On the Spotlight Initiative

The Spotlight Initiative is a major global collaboration to end all forms of violence against women and girls by 2030, supported by the EU and implemented by UN agencies and partners, including UNFPA as the leading agency on ending gender-based violence and eliminating female genital mutilation.

The consultant will be supporting the communication activities planned under the two flagship programmes on harmful practices and GBV. These activities will be undertaken at all levels (HQ, regional and country level) ensuring coherence and consistency of focus and messages while maintaining relevance to the purpose and target audience/groups at different levels that (i.e., general public, international development community, national governments, regional political institutions, and donors) adapting multiple channels of media and tools (including social media, press releases, use of websites from the EU, UNFPA, and UNICEF, media articles, videos, infographics, animations, movies, publications, and annual reports).

Ongoing Interventions:
Several interventions are ongoing to deliver quality GBV programming in some target localities including women centres, provision of CMR services, establishment and support to community structures as well as capacity building through ECHO, Japan MoFA, SIDA, Denmark MoFA, SHF, CERF and SLF funds. Sudan is also one of the 4 beneficiary countries of the Comprehensive Coordination Support to Child and Adolescent Survivors of Sexual Abuse in Emergencies Initiative’s (Child Survivor Initiative) objective is to improve the quality of and access to services for child and adolescent survivors of sexual abuse in emergencies. Sudan suffers from lack of human resources with experience and skills to handle GBV cases. GBV case management is almost non-existent and this affects GBV survivors access to other available services in a safe and confidential manner. This has also affected the availability of functional referral mechanisms. One off trainings without mentorship and coaching will be insufficient in improving the service delivery. This thus calls for a dedicated and enhanced capacity building on case management to ensure better quality service provision. This is also tied to other capacity building interventions such as CMR trainings, CCS trainings and coordination of workshops.

The bulk of the GBV response activities concentrated in Darfur states and the areas with high density of refugees and migrants. GBV response activities are envisaged to provide technical assistance to
government and non-government organizations to implement GBV prevention and protection interventions at all level. The GBV component of UNFPA humanitarian program aims to ensure linkages between development and humanitarian actions towards GBV and health intervention by introducing the evidence based modules of response and internationally accepted Minimum Standards for GBV Prevention and response in emergencies. Gender based violence remains a life-threatening, health and human rights issue that violates international human rights law and principles of gender equality in crisis affected areas of
Sudan and contributes to lack of access of women and girls to basic social and protection services. Project support officer is required to provide technical assistance to CO and filed level GBV response activities engaged to implement the projects on SLF funding as well as other GBV response projects funded by bilateral donors. In emergencies, such as conflict or natural disasters, the risk of violence, exploitation and abuse is heightened, particularly for women and girls. guidelines and GBV standards has a Project support officer is intended to provide support to CO to timely implement the SLF project. The monitoring and evaluation tools and guidance is expected to be part of overall performance of the specialist to support UNFPA CO in Sudan for both development and humanitarian program components to ensure sustainability of the interventions. The technical support to IPs will require on-job capacity y building to strengthen the capacity of local communities and systems to improve the referral pathways for GBV survivors. The GBV case management activities supervision and support will be required to sustain UNFPA supported interventions on integration of GBV response and protection interventions and improve access to CMR services.