Consultant - Feminist MEL Consultant

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Title: Consultant - Feminist MEL Consultant

Total number of Consultants: 1

Country Program: IGNITE-VPRU

Proposed Dates: 1/04/2026 to 31/12/2026

Background

Inspiring Girls and Grassroots Networks for Inclusive and Transformative Education (IGNITE) is a feminist initiative led by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), in partnership with Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa) and the René Moawad Foundation (RMF), and funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) through the Support Fund for Feminist Organizations (SFFO).

IGNITE works in seven countries across Sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA region (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Jordan, Lebanon, and Nigeria) to empower adolescent girls and advance gender-transformative education by supporting feminist and youth-led CSOs. The project combines grant-making with collaborative capacity sharing in finance, administration, technical support, and research.

Unlike traditional funding models, IGNITE prioritizes mutual capacity strengthening, peer-to-peer exchange, and grassroots knowledge, aiming for sustainable, locally driven impact and the transformation of power dynamics in the development