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National Consultant to support Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family on gender/aid coordination (UN Women)Vacancy Number: Pr16/01252
Background
UN Women is operational in Moldova since 2010 on the basis of former UNIFEM projects, which were laid and active in the country from 2007. It extended continuous support to the Government of Moldova, to key stakeholders from national and local levels, through various programmes and activities aimed at creating an enabling environment for gender equality, recognized as a prerequisite for sustainable development with a strong and active policy on gender equality. Since 2014 UN Women has established it’s fully operational country office in Moldova and is guided by its Strategic Note 2014-2017 which is fully aligned with UN-Moldova Partnership Framework for 2013-2017, National Program on Gender Equality, and other national strategies and plans. During the period of 2016-2017, the assistance and cooperation is planned in three strategic results areas, namely: 1. Women lead and participate in decision-making at all levels, 2. Women, especially the poorest and most excluded, are economically empowered and 3. Women and girls live a life free of violence. Moreover, UN Women is one of partnering in providing technical support to the Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family (MLSPF) in development the new National Program on Ensuring Gender Equality (2016-2021). UN Women interventions are guided by the Government's priorities as formulated in the Strategy "Moldova 2020" and the United Nations – Moldova Partnership Framework (UNPF) “Towards Unity in Action”. Moldova made commitment to promote gender equality and empowerment of women under the Millennium Development Goal 3 through setting specific targets. Thus, one of the national commitments within MDG3 was to increase women’s representation at the decision-making level, to 25% of women mayors and to 30% women lawmakers by 2015. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” (the 2030 Agenda) - the successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was adopted at the UN Sustainable Development Summit on 25-27 September 2015. Agenda prioritize and truly integrate gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) into the UN’s sustainable development agenda for the 21st century. For the first time, the GEWE normative framework is integrated into specific goals and targets that governments pledge to achieve individually and together. It is grounded in human rights treaties like CEDAW and underpinned by the Beijing Platform for Action. It is an ambitious, universal and transformative agenda for sustainable development and a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity, negotiated by all Member States and applicable to all Member States. Globally agreed but nationally-owned and led, the GEWE framework within the 2030 Agenda has the best ever chance of being implemented because of its own recognized value for human rights and sustainable development, but also because of the enabler - beneficiary linkages and synergies - both horizontal and vertical - within Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 and across most other SDGs, targets and indicators. Therefore, UN Women is looking for a consultant/expert with expertise in the area of the gender equality and women’s human rights, to support and be part of the Ministry Task Force to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of GEWE coordination at country level. This will be done through facilitation of communication and participation of stakeholders in the planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the impact of the development policies on equal basis on men and women. Scope of work
The selected national consultant shall support the Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family (MLSPF) of the Republic of Moldova in coordinating effectively and efficiently the GEWE agenda implementation and external assistance provided by development partners to the sector. Duties and Responsibilities Under the direct supervision of the UN Women National Programme Officer and guidance of UN Women Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and in close cooperation with designated representative of the MLSPF the national consultant shall be responsible to support the coordination role of the ministry in the gender equality mainstreaming and aid coordination for the sector. More specifically, the following major tasks shall be undertaken by the national consultant:
Requirements for experience
Education:
Experience:
Language skills: Fluency in verbal & written Romanian and English. Working knowledge of Russian will be considered an asset. Documents to be included
Interested candidates must submit via online submission system the following documents/ information to demonstrate their qualification:
Financial proposal
The financial proposal shall be structured around the specific tasks and key deliverables described in the Terms of Reference. Interested individual consultants must specify a daily fee. Payments are made to the Individual Consultant based on the number of days worked.
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