Myanmar: Gender Based Violence Consultant

Title: Gender Based Violence Consultant
Purpose: To provide technical support and lead workshop on PSI's Gender Based Violence (GBV) program design and training of trainers
Visiting Country: Myanmar
Dates: 15 working days in January / February 2016
Population Services International (PSI) is the world's leading non-profit social marketing organization, with a mission to measurably improve the health of poor and vulnerable people in the developing world by influencing their behavior, principally through social marketing of family planning and health products and services, and health communications. PSI has programs in more than 60 countries and works in malaria, HIV, reproductive health, child survival, and tuberculosis. PSI's core values are a belief in markets and market mechanisms to contribute to sustained improvements in the lives of the poor; results and a strong focus on measurement; speed and efficiency with a predisposition to action and an aversion to bureaucracy; decentralization and empowering our staff at the local level; and a long term commitment to the people we serve. For more information, please visit www.psi.org
Background
PSI Myanmar is implementing a three year project (2015 – 2017) to address gender-based violence (GBV) in Myanmar. The program is implemented with local partners who provide social services for GBV survivors. The main objectives of the project are to:

1. Use formative research to understand how women and healthcare providers in Yangon and Mandalay perceive and experience GBV, and what support structures are needed for women exposed to GBV;
2. Create a support network of services for GBV survivors, in close collaboration with local community-based organizations;
3. Implement community-based behavior change communications to challenge negative gender norms and raise awareness of services available to GBV survivors;

4. Leverage PSI's franchise of private healthcare providers to identify and link survivors to a support system.
   Purpose

   The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical expertise and facilitation to support PSI Myanmar with: identifying program priorities, develop messaging, outline activities, and build the capacity of staff to carry out training activities.

Activities

• Review PSI GBV project documents, including proposal, workplan, logical framework and recently conducted studies on Myanmar gender norms (can be done remotely).
• Work with PSI's GBV Technical Advisor on finalizing a GBV health sector response protocol and training tools for PSI Myanmar;
• Develop and deliver a three-day strategic planning workshop for PSI programmatic and operational staff as well as staff from partner NGO, to define the project's strategic priorities, determine key messages and outline activities for the two remaining years of the project.

• Develop and deliver a three-day training for PSI Myanmar's training team so that they can train health providers on providing GBV services.
  Knowledge and Experience Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of the latest evidence and best practices in preventing and responding to GBV globally

• Experience managing and implementing GBV projects, preferably in developing country contexts and within the health sector

• Strong facilitation skills and experience

• Experience leading training or training of trainers on GBV response strongly preferred

• Strategic or marketing planning experience

Please apply online at www.psi.org.

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