Team of 2 international consultants to support organizing capacity building on applying innovative tools for reducing prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior towards women and girls with disabilities.

Vacancy Number: Pr22/02463

Location:Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline: 25 May 2022, 11:30 (GMT+2:00)
Application Extended deadline:
03 Jun 2022, 11:59 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:Individual Contract
Starting date: 31 May 2022
Reference to the project: UN Women
Expected Duration of Assignment:up to 50 days, within a 8-month period, from May 2022 until the end of December 2022
Supporting Documents:
1. Terms of Reference
Annex 1
Annex 2
General Conditions



Background

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 centre of all its efforts, UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations System efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

 

UN Women 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 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.

 

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 a variety of national and international partners and as part of different national and regional initiatives.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works in nearly 170 countries and territories, including the Republic of Moldova, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion by supporting countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience to sustain development results.

UNDP in Moldova is guided by its Country Programme Document, and the UN-Moldova Development Assistance for 2018-2022, which is in line with the priorities of the Government of Moldova.

In a rapidly changing global environment, the work of UNDP and the broader UN family aligns with the new national development vision and sector strategies. UNDP Moldova’s country programme for 2018–2022 has three major focus areas (Inclusive growth, Effective governance, Climate change, environment and energy) and three cross-cutting areas (Gender equality, Crisis response, Development impact).

UN Women and UNDP work closely with other UN agencies in Moldova, under the leadership of the UN Resident Coordinator, to support efforts by the Government, Parliament, civil society, media, and communities to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women. Relying and complying with key global norms and standards, such as the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the agencies seek to eliminate and prevent intersectional discrimination affecting women with disabilities.

As part of the ongoing efforts to combat gender-based violence, to increase the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals and to advance the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Women have launched a global initiative to respond to the growing intersectional inequalities faced by women and girls with disabilities, entitled ”Addressing stigma and discrimination for empowering women and girls with disabilities and protecting them from violence” in four countries: Moldova, Palestine, Pakistan and Samoa.

Considering the growing intersectional inequalities and barriers women and girls with disabilities face, the project aims at supporting rights holders and duty bearers to identify the drivers of inequality and impact of stigma and discrimination against women and girls with disabilities. This will be ensured by contextualizing and piloting in Moldova a global diagnostic tool to inform evidence-based decision making, as well as designing and piloting of behavioural insights-informed interventions seeking to changing behaviours rooted in stigma and discrimination against women and girls with disabilities. This project is implemented with the support of the UN Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD) through UNDP’s Global Programme on Strengthening the Rule of Law and Human Rights for Sustaining Peace and Fostering Development and UN-Women’s Global Portfolio on Disability Inclusion and Intersectionality.

The project is based on a victim-centred and evidence-based approach, that fully considers the voices and experiences of women and girls with disabilities victims and survivors of stigma, violence, and discrimination. The project’s strategy will ensure a participatory approach, by effectively engaging stakeholders in the planning, designing, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the project.  A critical component in the programme is developing tools to detect and assess stigma and discrimination against women with disabilities by applying innovative tools and have final users'/right holders’ perspective integrated into the response.

Scope of work

Under the supervision of the UN Women Moldova Programme Analyst on EVAW, the international consultants will be responsible to provide technical and expertise support to country programme team and to relevant stakeholders and CSO’s involved in the process, in particular duty bearers and right holders, to enhance the knowledge and skills to apply social innovative tools in the light of the launch of the diagnostic tool. The activity of the group of international consultants will consist of providing transformative capacity building activities/workshops to up to 50 representatives (duty bearers and right holders) on applying innovative tools such as: design thinking, user journey etc. on accessing VAW services and based on the developed diagnostic tool.

 

 

More specifically, the team of international consultants will be responsible for the following tasks:

 

  • Analyse all relevant information on the project and on the global diagnostic tool;
  • Develop the methodology, work plan and training materials for training programme and capacity building activities (including pre-post questionaries for knowledge assessment, evaluation forms) with applying innovation;
  • Provide support to national consultants and stakeholders in identification of key gaps and challenges in accessing VAW essential services by women with disabilities;
  • Provide design thinking workshops/ capacity building activities/workshops to up to 50 representatives (duty bearers and right holders) on applying innovative tools, such as design thinking, user journey on accessing VAW services;
  • Together with national consultants selected under the programme, conduct capacity building sessions for at least 20 women with disabilities to enhance their knowledge and skills in accessing VAW Essential Services in the light of the launch of the diagnostic tool submitted;
  • Organize a training session of up to 2 hours for UN Women staff on application of innovative tools in the area of development and human rights;
  • Ensure collection of feedback and assessment of participants increase in knowledge;
  • Provide where necessary support to country project team, consultants, stakeholders in the customization and piloting phase of the tool (through share of experience, expertise, revision of documents, etc);
  • Participate at relevant meetings and activities related to the project with national, global team and stakeholders;
  • Draft the final report based on collected feedback, lessons learned.

Requirements for experience

Education:

 

  • Master's degree in human rights, sociology, gender studies, public relations, development studies, public health and/or other social science related areas relevant for the assignment;
  • Additional trainings in one of the areas relevant for the assignment would be an asset;

Work experience:

  • At least three (3) years of proven work experience in gender equality and/or any other field related to this assignment: eliminating violence against women and girls, human rights and development etc;
  • At least three (3) years of proven work experience in initiatives/projects in the field of disability would be considered an asset;
  • At least two (2) similar experiences in raising awareness, designing, and delivering trainings and capacity building for various groups, in EVAW field;
  • At least one (1) proven experience in applying innovative tools such as Design Thinking and Social Innovation on enhancing the approach in accessing essential services by women.
  • Previous successful collaboration with international organizations, especially UN agencies, would be considered as an asset.

 

Language Requirements:

 

  • Fluency in written and oral English is required.

Documents to be included

  • Duly filled Personal History Form PHF11/CV (downloadable from http://www.unwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/P_11_form_UNwomen.doc);
  • Letter of Intent to include a brief overview about which of your previous experiences makes you the most suitable candidate for the advertised position.
  • Financial proposal – specifying a total lump sum amount for the task specified in Terms of References. The Financial proposal shall include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (daily rate). Please see ANNEX I and ANNEX II.

Financial proposal

Financial proposal – specifying a total lump sum amount for the task specified in Terms of References. The Financial proposal shall include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (daily rate). Please see ANNEX I and ANNEX II.