Consultancy: Safety and security assessments and develop tailored protection capacity strengthening for Sudanese conflict-related sexual violence

Consultancy to conduct safety and security assessments and develop tailored protection capacity strengthening for Sudanese conflict-related sexual violence survivor networks in Chad, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda Assignment Duration: September 2026 to May 2027 (9 months) Assignment Location: Remote, with expected visits in Chad, South Sudan and Uganda

Assignment Duration: September 2026 to May 2027 (9 months)

Assignment Location: Remote, with expected visits in Chad, South Sudan and Uganda

Introduction

The Dr. Denis Mukwege Foundation is an international, survivor-centred, rights-based organisation working to change the response to conflict-related sexual violence. We support survivors' demands for a world where sexual violence as a weapon of war is no longer tolerated, and bears consequences for individual perpetrators and states. We work for a future where survivors receive the holistic care and compensation, they need to rebuild their lives. We create opportunities for survivors to speak out and be heard, and where they can organise to create change, influence policies, and demand justice and accountability. We are working towards a future where sexual violence in conflict is no longer seen as inevitable but is recognised for what it is: a crime that should have serious consequences for both the perpetrators as well as states that tolerate or condone it. We want the international community to draw a red line against wartime sexual violence and strengthen accountability for states and perpetrators. See also www.mukwegefoundation.org .

The Mukwege Foundation's ‘Voice' programme focuses on strengthening survivors' agency to actively influence and participate in policy and practice concerning them at national and international levels.

At the global level, SEMA – the Global Network of Victims and Survivors to End Wartime Sexual Violence – offers a safe global platform for survivors to come together for solidarity, to share experiences and knowledge, to advocate powerfully for the abolition of the use of sexual violence as a tactic of war, and to lobby for the recognition of the rights of survivors to quality holistic care and to restorative justice. The global dimension is essential for peer-learning, bringing survivors from different generations and cultures together.

At the national level, the Mukwege Foundation supports the initiation, development, and strengthening of in-country survivor networks, creating safe spaces for peer-to-peer support, to break the silence and building survivors' capacities to enable them to actively engage in advocating for their rights. The in-country networks vary according to their context and capacities, but in all cases these networks organize to raise awareness about the reality, causes and consequences of wartime rape in the respective countries; to combat stigma, impunity and harmful myths around CRSV; to increase access to survivor centered holistic care and to commemorate and recognize the many victims of these atrocities by creating a collective memory of survivors' experiences.

The Mukwege Foundation currently supports survivor networks in Bangladesh, Central