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National Consultant

Addis Ababa

  • Organization: UNWOMEN - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
  • Location: Addis Ababa
  • Grade: Consultancy - National Consultant - Locally recruited Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Women's Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming
  • Closing Date: Closed

Background

The issue of aid effectiveness has been an agenda for the past fifteen years since the term coined in 2003, Rome Summit. Though there exists no single definition on the concept of aid effectiveness it can be is defined as achieving social and economic development agendas set out and harmonized by donor and recipient. Specifically, it is meeting the agendas that are set out in the global SDGs, regional commitments and respective country priorities such as addressing gender inequality.Gender equality and women’s empowerment (GE&WE) are powerful multipliers of development efforts. Reducing women’s poverty through access to education, improvement of health, broadening economic opportunities with land rights, employment and income, and participation in political decision-making contributes to well-being, quality of life and economic growth. As such, GE & WE respect human rights and do become drivers of sustainable development.

The Paris Declaration (PD) contains the valuable principles of national ownership and promotes accountability between donor and partner countries as well as between citizens and the government. Through the inclusion of state and civil society in development planning and budgetary decisions, notably through participatory and gender budgeting processes, needs, interests and entitlements are voiced and incorporated in development strategies, frameworks and accountability mechanisms. The PD builds also on horizontal donor-partner country relationships and thus democratizes development cooperation. Based on the PD resource mobilization through grant and loan has a part and  contributed to  national budget in addition to national resource mobilization

Government budgets are the largest single source of financing for gender equality and women’s empowerment in most countries. Although Official Development Assistance (ODA) only covers on average between 10 to 15 per cent of a recipient country’s budget, the way it is spent can show the accountability relationships, not just between donors and recipients, but also between government and citizens. It is through national and sub-national budgets that government’s promises are translated into policies and programmes.Therefore, the extent to which gender is adequately mainstreamed in national budgets (which include both domestic and external resources), determines the level of financing that goes towards gender equality and women’s empowerment. So, both external and domestic resource mobilization are essential for economic growth and expanded opportunities. While in the short run, external resource can be an important force for enhancing government resource mobilization for gender equality, in the medium and long run, government resource mobilization is central to financing for gender equality in a sustainable and predictable fashion.

Ensuring adequate financing has been a part of various commitments made since Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) to the recent breakthrough conferences on financing for development. They recommended the relevance of having a gender component in donors and recipients aid procedures. However, reports at global level showed inadequate financing (aid) made towards GEWE. This hinders the planning and implementation of gender responsive programs. According to Development Assistance Committee (DAC) guideline for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment “A focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment in development co-operation is a means to enhance the total effectiveness of aid”.In 2005, during the second high-level forum on aid effectiveness (hereinafter “Paris Declaration”), countries set five principles to manage the delivery and quality of aid. Despite various scholastic arguments made on the effectiveness of aid, the principles are considered as the frameworks of aid management. Gender equality as the major international development agenda, these principles have meaningful effect in ensuring that aid in support of gender equality is adequate. Therefore, linking aid effectiveness and gender equality is practicing a gender responsive aid scheme from both the donor and recipient side.

It is with this understanding that Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation Gender Directorate in collaboration with UN Women planned to build capacity of MoFEC External Resources Mobilization and related Directorates and strengthen accountability system with in MoFEC to address gender gaps in international financing.This initiative is also component of the Transformative Financing for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Programme of UN Women in partnership with MoFEC and MoWCA as the programme aims to ensure equitable distribution of international financing to address gender inequality and empowerment of women as part of the efforts to ensure gender responsive National Planning and Budgeting System. To this effect UN Women Ethiopia would like to recruit National Consultant who will support the international consultant and technically contribute in the process of developing Gender and Aid Effectiveness Training Manual and independently translate the English version manual into Amharic version.  

Duties and Responsibilities

The principal task under the consultancy will be to assist the international consultant in the process of manual development and independently translate the English version manual into Amharic language. Together with the international consultant, the national consultant will engage in the following tasks;

Phase I

  1. Review various international and national documents and frameworks on gender and aid effectiveness;
  2. Summarize and Translate national documents in to english which are written in Amharic for easy reference by the international consultant;
  3. Assist the international consultant in developing the inception report including standard and contextualized training manual outline on Aid Effectiveness and Gender Equality;
  4. Present inception report together with the international consultant including the draft outline of the guideline and sample country experiences in an inception workshop;
  5. Revise the inception report based on the comments from the inception workshop and UN Women;    
  6. Assist the international consultant in organizing and facilitating consultation meetings with MOF directorates and other relevant stakeholders.
  7. Assist the international consultant in Preparing the presentation on the draft training manual at a validation workshop;
  8. Assist the international consultant in Preparation of validation workshop report
  9. Technically contribute in the revision of the manual based on comments and inputs from the validation workshop and UN Women;
  10. Assist the International consultant in the preparation and delivery of training, developing of training report including feedback and evaluation of training by participants

Phase II

  1. Translate the finalized English version training manual into Amharic language
  2. Submit the draft Amharic training manual for review;
  3. Revise the Amharic manual based on the comment provided and submit the final Amharic training manual both in hard and soft copy

DELIVERABLES

The specific deliverables under the consultancy will consist of final and approved

  1. Summarized and translated national documents
  2. Inception Report
  3. Translated Training manual in Amharic version
  4. Minutes of consultative meetings
  5. Presentation at Inception and Validation workshop with the International Consultant
  6. Validation workshop report
  7. Evidence of Contributions in development of:
    • Inception report
    • Training manual
    • Minutes of consultations
    • Validation workshop report
    • Training report

Competencies

  • Demonstrates integrity and fairness by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
  • Commitment to UN Women’s mission, vision, values and strategic goals;
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
  • Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
  • Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Required Skills and Experience

Academic qualifications

  • Masters degree or equivalent or PhD in Social Sciences, Gender, Economics, Development Cooperation, International Studies, Political Science, or other relevant field;
  • Comprehensive and documented knowledge of issues related to gender equality and women empowerment and aid and development, experience in Sub –Saharan Africa region will be considered as an advantage.
  • Knowledge of translation of documents from English to Amharic, training methods and techniques;
  • Proven experience on presentation, training and facilitation skills for top government officials;
  • Skilled in identifying the gaps of trainees during the training;

Years of experience

  • Minimum 10 years of experience working on gender equality and aid effectiveness and related areas on PFM;
  • Experience on manual development, conducting and facilitating high-level capacity building and training programs for government officials
  • Previous experience working with the United Nations system, the African Union or other inter-governmental organizations will be considered an advantage;

Language and other skills

  • Excellent knowledge of written and oral communication in English and Amharic;
  • Excellent communication skill;
  • Excellent command of Microsoft applications, particularly power point;
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
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