Graça Machel Trust is Looking for a Gender and Social Inclusion Consultant for development of Online Curriculum and Training Content

Ednah Carrick August 24, 2024

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Closing Date: 27 August 2024

Graça Machel Trust is Looking for a Gender and Social Inclusion Consultant for development of Online Curriculum and Training Content

Programme information

The Graça Machel Trust was established in 2010 and is a registered non-profit Public Benefit Organisation based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Its mission is to amplify women’s movements, influence governance, promote women’s contributions and leadership in Africa’s economic, social, and political development, and advocate for protecting children’s rights and dignity. As a pan-African institution, the Trust has a presence in 16 countries across the African continent through its Women’s Networks and Strategic Partnerships.

The Women Creating Wealth (WCW) programme is a leading entrepreneurship initiative to empower and inspire women entrepreneurs. It focuses on enhancing their mindset, confidence, and skills to overcome challenges and elevate their businesses from income generators to wealth creators. The programme integrates Trust’s women’s rights and advancement processes to bolster businesswomen’s confidence, enabling them to lead, engage, influence, and create opportunities in specific sectors while addressing structural barriers. While capacity-building programmes enhance entrepreneurs’ knowledge and resilience for managing growth, the Trust’s network-building and advocacy efforts identify and address challenges beyond individual control, requiring a collective response to create a more favourable environment for women entrepreneurs.

WCW has already made an impact with 500 alumni entrepreneurs in the Southern Africa region, including South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania. Currently, the accelerator programme is being offered to over 1000 entrepreneurs across seven (7) countries, namely South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, and Senegal. The goal for the next five years is to reach 10,000 businesswomen across Africa, inspire and equip them with skills, tools, and networks to scale their businesses, and create $1 Billion in value and 200,000 jobs.

Overall, the program seeks to achieve the following objectives:

Build leadership and entrepreneurship skills for women entrepreneurs.

Ensure access to finance and markets for women entrepreneurs.
Provide work opportunities for youth linked with these women entrepreneurs.
Foster a thriving business environment for women entrepreneurs.

Purpose

Promoting women and young entrepreneurs contributes to broader social and economic goals such as poverty reduction, job creation, and community development. However, for economic empowerment and entrepreneurship programs to register the intended outcomes, there is need to ensure that the concept of gender and social inclusion is incorporated right from project design to execution. Gender and social inclusion foster a more dynamic and vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem, where diverse perspectives and experiences drive creativity, resilience, and sustainable growth.

As one way of fostering the Trust’s commitment to fostering economic growth and innovation through entrepreneurship, the organisation would like to reinforce its approach to addressing gender and social inclusion within its programmes. This may require ensuring that the necessary capacity is built inorder to fully understand and implement inclusive practices, resulting in the capability to address the persistent biases and systemic barriers that disproportionately affect women and socially marginalised individuals.

To overcome these challenges and ensure that all individuals have equitable access to entrepreneurial opportunities including addressing barriers that women and youth face in their entrepreneurship journey, it is crucial to provide a variety of targeted capacity building programs for the Trust’s staff, partners and programme participants. Doing so will equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary to promote an inclusive and supportive ecosystem, ultimately enhancing the impact and success of the Trust’s entrepreneurship initiatives.

Therefore, it is against this background that the Trust through the WCW-I Programme seeks to engage the services of a seasoned gender and social inclusion consultant to undertake a capacity building program in gender and social inclusion. This shall involve developing a curriculum on gender and social inclusion plus a plan of action.

Scope of work

The gender and social inclusion consultant will undertake the following tasks:

Desk research
1. Conduct thorough desk research focusing on the 6 countries where the WCW Program is being implemented to identify the specific gender and social inclusion issues.
Curriculum framework
1. Develop a detailed framework that outlines the curriculum’s structure, including modules, objectives, and learning outcomes.
2. Include a clear outline of the theoretical and practical components.
Country specific workshops to pilot test the curriculum framework and training content
1. Conduct country specific workshops targeting GMT staff, partners and entrepreneurs to gather their insight in the final formulation of the online curriculum and training content

Digitisation for online training
1. Create an online gender and social inclusion training program that can be accessed through a learning management platform.
2. The digital format will include comprehensive training materials for each module i.e handouts, reading materials, case studies, and interactive activities.
3. Ensure materials are accessible and inclusive, considering various learning styles and abilities.
Progress and final reports
1. Submit regular progress reports detailing the development process, challenges, and milestones achieved.
2. Provide a comprehensive final report summarizing the entire project, including lessons learned and recommendations for future initiatives

Deliverables and timelines


Deliverable
Orientation phase: Orientation with the WCW team to outline scope methodology and curriculum design	2^nd September 2024 (2 hours)
Desk study research	3^rd -6^th September,2024 (4 days)
Comprehensive market analysis to identify key growth areas, gov’t priority sectors.	3^rd -6^th September,2024 (4 days)
Curriculum framework development	9^th -18^th September, 2024 (10 days)




Country specific workshops to pilot test the curriculum framework and training content	1^st-4^th October 2024 2 hours per country = 2*6= 12 hours
	14^th-21^st October,2024(8 days)
Digitisation for online training	14^th-21^st October,2024(8 days)
	3 days (submission by 10^thNovember)
Progress and final reports

Supervision and guidance on the assignment

The Entrepreneurship manager will oversee and manage the assignment with the support of the project team.

Qualifications of the consultant

Master’s degree in Gender Studies and Development, International Development, Social Sciences or related fields.

At least 5 years proven experience in developing gender and social inclusion training programmes.
Expertise in developing online curriculum development and instructional design.
Strong understanding of gender and social inclusion issues in the context of entrepreneurship.

Excellent facilitation and training skills.
Commitment to high professional ethical standards; and strong ethical standards to safeguarding.
Excellent communication skills (written and oral), strong command of English language and excellent research and analytical writing skills. Understanding of French will be an added advantage.