CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR SCI RWANDA PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS (CSOs, LNAs, CBOs, NGOs, INGOs, Etc...)

INTRODUCTION TO SAVE THE CHILDREN

SCI is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential. We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Our Vision: A world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.

Our Mission: To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

We do this through a range of initiatives and programmes, to:

• Provide lifesaving supplies & emotional support for children caught up in disasters (e.g. floods, famine & wars).
• Campaign for long term change to improve children’s lives.
• Improve children’s access to the food and healthcare they need to survive.
• Secure a good quality education for the children who need it most.
• Protect the world’s most vulnerable children, including those separated from their families because of war, natural disasters, extreme poverty or exploitation.
• Work with families to help them out of the poverty cycle so they can feed and support their children.

For more information on the work we undertake and recent achievements, visit our website.

1. Background and Rationale

Partnership is at the axel of Save the Children's theory of change and critical to our vision and mission. Save the Children's Global Strategy calls out 'Strategic Partnerships' as an enabler to elevate and amplify the importance of working in partnership to maximise impact on the lives of children. Save the Children has significant experience, commitment and examples of successful partnerships that have had impact for children across the globe. 

2. Partners and Partnership in Save the Children

“We build partnerships: collaborate with children, civil society organizations, communities, governments and the private sector to share knowledge, influence others and build capacity to ensure children’s rights are met” – Save the Children Theory of Change.

3. Save the Children's Partnership Principles

Save the Children believes that good partnership encompasses the following principles:

• Value Driven and Empowering relationships, implying aligned values, mutual respect and recognition of respective contributions and potential;
• Transparency and Accountability, which imply that openness and honesty in working relationships are pre-conditions of trust
• Mutual Benefit and Complementarity, means that those expected to contribute to the partnership should also derive added value from it, in addition to bringing about changes for children.

Save the Children International Rwanda is committed to advancing localisation as a core strategy to deliver sustainable, community-driven impact for children. Our Localisation Strategy sets out our roadmap for strengthening and expanding partnerships with national and local actors/civil society organisations (CSOs), government bodies, other NGOs and community-based actors. Rooted in equity, mutual respect, and shared responsibility, our approach aims to shift power to local actors, enhance local ownership of child rights outcomes, and increase accountability to affected populations.

Thank you for your interest in partnering with Save the Children. We value collaboration with organizations that align with our mission to ensure every child survives, learns, and is protected. You are about to register for future collaboration with SCI, and you will be required to fill in all the information about your organization, and feel free to skip or write Not Applicable if the information asked not available from or about your organization.

If your organization is interested in working with Save the Children International Rwanda to implement different programs and provide different services to the people, we serve to support our mission,

We kindly request you to submit your expression of interest by filling the registration form using the below link:

SCI Rwanda Partner Mapping and Identification Form 

The information should be submitted no later than 7:00 am on not later than September 9, 2025.

We look forward to receiving your response.