'TESFA' PROJECT
(THE ELIMINATION OF SLAVERY IN SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES)
ABOUT HOPE FOR JUSTICE
Hope for Justice has more than 20 years of experience of working with street children in Africa and 14 years' operational history in Ethiopia. Hope for Justice works with vulnerable children and communities to deliver holistic support and promote safety to strengthen individuals and communities against modern slavery and unsafe or irregular migration.
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Hope for Justice has been working for many years to combat modern slavery and unsafe migration in vulnerable communities. Learnings from previous project evaluations have indicated a greater need to implicate key structures in communities in order to better protect children, address harmful social norms that encourage unsafe circumstances for children, and reduce the overall vulnerability of children to modern slavery through socio-economic strengthening of households. As such, this project builds on existing work, adopting innovative approaches such as a modified savings and loans group, expanding the scope of school groups, and addressing social norms through a targeted social and behavioural campaign in the project. The Elimination of Slavery in Schools and Families ('Tesfa' - which means 'hope' in Amharic) project therefore will adopt and deliver a multi-level community-based approach involving individual children, organised school groups, teachers, caregivers of children, and community leaders to address the socio-economic and cultural factors that affect vulnerability to slavery in target communities. This is the third phase of an institutionally funded project. The first phase ran from 2017 to 2019, the second from 2019 to 2021, and this phase will run from January 2023 to March 2025.
For this process, Hope for Justice intends to recruit an evaluator (or group of evaluators) to conduct a baseline assessment (April 2023), mid-term data review (March 2024), and final evaluation of the project (March 2025). This will ensure continuity in methodology, tools, and assessment criteria throughout the life of the project.
The overall intended outcome of the Tesfa project is to contribute to an enhanced protective environment using a whole community approach to reduce the vulnerability of girls and boys to modern slavery in seven woredas across Wolaita and Hadiya Zones in SNNPR, Ethiopia, which are major zones for modern slavery and irregular migration.
Outcomes for the project and their associated objectives are as follows:
Boys and girls are empowered and protected through having increased knowledge and agency on MS and child rights (CR)
Vulnerable households are economically improved & have better household and community relationships that help protect boys and girls against modern slavery
Community attitudes and practices that enable MS to thrive are reduced
For information, please refer to the document below:
CONSULTANT PROFILE
Hope for Justice is looking for an experienced evaluator (or team of evaluators) who has: