International Consultant on Gender Data and Research

Background

UN Ladies, grounded within the imaginative and prescient of equality enshrined within the Constitution of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination towards ladies and women; the empowerment of ladies; and the achievement of equality between ladies and men as companions and beneficiaries of growth, human rights, humanitarian motion and peace and safety. The UN Ladies Europe and Central Asia Regional Workplace (ECARO) was established in Istanbul, Turkiye in early 2014. It supplies assist and oversight to nation places of work in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Ukraine. As well as, the Regional Workplace straight helps programme and mission presence in Kosovo (underneath UN Safety Council Decision 1244), the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Tajikistan, and Turkiye.

Since 2018, UN Ladies Regional Workplace for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) is implementing a regional part of the Flagship Programme Initiative Making Each Girl and Woman Rely: Supporting the monitoring and implementation of the SDGs by higher manufacturing and use of gender statistics (Ladies Rely), developed by UN Ladies Headquarters (HQ). The Ladies Rely programme goals to have an effect on a radical shift within the manufacturing, availability, accessibility and use of high quality knowledge and statistics on key points of gender equality and ladies’s empowerment.

One of many key priorities of the Ladies Rely programme is using different data-collection strategies to handle knowledge gaps and promote extra complete gender knowledge and proof. Recognizing the restrictions of conventional data-collection strategies, which frequently fail to seize the experiences and views of marginalized and underrepresented teams, the programme actively integrates non-conventional approaches. Strategies equivalent to participatory analysis, huge knowledge, social media analytics, and qualitative knowledge assortment are promoted to assemble info from a extra various and consultant vary of voices. This inclusive method permits policymakers, researchers, and advocates to realize a deeper understanding of the nuances surrounding gender-related points throughout varied domains, equivalent to schooling, violence towards ladies and women, social norms, political illustration and so on. Armed with this complete data, they’ll design extra focused and efficient interventions, in the end striving to handle gender inequalities and foster sustainable gender equality.

Furthermore, the programme goes past knowledge assortment alone. It actively seeks new and fascinating methods to contain knowledge customers within the technique of using gender knowledge. This method acknowledges that knowledge holds little worth until it’s successfully analyzed, interpreted, and included into decision-making processes. To realize this, the programme employs varied methods, equivalent to organizing collaborative platforms the place stakeholders from totally different sectors can come collectively and discover the insights derived from the info, strengthening capability constructing of customers to rework knowledge into actionable interventions.

By integrating each these points into its framework, UN Ladies goals to foster a tradition of data-driven decision-making that empowers policymakers and advocates to design extra focused and impactful interventions, in the end contributing to the development of gender equality and ladies’s empowerment at nation and regional ranges.

Below the direct supervision of the Regional Gender Knowledge Specialist based mostly at UN Ladies Regional Workplace for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO), and in coordination with the Data Administration and Programme Guide, the Worldwide Guide on Gender Knowledge and Analysis will assist strengthening capacities of UN Ladies civil society companions by provision of steering and technical experience in the course of the design and implementation of gender knowledge initiatives within the ECA area to in the end obtain the next targets:

1. Take a look at and doc using different knowledge assortment strategies to handle particular gender knowledge gaps on measuring femicides in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan).
2. Take a look at and doc using social media to generate new proof and knowledge on sufferer blaming attitudes and behaviors in Kyrgyzstan.  

Advance new methods of participating knowledge customers from Central Asia and North Macedonia, together with media, suppose tanks, youth and gender advocates, to successfully analyze and compellingly talk gender knowledge by human tales, visualization, and knowledge artwork.

Duties and Tasks

Throughout the project, the Worldwide Guide will likely be liable for the implementation of the next duties:

Job 1. Mentorship and peer evaluation of gender knowledge merchandise developed by the Gender Knowledge Bootcamp groups from North Macedonia.

• Present written suggestions to reinforce and finalize 4 gender knowledge merchandise created by the bootcamp groups. The suggestions ought to think about making the messages extra compelling, making certain consistency, eliminating biases and gender stereotypes.

Job 2. Knowledge assortment and evaluation for measuring femicides in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan).

• Present written suggestions to reinforce and finalize the methodology for measuring femicides to be carried out by groups of CSO mentees from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
• Technical steering and inputs to design a 4-day workshop on gender knowledge evaluation and analysis for the chosen 15 mentees. The workshop shall embrace co-creation periods, permitting members to share their suggestions and inputs on how the analysis methodology for measuring femicides, earlier examined in Kyrgyzstan, could possibly be replicated of their nationwide contexts.
• Design and maintain a 1.5-hour session on gender knowledge evaluation and analysis within the format of interactive workshop throughout a 4-day workshop for CSO mentees.
• Information and supply written suggestions to a few transient nation case research outlining key findings and proposals of femicide analysis, in shut collaboration with UN Ladies ECA RO.

