Consultant wanted to coordinate the development of the influencing plan for Girls’ Rights for Plan International Bangladesh.

Founded in 1937, Plan International is a development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We strive for a just world, working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners. Plan International works in 52 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the South America, and 21 countries raise funds to support these efforts. In 2015, Plan International worked with 84 million children in 85,280 communities.

Plan International envisages a world in which all children realize their full potential, a vision now shared by the 193 Heads of State and Government who adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015. The 2030 Sustainable Development (SD) Agenda contains commitments to children and young people which, in both scope and ambition, go far beyond those found in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The 2030 SD Agenda is expected to impact significantly on the actions of international development stakeholders over the next 15 years and thus on both the context in which Plan International works and on our fellow development actors, including children and communities themselves.

Plan International sees the 2030 SD Agenda as a powerful framework and tool that can be leveraged to strengthen our existing advocacy for children’s rights, especially girls’ rights. The momentum around the 2030 SD Agenda provides a window of opportunity in many countries to secure more ambitious action and better outcomes for children. The framework also provides global independent organizations like Plan International new opportunities to hold governments to account for the realization of children’s rights.

In 2016, Plan International globally adopted a new purpose which outlines why we exist and guides our work for the next 15 to 20 years. Our purpose statement reads “We strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls”. Our ambition as outlined in the strategy is ‘together we take action so that 100 million girls learn, lead, decide and thrive’. We in Plan International realize that without strong influencing and working together with girls and young people we will not be able to achieve our bold ambition.

Given the Sustainable Development Agenda and our own bold global ambition; informed through our country strategy that focussed on combating child marriage and keeping girls in school; Plan International Bangladesh would like to finalize its own influencing plan. We have already drafted our draft influencing objective and outcomes (shared under section 2). We would now like to finalize it and craft a clear path of achieving it. It will focus our energy and drive in enabling change happen with and for girls and young people.

Plan International Bangladesh is now seeking Consultant to coordinate the development of the influencing plan for Girls’ Rights for Plan International Bangladesh.

Specific objectives of the assignment

  • Coordinate Power Analysis process to facilitate development of influencing plan. This will include designing appropriate methodology to conduct Power Analysis, contacting relevant stakeholders to gather data and developing the Power Analysis report in consultation with Plan’s leadership team.
  • Coordinate a three day workshop to develop Plan International Bangladesh’s Influencing Plan Produce a  quality  report on influencing plan for Plan International Bangladesh
  • Coordinate the entire process of development of the National Influencing Plan in consultation with the Plan International’s internal working group for this task

Attachments: A detailed Terms of Reference can be downloaded from this Link.

Application  submission deadline: 24 July 2017 on Monday on or before 5 PM ( Bangladesh time)
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