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Consultancy: Mapping Advocacy for Women’s Rights in Portuguese Speaking African Countries
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African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)
Remote (local)- Career category: Research/ Data analysis
- Job type: Consultancy
- Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
- Organisation type: Funds
- Remote option: Remote (local)
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Remuneration: $25,000 USD-$30,000 USD / budget
- Deadline: 05/05/2025
- Location: Central Africa
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a Pan-African feminist fund that resources, strengthens and upholds feminist movement partners and women’s rights organisations (WROs) across Africa to make gender justice a reality for all on our continent and worldwide.
We seek the services of a consultant to support our work aimed at mapping
Feminist movement partners, WROs, networks and coalitions in the Portuguese-speaking region of Africa – these include partners who are active as individual activists, small community-based non-traditional and emerging actors and collectives, community-based organisations, as well as partners who work at scale, through grassroots and local networks.
The issues that they advocate for at local, sub-national, national and regional levels
The social, cultural, and socio-economic contexts that inform their agendas
The targets of advocacy at local, sub-national, national and regional levels
Approaches for activism, networking, peer learning, organising and movement building
Identify the support and institutional strengthening needs of feminist movement partners and WROs
The donor community who are providing support in these locations and areas of work
The findings from the mapping will be used internally within AWDF to inform our programming, and may also be shared with other women’s funds and donors supporting work in this area. The countries of focus are: Angola, Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
CONSULTANT’S PROFILE
The consultant should have:
Registration status, be based in and working in Africa
Leadership by women and/or gender-diverse persons
Expert knowledge of women’s rights advocacy, organisations and movements in the focus countries
Experience in conducting stakeholder mapping using participatory methods
Excellent writing, reading and speaking proficiency in English and Portuguese are essential
Excellent interpersonal skills and flexible attitude
Commitment to feminist values and principles, and human rights principles of equality and diversity
We seek the services of a consultant to support our work aimed at mapping
Feminist movement partners, WROs, networks and coalitions in the Portuguese-speaking region of Africa – these include partners who are active as individual activists, small community-based non-traditional and emerging actors and collectives, community-based organisations, as well as partners who work at scale, through grassroots and local networks.
The issues that they advocate for at local, sub-national, national and regional levels
The social, cultural, and socio-economic contexts that inform their agendas
The targets of advocacy at local, sub-national, national and regional levels
Approaches for activism, networking, peer learning, organising and movement building
Identify the support and institutional strengthening needs of feminist movement partners and WROs
The donor community who are providing support in these locations and areas of work
The findings from the mapping will be used internally within AWDF to inform our programming, and may also be shared with other women’s funds and donors supporting work in this area. The countries of focus are: Angola, Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
CONSULTANT’S PROFILE
The consultant should have:
Registration status, be based in and working in Africa
Leadership by women and/or gender-diverse persons
Expert knowledge of women’s rights advocacy, organisations and movements in the focus countries
Experience in conducting stakeholder mapping using participatory methods
Excellent writing, reading and speaking proficiency in English and Portuguese are essential
Excellent interpersonal skills and flexible attitude
Commitment to feminist values and principles, and human rights principles of equality and diversity
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