Consultant for CVP Material Adaptation & Translation

Position Name: Consultant for CVP Material Adaptation & Translation.

Position Reports To: MCGL Project Director

Duration: 35 days

Location: Ebonyi and Sokoto

Overview:

Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a public health and social development concern with far-reaching consequences for survivors, perpetrators, families, broader society, and economies and primarily affects women and girls, though boys and men also experience it. GBV is driven by structural inequalities and unequal power relations that render women subordinate to men, due to limited access to education, employment, finances, and healthcare and opportunities to contribute to their family, community, and country’s economic growth. Currently, there is growing recognition of the prevalence of various forms of gender-based violence (GBV) According to the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) 2018, 31% of women aged 15-49 years have experienced physical violence at least once and 13.7% of the women surveyed had experienced physical violence within the 12 months preceding the survey. The proportion of women aged 15-49 who reported sexual violence at least once in their lifetime was 9.1%. in Nigeria for instance, 30 per cent of girls and women aged between 15 and 49 reported to have experienced sexual abuse. Also, with 43 per cent of girls married before the age of 18, while 20 per cent of women aged 15 to 49 have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Once girls in Nigeria are married, only 1.2 per cent of those aged 15 to 19 have their contraception needs met, leading to high levels of early and teenage pregnancy.

The Momentum Country Global Leadership (MCGL) project, is a five-year multi-country award funded by USAID to provide more tailored solutions at preventing gender-based violence and expanding access to survivor-centered gender-based violence services nationally and with specific focus on Sokoto and Ebonyi States.

Responsibilities:

To Translate Safe Space Session Materials, adapt posters and develop Videos for Choices, Voices, Promises (CVP) Activities in Ebonyi and Sokoto States. To technically lead the adaptation and development of CVP safe space session materials for challenging very young adolescent girls’ and boys’ views on restrictive gender norms and promoting gender equity, increasing dialogue between parents and children to improve gender equity in the household, and shifting gender norms within communities to create environments where girls and boys are valued equally using centered artistic pictorials that depict a particular message being promoted through posters, flashcards, flyers, brochures, Flipcharts and videos etc.

1. Review of CVP session materials with MCGL technical advisors and trainers, note down suggestions, and provide guidance for improvement and adaptation of illustrative changes.

2. Incorporate changes and translate the adapted CVP materials. e.g. the facilitation modules for the for the safe space session into Hausa and Igbo languages for ease of use by the facilitators.

3. Incorporate suggestions and develop 4 posters by improving on the layout of the graphic design, clarity of picture and corresponding message for cultural relevance.

4. Incorporate suggestions and develop 4 video testimonials of parents to encourage change among other parents and to support changing gender norms and adoption of gender equitable behaviors.

5. Pre-test: – determine suitability of illustrations in context; be part of the field work team to note down suggested changes from target audience and incorporate/update materials based on field experience.

Required Qualification:

· University degree in Social Sciences or its equivalent

· Minimum of five (5) years’ field experience in SBCC material development, layout, clarity of picture and illustrative context.

· Experience in qualitative and quantitative research methods, community surveys and good publication track records are desirable

· Excellent communications and interpersonal skills are essential

· Good spoken and written English

· Ability to speak and write in Hausa and Igbo Languages for translation purpose

· Excellent report writing skills

· Familiarity with international donors and social development report writing requirements will be an added advantage