Job 3. Use of social media analytics to generate new proof on sufferer blaming attitudes and behaviors in Kyrgyzstan.

• Present steering on enhancing and finalizing the methodology for victim-blaming analysis.
• Present written suggestions to reinforce and finalize the excellent analysis report outlining the analysis methodology, knowledge assortment and evaluation strategies, key findings and proposals.
• Present written suggestions to reinforce and finalize not less than 10 communication merchandise to advertise analysis findings, together with social media playing cards, video, and multimedia explainer.

 

Timeframe, funds and deliverables

It’s anticipated that the project will take as much as 30 working days over a interval of 10 months:

Fee for this consultancy will likely be based mostly on the achievement of every deliverable and certification that every has been satisfactorily accomplished. Fee will likely be based mostly on the submission of the SSA report together with the timesheet and related annexes as supporting paperwork for the achievement of deliverables:

#	Deliverables	Estimated nr of w/days	Goal Date
1	Job 1. Mentorship and peer evaluation of gender knowledge merchandise developed by the Gender Knowledge Bootcamp groups from North Macedonia. Written suggestions is offered to reinforce and finalize 4 gender knowledge merchandise created by the bootcamp groups.	5 w/days	By 31 December 2023
2	Job 2. Knowledge assortment and evaluation for measuring femicides in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan). Written suggestions is offered to reinforce and finalize the methodology for measuring femicides to be carried out by groups of CSO mentees from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Technical steering and inputs are offered to design a 4-day workshop on gender knowledge evaluation and analysis for the chosen 15 mentees. A 1.5-hour session on gender knowledge evaluation and analysis is held within the format of interactive workshop throughout a 4-day workshop for CSO mentees. Steerage and written suggestions are offered to finalize three transient nation case research outlining key findings and proposals of femicide analysis.	15 w/days	By 30 April 2024
3	Job 3. Use of social media analytics to generate new proof on sufferer blaming attitudes and behaviors in Kyrgyzstan. Steerage is offered to reinforce and finalize the methodology for victim-blaming analysis. Written suggestions is offered to reinforce and finalize the excellent analysis report outlining the analysis methodology, knowledge assortment and evaluation strategies, key findings and proposals. Written suggestions is offered to reinforce and finalize not less than 10 communication merchandise to advertise analysis findings, together with social media playing cards, video, and multimedia explainer.	10 w/days	By 30 September 2024

Enter from UN Ladies:

All through the project, UN Ladies will present:

• Background and useful resource supplies past these obtainable on-line or in any other case printed that the Guide might want to receive straight.
• Technical inputs when reviewing key conceptual paperwork and data merchandise, together with methodologies, desk evaluation evaluation, agenda, analysis studies and coaching supplies.
• Help to coordinate actions with key stakeholders, when and if required.
• Journey prices for subject missions to the locations in Central Asia (as wanted).
• Full logistical and communications assist to strengthen visibility of bootcamps, trainings, and some other associated occasions.

Reporting necessities:

The Worldwide Guide on Gender Knowledge and Analysis is predicted to work remotely utilizing her/his personal pc. Consultancy report needs to be offered in digital model in English with detailed description of the fulfilled duties, based on the current Phrases of Reference. Analytical paperwork, studies and different supplies developed by knowledgeable needs to be connected to the report as annexes, which is able to function a justification for cost.

Competencies

 Core Values:

Integrity:

• Display consistency in upholding and selling the values of UN Ladies in actions and choices, in keeping with the UN Code of Conduct.
• Professionalism:
• Display skilled competence and knowledgeable data of the pertinent substantive areas of labor.

Respect for Variety:

• Display an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the group and the variety of its employees.
• Display a global outlook, appreciating distinction in values and studying from cultural range.

Core Competencies:

• Display and integrity and equity by modeling UN values and moral requirements.
• Robust data of worldwide requirements and proposals on VAW knowledge assortment and evaluation.
• Robust written/oral communication and coaching abilities
• Robust interpersonal abilities
• Competencies in coordination, planning and teamwork.
• A dedication to high quality product and deadlines

Required Expertise and Expertise

Training:	Superior (Grasp’s) diploma or equal in gender research, social science analysis or one other associated subject.
Expertise and data:	Minimal 10 years of expertise in designing and executing gender knowledge analysis initiatives, ideally within the space of addressing violence towards ladies. Demonstrated management in (co)main not less than 2 regional-level gender knowledge analysis initiatives, and documenting them for potential replication, ideally in collaboration with ladies’s civil society organizations. Confirmed observe report of manufacturing high-quality analysis publications, ideally within the space of violence towards ladies. Earlier working expertise with UN companies is an asset.
Language Necessities:	Fluency in English.

