Republic of Moldova

International Consultant to strengthen effective participation of Romani Women in Elections Republic of Moldova 2014 – 2015/UN Women joint with OHCHR/WIP Programme

Vacancy Number: Pr14/00669

Location:	Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline:	20 Oct 2014, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:	Individual Contract
Starting date:	01 Nov 2014
Reference to the project:	UN Women
Expected Duration of Assignment:	Up to 61 days over a period of one year, out of which up to 30 days of work in Moldova and 31d. home
Submission Instructions: Technical proposal and financial proposal should be submitted on-line no later than 20 October, 2014, 23:59 local time. Requests for clarification only must be sent by standard electronic communication to the following e-mail: elena.ratoi@unwomen.org . Please notice that this address is for information requests only, please do not send or copy your application package to this address. UN Women staff will respond in writing or by standard electronic mail and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all consultants.
Supporting Documents: Individual Consultant Procurement Notice Terms of Reference Personal History Form (P11) UN Women UN Women Conditions of Service Consultants

Background

Roma represent one of the most vulnerable groups in the Republic of Moldova.  Roma face discrimination and multiple barriers to social inclusion, employment, education, health care and other services. There is a high degree of intolerance and hostility towards Roma held by the majority population. Romani women encounter multiple discrimination - as Roma, as women and in many cases also as persons belonging to a low socio-economic class. Romani women experience greater risks of social exclusion and poverty than men of their community and women from the ethnic majority. This lack of equality is seen in violence against women, access to employment, education, decision making positions and social services. Romani women rarely benefit from reproductive health services that are available at the community level, and often are not even aware about the availability of such services.  In 2014, UN agencies in the Republic of Moldova published a comprehensive study on the situation of Romani women in Moldova: http://www.un.md/docsandpub/

The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) has had a Human Rights Adviser in Moldova since July 2008, based in the UN Resident Coordinator Office, mainstreaming human rights in the work of UN Country Team, Government, civil society and the National Human Rights Institution.  Beginning in 2014, UN Women, jointly with UNDP, is supported by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) to strengthen the empowerment of women in political life, in particular in the context of national elections and local elections in the Republic of Moldova in 2014 and 2015 respectively.  The current action is undertaken jointly by UN Women and OHCHR as part of these efforts.

Scope of work

The overall objective of this consultancy is to build the capacity of Romani women community organizations, Romani women’s groups and Romani women in the communities to identify their needs and priorities in programs supported localities.

 Specific objectives:

• Strengthen the rights and effective participation of Romani women and girls in the Republic of Moldova, in the context of local and national elections;

• Support the articulation of Romani women’s voices in 2014 and 2015 election, as well as to strengthen participation as voters, participants in electoral committees, as candidates, and in other capacities;

• Encourage Romani women to articulate issues in the context of national and local elections, and to bring to the attention of relevant UN agencies requests for support in the articulation of agendas;

• Support the development and advancement of the newly-established network of Romani women and girls

For detailed information, please refer to Annex 1-Terms of Reference.

Requirements for experience

 

• At least 5 years of practical work with human rights, women’s, minority and Roma rights;

• Previous experience in gender equality, women's and minority rights and empowerment;

• Proven experience in producing analytical reports in the area of human rights, women’s and minority rights; (to be assessed based on the presented sample of completed report);
• Proven knowledge of regional and relevant international best practices and experiences on minority rights and empowerment (to be assessed based on submitted information);
• Demonstrated understanding of the electoral system of the Republic of Moldova, to a level possible from available public information;
• Proven experience in mobilizing excluded minority communities for participation and inclusion;
• Advanced knowledge and skills of MS Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint; (to be assessed based on submitted application)
• Demonstrated competence in conducting individual interviews with affected groups according to standard human rights documentation methodologies preferred.

• Previous work experience with an international organization, especially with an UN Agency, with a special focus on respectful of differences of culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, language, age, HIV status, disability, and sexual orientation, or other status will be an asset.

Documents to be included

• Duly filled UN Women Personal History Form (P11)/CV including records on past experience in similar projects/assignments and specific outputs obtained;
• Letter of Interest with justification of being the most suitable for the work, vision and working approach;
• Sample of report/policy paper or any other similar working paper produced;
• Financial proposal (in USD) - specifying an all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs as per template provided

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/WIP Programme in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of this lump sum amount. 

 

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