Consultant – Supporting the Global Advocacy Team on Financing and Accountability for SRHR

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Consultant – Supporting the Global Advocacy Team on Financing and Accountability for SRHR

Background
SRHR is facing an accelerating crisis, driven by a convergence of financial, political, and structural pressures. Declining donor funding, rising sovereign debt burdens, inflationary pressures, and widening fiscal constraints are limiting the resources available for health and social services, while evolving geopolitical priorities and coordinated anti-rights movements are reshaping how SRHR is positioned, funded, and contested globally. Together, these dynamics are
not only creating immediate funding gaps, but are also weakening the systems, institutions, and accountability mechanisms required to sustain equitable access to care over the long term.
At the same time, many civil society organisations working on SRHR continue to face barriers in engaging meaningfully in financing and macroeconomic policy discussions. Financing is often approached as a narrow technical issue, rather than as a broader political and structural question tied to economic governance, power, and public accountability. As a result, organisations may lack the technical fluency, evidence, tools, and institutional confidence needed to engage
effectively in debates around taxation, budgeting, debt, trade, public financial management, and other key financing processes that directly shape SRHR outcomes.
Civil society engagement on financing also remains fragmented. Organisations frequently work in silos around specific thematic priorities, rather than advancing broader and more coordinated demands around public investment, fiscal justice, and sustainable financing for SRHR.
Collaboration between SRHR actors and movements working on economic justice, public finance, governance, labour, climate, and accountability also remains limited, despite the increasingly interconnected nature of these issues.
Fòs Feminista is addressing these challenges through a multipronged program strategy which brings together capacity building and evidence generation in service of evidence-based advocacy at the national, regional and global levels.

Scope of Work
The consultant will primarily be responsible for two core tasks – an ecosystem mapping on financing and accountability for SRHR and aspects of Alliance capacity building on financing and accountability for SRHR. The assignment will include the following components:
A. Mapping the Advocacy Ecosystem for Financing and Accountability for SRHR/Health
1. Mapping of Political and Multilateral Advocacy SpacesThe consultant will identify and assess key global, regional, and sub-regional political and multilateral spaces where financing and accountability discussions relevant to SRHR are
currently taking place or where SRHR issues could be strategically integrated. This should include:
• Global multilateral processes and forums related to development financing, health financing, gender equality, economic governance, and sustainable development;
• Regional and sub-regional political processes and intergovernmental mechanisms;
• Multilateral platforms and mechanisms for civil society participation and engagement;
• Key movement building spaces related to feminist financing, feminist perspectives on health, development, governance, and others.
• Strategic opportunities to integrate stronger SRHR financing and accountability demands into ongoing political processes.

2. Mapping of Global, Regional, and Sub-Regional Financing Agendas Relevant to SRHR
The consultant will identify and analyze the key financing and accountability issues currently being discussed across global, political spaces relevant to SRHR, health and gender. This analysis should examine:
• Principal debates, priorities, and emerging trends related to SRHR financing and accountability, and the connections being made between SRHR, health and gender and broader economic and development agendas, including public financing, health financing, debt, taxation, universal health coverage, social protection, development
cooperation, climate finance, and private sector financing
• The extent to which financing discussions are linked to specific SRHR, health or gender thematic areas (e.g. abortion access, maternal health, HIV, adolescent SRHR, gender based violence, comprehensive sexuality education, universal health coverage, care systems, humanitarian settings, climate and health, etc.);
• Regional variations in political priorities, financing dynamics, and advocacy opportunities.

3. Stakeholder and Power Mapping
The consultant will map the key actors shaping global discussions on SRHR financing and accountability, including:
• Governments leading or influencing relevant discussions, their priority issues and their political positions.
• Multilateral institutions, development banks, philanthropic actors, and UN agencies engaged in financing discussions relevant to SRHR, their priority issues and their political positions.
• Civil society organizations, feminist movements, advocacy networks, and social justice coalitions active on these issues, and their priority issues
• Existing coalitions working on SRHR financing, health financing, economic justice, feminist economics, or related agendas;
• Key donors, including private philanthropy actors engaged on these issues
• Relevant private sector actors influencing financing or policy agendas.

4. Strategic Recommendations
Based on the findings, the consultant will develop strategic recommendations for Fòs Feminista
and partners on:
• Priority global, regional, and sub-regional advocacy opportunities;
• Key political processes, timelines, and moments for engagement;
• Potential alliances, partnerships, and coalition-building opportunities;
• Strategic entry points for advancing financing and accountability agendas for SRHR;
• Key gaps, risks, and emerging political dynamics affecting advocacy opportunities.

