National Consultancy – Gender Consultant to Support Finalization and Launch of UNICEF Gender Strategy for Pakistan

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each little one, in all places, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each little one, a hero!

Pakistan was the sixth nation on the earth to signal and ratify the Conference on the Rights of the Little one lower than one 12 months after it was adopted by the United Nations Common Meeting in 1989. Nevertheless, kids and adolescents dwelling in Pakistan nonetheless face acute challenges.

UNICEF helps the Authorities of Pakistan to speed up progress for kids, work to realize Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs), and assist kids understand their rights underneath the Conference on the Rights of Youngsters. This will likely be made by, amongst others issues, robust partnerships with provincial authorities, academics and well being professionals, frontline employees and social mobilizers, communities, and households, and naturally, the kids and adolescents themselves. 

Particularly, UNICEF will work in order that:

  • Each little one survives and thrives — being in good well being, immunized, protected against polio, and accessing nutritious meals.
  • Each little one learns.
  • Each little one is protected against violence and exploitation and registered at beginning.
  • Each little one lives in a protected and clear atmosphere, with entry to protected ingesting water and ample sanitation.

To study extra about UNICEF’s work in Pakistan, please go to the nation web site www.unicef.org/pakistan and videos on YouTube and Vimeo

Below the supervision and steering of the Gender and Improvement Specialist, the Lead Gender Advisor together with Gender Help Officer to finalize the UNICEF Nation Workplace Gender Technique to be launched on 08 March 2024. The consultants for this task have to be somebody with broad expertise on growing gender methods, toolkits, checklists for each Programme and Finance, and possess the power to impart trainings throughout all sections of UNICEF at federal and provincial stage. The advisor is predicted to work in shut collaboration with the Gender Focal Factors and Communication and Social and Conduct sections in UNICEF.

You can also make a distinction by executing the next duties and deliverables as per timelines as underneath:

Scope of labor:

UNICEF Pakistan Nation Workplace undertook Gender Programme Evaluation in 2020-2021 and within the mild of suggestions, this task includes key strategic steps involving the next:
 
UNICEF to develop a complete Gender Technique with imaginative and prescient for Pakistan Nation Workplace, for the remaining length of the present Nation Programme Doc (CPD), that pulls energy from UNICEF’s GAPs and the South Asian Gender Mainstreaming Technique. The Gender Technique may then be up to date on the time of subsequent CPD. The Gender Technique ought to embrace:
  • A piece contextualizing gender evaluation for every part at nationwide and provincial ranges together with humanitarian by consultative course of.
  • Develop gender toolkit for every part in PCO in keeping with regional HQ pointers to comply with gender responsive programming throughout planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting and budgeting.
  • Indicative gender-responsive approaches for programming and indicator setting.
  • Current sector-specific gender methods to be subsumed within the PCO’s gender technique.
  • Motion plans for every part to trace progress in the direction of gender outcomes and motion by programmes alongside the gender continuum.
  • Advised threat administration approaches to advance gender equality in programmes, in a context the place Authorities not often requests UNICEF to take a high-risk method.
  • Launch UNICEF PCO’s Gender Technique in any respect ranges.
This task includes finalization of UNICEF Gender Technique together with aforementioned key steps. For this consultancy UNICEF is in search of the providers of an skilled nationwide advisor who will likely be accountable for constructing acceptable strategic networks, work with all key sections in UNICEF at provincial and federal stage, meet with companions, together with Gender Thematic Group, Consequence 2 members of UNSDCF, together with communities with whom UNICEF works immediately, authorities together with Ministry of Planning Fee, Ministry of Training, Ministry of Nationwide Well being Companies, Laws and Coordination, Ladies Machineries, civil society, and different associated actors. Lead Gender Advisor will work intently with all sections in UNICEF, which shall be included on this consultancy and underneath the direct supervision of the Lead Gender Advisor.
 
The advisor will likely be accountable for:
  • Finalization and launch of UNICEF Gender Technique for Pakistan: Growing a complete UNICEF Gender Technique together with principle of change for each improvement and humanitarian nexus, sector sensible gender evaluation, gender toolkits together with guidelines, and gender coverage briefs for every part for venture improvement, planning, implementation, reporting and financing. Maintain consultations with every part at federal and provincial stage together with Gender Retreat after which set up nationwide session for consensus constructing and endorsement from whole UNICEF PCO. Help UNICEF PCO to launch this technique on eighth March 2024. together with key messages, goal audiences, and supply channels.
  • Gender Content material Creation and Dissemination: The advisor will present assist in planning and ideation of revolutionary content material for communications property akin to net articles, explainers, and statements from group’s movies, together with leveraging social listening insights, evaluation of efficiency of earlier content material, and monitoring of social media to establish new alternatives to reply to wants, issues and questions from on-line communities. He/she will likely be accountable for guaranteeing that gender responsive messages are delivered by the suitable channels which he/she is going to establish as a part of the scope of labor.. This can require figuring out key actors, growing a plan for engagement, and constructing relationships over time.
Duties: 
1a. Inception Planning Assembly to outline consultancy goal, and to develop a complete workplan and timeline for finishing duties.
1b. Desk analysis gender dimensions, social boundaries, present gender analysis in Pakistan for all of the sections UNICEF is figure for. This analysis will present insights that can inform the UNICEF Gender technique.
02. Stakeholder engagement Plan: Partaking with PCO. FO and part chiefs, UN companions, GTG, civil society organizations, and group members, to grasp their views and collect suggestions.
03. Develop gender toolkits, checklists as listed above, coverage briefs for use by UNICEF implementing companions in venture improvement, planning, implementation, reporting, monitoring and budgeting.
The advisor, with assist of UNICEF sections will check these instruments in 02 sections
4. Three Op-Ed items (English and Urdu) will likely be written and printed through the course of the consultancy (begin, center and finish)
5. With assist of UNICEF nation workplace, facilitate and average 04 provincial workshops together with periods on gender with key stakeholders (part chief, authorities, service suppliers, community-based organizations, and many others) to arrange for the nationwide stage gender technique launch. Workshop findings to tell predominant thrust of nationwide stage occasion for launch of UNICEF Gender Technique.
06. Share Draft Gender Technique primarily based on the consultative course of at provincial stage, together with toolkits, checklists and coverage briefs for all UNICEF key sections and current to UNICEF Gender Focal Factors, Chief of Sections, Chief Subject Workplaces for his or her suggestions and inputs and incorporate accordingly.
07. Lead the planning and implementation of 1 high- stage nationwide occasion in partnership with the Authorities of Pakistan, UNICEF, main donors, improvement companies and others for launch of UNICEF Gender Technique on the eve of Worldwide Ladies’s Day.
09. Ultimate detailed marketing campaign report.
 
