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UN Women: National Consultant to provide support to groups of women survivors of violence and to assist selected multi-disciplinary teams in improving intervention services to prevent and combat domestic violence

Vacancy Number: Pr18/01725

Location:Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline: 04 Jun 2018, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
Application Extended deadline:
11 Jun 2018, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:Individual Contract
Starting date: 11 Jun 2018
Reference to the project: UN Women
Expected Duration of Assignment:up to 115 days within a 7-month period
Supporting Documents:
Terms of Reference
Procurement Notice
Annex I
Annex II
Personal History Form (P11) UN Women
UN Women Conditions of Service Consultants



Background

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 in the upcoming five-year period will be guided by its new Country Strategic Note (SN) for 2018-2022. The SN is aligned with the Republic of Moldova–United Nations Partnership Framework for Sustainable Development 2018–2022 and the Global Strategic Plan of UN Women for 2018-2021 and aims to contribute to the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.,

UN Women’s operations mandate in Moldova focus on bringing about concrete change in the lives of women and the society towards the long-term impact of achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the country. Specifically, the SN2018-2022 will advance progress under the three Impact Areas (IA) aimed to results in: 1) More women from diverse groups fully participate and lead in governance processes and institutions, 2) Women have income security, decent work and economic autonomy, and 3) Public authorities, institutions and communities prevent violence against women and girls and deliver quality essential services.

Under the impact on preventing violence against women and girls and delivery of quality essential services, UN Women will contribute to the realization of the Impact Area 3 with related Outcome 3.1: Parliament and Government adopt and implement laws, policies and strategies to prevent violence against women and girls and deliver quality essential services.  This outcome shall be further implemented via three inter-connected outputs: Output 1: Public institutions have capacities to apply international norms and standards in developing and implementing laws, policies and services towards eliminating VAW, Output 2: Target communities and institutions, including in the field of education, have knowledge and tools to combat stereotypes and gender discrimination and advance favorable social norms that prevent VAW and Output 3: Women and girls, especially from excluded groups, have knowledge and skills to exercise their rights to essential services.

Contributing to the realization of this Impact Area 3, UN Women will continue supporting the implementation and further alignment of the legislative and policy framework on preventing and combating violence against women, in line with the national commitments and international norms and standards, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)  and the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (CAHVIO). UN Women will build and expand on its experience employing adaptive solutions by empowering survivors of violence from various backgrounds to speak up and advocate for concrete actions with their peers as well as with authorities and the media.

Domestic and other forms of gender-based violence, including sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence in public spaces, have huge negative effects on the well-being and dignity of many women and girls in Moldova. Violence carries high costs also for their families, the community and society at large.  According to the first prevalence study “Violence against Women in the Family” carried out by the National Bureau of Statistics and commissioned by UN Moldova in 2011, 6 in 10 urban women and 7 in 10 rural women in Moldova experienced some type of violence (psychological, physical or sexual) from husband/partner during their lifetime, and 1 in 10 was exposed to all forms of violence.1 60% of women were exposed to psychological violence, 40% to physical violence, 19% to sexual violence and 10% to economic violence. Rural women, elderly women and those separated or divorced reported the highest prevalence rate of multiple forms of violence.

Despite progress, the prevalence of violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Moldova remains alarmingly high with reported cases representing only the “tip of the iceberg.” Many challenges still persist, including: insufficient enforcement of legislation and allocation of adequate resources to implement laws, policies and programmes; insufficient monitoring and evaluation of their impact, including reliable and consistently collected data on VAWG; lack of coordination among different service providers; significant under-reporting of violence due to fear, stigma, and lack of knowledge of women of their rights and available services. Recommendations from the Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination and the Universal Periodic Review urge the Government of Moldova to further improve law, policy and practice in a number of areas, to ratify CAHVIO, and to implement a comprehensive strategy to prevent violence against women, protect survivor through functioning and coordinated multi-sectoral service provision, prosecute and punish perpetrators and make sure violence cases are properly documented and followed through.  

One output under the SN 2018-2022 is aimed to capacitated public institutions to apply international norms and standards in developing and implementing laws, policies and services towards eliminating violence against women (VAW). For this to be achieved the work of multidisciplinary teams needs norms and standards; service providers need to provide coordinated and survivor-focused services, especially to most vulnerable groups and mobilization and capacity building of women’s organizations and gender equality advocates on joint advocacy.

Therefore, UN Women seeks to recruit a local consultant to provide support to groups of women survivors and to assist selected multi-disciplinary teams in improving intervention services to prevent and combat domestic violence at local level.

Scope of work

The main objective of this assignment is to facilitate and provide support in expanding the positive experience of multidisciplinary teams to effectively provide survivors focused support service. For that, the consultant will be working closely with 12 multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) from 4 districts and women survivors of violence and disseminating good practices on preventing and combating domestic violence. The consultant will be working under the supervision of the UN Women Programme Coordinator on EVAW, and in close collaboration with partner NGOs, key line ministries, particularly with Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection, Ministry of Interior and selected local authorities and other development partners.

The activity of the consultant will consist in providing technical assistance, guidance, facilitation and coordination, monitoring and regular exchange of knowledge and experience between service providers and women at risk of violence, women survivors of domestic violence, local public authorities and other stakeholders from selected districts.

More specifically, the consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:

 

Document the lessons learnt and keep record of the work with selected multidisciplinary teams by using design thinking approach.

[1] Essential Service Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence Core Elements and Quality Guidelines  (Tania Farha and Riet Groenen (UN Women), Upala Devi and Luis Mora (UNFPA), Claudia Garcia Moreno and Avni Amin (WHO), Suki Beavers, Niki Palmer and Charles Chauvel (UNDP) and Claudia Baroni and Sven Pfeiffer (UNODC))// http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2015/essential-services-package-en.pdf?la=en&vs=3648

Requirements for experience

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Other Skills

Knowledge and skills of relevant computer applications of MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Power Point), knowledge of Internet communications and command is required.

Documents to be included

Financial proposal

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.