 

Software process:

Purposes ought to embrace:

• Offeror’s letter to UN Ladies confirming curiosity and availability for the project.
• Monetary proposal, indicating a complete lump sum to incorporate all prices regarding the supply of actions as per above description.
• P-11 kind together with expertise in comparable assignments. This manner might be downloaded at .

 

Monetary proposal format:

#	Merchandise	Unit price in USD	Variety of models	Whole price in USD
1	Each day price charge		30
2	Different associated prices (to be specified)
	TOTAL

Please observe that the monetary proposal is all-inclusive and shall have in mind varied bills incurred by the marketing consultant in the course of the contract interval.

 

Analysis of candidates

The analysis begins with shortlisting of potential candidates and obtained purposes towards the obligatory necessities. Solely full purposes will likely be thought of. Shortlisted candidates will likely be then evaluated utilizing a cumulative evaluation methodology making an allowance for the mix of the candidates’ technical {qualifications} and expertise, and monetary proposal. The contract will likely be awarded to the person marketing consultant whose provide has been evaluated and decided as:

• Technically responsive/compliant/acceptable to the necessities of the ToR; and
• Having obtained the very best cumulative (technical & monetary) rating out of under outlined technical and monetary standards.

 

The collection of candidates will likely be completed in 3 phases:

1st stage: Previous to detailed analysis, all purposes will likely be completely screened towards eligibility standards (minimal qualification necessities) as set within the current ToR in an effort to decide whether or not they’re compliant/ non-compliant.

Eligibility Standards
1	Superior (Grasp’s) diploma or equal in gender research, social science analysis or one other associated subject.
2	Minimal 10 years of expertise in designing and executing gender knowledge analysis initiatives, ideally within the space of addressing violence towards ladies.
3	Demonstrated management in (co)main not less than 2 regional-level gender knowledge analysis initiatives, and documenting them for potential replication, ideally in collaboration with ladies’s civil society organizations.
4	Confirmed observe report of manufacturing high-quality analysis publications, ideally within the space of violence towards ladies.
5	Fluency in English.

 

2nd stage: Technical Analysis/ Desk evaluation.

Brief-listed candidates will likely be evaluated based mostly on the next standards:

Standards	Weight	Max. Level
Technical	70%	70
Training:	10%	Most 10 factors, together with:
Superior (Grasp’s) diploma or equal in gender research, social science analysis or one other associated subject.	10%	10
Expertise, together with:	55%	Most 55 factors, together with:
Minimal 10 years of expertise in designing and executing gender knowledge analysis initiatives, ideally within the space of addressing violence towards ladies.	10%	10
Demonstrated management in (co)main not less than 2 regional-level gender knowledge analysis initiatives, and documenting them for potential replication, ideally in collaboration with ladies’s civil society organizations.	25%	25
Confirmed observe report of manufacturing high-quality analysis publications, ideally within the space of violence towards ladies.	15%	15
Earlier working expertise with UN companies is an asset.	5%	5
Language Necessities	5%	Most 5 factors, together with:
Fluency in English: 5 factors – proficient, 0 factors – none	5%	5
Solely candidates acquiring a minimal of 49 factors out of 70 factors on the Technical Analysis/ Interview will likely be thought of for the Monetary Analysis
Monetary	30%	30

third stage: Monetary analysis will likely be performed based on the tactic described under:

The utmost variety of factors assigned to the monetary proposal is allotted to the bottom worth proposal. All different worth proposals obtain factors in inverse proportion.

A urged system is as follows: p=30 (µ/z)

The place:

p – factors for the monetary proposal being evaluated;

µ – worth of the bottom priced proposal;

z – worth of the proposal being evaluated

 

The candidate attaining the very best cumulative rating for each Technical and Monetary evaluations will likely be beneficial by the Analysis Committee for contracting.

The Guide shall promote a client-oriented method in keeping with UN Ladies guidelines and laws and commits to excessive requirements of high quality, productiveness and timeliness within the supply of duties. The Guide will meet and apply the very best requirements of integrity and impartiality.

The Guide should be totally devoted to the mandate and the values of UN Ladies, significantly to selling Gender Equality as a method to cut back battle, enhance livelihoods and guarantee equity and justice; to Ladies Empowerment underpinning Gender Equality promotion efforts; to inter-ethnic tolerance and harmony; and to respect for range.