Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected. Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 75 countries.
Read more about Plan International’s Global Strategy: Girls Standing Strong at https://plan-international.org/strategy
Our work on adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) has grown over the past decade and is underpinned by a gender-transformative approach aiming to tackle root causes of gender inequality and shifting unequal power relations that shape the prevailing social and gender norms that control girls’ sexuality.
Our key investment areas for SRHR are:
- Comprehensive sexuality education and dialogue
- Quality adolescent- and gender-responsive SRHR services
- Targeted support for adolescent girls and young women most-at-risk
- Child, early, and forced marriage and unions, and female genital mutilation / cutting.
Introduction & Background
My Body My Future 2 (MBMF2) is a gender transformative multi-country Programme funded by the Finish Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 2022-2025. The long-term vision for the programme is that children, adolescents, and youth (CAY) in all their diversity have control over their bodies and futures in a healthy, safe and supportive environment. MBMF2 aims at transforming gendered power relations and tackling the root causes of gender inequality and exclusion at the level of individual, families, communities and the state. To achieve this, the MBMF2 Theory of Change (ToC) outlines a multi-component approach to SRHR which combines the scaling up of SRHR education, improving quality and youth-friendliness of SRH services and encourages increased societal and political acceptance of CAY’s sexuality.
A social and gender norms diagnosis was carried out under MBMF2, with the behaviour of interest being “access and use of contraception among youth 15-18”. The findings aimed to inform programme development and policy and influencing work, including SBCC strategies and approaches.
Requirements
This consultancy will strengthen SBCC for adolescents’ and young people’s SRHR knowledge and skills, with a focus on new social and behaviour change methodologies; and document and review SBCC for adolescents’ and young people’s SRHR in selected MBMF2 countries, with a view to advance SBCC strategies based on the social and gender norms diagnosis and current practice, as well as systematically in the programme.
ANNEX 2 – Supplier Questionnaire (2)
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