BACKGROUND

The Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) is a non-profit-making women's advocacy group founded by Ethiopian women lawyers. It began work in 1996 after being registered in 1995. It has its head office in Addis Ababa and eight branches in Bahir Dar, Assosa, Hawassa, Adama, Diredawa, Semera, Gigiga and Gambella. The regional offices’ staffs are supported by 54 trained voluntary committee members at woreda and zonal levels providing structures to reach women throughout Ethiopia. EWLA’s mission is promoting the economic, political, social and legal rights of women and to that end assist them to secure full protection of their rights under the Constitution of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and other international human rights conventions.

 The Association, to achieve its mission, works through three core programs. Legal Aid Program, Public Education and Capacity Building Program and Research and Law Reform Advocacy. Through legal aid service EWLA assists women, particularly poor women, whose rights are violated. Such women whose basic rights were denied had no recourse but to accept injustice. EWLA’s legal assistance has helped to provide them access to demand their legal rights in courts. In the second program, the association works on raising awareness on women's rights. The program conducts training and advocacy workshops on the legal, social and political rights of women, targeting different groups of people as well as government and civil society organizations’ (CSOs) employees. The third program is. Various researches are undertaken in the areas of women's rights in this department. And the research findings are used as a major resource for law reform advocacy and public education.

 Since April, 2021, EWLA has started implementing a project titled “She Leads: Empowering Girls and Young Women to participate in Addressing Negative Social Norms in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.” This project focuses on GYW (Girls and Young Women).  The intervention is taking place in Amhara Regional State West Gojjam Zone, Yilamanadensa woreda: Debremay, Goshiye and Adet town kebeles. The project has three major outcomes namely: 

• Communities (girls, boys, men and women and influential [religious, CBOs, Iddir] leaders and university students) in Amhara and Oromia Regions and Addis Ababa City Administration promote positive gender norms and implement positive gender practices by 2025.
• Enhanced collective voice and action of GYW in formal (GYW CSOs, youth associations, women associations) and informal institutions (girls clubs, child parliaments) at overall national level, and specifically in Amhara and Oromia Regions as well as Addis Ababa City Administration, by 2025
• Councils, law enforcement and government sectoral offices at national level, in Amhara and Oromia regions and Addis Ababa City Administration enable meaningful participation of GYW by 2025.

One of the major activities to make the aforementioned outcomes happen is conducting a series of community conversations for community members and students (school communities). Thus, EWLA has found it important to develop guideline that will govern this community conversations. Hence, this TOR is developed to specify tasks of applicants and other details to govern the guideline production. 

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

To have a comprehensive guideline to be used by facilitators of community conversation and staff of EWLA while running community conversations.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES   

       The specific objectives of the manual are to:

• Produce tailored instrument that can guide community conversation sessions in productive ways
• Develop a working document that can be adopted by stakeholders of EWLA to engage in community conversations

SCOPE OF WORK

The scope of this task is limited to developing guideline for running community conversation (CC) sessions in Amharic version later to be translated into other local languages and English language as needed

TASKS EXPECTED FROM APPLICANT CONSULTANTS

Iinclude inter-alia, but not limited to the followings:

• Review and well understand context of the intervention areas
• Develop Amharic version draft guideline for community conversation
• Submit the draft in hard and soft copies for comment by pertinent EWLA staff
• Finalize the guideline after incorporating comments
• This TOR will be referred to guide the guideline developing process and specifications

DELIVERABLE

Submit the refined Amharic version guideline (a document) in hard and soft copies

DURATION/TIMELINE

This assignment will take place for a maximum of fifteen consecutive days after both parties have signed the contract. As part of the inception report, the consultant should bring a complete work plan.

Job Requirements

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• A bachelor's Degree in law (LLB) or in other social science fields is required.
• The Consultant/firm must have over five years of expertise in developing such and related guidelines and/or working documents
• Proficiency in written and spoken Amharic and English is also required
• The firm should have a team members have taken TOT/ training certificate on community conversation (CC) 

COMPANY LEGAL REQUIREMENTS

Interested applicants should submit:

• Valid Certificate of Consultancy Service
• Valid Trading License
• Valid Tax Registration Certificate (indicating TIN and VAT Number)
• Full and accurate physical, postal, telephone and email addresses

How to Apply

All interested consultants can apply by presenting the following documents:

• Letter of Application
• Comprehensive technical and financial proposals
• Reference/certificates of good completion proving that the consultants have carried out similar assignments
• Updated CVs for the team of consultants

In the application procedure part of this TOR, interested applicants should submit separate technical and financial proposals, as well as supporting credentials via the following email address.

Email address: ewlajobs2020@gmail.com For more information, contact Tel. 0918768348 (Bizualem Gashaw) / 058 2207396 Regional Office Bahir Dar