MERL Assistant
Tostan · Senegal · Apply by October 31, 2026
About this role
Aperçu de l'organisation Tostan is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Dakar, Senegal, and currently operating in five West African countries. Strategically, the organization is committed to further developing its core competency—education-based empowerment—and to documenting and scaling up the sustainable impact it creates across a range of issues. Tostan’s flagship model, the three-year Community Capacity-Building Program (CCBP), has already reached thousands of communities in West and East Africa since 1991. Results in the areas of governance, education, health, economic empowerment, and the environment are currently being tracked, and Tostan is particularly proud to have played a significant role in the large-scale empowerment of women and girls and in the community’s abandonment of harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and child marriage. As part of its plan d'engagement stratégique 2023-2030, Tostan is focusing on strategic scaling. The organization is developing new implementation strategies to support community leadership by driving systemic change on a larger scale at the regional level. It is also creating new models to share and replicate…