Terms of Reference 1. IPPF s review on inter-governmental advocacy

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1 About IPPF Terms of Reference 1 IPPF s review on inter-governmental advocacy International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is a global service provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. We are a worldwide movement of national organizations working with and for communities and individuals. IPPF works towards a world where women, men and young people everywhere have control over their own bodies, and therefore their destinies. A world where they are free to choose parenthood or not; free to decide how many children they will have and when; free to pursue healthy sexual lives without fear of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. A world where gender or sexuality are no longer a source of inequality or stigma. We will not retreat from doing everything we can to safeguard these important choices and rights for current and future generations. IPPF is currently comprised of 134 Member Associations and collaborative partners working in over 170 countries to provide help, advice, services and supplies relating to any aspect of sexual and reproductive health. In 2016, we delivered million sexual and reproductive health services. The IPPF Secretariat comprises Central Office in London and six Regional Offices, working out of five locations: Africa (Nairobi); Arab World (Tunis); East and South East Asia and Oceania (Bangkok); European Network (Brussels); South Asia (Bangkok) and Western Hemisphere (New York). IPPF has committed to achieve its Strategic Framework to attain the mission of lead a locally owned, globally connected civil society movement that provides and enables services and champions sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, especially the under-served. READ IPPF'S STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK: Advocacy, a key pillar in IPPF s strategic framework IPPF is committed to championing sexual and reproductive rights and gender equality through advocacy with governments and regional institutions, and by partnering and supporting civil society advocates and leaders, particularly girls, young people and women. A key priority objective of our advocacy is to galvanise action so that 100 Governments respect, protect and fulfil sexual and reproductive rights (SRHR) and gender equality. To realise this outcome, the Secretariat Implementation plan (SIP) states three deliverables: 1.1. Strong, evidence-based politically astute national, regional and global advocacy for SRHR and gender equality National, regional and global accountability mechanisms used to hold governments to account, ensuring that governments and other institutional decision-makers remain the primary duty bearer / accountable party; 1 These Terms of references should be read in conjunction with the IPPF Strategic Framework. Page 1 of 6

2 1.3. Women s and youth organisations effectively advocating on SRHR at national, regional and international levels. A set of indicators and other monitoring and evaluation elements are in place as part of IPPF strategic framework. The Secretariat advocacy advisory group (AAG) plays a key role on advocacy at the secretariat level and in the relation with the country work of member associations in country. The AAG is comprised of the advocacy teams of the six IPPF regions, the liaison offices (LOs) in New York, Geneva and Addis Ababa and the central office (CO); they are collectively leading the development of an Advocacy Common Agenda which is currently being designed and consulted. This Advocacy Common Agenda will include a dimension on the intergovernmental processes that are necessary to engage with to achieve positive changes on SRHR. As IPPF has put a significant effort on influencing processes at the international level, this consultancy will inform the content of the advocacy strategy. IPPF Intergovernmental advocacy One of the key roles of the IPPF Advocacy Teams across regions and Liaison Offices is to create an enabling environment for the implementation of SRHR as a national level. To do this, IPPF has put great effort into ensuring that SRHR is high on the political agenda, is integrated in development discourses, is recognised as an essential human right, and is funded through comprehensive programmes. This has been done through influencing intergovernmental bodies and processes such as (but not exclusively): The International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) and the International Conference on Women s rights in Beijing through the follow up of reginal periodic reviews, to set global norms on the interpretation and implementation, the Commissions on Population and Development and the Commission on the Status of Women. The 2030 Agenda: ensuring that SRHR is seen as an essential prerequisite to achieving sustainable development, and translating the commitments to regional and national level and monitoring implementation at all levels. Human Rights Council: framing SRHR as a human rights issue and setting global standards. Use the Human Rights mechanisms, such as the Universal Periodic Review and the Treaty Bodies to advance the SRHR agenda at the country level. World Health Organization: ensure prioritization of SRHR in their programme of work at the country, regional and global levels. Humanitarian: inclusion of language on SRHR on different resolutions and documents in the Global Compact for Refugees, WHO Executive Board, Human Rights council, etc. Political external affairs and development policies and funding processes of the European Union institutions: we focus on three main angles: 1) securing strong agreements on the role of SRHR and GE in the EU s international diplomacy; 2) safeguarding and reinforcing SRHR recognition as key for sustainable development and as a key human right in the EU s overall external relations and development policies as well as in major bi-regional cooperation agreements (i.e. EU-ACP Cotonou Agreement; Joint AU-EU strategy, etc.); 3) securing SRHR Page 2 of 6

