RE-ADVERTISEMENT FOR TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT TO REVIEW AND UPDATE THE SOMALILAND NATIONAL YOUTH POLICY.
Duty station: Hargeisa, Somaliland
Duration: 3 Months (70 working days)
Closing Date: 07.05.2023
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
INTRODUCTION
SOS Children?s Villages is a global federation of 136 national SOS Children?s Villages associations, working in more than 2000 project locations worldwide. We work together with a single vision: every child belongs to a family and grows with love, respect and security.
SOS Children?s Villages is committed to the welfare of children who lost parental care or at risk of losing parental care ? often ensuring that children grow up in a loving family environment, and to strengthening families and communities as a preventive measure in the fight against child abandonment and social neglect, and upholds child protection policy as part of their commitment to the protection of children and youth from abuse.
SOS Children?s Villages in Somaliland (SOS CV) is a part of SOS Children?s Villages International, the umbrella organization to which all SOS Children?s Villages including SOS Children?s Villages in Somaliland Association is affiliated. SOS CV is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that is not for profit, non-sectarian and non-partisan and which has been in existence since 1999. SOS Children?s Villages in Somaliland shares vision with SOS CV International and beliefs that every child belongs to a family and grows with love, respect and security. To realize this, SOS Children?s Villages in Somaliland builds families for children in need, help them shape their own futures and share in the development of their communities.
BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE
Somaliland is one of the youngest countries in the world, whereby seven out of ten are younger than 35 years old1. Avenues for youth to obtain an education and gainful employment opportunities are limited and opportunities to engage politically, economically, or socially remain low. The space and opportunities are further limited for girls and young women.
Different UN agencies working in Somaliland have projects which focus completely or partially on adolescents and youth, addressing the priorities outlined in Peace building and State-building documents. Although the UN recognizes the role adolescents and young Somalis could play in the peace-and national-building in Somaliland, so far, adolescents and youth programming and interventions have lacked a comprehensive and integrated long-term approach. There has been inconsistent engagement of Somaliland youth in the planning, implementation and monitoring of policies and programs as well as limited success in effectively mainstreaming adolescents and youth issues in the political and development processes. Failing to respond to the needs of adolescents and youth in Somaliland put at risk the chances of lasting peace and stability.
In order to appropriately respond to the needs and aspirations of young peop