Consultancy - Gender Score Card Exercise
juba and home-based
- Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
- Location: juba and home-based
- Grade: Consultancy - International Consultant - Internationally recruited Contractors Agreement
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Occupational Groups:
- Development Cooperation and Sustainable Development Goals
- Statistics
- Women's Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming
- Civil Society and Local governance
- Peace and Development
- Closing Date: Closed
Background
Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls is integral to realizing all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To ensure this focus is brought into all our work, United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) must promote the principles of equality and non-discrimination, putting gender equality at the heart of UNDAF programming, driving the active and meaningful participation of both women and men, and the empowerment of all women and girls. The 2018 Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR) and the 2018 ECOSOC Resolution on gender mainstreaming also call for acceleration of UN efforts to mainstream gender and using the Scorecard. The Scorecard is an accountability framework that promotes improved planning, coordination, programming and results for GEEW at the country level, tied to support to Member States to achieve the SDGs. The Scorecard supports UNCT’s in self-assessing and reporting on their standing with respect to a set of Performance Indicators drawn from inter-governmental mandates and based on review and analysis of UNCT processes. This updated Scorecard draws upon a review of past UNCT experience conducted by the UN Development Group, and innovative ideas and lessons from other UN gender accountability frameworks, notably UNDP’s Gender Equality Seal, ILO’s Participatory Gender Audit, and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Gender Marker. The Scorecard is organized around seven dimensions that address key GEEW components: planning; programming and monitoring and evaluation; partnerships; communications and advocacy; leadership and organizational culture; gender architecture and capacities; resources; and results. Each dimension includes Performance Indicators, which UNCTs need to meet or exceed. The UN Gender Theme Group and Technical Working Group The UNCT in South Sudan established the UN Gender Theme Group (GTG), and UN Technical Working Group (GTWG) in 2012, to strengthen the existing UNDAF implementation structure as well as support the development of the new UNDAF. The UN Gender Theme Group works on the premise that gender as a cross-cutting issue must necessarily use a two-way approach; mainstreaming and the empowerment of women to bring about gender equality. The GTG aims to support UN agencies to have a shared understanding of gender mainstreaming and the empowerment of women; for the adoption of a coherent UN strategy in South Sudan to address gender gaps in national priorities and interventions; and to strengthen joint UN accountability for results on gender equality and the empowerment of women.
The objectives of the UN Gender Theme Group are to strengthen overall UNCT performance on gender equality by mainstreaming gender into UNCT key policies, planning, programming and monitoring tools as well as into the UNDAF coordination mechanisms; support the UNCT to coordinate and share information and knowledge, among UN agencies and with national counterparts, on issues relating to gender equality; support institutional capacity building for UN agencies to mainstream gender in their programming, activities, joint programming, as well as other strategies for addressing gender-based inequalities and inequities; and to undertake joint activities and monitoring to bring gender equality to the core of the South Sudan development agenda.
In order to support a gender responsive implementation of UNCF/UNDAF and ensure better accountability of UNCT towards gender equality and women’s empowerment in line with UN corporative policy, the South Sudan UN Country Team conducted a Gender scorecard exercise in 2016 which was meant to be used for UNCT’s self-assessment and for identifying gaps and corrective actions. Unfortunately, the process was not completed due to eruption of conflict in the Country. The UNCT is planning another Gender score card exercise and UNCT will lead this process to complete the scorecard process in a participatory and timely manner. To support the UNCT in implementing the Scorecard, UNCT South Sudan, under the coordination of UN Women and the RCO, seeks to hire an international consultant with extensive experience on gender assessments.
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Duties and Responsibilities
The main objective of this consultancy is to conduct a UNCT SWAP-Scorecard and assess the effectiveness of the UN Country Team South Sudan in gender mainstreaming, promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment as well as to provide a set of recommendations for improvement. The Gender Scorecard Assessment is expected to achieve the following:
The Scorecard is organized around seven dimensions that address key GEEW components: planning; programming and monitoring and evaluation; partnerships; communications and advocacy; leadership and organizational culture; gender architecture and capacities; resources; and results. Each dimension includes Performance Indicators, which UNCTs need to meet or exceed. Expected outputs and deliverables: Based on the detailed list of tasks outlined in the scope of the work section, the IC is expected to deliver the following outputs:
Scope of work/Duties and Responsibilities Under the overall supervision of the UN Women Country Representative in South Sudan, and working closely with the Gender Technical Working Group, the international consultant will perform the following tasks: |
Background Document Review (home-based):
Developed Tools (home based) Conduct individual and focus group interviews (Juba based)
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Competencies
Core Competencies: Ethics & Values:
Organizational Awareness:
Working in Teams:
Communicating Information and Ideas:
Self-Management & Emotional Intelligence:
Knowledge Sharing & Continuous Learning:
Functional Competencies:
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Required Skills and Experience
Required Skills and Experience |
Academic Qualifications:
Experience:
Language:
Application Procedure: The application package containing the following (to be uploaded as one file):
Note: The above documents need to be scanned in one file and uploaded to the online application as one document. Shortlisted candidates (ONLY) will be requested to submit a Financial Proposal.
The Financial Proposal is to be emailed as per the instruction in the separate email that will be sent to shortlisted candidates. Evaluation Process: Applicants are reviewed based on Required Skills and Experience stated above and based on the technical evaluation criteria outlined below. Applicants will be evaluated based on cumulative scoring. When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
Technical Evaluation - Total 70% (700 points):
Having reviewed applications received, UNDP will invite the top three - four shortlisted candidates for interview. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% (49 points) of the maximum obtainable points for the technical criteria (70 points) shall be considered for the financial evaluation. Financial Evaluation - Total 30% (30 points) The following formula will be used to evaluate financial proposal: p = y (µ/z), where p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal µ = price of the lowest priced proposal z = price of the proposal being evaluated Contract Award: Candidate obtaining the highest combined scores in the combined score of Technical and Financial evaluation will be considered technically qualified and will be offered to enter into contract with UNDP. Institutional Arrangement: The consultant will work under the guidance and direct supervision of the Policy Specialist, Community and Network Management and will be responsible for the fulfilment of the deliverables as specified above. The Consultant will be responsible for providing her/his own laptop. Payment Modality:
Annexes (click on the hyperlink to access the documents): Annex 1 - IC Contract Template Annex 2 - IC General Terms and Conditions Annex 3 - RLA Template |
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