1. About FEMNET

The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) is a pan- African, feminist and membership-based network based in Nairobi, Kenya with over 800 individual and institutional members across 50 African countries and in the diaspora. FEMNET envisions a society where African women and girls thrive in dignity and well-being, free from patriarchal and neoliberal oppression and injustices.

Over the years, FEMNET has strategically positioned herself as a convener, organizer and facilitator of critical dialogues around women’s economic justice and rights; transformative women’s leadership; sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); climate justice and natural resource governance as well as, ending all forms of violence and harmful/ discriminatory practices against women and girls.

FEMNET continues to be intentional in influencing decisions made at national, regional and global levels, constantly ensuring African women voices are amplified and their needs, priorities and aspirations are prioritized in key policy dialogues and outcomes that have direct and indirect impact on their lives. FEMNET mobilizes African women to hold their States accountable to women’s rights and gender equality commitments.

For more information about FEMNET’s work, visit our website: www.femnet.org

2. African Girls and Young Women Reparations Charter

Since 2021, FEMNET has convened the African Girls and Young Women Festival as a bold, intergenerational feminist platform to amplify the voices, leadership, and political agency of adolescent girls and young women across the continent. The 5th African Girls and Young Women Festival, held in 2025 under the African Union theme of “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations,” created a historic space for girls and young women to critically interrogate the enduring impacts of colonialism, slavery, systemic racism, economic exploitation, and gender injustice.

Through feminist civic education sessions, intergenerational dialogues, storytelling, and policy laboratories, girls and young women from across Africa collectively articulated their lived realities, political analysis, and demands for reparative justice. One of the key outcomes of the festival and subsequent engagements is the commitment to develop a Pan-African African Girls and Young Women Reparations Charter.

The Charter seeks to consolidate the perspectives, demands, and political vision of African girls and young women on reparations. It will serve as a feminist advocacy instrument to influence continental and global policy processes, including African Union engagements, regional economic bodies, and global justice platforms. The Charter will articulate reparations beyond financial compensation, centering healing, dignity, structural transformation, and redistribution of power and resources.

To support this process, FEMNET seeks to engage a qualified consultant to coordinate consultations, synthesize insights from previous and ongoing engagements, and develop the African Girls and Young Women Reparations Charter in close collaboration with FEMNET and girls and young women across Africa.

Objectives of the African Girls and Young Women Reparations Charter

The Charter aims to document and elevate the lived experiences, political analysis, and priorities of girls and young women across Africa regarding historical and ongoing injustices, including colonialism, slavery, economic exploitation, and structural gender inequality.

• The Charter will define reparations from the perspective of African girls and young women, centering feminist principles of justice, healing, dignity, redistribution of resources, and structural transformation beyond financial compensation.
• The Charter will be used to engage continental and global policy platforms, including the African Union, regional bodies, governments, and international institutions, to advance youth-led and feminist demands on reparations and economic justice.
• The Charter development process and its outcomes will empower girls and young women to actively participate in shaping justice agendas and asserting their role as leaders in Pan-African feminist movements.
• The Charter will establish clear demands and recommendations to guide governments, institutions, and stakeholders in addressing historical injustices and advancing gender-just and youth-centered reparative justice.

3. Objective/ Purpose of Assignment

The consultant will lead the development of the African Girls and Young Women Reparations Charter as a Pan-African feminist advocacy and policy instrument. The consultant will build on existing outcomes from the African Girls and Young Women Festival and prior documented youth consultations to consolidate the voices, experiences, and demands of girls and young women across Africa.

4. Scope of Work and Terms of Reference.

The consultant will lead the development of the African Girls and Young Women Reparations Charter as a Pan-African feminist advocacy and policy instrument. The consultant will build on existing outcomes from the African Girls and Young Women Festival and prior youth consultations to consolidate the voices, lived experiences, and demands of girls and young women across Africa.

