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National Consultant to provide support in consolidation and facilitation of the functioning of the Joint Information and Services Bureaus/ UN WomenVacancy Number: Pr15/00949
Contacts: Ms. Lilia Tulea. Ms. Viorica Culeac. Background
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Economic empowerment is one of the priority areas of UN Women. UN Women works with Governments and multilateral partners (UNDP, ILO, World Bank, regional development banks) to promote women’s economic empowerment and increase their access to economic opportunities, especially for those who are most excluded. Empowering women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors is essential to build stronger economies, achieve internationally agreed goals for development and sustainability, and improve the quality of life for women, men, families and communities. In December 2009 the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (now part of UN Women) have entered into an Agreement for the implementation of the Programme “Women’s Economic Empowerment through Increased Employability in the Republic of Moldova”. The Programme 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 came to an end of its first phase by end of February 2014, and one of the major result achieved is institutionalization of the Joint Information and Services Bureaus (JISB) – a new model of coordinated and gender sensitive service provision that has been introduced by the programme and is currently operational and functional in 21 districts of the country’s total of 32, with another 11 districts in the process of initiation. Establishment of Joint Information Service Bureau (JISB) paved the way for functioning of a coordinated service provision for the benefit of women and vulnerable groups of population, including from the Security Zone of Republic of Moldova. This enabled bringing together around nine services focusing on the areas of employment, labour market and social protection providing guidance and advice and thus addressing challenges at the local level. Establishment of JISBs was unique and cost effective for Moldova’s local public administration, as it did not entail creation of new structure or recruitment of additional staff. During 2014 service providers from 21 functional Joint Information and Services Bureaus (JISBs) were capacitated to provide targeted, gender sensitive and results oriented service to women, especially vulnerable, including women migrants (both, returned and those abroad), women living in the security zone, etc. These activities were carried out within the 1.Promoting and Protecting Women Migrant Worker’s Labour and Human Rights in Moldova (June 2014 – March 2015), further as “WMW” and 2. Support to Confidence Building Measures (during June – September 2014), further as “CBM”. UN Women in Moldova will continue supporting UN concerted efforts on promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, supplemented by work where UN Women has a clear comparative advantage: securing women’s access, especially from rural areas to productive resources and services, providing social protection to the most excluded groups of women such as Roma and disabled and to specific groups of women migrant workers and victims an potential victims of violence against women and girls. The Government of Moldova adopted the Decision No. 661 as of 30 August, 2013 (issued in Monitorul Oficial on 06.09.2013 with Nr. 191-197, art Nr: 763) that provides a legal framework on the work and organization of the JISBs, and also serves the base for its nationwide replication. The Government also ensured financial coverage of the JISB from the state central budget, which has been assessed as a key result in terms of sustainability of the interventions and future of JISBs functioning. In 2014 the State Chancellery has requested UN Women to support nationwide replication of JISBs to the remaining districts and provide assistance in the roll out the public service reform agenda taking as basis for that the JISB. For this purpose, a number of visits were undertaken in February 2014 to the newly self-starters and a special workshop was organized immediately after the National Consultations in 11 districts. Nonetheless, support is needed to enhance capacities of LPA and local service providers to initiate, create and run efficiently JISBs in the benefit of women, including but not limited to women migrant workers and victims and potential victims of violence against women and girls. . According to the specific needs and key issues women migrant workers are facing during the migration cycle, identified during local public consultations (performed in August 2014, within WMW project) major requirements and needs are embedded in improved access to information with specialized and diversified services, especially in electronic format (e-services). Access to support services for the victims of violence is still very limited, and JISB can play a crucial role in properly providing first support, guidance and assistance at the local level. Therefore, UN Women seeks a local consultant to provide support in building the capacities of and facilitating the process of JISB replication to the remaining districts and consolidating the existing functioning JISBs as well as assisting all JISBs on the conceptual and technical part of their functioning by providing guidance to LPA and local service providers. This activity will lead to the fulfillment of the Activity 4.4.3 Support functioning and capacity building initiatives of Joint Information and Services Bureaus to provide advanced services for migrant women of the WMW project and UN Women Country Strategic Note for 2015 Activity 2.2.1.3: Ensure greater coherence of JISB/one-window with the state strategy on public service provision, including through monitoring of JISB functioning, Activity 2.2.1.5: Provide support to the new districts that initiated the JISB Scope of work
The main objective of this assignment is to provide support in building the capacities and facilitating the process of consolidating the new established JISBs and the existing functioning JISBs with a specific focus on the services provided to women migrant workers and victims and potential victims of violence against women and girls. The consultant will also assisting all JISBs on the conceptual and technical part of their functioning by providing guidance to local public authorities (LPA) and local service providers for greater coherence of JISB with State Strategy on public service provision, including for women migrant workers. The activity of National Consultant will consist in providing technical assistance, guidance, facilitation and coordination, monitoring and regular exchange of knowledge and experience between the Joint Information and Services Bureaus. Selected person will also provide advice on the regular collaboration with State Chancellery, Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, National Office for Social Insurance, Bureau for Relations with Diaspora, Organization for SME development, and other Government authorities on improving the service provision via JISB and ensure it is an integral part of the public service reform. For detailed information, please refer to Annex 1-Terms of Reference. Requirements for experience
Education:
Experience:
Language Requirements:
Other Skills: Knowledge and skills of relevant computer applications of MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Power Point), knowledge of Internet communications and command is required Documents to be included
Duly filled Personal History Form (PHF11)/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; • Financial proposal - (in MDL) - 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 in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of this lump sum amount.
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