Movement Strategy Development

Mission and objectives

CCID is committed to advancing the rights of communities, women, girls, and young people in Cameroon while strengthening community Community Centre for Integrated Development aims to advance the rights of communities, women, girls and young people in Cameroon while strengthening community leaders and community based organizations to respond to the needs of indigenous people. CCID recognizes that there is need to build resilient communities in Africa capable of: Advancing the rights and empowerment of women and girls, Empowering individuals and groups to become community change agents, Promoting Health, Education and Human rights for all people We recognize that these rights are essential to social, environmental and economic growth of communities and for justice for all indigenous people. We envision an Africa where; All women and girls can exercise their rights and make informed decisions about sexuality, relationships, pregnancies, child bearing and marriage, free from coercion, violence and discrimination Communities work together with numerous stakeholders to push community driven development. They are aware of their rights and work to empower each other while pushing development. Young people have access to educational opportunities as well as access to youth friendly reproductive right services Young people have access to information, resources to assume leadership with focus on social planning and policy change aiming at social action and system change

Context

CCID is the founding Convenor of the Freedom to Decide Movement (FDM), a new coalition of youth-led and youth-serving organisations in Fako Division, South West Region of Cameroon, built on one position: decisions about a young person’s body, health and future belong to that young person. The Movement launches in 2027 with four workstreams: coalition and chapter building; the Autonomy Academy, a six-session political education curriculum; the #NotOneMoreCameroon public campaign confronting femicide and preventable maternal death; and SRHR Budget Watch, a public spending accountability workstream that will publish an annual Fako SRHR Budget Scorecard. Cameroon has among the highest adolescent childbearing rates in Central Africa, maternal deaths from long-preventable causes, and no official count of femicide. In the South West Region, an ongoing crisis compounds these harms and fragments the civil society response: many youth organisations exist, but most are project-dependent, dissolve between grants, and act alone. The Movement answers fragmentation with organisation: shared analysis, disciplined campaigning and original local evidence that duty bearers must answer to. A new movement’s founding strategy carries unusual weight. It is the document that member organisations will be asked to commit to, the plan that a small secretariat must actually run week by week under real security constraints, and the framework against which funders will assess whether this coalition is serious. Most coalition strategies in this field fail in predictable ways: they are written for donors rather than members, they promise activity levels that volunteer organisations cannot sustain, or they measure outputs that say nothing about whether a movement actually exists. FDM’s strategy must avoid all three. It must be readable by a community organiser and credible to a technical reviewer at the same time; it must price in the operational realities of a conflict-affected division, including the routine loss of activity days to security conditions; and its monitoring framework must centre the question that matters whether member organisations act together, and increasingly without prompting rather than counting workshops. CCID has developed working drafts of the Movement’s founding strategy, results architecture and governance instruments through an intensive internal design process. These now need to be developed into a coherent, member-owned Movement Strategy 2027–2029, a practical implementation plan with realistic phasing and phase gates, and a monitoring, evaluation and learning framework lean enough for a volunteer coalition to operate and rigorous enough to evidence change to duty bearers and funders. The strategy will also underpin the Movement’s applications to SRHR funders whose priorities increasingly centre on domestic accountability and movement resilience. CCID seeks the support of two Online Volunteers to develop these strategic and results documents to a standard suitable for member ratification at the Movement’s founding processes, donor presentation and day-to-day management use.

Task Description

CCID is developing the founding strategic architecture of the Freedom to Decide Movement and seeks two Online Volunteers with complementary profiles: one focused on strategy and implementation planning, and one focused on monitoring, evaluation and learning. Working with the FDM Movement Lead and CCID’s draft materials, the strategy and implementation volunteer will support the development of a clear, readable Movement Strategy 2027–2029 that sets out the situation analysis, theory of change, strategic objectives, workstreams, phasing and governance arrangements; an implementation plan with a realistic calendar of milestones, responsibilities and phase gates that accounts for security conditions in the South West Region, including designed low-visibility alternatives for public activities; and short derivative versions of the strategy, including a two-page member-facing summary in plain English suitable for adaptation and a donor-facing summary. The M&E volunteer will support the development of a results framework with a small set of headline indicators that a volunteer coalition can realistically track, including indicator reference sheets with definitions, data sources, frequency and disaggregation by sex, age, disability and displacement status; an outcome harvesting approach for capturing changes in public discourse and duty bearer behaviour, with simple capture and substantiation instruments; a quarterly one-page reporting template for the Movement’s Steering Committee; and a light internal mid-line review protocol. Both volunteers will work only with drafts, templates and public materials, participate in fortnightly virtual check-ins, and incorporate feedback from the Movement Lead and, where appropriate, member organisation reviewers. For safety and ethical reasons, Online Volunteers will not access, handle or receive any case data, testimony, or personal information of survivors, families or community members. All assignments use only public documents, draft materials, templates and anonymised or synthetic example data. Volunteers sign a confidentiality and conduct undertaking at induction and complete a short safeguarding briefing.

Competencies and values

Living conditions and remarks