Tenders are invited for Consultancy - Cartography - F.O.R.T.E.S. Closing Date: 31 Oct 2025 Type: Consultancy French Context Preamble: Presentation of the Sponsoring Organization and Consortium Partners ECPAT France, as Beneficiary, has entered into a Financing Agreement with the French Development Agency (AFD) for the implementation of a project to support feminist civil society organizations in the Indian Ocean region, called "Feminists Organized and Strengthened to Build Equality and Solidarity F.O.R.T.E.S!" ECPAT France is the leader of the consortium composed of four NGOs: ECPAT France is a French non-partisan, non-denominational child protection NGO, a member of the ECPAT International network. It is an international solidarity organization with a social impact, which promotes cooperation, otherness, and learning organization as the core values and methods of its action. Its mission is to protect all children, without exception, and to combat their sexual exploitation and trafficking in all its forms. ECPATs mission is to concretely respond to the ongoing needs of individual, collective, and societal child protection agencies, including children, parents, communities, organizations, and government agencies that protect children and combat sexual exploitation and trafficking. ECPAT France initiates, manages, and supports multi-year programs in France, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. To implement these programs, it relies on its network of hubs and local offices, as well as partnerships with organizations rooted in the heart of its intervention areas and operating at the national and regional levels. Recognized for its transformative feminist action, ECPAT France has initiated and is implementing three "FSOF" projects (one in Madagascar and two in Nigeria). As the consortium leader and signatory of the financing agreement with AFD, ECPAT France is the sponsor of this offer. Asmae Association Sur Emmanuelle is an independent, secular international NGO recognized as being of public utility, founded in 1980 by Sister Emmanuelle. Its action is structured around four areas of intervention: access to quality education; the protection of children from all forms of violence and exploitation and the promotion of their well-being; training and professional integration; and the promotion of living together in a sustainable and peaceful world. Furthermore, the promotion of gender equality, the childrens rights-based approach, the participation of children and young people, and the inclusive approach are the four cross-cutting approaches that reinforce this thematic framework and are the subject of action plans. Asmaes international approach is characterized by developing projects in partnership with local organizations and by actions that target not only children and young people, but also their families, professionals, and authorities, in order to foster an environment conducive to their development and respect for their rights. Asmae operates in eight countries (Burkina Faso, Côte dIvoire, Egypt, France, India, Lebanon, Madagascar, and the Philippines). As part of the F.O.R.T.E.S program, Asmae focuses on education, training, and professional integration. The Comorian Association for Family Well-being (ASCOBEF) was founded in 1994 by men and women concerned about maternal and child health and family well-being in the Comoros. It adheres to the principles, goals, and objectives of the IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation), of which it is a member association. ASCOBEF, like IPPF, actively works to guarantee SRH rights, promote gender equality, value diversity, and protect young people and people living with HIV. ASCOBEFs actions have always been aligned with broader national priorities as defined in the National Health Policy and the National Health Development Plan. They are implemented through greater collaboration and joint programs with national and international partners, taking the ICPD, the MDGs, the Beijing Platform, and the IPPF Strategic Plan as a framework. The goal of ASCOBEFs interventions is to increase access to services and support for vulnerable groups. IPPF ARO (IPPF Africa Regional Office) is part of the secretariat of IPPF, a global network created in 1952 in India and which now brings together 118 associations present in 129 countries. IPPF works to ensure that sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are considered fundamental human rights. Its mission is to contribute to improving the quality of life of women and men by taking action t for sexual health and rights at the political level and in the field with populations. In this sector, IPPF-ARO plays a role in capitalizing on good practices in SRHR. It also carries out support actions for its members in terms of coaching and technical training. It promotes the exchange of experiences among its members, favoring South-South dynamics. IPPF constitutes a key link in the project on SRH issues and will be able to bring to the consortium its expanded network of affiliated members present in the three countries where the project is implemented (including ASCOBEF, a member of the consortium) as well as its solid and experienced experience in managing FSOF (FON and soon J4S) consortia. The F.O.R.T.E.S! program In October 2025, this consortium launched the implementation of the program, funded by the French Development Agency (AFD) as part of the Womens Organizations Support Fund (FSOF). Despite the progress made, adolescent girls in the Indian Ocean continue to face major challenges in accessing education, health, civic engagement, and combating GBV. It is therefore essential to strengthen initiatives and policies that promote their empowerment to ensure a more equitable, inclusive, and secure future for all. Thus, the program aims to be anchored in the dynamics of societal transformation through gender equality, fully integrating multidimensional inequalities to work towards the autonomy of adolescent girls. The funding and civil society strengthening mechanism established by the consortium will fund the activities of feminist CSOs and adolescent girls movements across the following three pillars: Education: Improved access to educational services, with better consideration of the needs of adolescent girls entering and/or completing secondary school, in terms of literacy and vocational training; Health: Improved access to health services, with better consideration of the specific needs of adolescent girls, particularly in relation to SRHR and the fight against gender-based violence (GBV); Citizenship: More active citizenship among adolescent girls and the promotion of their leadership. Program Content The programs objective is to strengthen feminist CSOs in the Indian Ocean, particularly adolescent girls movements, so that they are recognized as legitimate actors and citizens, actively participate in decision-making at the individual and societal levels, and have the necessary capacities to defend their rights, combat gender-based violence, and access sexual and reproductive health, education, and empowerment. The specific objective is as follows: Targeted feminist civil society organizations in Madagascar, the Comoros, Mauritius, Mayotte, and Réunion have strengthened their action strategies, enabling them to become agents of change in the fight against gender-based violence, access to education, including training and professional integration, health, and active citizenship for adolescent girls. Implementation and Steering Arrangements The Consortium members will draw on their networks, partners, and mapping to fund and support feminist organizations and/or adolescent girls movements in four intervention areas: Madagascar The Comoros Mauritius Two French overseas departments: Mayotte and Réunion Note that while the intervention will be large-scale in the first three countries, the pilot phase of the intervention in the French overseas territories will result in a less extensive intervention and a focus on existing formal organizations. The interventions rationale is to offer support to feminist organizations engaged in education, health, and particularly sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), citizenship, and the fight against gender-based violence (GBV) among adolescent girls, through the following modalities: Funding feminist CSOs, feminist youth activist groups, or movements Strengthening feminist CSOs and movements by theme, organizationally, and through advocacy Creating a feminist safe space Advocacy actions to create agendas specific to adolescent girls in different regions A SERA strategy to implement capitalization actions throughout the program Aim and purpose of the mission One of the programs first actions is to conduct a preliminary study to produce a map of feminist adolescent CSOs, feminist networks, and (unstructured) adolescent girls movements in the four countries where the program operates. The overall objective of the The study aims to expand the consortiums and its partners knowledge of existing feminist CSOs and adolescent girls movements, as well as the challenges adolescent girls face in the programs areas of action, the realities and capacities of organizations working on gender, and their potential needsparticularly in terms of capacity building, peer-to-peer dynamics, coordination, joint interventions, advocacy, and networking involving these organizations and movements. The purpose of the mission, taking into account the specificities mentioned in the methodological section, will be to carry out: An initial assessment to map feminist CSOs and informal adolescent girls movements, as well as allies in the intervention area who address these issues and the focuses of this FSOF, namely GBV, education, SRHR, and citizenship. Identification of network dynamics and allianc Tender Link : https://reliefweb.int/job/4179908/consultance-cartoigraphie-fortes
