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Consultant: SHE SOARS Knowledge & Learning Products Documentation
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**TERMS OF REFERENCE**
**Consultant: SHE SOARS Knowledge & Learning Products Documentation**
**Pillar 1300 – Capacity Strengthening, Advocacy Influence, and Accountability for ASRHR**
**1) Background and Context**
**1.1 What is SHE SOARS?**
SHE SOARS stands for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Economic Empowerment (SHE) and Supporting Out-of-school Adolescent Girls’ Rights and Skills (SOARS). The 7 year Project funded by Global Affairs Canada, is implemented by CARE Canada, Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), Restless Development and their partners in Kenya and Zambia and focuses on improving outcomes for out-of-school adolescent girls aged 10–19 years—a population consistently left out of traditional ASRHR programming, difficult to reach, and often facing the greatest need and least access to comprehensive SRH information and services.
**Ultimate Outcome of the Project:**
To improve access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services for adolescents—particularly out-of-school adolescent girls aged 10–19 years—in Kenya and Zambia and support the realization of these rights
Implementation Sites:
- Kenya: Urban and semi-urban informal settlements (Nairobi, Siaya, Kajiado, Kisumu).
- Zambia: Rural settings (Chadiza, Kasenengwa, Mambwe)**1.2 Pillar 1300 and the results focus**
Under Pillar 1300, SHE SOARS aims to strengthen the ability of key stakeholders especially Women’s Rights Organizations (WROs) and Youth-Led Organizations (YLOs) to drive evidence-based, accountable, and equitable ASRHR policy and practice change.
**Intermediate Outcome (Pillar 1300):**
Improved effectiveness of key stakeholders particularly WROs and YLOs to advocate for evidence-based, accountable, and equitable ASRHR policies, standards, legal frameworks, and services.
**Immediate Outcome 1310:**
Strengthened knowledge and skills of WROs and YLOs to hold national duty-bearers accountable for adopting and/or implementing comprehensive ASRHR policies and services.
**Immediate Outcome 1320:**
Strengthened regional coordination of WROs and YLOs to influence ASRHR standards and share learning.
**1.3 Baseline, trajectory, and why knowledge products now**
At project inception, a consolidated capacity assessment was conducted for WROs to establish a baseline and inform organization-specific capacity strengthening plans across three domains:
1. ASRHR Legal and Policy Research & Analysis
2. ASRHR Advocacy Capacity
3. Use of ASRHR Accountability Mechanisms for Advocacy
Since inception, CRR has conducted targeted capacity strengthening across these domains and supported research, evidence-based policy advocacy and engagement of accountability mechanisms at local/sub-national, national, and regional levels with some results. Notably, WRO submissions contributed to regional normative guidance, including ACERWC’s General Comment on Article 11 (Right to Education), which acknowledges contextual barriers to education access and strengthens obligations relevant to school re-entry, non-discrimination, and broader education equity, it has also contributed to the development and issuance of the ministerial return to school circular by Ministry of Education in Kenya amongst other tangible results.
SHE SOARS now seeks a consultant to systematically document knowledge and learning processes and outcomes from the beginning of the project to date and package it into a high-quality suite of usable knowledge products for internal learning, further partner capacity strengthening, donor reporting, broader dissemination and replication.
**2) Country Policy Context and Priority Reform Pathways**
SHE SOARS operates within distinct national policy environments that shape ASRHR outcomes and advocacy opportunities. The knowledge documentation must therefore capture not only what was done, but also the policy gaps being addressed, the duty-bearers targeted, the accountability problem, and the recommended reform pathway.
**Zambia – Fragmented and contradictory ASRHR policy guidance**
- Context: Lack of a dedicated Adolescent SRH Policy, resulting in fragmented and inconsistent guidance drawn from multiple policies.
- Priority reform pathway / recommendation: Ensure the Draft National Reproductive Health (RH) Policy includes robust adolescent SRH guidance and a strong implementation plan with adolescent-responsive approaches; longer-term, develop a dedicated ASRHR Policy.
**Kenya – School dropout due to pregnancy despite re-entry guidelines**
- Context: Persistent pregnancy-related dropout continues despite the existence of supportive School Re-entry Guidelines aligned with international and regional frameworks. Implementation is constrained by gaps in dissemination, accountability, implementation oversight, and limited resource allocation.
- Priority reform pathway / recommendation: Develop and institutionalize Accountability and Monitoring Frameworks for the School Re-entry Guideline to strengthen dissemination and implementation by the Min
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