The mapping should include an assessment of influence, alignment, relationships, and opportunities for coalition-building where relevant. Each analysis must include a global section as well as corresponding regional sections for three main regions – Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific.

B. Supporting the Feminist Summer School on Financing and Accountability for SRHR.
1. Program Design and Content Development
• Serve as a thought partner to co-design the curriculum, thematic flow, and session objectives in collaboration with the program lead and relevant internal teams.
• Support the identification of and outreach to expert speakers aligned with the program
objectives
• Work with the expert speakers to develop session concepts, discussion formats, guiding questions, and participatory methodologies to ensure engaging and accessible learning spaces.

• Support the integration of feminist, intersectional, and Global South perspectives throughout the course content.
• Develop and maintain a detailed course workplan and implementation timeline.
2. Documentation and Knowledge Management
• Review one-pager session summaries for each session, including key discussion points,
participant questions and reflections, recommendations for further exploration, and
action points
• Review a final synthesis report
3. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)
• Lead the design and oversight of post-session feedback mechanisms and the overall course evaluation approach
• Define learning and evaluation priorities, including indicators related to engagement, accessibility, relevance, and usefulness
• Review and interpret participant feedback to identify key trends, emerging needs, and strategic recommendations
• Guide the development of analytical reflections and learning outputs for the final report

The role may also include ad hoc support for related activities, including the development of concept notes, drafting of blogs or communications materials, and contribution to other strategic advocacy and learning outputs on financing and accountability for SRHR. The consultant will be expected to work closely with the Global Advocacy for Change team and the incoming summer school coordinator.

Deliverables
Subject to input and finalization from the project lead within the Global Advocacy for Change team the consultant will be expected to deliver the following:

A. Mapping the Advocacy Ecosystem for Financing and Accountability for SRHR/Health
• An inception report outlining the proposed methodology, the workplan and timeline; and Initial list of stakeholders, processes, and sources to be reviewed.
• Summary table of the ecosystem that outlines key spaces, issues and actors.
• A draft narrative report that contains
o Analysis of key SRHR financing and accountability debates at the global level
o Stakeholder mapping of governments, CSOs, coalitions, multilateral institutions,
and private actors;
o Mapping of existing coalitions and advocacy initiatives;
o Overview of relevant political and multilateral spaces for engagement.
• A final report that incorporates feedback from the team on the draft report and
additionally includes
o Recommendations for regional and sub-regional engagement strategies
o A stakeholder directory, within possibility
o A calendar or timeline of the key political processes identified,
o A list of relevant platforms for CSO engagement.
• A PowerPoint presentation summarising the key findings, strategic opportunities and
recommendations.
B. Supporting the Feminist Summer School on Financing and Accountability for SRHR
• Inception Report and Workplan Document, which includes an implementation timeline, session planning process, coordination structure, and proposed workflow.
• Course Framework and Curriculum, including session objectives, themes, proposed speakers, and facilitation formats.
• A final course report including an overview of activities, participant engagement, key learnings, evaluation findings, and recommendations for future work.

Timeline Immediate – 1 October 2026. Timelines for individual tasks will be agreed upon in coordination with the advocacy team.

Location Flexible, Remote, but must be willing to work across time zones as needed Compensation The consultancy carries a total fee of USD 8,000 - 10,000 for the full consultancy period, depending on experience and qualifications.

Payments will be made according to a schedule agreed jointly with the team and tied to the delivery of agreed outputs and milestones.

Qualifications
The ideal candidate should demonstrate:
• Expertise in SRHR, gender equality, development financing, and/or global health.
• Strong understanding of global and regional political and multilateral processes related
to financing, development, health, gender equality, or economic governance.
• Proven experience conducting political economy analysis, stakeholder mapping, policy
research, or advocacy-oriented landscape analyses.
• Demonstrated knowledge of financing debates relevant to SRHR and social justice,
including public financing, development financing, debt, taxation, health financing,
social protection, care economies, and accountability mechanisms.
• Familiarity with global and regional civil society, feminist, and social justice movements
and coalitions.
• Excellent analytical, research, and writing skills.
• Ability to work independently and synthesize complex political and policy dynamics into
actionable recommendations.
• Advanced degree in gender studies, international development, development
economics, public policy, global health, health financing, human rights, or a related
field.
• Fluency in at least one of the languages relevant to the Fòs Feminista Alliance – Spanish,
French or Portuguese, in addition to English
All applicants must include:
• CV highlighting relevant experience.
• Short proposal outlining approach, methodology, and timeline.
• Financial proposal.