HO- Masarouna PMU The Programme Management Unit (PMU) of Masarouna will act as an operational hub to oversee programme delivery.
The main responsibilities of the PMU include:
• Ensure compliance with donor requirements and oversee, coordinate and facilitate the quality of program delivery.
• Monitor the implementation of programme implementation, setting up an overall MEAL framework, ensuring compliance with overall results frameworks and arranging mid-term and final evaluations.
• Collect and process narrative and financial reports and annual plans for all consortium partners for donor submission.
• Ensure quality and consistency by setting standards for programme implementation.
• Provide processes and systems for programme management.
• Ensure information flows across the Steering Committee, consortium members, implementing partners, advisory groups, stakeholders and allies.
• Monitor programme risks and establish mitigationmeasures.
• Provide oversight, coordination and facilitate the quality of program delivery.
• Monitor the implementation of programme implementation, setting up overall MEAL<(>&<)>K advisory groups, stakeholders and allies.

The Masarouna programme:
In a region where securing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) is especially challenging, Masarouna will mobilize the power of youngpeople’s collective action in six Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries to support their fight for greater freedom of choice and respect for their SRHR through new and innovative pathways for change. Our vision is that young people (YP) meaningfully induce sustainable change that will enable them to enjoy their SRHR.

Context:
In 2019, 41.4% of MENA’s population was aged 15-39, makingit one of the world’s youngest regions. In recent years, young people have demonstrated their ability to become main drivers for change in response to long-standing structural inequalities, rising authoritarianism and increased levels of conflict and fragility. Young people in MENA continue to face some of the most vocal conservative opposition to their SRHR. The problem that Masarouna will tackle is the perpetual obfuscation and the increasing weaponization of SRHR as a form of social control. This strips SRHR of the urgency it deserves, yet, we strongly believe fulfilling young people’s SRHR can have a transformative effect on sustainable development due to its connection with basic human well-being and gender equality. Strategic objective: Young people in six selected countriesin the MENA region achieve morefreedom to enjoy their SRHR in inclusive societies.

Targeted group: Young people aged 18-35, in particular (unmarried) women and LGBTQI+. Activists and individuals will be mobilized as agents and drivers of change throughout the programme cycle.

Theprogramme’s strategic objective and outcomes contribute directly to achieving SDGs 3 (health and well-being), 5 (gender equality) and 10 (reduced inequalities. The programme is fully aligned with the ICPD25 Nairobi statement’s call for renewed commitmentstowards women’s and Young People’s SRHR.

The Masarouna programme implements two main pathways of change:

1: Lobby and advocacy with young people for their SRHR
The first pathway promotes greater accountability of governments to adhere to international SRHR standards, human rights frameworks and agreements; promotes young people’s active and meaningful involvement in policy agenda-setting and decision-making; and increases public awareness on SRHR, including through media engagement, aiming to create new narratives on SRHR.

2: Strengthening civil society and reinventing civic space
A strong civil society can be a mobilizer, an amplifier of voices and a watchdog. With strengthened capacities, CSOs can create a sense of urgency around SRHR to pushfor sustainable change. CSOs need the space to play this political role, which Masarouna aims to reinvent by promoting the political activation and participation of young people and creating and strengthening alternative civic spaces, both online and offline. Working online allows for reaching young people at scale by circumventing gatekeepers and mitigating risks around censorship.