RFP - Consultancy - Developing the "Playbook for Transformative Action to End Child Marriage"

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About the Organization

Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of over 1400 members in nearly 100 countries across regions committed to ending child marriage and ensuring girls can fulfil their potential. Our vision is a world without child marriage where girls and women enjoy equal status with boys and men and can achieve their full potential in all aspects of their lives. Our vision challenges deeply embedded social norms that harm the lives of girls, women and their communities. The Girls Not Brides secretariat is committed to accelerating the change needed to end child marriage. 

About the Proposal

The "Playbook for Transformative Action to End Child Marriage” will be developed as an influencing tool to mobilise a diverse range of actors around a shared articulation of what is needed to end child, early and forced marriage and unions (CEFMU), acknowledging context-specific realities. This is based on the recognition of a gap in coordinated frameworks for collective action to end child marriage. 

This tool will consist of two key products: a 4-6 pager comprising specific examples and case studies, and a shorter 2-sided visual product. These will be concise and action-oriented, neutrally branded and jointly owned by multiple signatories, highlighting our collective voice and shared commitment to end child marriage.  

The ultimate target audiences of this Playbook are actors that operate to address and end CEFMU at different levels: donors (governments and philanthropy); civil society actors; implementers such as INGOs and UN agencies; and grassroot organisations. The main goal is to create a tool that can be used to undertake shared advocacy. 

It will be based on existing research and practice-based learning and evidence on what works to end child marriage in different contexts. The Girls Not Brides team will share relevant documents with the consultant/s. It will further be informed by a set of targeted key informant interviews (8-15) with national actors working to address and end child marriage across regions. Where interpretation is required to conduct interviews, Girls Not Brides will arrange and cover this cost. 

What Girls Not Brides would provide

The consultant/s will conduct kick-off discussions with relevant internal staff at Girls Not Brides in the inception phase of this work, to agree on:

• Components and structure of key outputs (below)   
• Interviewees 
• Interview guide 
• Other methodology elements as relevant. 

Girls Not Brides would provide:

• Existing zero draft of the Playbook
• Draft slide deck
• Notes from internal workshops on the content
• List of contacts for outreach to national actors 
• List of key resources

Budget 

The budget ceiling for this consultancy is £10 000 GBP. This does not include the following costs, which will be covered separately: interpretation fees for interviews, design costs, remuneration for interviewees

Eligibility

• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to write in a style that is clear, concise and accessible
• Experience producing advocacy tools, briefs and reports targeted at a variety of audiences, including government representatives, donors
• Experience in synthesizing complex reports and presenting key findings through clear and effective visual formats
• Experience with feminist approaches to qualitative research, including cross-cultural consultations and interviews
• Experience of applying feminist analysis to review evidence and experience to promote gender-transformative action and investment
• Familiarity with the child marriage evidence base, and knowledge of gender equality, child rights, and international development
• Fluent verbal and written English
• Strong communications and project management skills
• Ability to keep to deadlines
• Available for work meetings during UK office hours
• Spanish / French desirable

How to Apply

Application process – deadline 1 September 2025

Interested consultants should submit the following:

• An up-to-date CV (no more than 2 pages in length)
• A 1-2 page cover letter outlining your suitability for, and interest in, this consultancy, intended approach to the work, any notes regarding your availability to complete this project within the timeframe above, and the number of days/ daily consultancy rate for this type of work.

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