The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is a global research organization whose mission is to empower women, advance gender equality and fight poverty. In 2021, ICRW received a grant to provide technical support to OAK Foundation Grantees to integrate child sexual abuse and gender lens in the design of interventions to prevent and respond sexual violence against children. Also, ICRW is required to support each of the two grantees in developing and adapting their monitoring systems to capture information about the implementation of the CSA and gender integrated intervention toolkit. The goals of the participatory norms mapping and technical assistance services towards the local partner Western Uganda
Bantwana Program (WUBP) include:
To map out reference groups and population sub-groups of behaviors
underpinned by social norms associated child sexual abuse.
To map child sexual abuse social norms and the expectations and behaviors
that support them.
To recommend adaptations to the program and Theory of Change/M&E
Framework to better measure and track norm shifts and associated behaviors.
To meet these objectives, the ICRW sought the services of an experienced consultant (based in Western Uganda, Kabarole district with multi-lingual proficiencies) to undertake the activities leading to the attainment of these objectives. The consultant was expected to conduct a norms mapping exercise to inform program adaptation to deepen child sexual abuse (CSA) norm targeting in their program. The consultant was expected to utilize participatory methodologies to build the capacity of the program to diagnose CSA norms to inform program adaptation and monitor shifts in behaviors and perceptions underpinned by CSA norms.