3 development funding from EU overall multi-year budget cycle (Multi-annual financial framework - MFF) as well as from the annual financial programming processes. African Union: Gaining political support for SRHR from leaders at a pan-african level to strengthen commitments and programming on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. G7/G20: influencing through the work of the liaison office in Japan (JOICFP) and former IPPF member association in Canada, Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights. Engagement with the civil society coalitions differ from year to year in accordance to the host country of the G7. For the G20 processes, IPPF Member Associations have been actively been a part of the G20 process when their country or region is hosting the event. IPPF has also been engaging with the BRICS group. The overall coordination for UN advocacy rests in Central Office, while Liaison Offices in New York and Geneva provide the technical support, strategic guidance and close relationships with the UN system. Regional intergovernmental advocacy at the European level is undertaken by the European Network Regional Office, while the Liaison Office in Addis Ababa focuses on the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Current resources on intergovernmental advocacy For its engagement with intergovernmental bodies, IPPF opened three liaison offices over the last four years. The United Nations liaison office (UNLO), located in New York is hosted by the Western Hemisphere Region (WHR), the African Union Liaison office (AULO) located in Addis Ababa is supported administratively and technically by the Africa Regional Office based in Nairobi and the Geneva Office (GLO) supported and managed by the Central Office. The European Network regional office also carries out advocacy work with the European Union through their team Europe and the World and European Agenda setting. In addition, two dedicated staff in the Central Office focus on intergovernmental work. In 2014 as the 20-year review of the ICPD and the development of the post-2015 development agenda draw nearer, IPPF decided to create an UN Liaison Office in NY to advocate on behalf of the Federation at strategic UN processes and strengthen IPPF s leadership on advancing an protecting the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) agenda. The decision to create an IPPF UN Liaison office was primarily inspired by the need to strengthen collaboration within and across the Federation to ensure that IPPF speaks and advances its advocacy objectives with a unified voice, including at the UN Headquarters in New York. The UNLO is based in the Western Hemisphere (WHR) office and supported by the WHR advocacy team. Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the IPPF and the African Union in 2007, the Federation affirmed its position to establish the Liaison Office (LO) to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Ethiopia, underlying the importance of Ethiopia as host to the African Union headquarters along with various Diplomatic missions and international organizations. This initiative is also primarily inspired by the need to strengthen collaboration within and across the Federation, to ensure that IPPF advances its advocacy agenda with a unified voice at policy platforms, such as the African Union and Regional Economic Commissions. Given its position, the Liaison Office will be responsible for the coordination of IPPF's advocacy efforts at the AU and ECA and other relevant regional and international organisations represented in Ethiopia working with AUC. This is more so to influence both intergovernmental and inter-agency AU processes in line with existing developmental agendas, most importantly the IPPF Page 3 of 6

4 new Strategic framework, the agreed strategy for ICPD beyond 2014, the post-2015, the AU 2063 Strategy as well as the Post 2015 Maputo Plan of Action. IPPF also signed a MOU in 2002 with the Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP), officially naming JOICFP as the IPPF Tokyo Liaison Office to develop the collaboration between Japan and IPPF. JOICFP is currently active in advocacy not only with the Japanese government, but takes part in global advocacy for SRHR influencing intergovernmental bodies such as the G7 on universal health coverage (UHC) and gender equality in collaboration with the other IPPF teams. The Directors of UNLO and AULO have dotted reporting lines to and the Geneva representative reports directly to the Director of Advocacy at Central Office Review purpose The purpose of the review is to identify achievements, strengthen, challenges, opportunities and threats of IPPF s intergovernmental advocacy and to propose recommendations to enhance impact, increase synergies, learning and relevance to achieve the Advocacy Common Agenda and the IPPF strategic framework. The recommendations and analysis of the review will focus on how to enhance our political influence on creating an enabling environment to advance the SRHR agenda in the current environment. To attain this purpose, the review will focus on three perspectives: political, managerial and financial, proposing recommendations on how to enhance IPPF s relevance and political impact, how to maximise the human and financial resources that the Federation currently invest around the world to ensure agile, responsive and strategic engagement in intergovernmental spaces, and significantly advance positive changes in SRHR. Scope of the review The geographical scope of the review will include IPPF s intergovernmental work undertaken by the AULO, UNLO, GLO, JOICFP, work with the European Union carried out by the European Network and Central Office based on existing documentation, work plans, key informant interviews with internal and external stakeholders and internal monitoring and evaluation data. The review will include a short recount of the history of IPPF on intergovernmental work but will focus its analysis from January 2015 as a key milestone between the Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals period. The review will map all intergovernmental bodies that IPPF engages with and the processes that are currently taking place and are relevant to achieve IPPF s mission and will propose recommendations for sustained interaction for political intelligence and information sharing across the Secretariat and Member Associations as well as strategic partnerships. The review will devote special attention to review the processes in which IPPF has invested as a Federation to protect historic gains on the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development (ICPD, CPD) and the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women s Rights (CSW) among others. In addition, the review will analyse the opportunities and challenges on engaging with the follow up mechanisms of the Sustainable Development Goals (High Level Political Forum-HLPF). The review should include an analysis of the areas that IPPF has focused on but, very importantly, should identify areas of intergovernmental work that IPPF have not explored and that could constitute Page 4 of 6

