Under the direct supervision by the Gender Specialist and overall supervision by the Deputy Representative, , the consultant will work closely with both the Gender , Youth and the SRH Teams of UNFPA Country Office in Malawi. More specifically, the consultants will fulfil the following responsibilities:
- Support the Ministry of Gender at the Machinga and Balaka District offices and the Implementing partners in executing the programmes by coordinating the project implementation.
- Support widening Information, prevention and outreach activities through strengthening mentorship sessions for young women and adolescent girls on sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender based violence in safe spaces, support campaign to promote awareness of sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender based violence; engagement of religious and community leaders and men and boys in gender based violence prevention and the promotion of sexual and reproductive health and rights linked to safe spaces as well as supporting Intergenerational dialogues with adolescent women and girls, families and communities through the training of community leaders
- In collaboration with the Gender team members, support Technological innovation, learning and scaling up of TEEN and PBF activities. This will include continuous monitoring of digitalization techniques and use of the digital tools for information gathering and dissemination in the safe spaces for mentors and mentees in Balaka including basic digital and online skills on how to use a tablet, MS Office packages, internet and email; Comprehensive sexuality education digital application tool for use on tablets in safe spaces (maintenance and upgrade);
- Document learnings from data collected from Digital reporting system for evidence based programming Facilitate and Monitor the activities related Psychosocial support, counselling and referral activities, updating referral pathways for survivors of gender based violence including counsellors and information points.
- Spearhead entrepreneurship, vocational and livelihood trainings with community driven business solutions.
- Strengthen capacity of communities to mitigate and respond to conflict and ensure that women and young people in the border districts are better equipped to identify and resolve conflict and other disputes