Terms of Reference for the Gender Transformative Training guide/ session guide for adolescent.

Save the Children is the world's leading independent organization for children. We work in more than 120 countries, saving children's lives; fight for their rights; help them fulfill their potential. We work to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Our vision is “a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.”

Currently, Save the Children Tanzania works in Zanzibar the following thematic areas: Child Protection, Child Rights Governance and Education with gender equality being key to our child rights approaches. Hence it is critical to directly address gender discrimination and promote gender equality in order to ensure every child attains their equal right to survival, protection, development, and participation. Save the Children and partners use apply gender transformative approaches while intensifying the work with key stakeholders to identify, address, and positively transform the harmful social and gender norms that perpetuate and normalize sexual gender-based violence.

Despite the progress made on prevention and response initiatives on Gender Based Violence (GBV) and gender inequalities, there still significant challenges that affects women and girls as a result of patriarchal norms in the community that pave way to harmful practices such as Child marriage, child pregnancy and sexual violence.

In addressing gender inequalities and to enhance its adolescent programs in Zanzibar, Save the Children intends to enhance their work with adolescents by facilitating dialogues among them on gender equality as it relates to issues of sexual violence that affects girls and boys differently. The sessions will seek to establish a safe space where adolescents can enhance their knowledge on gender and power so as to challenge the existing negative gender norms and imbalanced power dynamics between male and female. This also aligns with the Zanzibar National Plan of Action on Ending Violence Against Women and Children (NPA –VAWC) on enhanced access to prevention programs and services that build the capacities of men, women, children, families and communities in Zanzibar to address behaviors and practices harmful to women and children and to actively promote their empowerment and protection.

Therefore, Save the Children is looking for a consultant to design and develop age appropriate content to be delivered in adolescents learning sessions on gender equality transformative approaches on ending sexual violence for adolescent girls and boys and train youth facilitators to deliver the content. The content is aiming at challenging the existing negative gender norms and imbalanced power dynamics between boys and girls including those with different disabilities. The learning guide will be used to facilitate sessions for boys and girls aged 10-18 on gender inequalities and related issues working towards a society with gender equality.

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