Deliverable:
  • Joint Inception Report/Workplan and Timeline: The inception plan will clearly outline the target of the UNICEF Gender Technique. This can embrace outlining the contours of technique, listing of key gender coverage briefs, place papers for UNICEF. It should additionally embrace particulars of questionnaires, FGDs and KIIs, content material wants and a calendar of key occasions and key messages in agreed upon content material.
  • Assist lead advisor in drafting a short report offering a concise evaluate of present analysis and information on gender boundaries, evaluation in Pakistan which can inform the event of the technique. The report will act as a complete state of affairs evaluation report on gender in Pakistan, together with related legal guidelines, insurance policies, cultural practices, social norms.
  • Stakeholder Engagement Plan: A plan outlining the technique to have interaction stakeholders, PCO, FO, Part Chiefs at provincial and federal stage, together with UN companions, authorities our bodies, civil society organizations, and different related stakeholders. The plan will define easy methods to leverage varied channels to succeed in and have interaction these stakeholders, together with e mail, and in-person conferences, FGDs and KIIs.
  • Gender toolkit, guidelines and gender coverage briefs 
  • Two Op-Eds (one in Urdu and one in English) for publication in suitably acknowledged nationwide Urdu and English language newspapers. This primary Op-Ed will likely be an exposition of the problems round gender boundaries, together with obstacles to vary and the impression on people,
  • Communities and common society and final one will likely be on key contours of UNICEF gender technique
  • 04 Provincial Workshops Studies

Technique doc to be shared and incorporate suggestions and feedback

  • Occasion Plan, together with, idea be aware, agenda, and plan of engagement with invitees/audio system/friends
  • Press Launch for all main information retailers
  • 1 Nationwide Launch Occasion to be held on eighth March 2024 at an acceptable location in Islamabad. The agenda of the occasion will likely be designed to have interaction and encourage a various vary of stakeholders, together with authorities officers, civil society organizations, girls led organizations, parliamentarians, youth leaders, media, and donors.
  • IEC materials and develop giveaways (luggage, folders with key message on UNICEF Gender technique)
  • Actual-time movies of occasion for UNICEF Web site and wider media consumption
  • A closing report summarizing the venture’s achievements, challenges, and proposals for future initiatives. The report ought to embrace all of the annexures that will likely be developed throughout your complete course of task.
Timeline:
Timelines for every deliverable varies from 01 to 03 weeks.

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you’ll have… 

  • A sophisticated college diploma (Grasp’s or greater) in social sciences, social work, gender research, public coverage or legislation.
  • *A primary College Diploma (Bachelor’s) in a related subject mixed with 2 extra years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.
  • A minimal of 04 of related skilled expertise in gender programming, monitoring and reporting.
  • Demonstrated expertise in partaking with authorities, UN companies and CSOs on delicate social points, ideally in Pakistan.
  • Familiarity with little one rights, gender points, and human rights within the Pakistani context.
  • Robust writing and modifying expertise, with expertise in growing high-quality communications supplies in each English and Urdu languages.
  • Robust facilitation and coaching expertise, with expertise in conducting trainings on delicate social points in Pakistan.
  • Expertise in monitoring and evaluating social communications campaigns in Pakistan.
  • Growing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.
  • Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

For each Little one, you exhibit… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

To view our competency framework, please go to  here

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.

UNICEF affords reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This will embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your utility in case you want cheap lodging through the choice course of and afterwards in your task. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict little one safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can subsequently bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer extra info to conduct a background examine. 

Remarks:  

  • Estimated Length: 120 working days unfold over a interval of 8 months
  • Candidates should submit a monetary citation indicating a month-to-month payment as a part of the applying in opposition to every deliverable.
  • Islamabad/ with travels in Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan and KP.
  • On the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate will need to have in place present medical insurance protection.
  • Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought of “workers members” underneath the Employees Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (akin to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the Common Circumstances of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking over the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and will not be anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF throughout their consultancy contracts. 

Marketed: 04 Oct 2023 Pakistan Commonplace Time
Deadline: 15 Oct 2023 Pakistan Commonplace Time

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