Under a project funded by the European Union titled "Promoting working with men and boys to end violence against women in the Middle East", Oxfam GB is seeking a consultant to develop four advocacy booklets that will give civil society organizations in Kurdistan, North Iraq, a clear understanding on how to influence decision makers to actively work for ending violence against women. The key institutions target groups are namely the judiciary (judges and lawyers), religion (religious leaders), the police, and political leaders.
This project is an extent of a three years programme that started in January 2009 to promote strategies and approaches of working with men and boys to eliminate Violence against women. At that stage, the project focused on building the capacity of women's organizations with knowledge and skills for working with men towards ending VAW and thus by their engagement with men, to positively change the attitudes, practices and policies of men and boys.
Within the same scope, the current overall program objective, which started in January 2011, is to contribute to the efforts of civil society organizations in the Middle East in countering gender stereotypes to combat the root causes of Violence against Women. The specific objective is to bring about an improvement in attitudes and practices of men, and government to end VAW in the Middle East specifically in Lebanon, Jordan, oPt and North Iraq.
Under Result 1 of the Project related to enhancing the capacity of 16 CSO's to effectively influence men in key institutions to take positive actions to end VAW in Lebanon, Jordan, oPt and North Iraq, Oxfam have identified the need to target decision makers in key institutions to influence their attitudes, behaviors and practices related to violence against women in each of the targeted countries (Lebanon, Jordan, oPt and North Iraq).
Advocacy booklets targeting these institutions within the Lebanese context have been developed in Lebanon. In Jordan and oPt, The booklets are in the final stage of development.
Therefore, Oxfam is seeking a consultant to develop the four advocacy booklets for Kurdistan, North Iraq. The four advocacy booklets will need to be developed based on the review of the advocacy booklets that have been produced in the other targeted countries and in consultation with other stakeholders such as prominent religious leaders from different religions, the lawyers' syndicates, human rights activists etc to come up with a framework for advocacy for the four target groups in the identified institutions to influence their attitudes, behaviors and practices related to VAW.
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