CARE Egypt Foundation (CEF):
Care Egypt Foundation for Development is a civil institution registered in the Central Administration of Associations at the Ministry of Social Solidarity with the number “833 for the year 2018” and its address is 25 Asmaa Fahmy Street – Fifth Floor ( Plot No. 1 – Square Y ) Qesm Nasr City 1st, Cairo, Egypt, and that the institution is subject to the provisions of the law regulating the practice of civil work No. 149 of 2019.
CARE Egypt Foundation for Development is building on the legacy and expertise of CARE International in Egypt since 1954, by designing, implementing and managing development programs and projects aimed at helping the neediest communities in Egypt, by building strategic partnerships with the government sector and the private sector, to help in meeting the basic needs and improving the quality and standard of life in a sustainable manner and consistent with the culture, reality and the local and national context.
The Foundation focuses its interventions and designs of its programs in the areas of economic and social empowerment of Egyptian women and girls, developing and improving the educational environment, supporting the agricultural sector, especially small farmers, improving government performance. As well as supporting capacity-building process among development partners through the application of different tools and methodologies for governance and social accountability, investing resources, and adopt initiatives that are in line with the foundation’s vision for the development and improvement of the living conditions of these communities and to address the root causes of poverty.
The Foundation is also committed to strengthening the role of the local civil society actors by including them as partners in all the foundation’s projects to ensure building their capacity and enable them to play the developmental role required in the different development plans and programs.
The Foundation works on extracting international experiences in all areas of development, and presenting them in the local and national contexts.in addition to shedding the light and disseminate local experiences at the global level, in order to benefit from different global experiences and present the Egyptian development models to interested global actors.
Women’s Rights Program
The Women’s Rights (WR) Program is designed to empower underprivileged and marginalized women in Egypt who suffer from rights’ violation. The program’s goal is-by 2025-poor women in Egypt especially in Upper Egypt are empowered and enjoying a better quality of life, having attained their rights.
In order to achieve this goal, the program works with both the duty bearers in government and civil society, as well as rights bearers, women themselves, to address discriminatory attitudes and behavior towards women and girls.
The WR program works with the duty bearers to support their role to protect and uphold the rights of women, and also with the women to encourage them to understand voice and demand their rightful entitlements. The program works on three domains (agency, relations and structure) in order to empower poor women in Egypt to gain their rights. Through the focus on agency, women’s self-esteem and confidence are built, and women have increased financial independence to fulfill their potentials as productive and income-earning members of their households and society. We believe gender equality can be achieved when power relations within families are fair whilst tackling all forms of gender-based violence (GBV) within and outside the household, and structures like social norms or laws-particularly in the area of personal status, domestic violence- are reformed, passed and implemented fairly to everyone.
The program has three themes, which are:
- Tackling Gender-based Violence (GBV).
- Women’s Social and Economic Empowerment.
- Engaging Men and Boys (EMB).
Prevention and Response to Gender-Based Violence
For 2024, The project is anticipated to build on the results achieved in last year through the continuation of providing the refugee communities in Cairo, Alexandria, and Aswan with the needed support towards GBV prevention, enhancement of the adequate and timely case management mechanism including psychosocial support, housing, and hosting. CARE Egypt will continue to offer tailored demand-driven interventions to address the challenges faced by the refugees’ communities in the targeted areas. The project will aim to ensure that GBV survivors access quality and timely case management and utilize the tools and mechanisms provided by the project within the framework of availing legal, medical, safety, and psychosocial services in addition to addressing the root causes of GBV.
GBV survivors have access to quality case management, legal, medical, safety, and psychosocial services, and the root causes of GBV are addressed
1.1 Women, Girls – Men & Boys gained knowledge and awareness of their rights and available services for GBV.
1.2 Women, Girls, men, and boys are aware and empowered to tackle and combat Gender-Based Violence issues.
1.3 Response Services & Case Management.
Objective of the Assignment:
The objective of this assignment is to deliver Legal awareness sessions to refugees to provide attendees with basic information on their rights, specifically focusing on legal procedures regarding issuing legalized marriage licenses, divorce certificates, and birth certificates, as well as the legislation on sexual harassment, and legislation and reporting around cyber violence. Moreover, early marriage will be tackled from a legal perspective, especially in sessions that include male participants, as from CARE’s experience, it appears that fathers are often the ones who force their daughters into this harmful traditional practice.
After every session, pre- and post-evaluation surveys will be conducted, to evaluate whether attendees have gained knowledge on refugees’ legal rights, legal criminalization of early marriage, custody, and types of GBV. Sessions will be additionally followed by individual legal consultations to support survivors of GBV on a case-by-case basis.
Note:
Expected flexibility and availability to finish all sessions before the end of the task in July 2024. Consultants are expected to work in Cairo and Alexandria.
Cairo refers to Greater Cairo areas, and Alexandria could include delta and north coast governorates.
Scope of Work and Deliverables:
The consultant’s main deliverables are:
The consultant shall provide 6 Legal awareness sessions 4 at Cairo (2 for Females,2 for Males) and, 2 at Alexandria (1 for Females, 1 for Males) one-day sessions each will be attended by 25 participants to reach a total of 150 beneficiaries from refugee’s women and men in greater Cairo and Alexandria.
- The consultant shall provide material with the content of the legal awareness sessions. Content must be appropriate for women and men. It should be discussed with the project’s team and approved by CARE before conducting the sessions.
- The consultant shall provide pre- and post-survey to measure the change in participants’ knowledge of the content delivered. Pre- and post-surveys should be approved by CARE before conducting the sessions.
- The consultant shall Provide 1 report (15th of June 2024) documenting the process and results of the intervention. The report must include individual and collective results of pre- and post-surveys conducted measuring the change in attendees’ knowledge of refugees’ legal rights, legal criminalization of child marriage, custody, and types of GBV.
Kindly note that due to the unstable COVID-19 pandemic situation, workshops might be fully or partially online if needed.
Consultant’s Duties and Responsibilities
1-Meeting with the project team to discuss and agree on the content of the sessions and refine the work plan before the execution of the assignment.
2-Develop and conduct Legal awareness sessions raising knowledge towards their legal rights, legal procedures in the host country, and legal consequences of sexual harassment, early marriage, and FGM.
3- Generate 1 detailed report on the assigned date about conducted sessions.
4-Respect and ensure the privacy of all beneficiaries, and maintain a non-discriminatory attitude at all times regardless of ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and political affiliation.
5-Document successes and lessons learned as needed to be shared with the project team.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
-All deliverable must be in Arabic.
-The consultant submits a detailed technical and financial proposal for Alexandria, north coast and Cairo online and offline.
Consultant’s Qualifications:
Knowledge and Expertise in the area of legal consultation preferably with refugees and displaced communities setting.
- A Minimum of a university-level degree in law and Advanced knowledge and experience in the area of legal assistance for SGBV survivors and development studies. An advanced degree will be an added advantage.
- Extensive knowledge and experience in the area of legal awareness sessions and Rights.
- Extensive Knowledge and experience in providing legal awareness sessions.
- Demonstrated experience in working with refugees.
- Demonstrated experience in dealing with different cultures and backgrounds.
- Demonstrated Knowledge and experience in gender issues, particularly SGBV.
Legal- TOR -No- 2024
An Electronic invoice is required
Deadline for sending the technical and financial proposal 31 July، 2024 Prior 11:59 pm.; submission is only accepted via using the below form.
