Research Consultant

**Fòs Feminista**

Fòs Feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Together with local partners across the globe, we engage in healthcare, education, and advocacy to advance our agenda. This includes providing sexual and reproductive health services and implementing community-based strategies that make sexual and reproductive healthcare more accessible to the most marginalized women and girls. We also engage young people with comprehensive sexuality education and provide care to survivors of gender-based violence. We stand alongside our partners in the streets, in the courts, and in other advocacy spaces as an unapologetically feminist voice, resisting injustice and advocating for gender equality and reproductive rights locally and globally.

**Summary**

As part of Fòs Feminista’s Strategic Refresh, one of our commitments is to expand care and services for contraception, abortion, sexual and gender-based violence, and comprehensive sexuality education, including in humanitarian settings, by developing, promoting, and scaling telehealth and other digital solutions.

Added to the provision of sexual and reproductive health services on-site, digital interventions have become one of the most innovative approaches globally to advance access to sexual and reproductive health services, especially for youth and adolescents.

The success of these digital solutions is linked to keeping high-quality standards, including the usage of a user-centered approach, implementation of strong data privacy and security protocols, clear impact measurement methods and access to feedback.

In 2020, Fòs Feminista started a compendium of diverse digital health interventions implemented by our partners, with the objective to have a more comprehensive view of their work related to telemedicine and digital solutions.

Some of the identified interventions are related to increasing or strengthening the available sexual and reproductive health services offered by our partners. Other interventions were created as a response to the consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic. All of them show innovative approaches and relevant results transferred to advancing access to sexual and reproductive health services.

**Scope of work**

Additionally, we expect the consultant or consulting agency to develop case studies with 5 specific partners (Ecuador, Bolivia, and Guyana and two others to be determined) around the challenges and opportunities in the implementation of digital sexual and reproductive health interventions for youth and adolescents, a comparison of pros and cons with on-site service delivery, and a series of recommendations for the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of digital sexual and reproductive health interventions for youth and adolescents.

After this process, we plan to work with the consultant or consulting agency to extend this work at the global level, compiling services implemented by our partners in other regions of the world. This will be planned as a second phase of the consultancy and after the finalization of the analysis and reports from the Latin America region.

**Deliverables**

With the supervision and general support of Fòs Feminista team members, the consultant or team of consultants will work on the following deliverables:

- Adaptation of methodological tool for obtaining information from partners on their use of youth-friendly digital sexual and reproductive health services.
- Support in updating the compendium of digital health interventions implemented by the Fòs Feminista Alliance in Latin America and the Caribbean in Power BI
- Case studies of partners which have applied youth-friendly approaches in digital sexual and reproductive health interventions (Based on Ecuador, Guyana, Bolivia and 2 more to be added.)
- Report of recommendations on implementation, monitoring, learning and evaluation of digital sexual and reproductive health interventions for youth and adolescents.

**Requirements**:
The consultant and/or consultancy will meet the following criteria:

- Master's degree and at least 5 years of work experience in mixed-methods research and/or evaluation.
- Previous research and/or evaluation experience related to sexual and reproductive health and rights, digital health interventions, and youth-focused programming.
- Strong analytical and quantitative/qualitative research skills.
- Skills in the use of data collection and visualization tools, such as DHIS2, SurveyMonkey, Microsoft Power BI, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Written and oral fluency in English and Spanish required (Portuguese, French, and other languages will be an asset)
- Understanding of digital health, including knowledge of the Principles of Digital Development, the existing digital ecosystem in the Global South, and requirements for inclusive, successful scaling and sustainability of digital health solution