AWURA Project: Baseline and Context Analysis Consultancy
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Urgent Action Fund Africa (UAF)
Remote (local)- Career category: Monitoring & Evaluation /MEAL, Research/ Data analysis
- Job type: Consultancy
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (local)
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Deadline: 19/08/2026
- Location: Cameroon
Who we are
Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) is a feminist, pan-African Rapid Response Fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and women’s human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity. Recognising the need to move resources rapidly on a continent where opportunities and threats arise and decline quickly, UAF-Africa uses a Rapid Response Grant making mechanism to support unanticipated, time-sensitive, innovative, and unique initiatives that promote women’s agency in peace and political participation, social and economic power building, as well as natural resources governance and stewardship. The Fund works to support African Women’s Human Rights Defenders (AWHRDs), particularly in the feminist and women’s rights movements, in their actions, which enable them to support and sustain themselves, each other, and their work before, during, and after urgent situations.
Specific Objectives
1. Conduct a PESTEL-based Country Context Analysis for the assigned country.
2. Conduct a Baseline Study to establish measured values for all relevant AWURA MEAL indicators.
3. Assess the capacity of feminist CSOs, WROs, partners and grantees to prevent, document and respond to TFGBV.
4. Assess existing digital safety practices, survivor-centred support systems, referral pathways and response mechanisms across the project countries.
5. Assess baseline levels of awareness, knowledge and perceptions of TFGBV among target groups, using measures that can be replicated at midline and endline.
6. Identify key gaps and recommendations to inform advocacy, policy engagement, feminist documentation, institutional responses and MEAL followup.
Required Qualifications
• A minimum of a Master’s degree in social sciences, gender studies, development studies, monitoring and evaluation, public policy, human rights, digital rights, research methods or another relevant field.
• At least five years of demonstrated experience conducting baseline studies, context analyses, evaluations, feminist research or applied research in development, human rights, gender justice or digital rights contexts.
• Strong technical knowledge of gender-based violence, technology-facilitated gender-based violence, digital safety, survivor-centred approaches and feminist ethical research principles.
• Proven experience using qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods, including key informant interviews, focus group discussions, surveys, desk reviews and indicator-based baseline measurement.
• Demonstrated experience working with feminist CSOs, women’s rights organisations, movement actors, community-based organisations or human rights defenders in African contexts.
• Excellent analytical, writing and reporting skills, with the ability to produce clear, evidence-based and consolidation-ready reports in English or French, depending on the assigned country context.
• Strong knowledge of the assigned country’s legal, policy, social and digital rights context, including actors and referral systems relevant to TFGBV prevention and response.
• Ability to work independently, meet tight deadlines and coordinate effectively with UAF-Africa and consortium partners.
Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) is a feminist, pan-African Rapid Response Fund committed to transforming power relations through resourcing African feminists and women’s human rights defenders and their formations as an act of solidarity. Recognising the need to move resources rapidly on a continent where opportunities and threats arise and decline quickly, UAF-Africa uses a Rapid Response Grant making mechanism to support unanticipated, time-sensitive, innovative, and unique initiatives that promote women’s agency in peace and political participation, social and economic power building, as well as natural resources governance and stewardship. The Fund works to support African Women’s Human Rights Defenders (AWHRDs), particularly in the feminist and women’s rights movements, in their actions, which enable them to support and sustain themselves, each other, and their work before, during, and after urgent situations.
Specific Objectives
1. Conduct a PESTEL-based Country Context Analysis for the assigned country.
2. Conduct a Baseline Study to establish measured values for all relevant AWURA MEAL indicators.
3. Assess the capacity of feminist CSOs, WROs, partners and grantees to prevent, document and respond to TFGBV.
4. Assess existing digital safety practices, survivor-centred support systems, referral pathways and response mechanisms across the project countries.
5. Assess baseline levels of awareness, knowledge and perceptions of TFGBV among target groups, using measures that can be replicated at midline and endline.
6. Identify key gaps and recommendations to inform advocacy, policy engagement, feminist documentation, institutional responses and MEAL followup.
Required Qualifications
• A minimum of a Master’s degree in social sciences, gender studies, development studies, monitoring and evaluation, public policy, human rights, digital rights, research methods or another relevant field.
• At least five years of demonstrated experience conducting baseline studies, context analyses, evaluations, feminist research or applied research in development, human rights, gender justice or digital rights contexts.
• Strong technical knowledge of gender-based violence, technology-facilitated gender-based violence, digital safety, survivor-centred approaches and feminist ethical research principles.
• Proven experience using qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods, including key informant interviews, focus group discussions, surveys, desk reviews and indicator-based baseline measurement.
• Demonstrated experience working with feminist CSOs, women’s rights organisations, movement actors, community-based organisations or human rights defenders in African contexts.
• Excellent analytical, writing and reporting skills, with the ability to produce clear, evidence-based and consolidation-ready reports in English or French, depending on the assigned country context.
• Strong knowledge of the assigned country’s legal, policy, social and digital rights context, including actors and referral systems relevant to TFGBV prevention and response.
• Ability to work independently, meet tight deadlines and coordinate effectively with UAF-Africa and consortium partners.
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