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TDR Mentors Diffa
REPUBLIC OF NIGER
FRATERNITY WORK PROGRESS
MINISTRY OF PROMOTION
ON WOMEN AND CHILD PROTECTION
GENERAL SECRETARIAT
GENERAL DIRECTORATE FOR THE PROMOTION OF WOMEN
AND OF THAT TYPE
Call for Mentors for the Implementation of Cycle 6 of the Niger ILLIMIN Adolescent Girls Initiative
2020
1. Background
The Niger Adolescent Girls Initiative, called “BURKINTAREY BAYREY / ILLIMIN ZAMAN DUNIA: Knowledge for Dignity,” is implemented by the Government of Niger with technical and financial support from UNFPA. This innovative initiative encompasses numerous interventions designed to directly reach vulnerable adolescent girls and address several unmet needs. It aims to help vulnerable adolescent girls build resilience, enabling them to become independent women and healthy mothers. The approach focuses on empowering adolescent girls to avoid early marriage and pregnancy, participate in the socio-economic life of their communities, and contribute to accelerating the realization of Niger's demographic dividend.
To this end, the Ministry for the Promotion of Women and the Protection of Children is launching a recruitment notice for mentors in order to achieve the objectives assigned to the program.
Contract duration: 7 months, renewable
Places of assignment:
They will be based in the communes or villages of intervention of the program at the level of the regions of Diffa, Maradi, Tahoua, Tillabéri, Zinder and Niamey.
For the Diffa region, the localities are as follows:
Department
Canton
Village name/Proposed safe space
1. Goudoumaria
1. Goudoumaria
1. Goudoumaria North
2. Goudoumaria South
3. Boutti
4. Djadjéri
2. N'Guigmi
2. N'Guigmi
5. N'Guigmi CFM
6. N'Guigmi Women's Shelter
7. N'Guigmi Sabon Carré
3. Kablewa
8. Kablewa 1
9. Kawa
3. Maine
4. Chétimari
10. Chétimari
11. Issari
5. Maine
12. Maine CFM
13. Maine Women's Home
14. Djambourou
15. Guidan Kaji
16. Chéri CFM
6. Foulatari
17. Foulatari
18. Djerékoua
4. Bosso
7. Toumour
19. Chiefdom Quarter
21. Cattle Market District
8. Bosso
22. Toumour North Quarter
23. Bosso CFM
5) Diffa
9. Komadougou
24. Koundiridi/Matari/Ari Kollori
25. Bagara
26. Boulangouyaskou
27. Diffa Koura + Festival
28. MJC
29. Castle
30. Adjimeri/Maloumdi
2. Roles and responsibilities of Mentors
The mentors' main role is to administer the pre-test questionnaire to the adolescent girls, deliver the modular sessions throughout the cycle according to the established schedule, complete the data collection and reporting tools, and conduct home visits to the adolescent girls. Each mentor will be responsible for 100 adolescent girls divided into four (4) groups of twenty-five (25).
Specifically, the roles and responsibilities of mentors are as follows:
* Collect data relating to potential adolescent girls applying to enter the program for the purpose of their recruitment;
* Gather all information relating to each adolescent girl by referring to the adolescent girl's admission form for the program;
* Be punctual and regular with regard to your safe space;
* Actively participate in training and other capacity building activities;
* Properly deliver the modular sessions contained in the mentor guide to the recruited adolescent girls;
* Complete all available data collection and reporting tools correctly and on time;
* Transmit the data collected according to the established program to the community facilitator in charge of their assigned safe space;
* To assist adolescent girls in difficulty and report information to superiors. Community facilitator in charge of their entity;
* Complete and submit the monthly activity planning form to the regional supervisor;
* Conduct regular home visits to each of the girls in the program;
* Immediately inform the Community Facilitator in charge of your entity in the event of any unexpected situation
* Organize, with the support of the mentor, meetings between the teenage girls and the heads of technical services (health service, social service, etc.)
* To organize, supervise and manage all activities taking place in the safe space for the benefit of adolescent girls;
* Participate in the Monitoring/Evaluation system for field activities;
* Establish good relationships with the girls;
* Produce a concise monthly activity report with particular emphasis on any results achieved by the girls benefiting from the program (see evaluation and data collection sheets);
* Follow up with girls in post-programme by collecting some statistical information (marriage, fertility, FP, AGR, etc);
* Maintain good relations with the affiliated Integrated Health Centers and the departmental services for the promotion of women and the protection of children.
* To obtain support from the CSI for the delivery of modules related to SR.
* Regularly notify students of dropouts during the cycle;
* Ensure asset tracking;
3. Desired profile:
The Mentor must:
* Be from the village or site where the Safe Space is located and reside in the village site of the Safe Space.
* To be a woman.
* To be known and respected in the community.
* Must be 25 years of age or older.
* Middle school level, preferably BEPC.
* Ability to communicate, good listening skills and demonstrated ability to work in a team.
* Ability and ease in speaking in front of an audience.
* Ability to read and write well and the ability to write a report.
* Be able to work in a rural environment and free of any commitments.
* Proficiency in the local language.
* Having experience in community animation is an asset.
* Being a proven former mentor in a safe space or being nominated by community authorities and meeting the selection criteria is an asset.
* Being a Health Worker (midwife) or having a teaching diploma is an asset.
4. File composition:
* A handwritten application specifying the name of the Secure Space for which the candidate is applying;
* A detailed curriculum vitae;
* A cover letter;
* A certificate of residence proving that the applicant belongs to the area where the Safe Space is located,
* A certified copy of the diploma certificate (BEPC or any other diploma) or a certificate of level;
* Certified copies of employment certificates, if possible;
* A certified copy of an extract of a birth certificate or supplementary judgment;
* A certified copy of a nationality certificate.
5. Submission of files and closure:
Applications must be submitted in sealed envelopes no later than Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 16 p.m. to the various departmental directorates of the Promotion of Women and the Protection of Children in the localities concerned, with the mention "recruitment of Illimin 6 mentor".
These files are then centralized at the level of the Regional Directorates for the Promotion of Women and the Protection of Children for review and selection of mentors.
NB:
1. The files submitted at the level of each municipality must be transmitted by the mayor to the Departmental Director of the Promotion of Women and the Protection of Children, who centralizes them and transmits them to the Regional Directorate.
2. No opening of files or preliminary analysis should take place at the level of town halls or DDPFs.
6. Review and selection of mentors
A committee will be established in each region and will be responsible for the counting of ballots, the selection process, the organization of the pre-selection test, and the announcement of the results. It will be composed of representatives from:
* 2 representatives from the regional directorate for the Promotion of Women and the Protection of Children;
* 1 representative from the Regional Directorate of Public Health;
* 2 representatives from the Regional Directorate of Literacy;
* A representative of the NGO selected for implementation in the region;
* 2 representatives of the canton chiefs;
* 1 representative of the Regional Council;
* 1 local representative of the AMN;
* UNFPA staff in the regions.
A final test will take place after the mentors' training. The final list of mentors for cycle 6 Illimin will be drawn up based on this test.
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
