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The UNFPA Country Office in The Gambia is inviting applications for the following consultancy service for the development of a National Policy and Action Plan for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation in The Gambia:

  • One Individual Consultant

The Policy is a public document which will guide multi-faceted and multi-stakeholder interventions and programs on eliminating Female Genital Mutilation in The Gambia. The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare will be the custodian of the policy and will be responsible for coordinating the development of the Policy in partnership with the Ministry of Health and other key Government sectors and a cross section of multi-disciplinary stakeholders including CSOs.

The Policy and Plan of Action will also provide a guide for developing comprehensive programming to address issues around National efforts for program coordination, advocacy for policy implementation, social norms change, capacity building for service providers and data generation for informed programming. The policy will serve as a tool to advocate for more broad-based initiatives and resources for FGM programming within and beyond the development settings.

The full TORs are available above.

All interested applicants must submit their applications to vacancy.gambia@unfpa.org

The closing date for applications is 7 June 2021. No paper or hard copy application will be accepted.

For further information, please contact us at info.gambia@unfpa.org Tel: (+220) 3320039 / 3353073