Local Consultancy-Development

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.  UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

• Mapping/assessment of the current services provided by UNFPA and Implementing Partners and potential areas for integration.
• Conduct needs assessment and identify priority areas (governorates/districts) for integration.
• Conduct a needs assessment among women at risk of GBVAWG and local GBVAWG service providers on gaps in services, challenges in accessing RH and GBVAWG services at the local level
• Conduct a situational and risk analysis to:
• Ensure that integration does not increase the risks of GBVAWG
• Ensure that integration does not come at the expense of specialization (i.e. dilution of service quality, increasing the risk that implementation will not align with minimum standards and guiding principles
• Determine the capacity of the service providers, and assessing knowledge and attitudes that could affect service quality
• Ensure that integration does not reduce access to GBVAWG and/or RH programmes and services (e.g. in contexts where a specific activity is very sensitive, integration with other services may actually reduce access to the integrated package of services)
• Determine which GBVAWG and RH services can be integrated
• Identify the healthcare facilities where this integration can occur as per a set of criteria to be approved by UNFPA
• Understand the current practices and challenges related to RH and GBVAWG integration among partners
• Determine which additional national and/or local partners will be involved in the process
• Ensure inclusion of marginalized or at-risk groups in integrated GBVAWG and RH approaches such as refugee and new arrivals
• Apply an intersectional lens to address the diverse experiences and needs of adolescent girls, women and girls with disabilities, postmenopausal women and older women
• Engage with key partners and stakeholders to gather insights, expectations, and best practices. The engagement should cover Focus Group Discussions, and consultations with national partners to collect feedback and insights on the data collected, and to endorse the findings.

Develop draft guidelines/SOPs that include:

• Clear roles and responsibilities for each sector and coordination mechanism
• Protocols for the ethical management and referral of GBVAWG survivors including identification of GBVAWG case, reporting and referral procedures
• Capacity Development Plan for capacity building and training of partner staff on comprehensive packages   
• Organize a final national validation workshop with partners to review and refine the draft guidelines/SOPs
• Finalize the guidelines/SOPs based on feedback and prepare a comprehensive report documenting the process and recommendations

Required:

• A situational and risk analysis report detailing current practices and challenges.(part of it should be the mapping and priority areas)
• Draft guidelines/SOPs for RH and GBVAWG integration with partners.
• A validation workshop and summary of partner feedback.
• Finalized guidelines/SOPs.
• A final report summarizing the methodology, findings, and recommendations for sustainability and scalability.

Qualifications and Experience: 

• Education:  The consultant must offer the following demonstrated experience, knowledge and competencies:
• – Advanced University degree in social/development Sciences/international development /public health or other related areas
• – At least 7 years’ experience in development related programme management, coordination and/or evaluation

Knowledge and Experience: 

• Significant knowledge and experience in RH and in GBVAWG
• Knowledge of the Egyptian context, structures and stakeholders is a strong asset
• Strong analytical, writing and communication skills, including ability to produce high quality, practical and user-friendly guidelines.

Languages: 

• Excellent writing and reporting skills in both English and Arabic

Source: https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2003/job/24118