Specifically, the consultant will:

• Lead the development of the African Girls and Young Women Reparations Charter, including coordinating various stakeholder engagement, synthesizing inputs, and producing the final document.
• Review and synthesize existing documentation, including outcomes from the African Girls and Young Women Festival, youth consultations, and FEMNET’s feminist economic justice and reparations work, other literature on reparations that uses a pan African feminist lens to establish a strong conceptual and political foundation for the Charter.
• Design and facilitate inclusive virtual consultations with girls and young women, feminist leaders, and relevant stakeholders across Africa to gather diverse perspectives and deepen the Charter’s grounding in lived realities and collective
• Facilitate a physical drafting workshop with regional representatives to analyze and synthesize consultation inputs and co-develop a feminist, African Girls and Young Women-led Reparations Charter that reflects shared political analysis, priorities, and demands.
• Support the validation of the Charter during the 6th African Girls and Young Women Festival, facilitating participatory review and feedback processes with girls and young women, FEMNET, and key stakeholders to ensure ownership, legitimacy, and collective endorsement.
• Finalize the African Girls and Young Women Reparations Charter and produce a comprehensive process report documenting the methodology, stakeholder engagement, key insights, and recommendations for advocacy and

The consultant will work closely with FEMNET throughout the assignment to ensure the Charter is strategically positioned as a credible feminist advocacy instrument for engagement in continental and global policy spaces, including African Union and international reparations and justice platforms.

5. Key Deliverables and Outputs.

The consultant will be expected to deliver:

• Inception report includes methodology, stakeholder engagement plan, and
• Consultation framework and facilitation of agreed consultation
• Draft of African Girls and Young Women Reparations
• Validation
• Final and designed African Girls and Young Women Reparations
• Final consultancy report documenting the process, methodology, challenges and recommendations to FEMNET.

6. Required Qualification, Skills and Competencies

The applicant should have:

• Advanced degree in gender studies, development studies, political science, law, sociology, or related field.
• At least 7 years of demonstrated experience in feminist research, policy development, or advocacy.
• Proven experience working on reparations, decolonial justice, feminist economic justice, or related thematic areas.
• Demonstrated experience developing policy frameworks, charters, manifestos, or advocacy tools.
• Strong understanding of African feminist movements and Pan-African policy
• Demonstrated experience facilitating participatory consultations with young people and diverse stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, writing, and synthesis
• Fluency in Working knowledge of French or Portuguese is an added advantage.

7. Duration of Assignment

The assignment should be completed within 30 working days.

8. Liaison, Coordination and Reporting

The consultant will report directly to the Girls and Young Women Programme Officer and work in close coordination with relevant FEMNET programme and communications staff.

9. Selection of Consultant

The consultant shall be contracted by FEMNET. The contract will include Withholding Tax (WHT) deduction in line with laws of contracting where FEMNET is headquartered. A WHT certificate will be issued to the consultant. Payment will be done through bank transfer to the consultant bank account. FEMNET will not meet the costs of bank charges. Payment schedule will be agreed upon with the consultant upon successful selection. In case of team/firm applicants, a designated assignment contract manager will be the contact between FEMNET and the team and responsible for all deliverables.

10. Intellectual Property Rights

The consultant expressly assigns to FEMNET any copyright arising from the outputs produced while executing the service contract. The consultant may not use, reproduce, disseminate, or authorize others to use, reproduce or disseminate any output produced under the service contract without prior consent from FEMNET.

11. Terms of Service

This is a non-staff contract and therefore the consultant is not entitled to insurance, medical cover or any other status or conditions as FEMNET staff.

12. Application Process

Interested consultants should submit:

• Technical proposal outlining approach, methodology, and
• Financial
• Curriculum Vitae highlighting relevant
• At least two samples of similar work (policy frameworks, charters, research, or advocacy tools).
• Contact details of at least three professional
• Bi-lingual (French, Portuguese, and English) is an added

Applications are by e-mails only, sent to: recruitment@femnet.or.ke. Please indicate the reference on the subject line as (FNT/EOI/11/2026 – AGYW Reparations Charter for submission of applications is on 24^th April 2026.

 Please note: Please note: FEMNET is committed to prevention any type of unwanted behaviour including sexual harassment, exploitation, abuse, and lack of integrity as well as other ethical breaches. All staff and consultants are expected to share this commitment through our code of conduct and Safeguarding Policy. Offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and fraud.

We welcome people from the widest possible diversity of backgrounds, culture and experience. We will make any practical adjustments to enable people with disability participate fully in an inclusive working environment. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have given consent to the collection, use and/or disclosure of your data by us for the purposes set out in this job description.

Only complete applications will be reviewed and applicants who have been shortlisted will be contacted.