Consultant to provide training for health staffs on comprehensive SRHR and friendly-SRHR services

1. Introduction:

Founded in 1937, Plan International is a development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We strive to advance children’s rights and equality for girls all over the world. As an independent development and humanitarian organisation, we work alongside children, young people, our supporters and partners to tackle the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge. For over 80 years we have been building powerful partnerships for children, and we are active in over 75 countries.

Plan International has been working in Vietnam since 1993. Our work supports marginalized children and youth, especially adolescent girls, to start life and grow up physically and mentally healthy and as adolescents so they are leading the way to shape their own future. We create an enabling environment and empower girls to be active drivers of change in realising their rights.

2. Project introduction and tasks:

Plan International Viet Nam is carrying out sponsorship funded project “Girls, young women and youth of Vietnam are active drivers of change in realizing their rights to green & sustainable future” from 2024 – 2027 in 05 provinces: Ha Giang, Lai Chau, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Kon Tum. The project’s two (02) strategic objectives include: (1) Girls grow up physically and mentally healthy in safe and sustainable environments and (2) Girls, young women & youth are ready to shape their sustainable future. 

Project outcomes:

Outcome 1: Ethnic Minority Children & Adolescents, particular girls and boys aged 11 to 15 at lower secondary schools in Ha Giang, Lai Chau, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Kon Tum have accessed to gender-responsive, safe and inclusive services at schools and communes that preventing the risks from CEFM, VAC, OCSEA at private and school settings

Outcome 2: EM children, Adolescents and Youth age 6 to 24 living in Ha Giang, Lai Chau, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Kon Tum are developed the skills they need to keep themselves safe in the climate crisis?and to improve the disaster preparedness and resilience of?their communities.

Outcome 3: EM Children, Adolescents and Youth – especially girls – in all their diversity living in Ha Giang, Lai Chau, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Kon Tum districts are empowered to actively engage in decision-making on issues that affect their lives

Outcome 4: EM Adolescents & Youth aged 15 to 30, especially young women, living in sponsorship communes in Ha Giang, Lai Chau, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Kon Tum are equipped with market-driven employability skills, financial literacy, transferable life skills, business and entrepreneurial skills that remove the barriers that prevent them from participating in the labor market and breaking out of poverty

Outcome 5: National Youth Advisor Committee – NYAC and Children Councils are pioneers of CAY in terms of advocacy for addressing children issues and enhancing CAY's agency and independence

Plan International Vietnam is looking for consultant(s) to carry out training for district, commune health staffs and school health staffs on comprehensive SRHR and friendly-SRHR services for youths and young women in Plan’s project provinces.

3. How to apply: Please access this link for detailed TOR.

Consultants/experts who are interested in taking this consultancy, please submit the application package in Vietnamese via email to: [email protected]

4. Deadline of submission: the application should be sent no later than 20^th November 2024. Only short-listed consultant groups will be contacted for interview.