Republic of Moldova

National Consultant to facilitate participatory gender audit of National Employment Agency

Vacancy Number: Pr12/00222

Location:	Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline:	23 Oct 2012, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:	Individual Contract
Starting date:	15 Nov 2012
Reference to the project:	UN Women WEE Programme
Expected Duration of Assignment:	3 months
Supporting Documents: Terms of Reference Individual Consultant Procurement Notice General Conditions of Service UN Women P11 Form

Background

UN Women with funding support from the Swedish Government is implementing since December 2009 a four-year development programme on women’s economic empowerment. The Programme is aimed at addressing the needs of the rural and sub-urban population, especially poor women in exercising their social and economic rights through increasing access to quality information and services in employment and social protection areas. 

The programme is being implemented at three levels of intervention: work at the regional/local, policy and institutional level. At the local level the programme is focusing on creating a joint platform for women in rural and sub-urban areas in the form of Joint Information and Services Bureaus which bring together various public and private service providers in the areas of employment, social protection and related areas and provision of services in a coordinated manner. It is expected that such a model will facilitate open access and use of existing opportunities by women in the most effective way shortest leading to the improvement of the quality of life and thus fulfillment of women’s human rights. At the policy level, the programme will support the review of laws and policies to promote women’s employability and eliminate the prohibitions and bottlenecks that impede women to exercise their rights in the area of employment and social protection. At the institutional level the programme aims at supporting and fostering the capacities of gender equality mechanism to effectively address issues on women’s human rights to employment and social protection. In addition, the programme envisages supporting capacity building initiatives for national institutions with competencies in the area of employment and social protection to increase their institutional and intellectual capacity to promote policies and practices that take into consideration WHR issues.

In order to further strengthen capacities of key national stakeholders in internalizing gender equality and gender mainstreaming in all work activities, UN Women and International Labour Organization (ILO) have entered into a joint action plan aimed at building capacities of MLSFP and NEA, alongside with those of the Labour Inspection and Social Partners to implement policies at the national and local levels that promote and protect women’s human rights to access to employment and social protection. According to that plan, a Training of Facilitators on Participatory Gender (PGA) has been conducted for the MLSPF and NEA, based on the ILO methodology. The training contributed to increased knowledge and understanding of representatives of NEA on conducting Gender Audit within institutions and served as a basis for the participatory gender audit to be undertaken by these institutions with the facilitation of the programme.

As a result of the Training, NEA management started preparation of such a Participatory Gender Audit and initiated an internal resolution regarding organization of the Participatory Gender Audit. Nevertheless, due to its limited capacities, both human and technical, NEA has requested support from UN Women for the provision of external expertise and knowledge to accomplish the task successfully, especially that this exercise requires intensive facilitation, out of office work and analytical thinking. In this respect, UN Women plans to hire a national consultant to facilitate the process of organizing and conducting the Participatory Gender Audit within the National Employment Agency by providing conceptual as well as technical support for the efficient delivery of the Participatory Gender Audit activities.

 

Scope of work

Under the overall supervision and guidance from UN Women WEE Programme Management and in close cooperation with the National Employment Agency, the selected national consultant will facilitate the process of organizing and conducting the Participatory Gender Audit within the National Employment Agency by providing conceptual as well as technical support for the efficient delivery of the Participatory Gender Audit activities.

For achieving the objective of the assignment, the consultant will have to undertake a series of activities, including but not limited to:

1. Support the internal team in conducting a thorough desk review and analysis of internal and public documents produced by the organization/the departments audited within the organization to identify gender related issues/blind spots and highlight existing good practices.
2. Facilitate the dialogue between the management of the organization and the focal points appointed for the participatory gender audit.
3. Supervise and support the organization in elaboration of questionnaire for the qualitative self-assessment of the selected units within the organization, including professional staff, chiefs of departments and general service staff.
4. Support the internal team in planning the interview schedule and participate/facilitate the internal questioning process to be conducted by the organization’s team.
5. Assist the internal team in evaluating the questionnaires and elaborate a summary report on identifications.
6. Provide conceptual support to the organization in planning the participatory workshop.
7. Provide substantive support in organizing and conducting a one and half day participatory workshop for the organization’s staff on gender and equal opportunities, but more specifically focused on the issues identified during the audit process. Under this point, the consultant will support the organization team in elaborating the detailed Agenda and Handover materials to be used within the sessions.
8. Facilitate the debriefing session with the management of the organization and decide upon further steps to be taken in solving the gender related issues identified during the participatory gender audit as well as conceptually support the organization team in conducting a feedback session with all staff and the management.
9. Provide conceptual support and facilitate the organization in the process of elaborating the Gender Audit report.
10. Maintain permanent contact (including technical meetings) with the internal teams in order to plan and conduct the respective activities.
11. Any other tasks identified as relevant during the process of planning and carrying out the Participatory Gender Audit.

 

 

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