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National Consultant to undertake mapping of VET institutions in Moldova and review their curricula (Women's Economic Empowerment Programme/UN Women)Vacancy Number: Pr13/00381
Background
In December 2009 the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women entered into an Agreement for the implementation of the Programme “Women’s Economic Empowerment through Increased Employability in the Republic of Moldova” (WEE). 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. This is being achieved through improving local services, building capacity of the relevant institutions as well as improving relevant policies and legislations, based on the gaps identified through their practical application on the ground. The program is currently ongoing in line with Government priorities and reforms launched by the State in the areas of labour market and social protection. The Program’s Development Objective is to make women in rural and sub-urban areas of Moldova informed, empowered and able to exercise their social and economic rights. For that purpose, the Programme has strived towards achieving the following outcomes: Outcome 1: Rate of Employed and Economically active women increased in target rural and sub-urban areas practicing their social and economic rights Outcome 2: Key service delivery and media institutions have increased capacities to implement policies that promote and protect women’s human rights Outcome 3: Labour and Social Protection laws and policies promote women’s employability As a result of broad consultations with relevant stakeholders, the Programme’s entry points for women’s economic empowerment were defined as: 1. Access to Information and Services, 2. Access to Credit, Land and other productive resources, 3. Vocational education/Professional education training for skills upgrade, 4. Entry/re-entry to the Labour Market, 5. Social Protection services, and 6. Care Services. All these areas were defined as potential areas to economically empower women through applying the rights- based approach. In Moldova, it was felt to be more strategic to focus on district level, because there are fewer institutions and resources as well as practices to implement economic, social, political decisions and the delivery of services is weaker. Thus, it was decided to focus on creating a platform for women in rural and sub-urban areas in the form of Joint Information and Services Bureau (JISB), based on a “one-stop-shop” or “one window” approach, to facilitate open access and use of existing opportunities by women in the most effective way leading to the improvement of the quality of life and thus fulfilment of women’s human rights. The concept of JISBs was introduced in August 2010 in four pilot districts[1] and up to day it is operational in 20 districts[i] out of 32 districts of Moldova. Women require systematic access to services and information about the opportunities that exist in the labour market, including jobs in public and private sectors, opportunities to start business, obtain skills training and retraining, access to productive resources, as well as opportunities that are provided through social protection. Rationale Vocational Education and skills-development training institutions play an important role in preparing skilled and qualified personnel, especially women, and enhancing their opportunity to meet labour market demands thus support women’s economic empowerment. The Ministry of Education has recently launched the reform of the VET in the country which supports realization of priorities laid down in the Moldova’s Country Strategy for 2020, putting special emphasis on labour market demand and supply. To ensure that vocational training and skills development for women, especially from rural areas, is aligned with market demands and that curricula is tailored to the trainees and is provided in a manner relevant to them, and opening new occupational choices, the WEE program envisages to undertake a review of curriculum of selected VET schools with the subsequent set of recommendations for the adjustment of their training and short term courses through gender lens. In this respect, UN Women is planning to hire a national consultant to undertake a detailed mapping of VET institutions and a review of curricula of selected VET institutions in Moldova from gender lenses. Scope of work
The objective of the assignment is to undertake a detailed mapping of VET institutions providing formal professional/vocational training, including a review of curricula of selected VETs from gender perspective. The findings of the mapping will serve as the basis for pursuing closer collaboration with VET institutions. It will facilitate alignment of skills development required by the market to open up new occupational choices for women. Requirements for experience
I. Academic Qualifications:
II. Years of Experience:
III. Functional Competencies:
IV. Language skills: - Fluency in verbal & written Romanian and English. Knowledge of Russian is an asset; Documents to be included
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 total lump sum amount for each task and deliverable, which are to be completed by the deadlines specified in the ToR. Payments shall be made based on delivery of the services specified in the ToR and in accordance with the procedures described in the Remuneration section of the ToR. In order to assist UN Women Moldova Programme in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of this lump sum amount.
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