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Terms
of reference for evaluating gender and women's rights programming
OSISA
Deadline:
06 August 2010
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Background
The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
(OSISA) is a regional Foundation that is part of a global network
of the Open Society Foundations. Established in 1997, and based
in Johannesburg, OSISA's vision is 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.
Since its establishment in 1997, the Foundation
has evolved and grown in breadth and depth in understanding and
engaging with the issues it advocates on - and also in numerical
representation of staff, associates and partners who lead and push
the open society ideals agenda in the region. For instance, from
an initial focus on education and media during the conceptualisation
stages of the organisation, thematic focus has since expanded to
incorporate human rights and democracy-building, information and
communication technologies, economic justice, HIV and AIDS, gender
and women's rights, language rights, among other issues in
the region of its operation; working with a staff compliment of
over 60 professionals across the thematic and country offices, as
well as spinoff projects and programmes. Dedicated strategic plans
have also evolved guiding the Foundation's programming and
initiatives in countries experiencing crises of governance (i.e.
Swaziland and Zimbabwe currently), as well as those in transition
from crises to democracy (i.e. Angola and DRC).
The thematic programmes are supported by overarching
support units, namely: the Civil Society and Partner Capacity-building
unit, which focuses on equipping partner organisations with a range
of skills necessary in their work, and the Research and Publications
unit which coordinates knowledge production and management across
all the thematic programmes.
In addition,
two key spinoff programmes have been established - the first
being the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) which is aimed
at boosting the capacity of human rights lawyers to effectively
undertake public interest litigation to promote people's access
to justice. The second is a portfolio of work around monitoring
of various processes and commitments that State institutions have
committed to (or are engaged in); and the Africa Monitoring and
Advocacy Programme (AfriMAP) is the centre-piece of this monitoring
work. A number of thematic programmes have since borrowed from AfriMAP
tools and methodologies to undertake a diverse range of tracking
and monitoring initiatives including HIV and AIDS resource tracking;
public budgets tracking; monitoring Aid flows in the region; enhancing
police oversight mechanisms; monitoring achievement of EFA goals;
monitoring ICT policy developments; and anti-corruption advocacy,
among others.
OSISA seeks the services
of 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.
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