5 opportunities to advance the SRHR agenda, as well as identify areas of intergovernmental work in which IPPF should reduce emphasis. The review will include a mapping and analysis of existing financial and human resources currently allocated by IPPF on intergovernmental advocacy and will propose recommendations to enhance impact, synergies and relevance. This will include information about the advocacy resources invested by the Member Associations with International Programmes (MAIPS) at the international level and regional level. The resource allocation recommendations will be included in the advocacy strategy document. The report should answer the following questions in the following areas: Political dimension 1. Which would be key partnerships that IPPF should develop in order to do so? 2. Which are the achievements that IPPF has contributed to through its advocacy with intergovernmental bodies? 3. Which are the key areas of intergovernmental work that IPPF should prioritise in order to advance the SRHR agenda in the current environment? Which criteria and process should be used for systematic prioritization? 4. What are the challenges that IPPF has faced to through its advocacy with intergovernmental bodies and how they have been handled? IPPF s internal articulation 5. How to enhance communication, synergies and political intelligence sharing between the different components of IPPF resources on intergovernmental work? Which mechanisms of interrelation between Liaison Offices, the AAG, secretariat teams and MAs, particularly MAIPS can be put in place realistically? How to better integrate and coordinate the Programs teams advocacy efforts with the advocacy teams ones Managerial and financial dimension 6. Are the resources of IPPF invested in the right levels and the right places? Are they sufficient? Which managerial structure can increase impact on intergovernmental work? Activities The consultant will work in close collaboration with IPPF Central Office and relevant AAG members to agree on the methodology of the consultancy. Activities such as meetings, interviews with external and internal stakeholders are expected as well of secondary review of key documentation. Key informant interviews will include all regions including SARO, ESEAOR and WHR to explore opportunities for intergovernmental engagement. As the review will include a mapping of advocacy resources of the Member associations with international programmes, it will include interviews with their advocacy directors. External key informants will also be approached. Report and relationships Reporting to: Ana Maria Bejar, IPPF Director of Advocacy. Key relationships: Liaison offices and EN advocacy directors, Senior Adviser Global Engagement at Central Office, members of the AAG. Key informants: External and internal stakeholders as approved in the Inception report. Page 5 of 6

6 Duration The anticipated commitment is 20 working days starting the second week of July. Expected timeline Inception report approved (first 3 days of the consultancy) Data collection (9 days) Analysis and draft report writing (4 days) Draft report discussion and feedback (2 days) Final report (2 days) Outputs of the consultancy - The consultant will present an inception report during the first week of the consultancy that will describe in detail the methodology and timeline. - A map of current intergovernmental processes IPPFs is involved on around the world with recommendations for their better and impact within the Federation. - A resource analysis describing current investment on intergovernmental advocacy work - A report with the findings of the review and recommendations on strategy and resource investment not exceeding 7,000 words including a one-page executive summary. - A power point presentation of the review. The Consultant is responsible for editing and quality control of the report in English language. Consultant specification - The Consultant should have significant experience on international advocacy with intergovernmental bodies, national level advocacy, and UN processes. - Outstanding oral and written English communication skills - Knowledge of international SRHR and gender equality advocacy is a must. - Knowledge of another IPPF language is highly desirable. Expression of interest Please your application package by 10th July 9:00 am UK time with Intergovermental advocacy review in the subject line to abejar@ippf.org The application should include the following documents in English: One-page letter describing your motivation and qualifications for the assignment. Curriculum vitae 4 pages maximum. Sample of relevant work in English. Page 6 of 6