Closing date: Midnight South Africa time on 26th October 2015.
Rate: 50,000 ZAR
Location: East London, South Africa
Rate: 50,000 ZAR
Location: East London, South Africa
SPW South Africa Trust (also known as Restless Development South Africa) is an implementing Partner of UNFPA leading the Safe Guard Young People (SYP) Programme in three districts (OR Tambo, Amathole and Alfred Nzo) in the Eastern Cape. The goal of the SYP programme is to contribute towards the improvement of the Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) status of young people aged 10 – 24, with a special focus on HIV prevention. As part of the programme, a number of core activities will be undertaken in 2015 aimed at strengthening the capacity of Government and Eastern Cape partners, to improve and expand HIV prevention, and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for adolescents and youth.
As part of the National SYP programme output 3: Strengthening quality, age appropriate and integrated ASRH & GBV services for adolescents and youth, the organisation, at the request of the provincial Department of Basic Education, and in collaboration with the Department of Social Development and Department of Health, agreed to focus on a selected site – Nzululwazi Secondary School, just outside Mount Frere in Alfred Nzo district of the Eastern Cape (which had recorded an alarming rate of teenage pregnancies of learners within their schools) and the neighbouring Primary School which feeds learners directly into the High School (some of which arrive already pregnant), to demonstrate a series of interventions aimed at reducing teenage pregnancy through:
- Improved coordination, collaboration and leadership of core stakeholders responsible for provision of ASRHR information and services
- Availability of appropriate ASRHR information and services to the community
- Increased demand for ASRHR services delivered in the context of the Integrated School Health Programme
- A community owned and led intervention that is sustainable beyond the initial funding to ensure that core stakeholders on the ground are able to take the successes and lessons forward through their own resources and leadership (rather than externally driven)
Restless Development started the intervention in June 2015 in Nzululwazi, with the formation of a technical working group and a series of activities (training of the School Governing Body members in the Integrated School Health Policy; holding Inter-generational dialogues focussing on ASRHR values clarifications and awareness within the community; and peer education programming to leaners directly in the school as three examples); and efforts to start to address the concerns raised within the community, and as this is part of an intended three year investment.
Recognising that the good and promising practices and efforts need to be properly documented from the outset to ensure learning and potential scale-up across the Province and countrywide, this call requests technical assistance to ensure that understanding of the baseline with which the intervention started is clearly established, progress will be appropriately tracked (and understood and bought into by the community), and at the end-line of the project, clear impact can be adequately measured.
Interested applicants should follow the instructions in the terms of reference which states what needs to be included in a proposal for this consultancy. Please send completed proposals tosajobs@restlessdevelopment.org, stating the vacancy job title 'Situation Analysis for Baseline at Nzululwazi'
Closing date for this position is Midnight South Africa time on 26th October 2015.
