The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) has announced a call for proposal to evaluate gender and women’s rights programming. OSISA is part of the global network of the Open Society Foundations. It is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and works towards “the realization of a vibrant Southern African society in which people, free from material and other deprivation, understand their rights and responsibilities and participate democratically in all spheres of life. In pursuit of this vision, OSISA’s mission is to initiate and undertake advocacy work (and support initiatives by others) that seek to establish the ideals of open society in the region.”
Under this call for proposal, it is currently seeking a team of consultants “to undertake an evaluation of OSISA’s programming in gender and women’s rights in Southern Africa, since its establishment. The evaluation is designed to be an important process that should draw lessons that OSISA ought to learn from its experiences in the past decade, as well as highlight opportunities for the Foundation going forward. The evaluation has two key overarching objectives, namely:
1. Evaluating the Foundation’s strategic approach to women’s rights advocacy work (including the various models used in the past, the nature of programmes and initiatives undertaken and supported, and the current design, structure and strategies of the gender and women’s rights programming across thematic programmes; operational environment and support systems; focusing especially on assessing how these are effective in promoting and protecting women’s rights in the region; and
2. Evaluating the Gender and Women’s Rights Programme strategies, initiatives and interventions and assess the programme’s effectiveness in mainstreaming gender across other programmes and in leading gender and women’s rights advocacy work in the region.”
The deadline to apply for this opportunity is 6 August 2010. For more information, visit this link.
