agendas.

3. WRA/Os in GHoA engage actively and visibly in existing or new political and social platforms to promote their agendas.

The project theory of change is built on the assumption that advancing women’s rights occurs through mutually reinforcing cycles. Economic agency is needed to increase political participation, which is vital to the law and policy reform needed to advance equality, including the ratification of international agreements and recognition of global norms. This will create a stronger framework within which to advance women’s human rights. Since the greatest impediments to personal agency stems primarily from restrictive civil codes, family, personal status, customary laws, and discriminatory social norms, customs and practices, it is assumed that when women access resources, money, and jobs, they will gain agency and financial autonomy, and since legal restrictions are among the strongest impediments to economic agency, reforming them can be expected to increase economic agency, empowering another increase in women’s political participation and restarting the cycle.

In summary, all interventions of the WCW project are aimed at supporting women to gain personal agency, financial autonomy, independence at the family and household levels and increase their political voice. With increased access to income, resources and decision-making power, women will gain greater control over their lives and decisions.

C. Background and Objectives of the KAP Assessment

A comprehensive Baseline Study was conducted across all project countries. The overall purpose of the baseline study for the WCW project was to establish quantitatively and qualitatively the status quo on project outcomes in all implementation countries for purposes of benchmarking performance. A KAP assessment was conducted to gather additional data on knowledge, attitude and practice for targeted WCW actors (women activists and women leaders of WRO’s) in the 5 project countries. A survey was designed for WCW targeted actors (women activists, women leaders of WRO’s, members of community based organizations, state actors, religious leaders etc.) to conduct a selfassessment on their knowledge, attitudes and practices around violence against women including harmful practices, socio-economic and political participation for women. The assessment was to also highlight the status of women’s agency, women’s leadership and level of influence in decision making processes. The findings from the assessment would identify individual gaps in knowledge, attitude and practice and allow for country specific reflection and internal discussions on mitigation and capacity building strategies and would serve as a baseline for the five year project.

The assessment was meant to help the WCW project to understand the following two specific indicators:

 Percentage of targeted actors (disaggregated by type, age and gender) with improved knowledge, attitudes and practices towards women’s voice, agency, leadership and representative participation in decision-making processes (SCS3).

 Number of targeted women in WRO/As with improved attitudes and practices towards the elimination of all forms of violence, including harmful practices (SCS5). The assessment tool had the following 4 sections and data was collected using Kobo Toolbox.

 Section 1: Socio-demographic/personal information

 Section 2: Knowledge about legal instruments and services available to protect women from discrimination and abuse including from sexual and gender – based violence, economic, political and leadership disenfranchisement

 Section 3: Perceptions, attitudes and practices towards the different forms of violence, including harmful practices against women

 Section 4: Perceptions, attitudes and practices towards women’s voice, agency, leadership and representative participation in decision-making processes The WCW project is therefore looking for a consultant to analyze the data, visualize it and generate a report from the findings.

D. Objectives of the Task

The data analysis is expected to generate insights to help the project determine the extent of knowledge, attitudes and practice among the targeted actors at project inception and also produce baseline values against which achievement of specific project indicators would be measured.

The specific indicators are;

 Percentage of targeted actors (disaggregated by type, age and gender) with improved knowledge, attitudes and practices towards women’s voice, agency, leadership and representative participation in decision-making processes (SCS3).

 Number of targeted women in WRO/As with improved attitudes and practices towards the elimination of all forms of violence, including harmful practices (SCS5). Specifically, the consultant is expected;

 To analyze the data and visualize it to extract information needed disaggregated by country, gender, age and actors.

 To prepare a report based on the analysis and present it to the WCW project team.

E. Scope

The data analysis is to be performed for all data available from the survey which was conducted in all five WCW project countries (South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Somalia, Somaliland, Ethiopia).

F. Methodology

 Review relevant project documents including the baseline report.

 Review the KAP assessment tool.

 Obtain access to the data on and extract it from Kobo collect to a statistical analysis application for analysis and generate visualizations per country.

 Provide qualitative baseline values in the project’s Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT)

 Prepare the draft report and submit it for review.

 Submit the final report.

G. Key Deliverables

i) Data analysis.

ii) Visualization.

iii) Qualitative baseline values for IPTT per disaggregation.

iv) Draft report to be reviewed by the WCW team.

v) Final report.

H. Time Frame

The assignment is estimated to take 4 days. This refers to working days. The period of the assignment might take some extra days to include some time for reviewing by the SIHA M&E counterparts.

I. Budget

The budget available for this assignment is EUR 400.

J. Required competencies The consultant is expected to have:

 Relevant academic qualification preferably in one or more of the following disciplines: Social Sciences, Development Studies, Statistics, Gender Studies.

 Experience in analyzing quantitative and qualitative data as well as data visualization.

 Good report writing skills in English language.

 A strong commitment to delivering timely and high-quality results.