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SNV

Company Description

SNV is a not-for-profit international development organization that applies
practical know-how to make a lasting difference in the lives of people living
in poverty. We use our extensive and long-term in-country presence to apply
and adapt our top-notch expertise in agriculture, energy and WASH to local
contexts. SNV has an annual turnover of €130 million, over 1,250 staff in more
than 25 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. We are proud to be a not-
for-profit organization that uses project financing to implement our mission.
This requires us to work efficiently and to invest in operational excellence.

In its new Strategic Plan period (2019 – 2022), SNV will more explicitly aim
for systems change during project preparation and implementation – by
strengthening institutions and kick-starting markets that help many more to
escape poverty beyond our projects. We will continue to position ourselves as
a premium organization, with decentralized management.

Job Description

Scope of Research

CENTRAL RESEARCH QUESTION*> how young women and young men can be empowered
economically, socially and psychologically, thereby addressing

> Young women and young men’s aspirations and ambitions regarding (self-) employment and entrepreneurship
> Tackling key challenges notably with regard to gender and age relationships
> Building on gender and age relationships that have the potential to enhance youth leadership

SNV (general introduction)

Since 2013, SNV is implementing its Opportunities for Youth Employment model
in an increasing number of countries in Sub Saharan Africa. The model is
market based and operating in Agriculture and Renewable energy sectors.
Interventions start with the identification of concrete opportunities for
(self-) employment for which young women and men are invited to express their
ambitions. This entails that opportunity identification should take into
account attractiveness and accessibility for young women and men, whereby
gaps/obstacles such as lack of employability skills and missing market
linkages are tackled by the OYE projects.

The OYE projects have demonstrated the pivotal importance of contributing to
(socio-)economic empowerment*> of young women and young men. This entails
that we go way further than creating “jobs” – which actually should result
from effective interactions between young people and markets (not from
artificial NGO project-contributions, as the development sector has seen for
too many decades). This means that we need to place high importance to
learning from experiences, from what works and what does not work, especially
looking at enhanced empowerment, initiative, opportunity grabbing, leadership
and resilience among the young women and men that our projects engage with.

In the SNV led Opportunities for Youth Employment projects, the inclusion of
young women and young men requires specific attention. In the first place, we
have set ambitious quantitative targets (50-50 balance). Second, we have
realized that it also requires qualitative measures in order to tackle
specific challenges and meet ambitions of young women ánd young men.

From experiences thus far, we have developed a number of measures to ensure
inclusion of young women, as they are facing more obstacles in terms of
mobility and access to productive resources compared to young men. These
include

a. Undertake market scans (opportunity identification) with a solid gender
lens with particular attention to opportunities in value chains that are
particularly accessible, attractive and safe for young women.

b. Ensure that the self-selection is based on ambitions that tally with
identified opportunities in agriculture and sustainable energy, avoiding that
young women drop-out because of preference of other trades.

c. Ensure that (self-) selection of young women already has an explicit
component of encouragement . Consider women and young female role models at
this stage.

d. Encouraging young women to combine the opportunities in agriculture and
sustainable energy with additional “female” trades e.g. hairdressing.

e. Take into account accessibility criteria for young women in training
delivery, including locality (close to homesteads), allowing young women to
take along their babies into training sessions, ensuring a safe and welcoming
environment, whereby young women are not dominated by their male peers; the
latter requires special responsibilities and competencies among trainers and
coaches.

f. The need to involve more female role models in training and coaching.

g. Promote female only Whats App groups promoting peer-to-peer coaching and
learning

h. Where applicable encourage female-only saving and lending groups, as these
groups also have high potential for peer to peer learning and inspiration.

i. Further enhance the practice of “household dialogue” from SNV’s Balancing
Benefits approach in order to get family support for young women to take part
in the project activities, and giving them space, safety and respect in order
to be empowered to engage in self-employment. This in turn must be explained
as an empowerment that eventually will be beneficial to households (including
parents and husbands).

j. Provide additional coaching and mentoring for young women in self-
employment. Our monitoring data indicate that young “OYE” women have 30% less
income compared to their male peers.

k. In order to attain maximum participation of female youth engaging
successful OYE female youth at mobilisation stage has appeared to have a very
encouraging effect on other young women.

This type of learning from project experiences has been and will continue to
be of crucial importance. In addition, we need to expand our learning way
beyond our project parameters, as the OYE model is meant to be applied in a
responsive manner, instead of the traditional supply-driven manner. Hence, we
essentially must open our “gender” windows beyond our “development boxes”.

This realization is also strongly based on the understanding that OYE should
be effective in a market-based manner in an often neo-liberal context; we are
aiming at connecting young people with markets that are often characterized by
deregulation, privatization, and withdrawal of the state from many areas of
social provision. By applying our OYE push-match-pull model, young women and
men are expected to become self-reliant and entrepreneurial and navigate
networks of interpersonal connections, and on whose shoulders rests the
responsibility of both success and failure.

In the context of the recent start of SNV’s youth employment projects in
Zambia and Zimbabwe, we have the ambition to get a much better insight in
challenges and potential in relation to gender-relevant networks among the
young women and men we are targeting. To this effect, we are aiming at setting
up an action research in partnership with local/national knowledge
institutions and/or consultants with a relevant academic background.

In short, what we are focusing on is to acquire deeper insights in how young
women and young men are perceiving how to translate their human capital into
productive forms of what they aspire*> . It is obvious that this has to be
differentiated between young women and young men. At the same time, we need to
develop insights in how their wider (gender & age relations) societal and
cultural environment influences – in both positive and negative/restrictive
ways – the directions and prospects of these ambitions/aspirations.

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Qualifications

> Consultant or researcher with a Degree in development/gender/social studies. A Masters will be an added advantage.
> Proven experience in relevant research/study on gender and youth, with at least 10 years’ experience

Additional Information

Interested Consultants or firms are requested to submit

An application with an executive summary of the research methodology*> that
is envisaged, demonstrating the expertise and experience of the candidate. The
methodology is expected to include ways of engaging young women and men in a
way that their voices are clear and amplified. The methodology is also
expected to include getting the views and practices of relevant (local)
cultural and political authorities, such as female and male family elders,
local government authorities and religious leaders (M/F).

The eventual action research methodology will be a joint endeavour by the
selected expert/institute and SNV (led by Roy Van Der Drift who holds a PhD in
cultural anthropology (based on research on age-gender power relations in West
Africa) and has led the global OYE program in SNV since 2012, hence with a
combined academic/development background. Geographic action research areas
will be Eastern, Southern and Northern.

By clicking on the I’m Interested *> button and submit above requirements
in English. Deadline is*> 17th July 2020 at 0000 hrs

We do not appreciate third-party mediation based on this advertisement.

NB Only shortlisted will be contacted

To apply please visit [ jobs.smartrecruiters.com
](https//jobs.smartrecruiters.com/SNV/743999715097350-consultancy-oye-gender-
action-research-and-knowledge-development-partnership) .

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