Afghanistan: Women's Organization Technical Assessor Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Terms of Reference: ‘Innovative Tools to Enhance the Monitoring of Women’s Rights in Provincial Afghanistan’ Project
Women’s Organization Technical Assessment Short-term Consultant Position
Background
In September 2011, DRL awarded a 2 year grant to Internews for the “Innovative Tools to Enhance the Monitoring of Women’s Rights in Provincial Afghanistan” project. The objective of the project is to improve provincial human rights monitoring in Afghanistan by (i) enabling Afghan women-focused human rights organizations/ institutions to use innovative media technology for monitoring, tracking and advocacy around rights violations including SGBV (sexual and gender-based violence) cases and (ii) to use radio programming and journalism training to create a more conducive environment for the work of these organizations to inform women about their rights and how to report violations. The activities include: consultation with provincially based women-focused human rights organizations; the development of appropriate, innovative tools; the provision of training and grants to encourage uptake of tools; provision of training and support to track and conduct advocacy around SGBV cases; the evaluation and dissemination of lessons learned; and work with journalists to
