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Together for Girls (TfG) is a global partnership working to end violence against children (VAC) and adolescents, particularly sexual violence against girls. The partnership pays special attention to the gendered dimensions of violence, and its impact on health, education and human rights. We envision a world where every young person is safe, protected and empowered. At TfG, we strive to demonstrate our values through the stewardship of a courageous, collaborative, empathetic, and respectful culture that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our partnership.

Project activities
The proposed project will include the following activities:

Purpose of the request for applications
Together for Girls is seeking to partner with a Tanzania-based research institution to 1) conduct/lead qualitative research on the changes in policies and programs over time between Tanzania’s two VACS; and 2) disseminate its results to local, national, regional, and global policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and advocates for them to a) have an understanding of factors (policies, investments, programs, interventions, contextual elements like economic growth and evolving social norms) that contributed to the overall reductions in VAC over time in Tanzania, and b) to drive policy development and implementation, investments, and further research at the national and global levels both by documenting successful policy and programmatic actions in and elucidating remaining policy and program gaps in prevention and response to VAC in Tanzania.

Succesful applicant's profile
To be eligible for the award under this RFA, applicants are expected to have technical and organizational capacities that include:

Be a Tanzania-based non-governmental organization (NGO), not-for- profit organization, or private voluntary organization, inclusive of universities with demonstrated experience working with and connections to the government of Tanzania.

Solid technical skills and experience in conducting qualitative research on the issue of VAC and violence against women (VAW).

Proven project management experience or experience managing collaborative projects of similar complexity in Tanzania.

Strong and in-depth knowledge of VAC, VAW, and gender in the Tanzania context.

Demonstrated experience in the development of technical reports.

Proven experience and up-to-date expertise engaging in the child protection and GBV partner landscape, including government, non-government, research and civil society organizations in Tanzania, including Zanzibar, as well as at the regional and global level.

Ability to coordinate and implement data dissemination for a wide range of audiences including program and policy audiences.

Demonstrated managerial, administrative, technical, and institutional capacities to achieve the results outlined in this RFA.

A genuine interest in TfG’s mission, values and partnership.

Availability and commitment to deliver the expected outputs as outlined above.