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Aparajita: Women’s Political Empowerment is an SDC mandate awarded to Helvetas Swiss Incoroporation, which implements the project in six different geographical clusters in Bangladesh in collaboration with Bangladeshi NGOs, which in the past had implemented earlier phases of the project, or, in one case, a similar project.  Working under an overall development goal of promoting women’s empowerment (stated as, “Aparajita contributes to equal participation, representation and leadership of women within local governance”), the project has three intended outcomes corresponding to: 1) engaging with potential and elected women representatives (P&EWRs) at the Union Parishad level with focus on building their capacity as individual and collective actors; 2) engaging with male members of the P&EWRs‘ families and local communities, and with other influential persons and local institutions that support the inclusion of women in local political life; and 3) seeking to influence policies and legal frameworks in ways that promote women’s political empowerment.

Given the above context, the project is seeking for qualified, experienced and reputed consultants/ consulting firms to focus on Outcome 2 of the project’s objectives. The assignment will be to look into the secondary stakeholders that the project works with, and their roles in the lives and successes of the P&EWRs. This will help to understand the current scenario in the working areas of the project, regarding how the socio-economic context is in the Union Parishads, and from the community in how they perceive the role of women in political positions. Please click here to download the ToR.

Interested consultants/ consulting firm are requested to submit Technical and Financial proposals on or before 25 November 2019, 5:00 PM electronically at recruitmentbd@helvetas.org