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National Consultant to provide a capacity-building programme on Gender Responsive PeacebuildingVacancy Number: UN23/02687
Contacts: Ms. Iulia Terpan. iulia.terpan@unwomen.orgBackground
UN Women provides leadership on new and existing WPS accountability frameworks to Member States and regional bodies, supports Civil Society Organizations and works to ensure a place at the table where the contributions of women of all ages to conflict and crisis prevention, resolution and peacebuilding are recognized and valued equally. Although the WPS Agenda achieved wide acceptance as an international policy framework, being integrated into various development and peace programs, women remain excluded or under-represented in most peace processes. While studies show that the role of women in preventing conflict in fragile contexts and in settlement negotiations is highly relevant, the efforts to involve women to meaningfully participate in all processes of decision making, including in conflict prevention and response, as well as in security matters has been very modest. Under the Peacebuilding Fund, UN Women, in partnership with OHCHR and UNDP, is implementing a two-years project “Building sustainable and inclusive peace, strengthening trust and social cohesion in Moldova” (hereinafter – PBF project) on both banks of Nistru river. The project seeks to facilitate an enabling environment for improved cross-river cooperation, reduced social tensions and the continuation of the fragile Transnistrian region settlement process in the context of growing regional and domestic geopolitical tensions exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, through the advancement of, and cross-river collaboration on human rights, Women, Peace and Security, and the promotion of equal access to services and through ensuring early intervention to prevent deepening divisions between the populations on either side of the conflict divide which are currently being affected by highly divisive narratives and misinformation. The project is aligned with the provisions under the draft of the second-generation National Program and Action Plan (NAP) for the implementation of UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) for the period 2023-2027 developed in Moldova with UN Women support. The new NAP, expected to be enacted in early 2023, is based on the four Pillars of the UNSCR 1325: Prevention, Participating, Protection, Relief, and Recovery and it addresses, among other aspects, actions aimed at enhancing women’s meaningful participation in the security and defense sector, including in the conflict settlement processes and peacebuilding efforts, primarily from a human security perspective and includes intervention at the local level to decentralize the WPS commitments. Scope of work
Under this announcement, the UN Women within the Peacebuilding Fund’s Project seeks to contract a National Consultant on Gender Responsive Peacebuilding to provide capacity building activities on human security aspects from gender perspective for governmental and non-governmental peace process actors. In this sense, among governmental peace process actors are the Bureau of Reintegration Policies staff, representatives of sectoral Working groups from both banks of Nistru river, diplomatic staff, the members of the Delegation of Moldova to Joint Control Commission, other relevant state authorities’ delegates. Non-governmental peace process actors: CSOs, women peacebuilders, gender and human rights activists and experts, community local actors from both banks of the Nistru river. The consultant will work under the direct supervision of the Project Officer on Gender Equality in Peacebuilding, and overall guidance of the Programme Officer on Women, Peace and Security and Programme Analyst on Women in Leadership and Governance (WILG). The consultant will be responsible for the following main tasks: Task 1: Develop a detailed workplan, for a series of training courses for governmental and non-governmental peace process actors, including syllabus, timelines and brief description of activities to be undertaken and methodologies to be used. Task 2: Provide at least 2 one day trainings on human security from gender perspective for governmental officials. Task 3: Provide capacity development support (at least 4 one-day trainings/workshops) to local community actors along Security Zone, CSOs from both banks to enable their meaningful and inclusive contribution to the implementation of WPS Agenda, new NAP 1325 provisions at local level and advancing human security aspects. Task 4: Facilitate at least 2 roundtables/joint dialogue spaces on human security issues and post-conflict reconstruction from a gender perspective in the peacebuilding context bringing together peace process actors with various backgrounds, in collaboration with an international consultant, assigned by UN Women. Task 5: Provide support to UN Women project team on other ad-hoc project-related activities and peacebuilding initiatives aligning to the scope of work. Task 6: Deliver 1 final report providing a summary on carried out activities, achievements, and lessons learned, as well as recommendations for the future integration of gender equality commitments into peace processes in Moldova. Requirements for experience
Education:
Experience
Language skills: -Excellent verbal and written Romanian and Russian languages. Fluency in English is required; Documents to be included
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications in one single PDF document:
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. The daily price proposal should indicate a "lump sum amount" which is "all-inclusive". All costs (professional fees, communications, consumables during field related missions, etc.) that could be incurred by the Contractor needs to be factored into the proposed price. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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