| Location: | Chisinau, Moldova |
| Application Deadline: | 25 May 2018, 23:59 (GMT+2:00) |
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Application Extended deadline:
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01 Jun 2018, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
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| Type of Contract: | Individual Contract |
| Starting date: | 04 Jun 2018 |
| Reference to the project: | UN Women |
| Expected Duration of Assignment: | Up to 60 work days within a 5 months assignment |
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Supporting Documents: Annex 2  Procurement Notice  Terms of Reference
Personal History Form (P11) UN Women  UN Women Conditions of Service Consultants
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Ms. Irina Cozma.
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women's rights at the center of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world.
UN Women’s presence in the Republic of Moldova has evolved from being a project-based office in 2007 to a Country Office with fully delegated authority as of 2015. The work of UN Women in Moldova is guided by its new Country Strategic Note for 2018-2022, aligned with the Republic of Moldova–United Nations Partnership Framework for Sustainable Development 2018–2022, the Global Strategic Plan of UN Women for 2018-2021, the National Strategy on Gender Equality for 2017-2021 (NSGE), and aims to contribute to the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The newly approved UN Women Strategy for Moldova 2018-2022 focuses on three main areas: 1/strengthening women’s participation in politics and decision making, 2/economic empowerment of women and 3/ending violence against women and girls. To achieve progress under these areas, UN Women works with variety of national and international partners and as part of different national and regional initiatives. Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) is integrated in the current Strategic Note for 2018-2022 under the “Women lead, participate and benefit equally from governance system” Outcome, and is meant to contribute to increased capacities of the public institutions to analyze and improve policies, regulations, and budgets to fulfill gender equality commitments.
Under the GRB area of intervention, the NSGE will focus on development, piloting and institutionalizing of GRB tools (gender sensitive indicators, expenditure strategies and concepts) and building capacity of relevant central and local government staff on gender equality and support for development of ministries’ gender sensitive sectorial action plans.
UN Women Moldova invested in building expertise on GRB at all levels of the public administration and provided support for elaboration of GRB courses at the post-graduate level, creating an academic platform for GRB research, and developing a series of knowledge products on GRB. Workshops and study visits gave the opportunity to women Members of Parliament, Ministry of Finance (MoF) and Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection (MoHLSP) representatives, university professors, students in finance/economics and local public administration officials to learn from their peers in other countries and international experts.
UN Women Moldova and MoF, with the financial support of ADA, have intensified the collaboration in mainstreaming of gender equality priorities and objectives in policy and budget preparation and budget execution processes, based on the results achieved and lessons learnt from GRB initiatives implemented in Moldova and other CEE countries, as well as recommendations of the members of the Advisory Board of the Regional GRP Project.
In January 2018 the Ministry of Finance created the Gender Equality Coordination Group (GECG) which includes 8 members, representing the following divisions of the MoF: Sectoral Budget Policies; Tax and Customs Policy; Wage Policies and Monitoring of Personnel in Budget Sector; Policy Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation; Sectoral Budget Policies; and Institutional Management. The GECG is chaired by a MoF State Secretary.
Moldova introduced a Program Based Budgeting (PBB) for Central Public Authorities starting with the 2014 budget, Local Public Authorities Level II with the 2015 budget and Local Public Authorities Level I, starting with the 2016 budget. The implementation of the PBB system revealed certain shortcomings that have kept the PBB process from unfolding its full potential and effectively contributing to budget planning and resource allocation.
In 2018, the MoF has decided to undertake a review of the PBB system aimed at rationalizing and improving the functionality of the system. Thus, the MoF is open to expert consultancy support to assist the staff of the MoF with gender mainstreaming and ensuring synchronicities between PBB and GRB initiatives.
In this context, UN Women, in consultation with MoF, plans to hire a local consultant to provide support to the MoF on integrating gender equality and gender sensitive budgeting principles in national budgeting processes.
The selected national consultant will provide direct technical assistance to the MoF on the review and rationalization of the PBB system. The national consultant will also advise the Gender Equality Coordination Group (GECG) members and other structures across the MoF in adopting principles of gender equality in the public finance management system, commitments under the Public Financial Management Strategy 2013-2020 (PFM), National Strategy on Gender Equality 2017-2021 and other sectorial and cross-cutting strategies, aiming at improving gender equality of public budgeting, revenues and expenditures.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of the Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme Coordinator and overall guidance of the Regional GRB Project Manager and the designated representative of the MoF, the national consultant will undertake the following major tasks:
Task 1. To provide day-to-day technical assistance to the MoF on the rationalization of the overall PBB system and sectoral program budgets of line ministries - up to 45 days.
Task 2. To formulate proposals for inclusion of gender equality principles into the budget planning and resource allocation process - up to 15 days.
Total: Up to 60 days;
Note: The mentioned number of working days has been estimated as being sufficient/ feasible for the envisaged volume of work to be completed successfully and is proposed as a guideline for the duration of assignment. It cannot and shall not be used as criteria for completion of work/assignment. The provision of envisaged deliverables approved by the local UN Women Economic Empowerment Programme Coordinator and the Regional GRB Project Manager shall be the only criteria for Consultant’s work being completed and eligible for payment/s.
Education:
Experience:
Language skills:
Fluency in verbal & written Romanian and English. Working knowledge of Russian will be considered an asset.
Interested candidates are invited to submit their online applications by 25 May 2018 with the following documents.
The financial proposal shall include a breakdown of the lump sum amount (daily rate and number of anticipated working days). Please see Annex I: Price Proposal Guideline and Template and Annex II: Price Proposal Submission Form.