CONSULTANCY TO SUPPORT UPTO FIFTY ENTERPRISES IN UGANDA IMPLEMENT THE GENDER EQUALITY SEAL FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISES

Consultant

Overview

Support enterprises in Uganda to implement gender equality seal.

You have:

• Masters’ degree in Gender, Women and Development Studies, Social Work and Social Administration, Public Policy Analysis, or other related subjects.
• Demonstrated experience promoting and advocating gender equality and women empowerment.
• Demonstrated past experience in executing similar assignments within a multi stakeholder’s framework.
• Demonstrated sound knowledge on national, regional, and global gender equality frameworks.
• Demonstrated competencies in research and facilitation skills, analytical work, multitasking, delivering on time, and working with limited supervision.
• Demonstrated excellent communication and writing skills in English.

Contract

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Background

Overview :

Uganda’s economic and political stability over the past two decades has brought new opportunities to improve social inequalities and the well-being of citizens. Since 1995, the country has made significant progress in promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women. Notable among these, is the country’s gender responsive legal and regulatory framework, institutionalization of gender concerns in the national development planning and budgeting processes; the increase in women’s political participation, increase in female literacy rate from 45% in 1995 to 65%; and progress in the acquisition of titled land by women.

Despite these achievements, both the Beijing+20 review and the Progress of World’s Women Report (2015-2016), acknowledge that the progress has not sufficiently made rights and economic transformation real for women and girls in Uganda. Gender disparities in access and control over productive resources like land; limited share of women in wage employment in non-agricultural sectors; gender pay gaps; and sexual and gender-based violence; high maternal mortality rate and low female labour force participation are key constraints to the involvement of women in political and economic decision-making. Gender inequality is especially more pronounced in the private sector which employs over 80% of Uganda’s labour force (formally and informally).

The Government of Uganda recognizes gender equality and women’s empowerment as the cornerstone for sustainable and inclusive development. UNDP is supporting national efforts to address gender inequality and in framing solutions to overcome the current barriers to women’s economic participation. UNDP Country Programme 2021 – 2025 will continue to invest in initiatives that remove structural barriers to women’s economic empowerment, political and social participation, and leadership; prevent and respond to gender-based violence: improve the integration of gender equality into natural resource management and disaster preparedness; and advance the women’s peace and security agenda.

Application Process

Applicants are requested to apply online at http://jobs.undp.org by 4th May 2022. The application document can be accessed on https://procurement-notices-admin.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=90511 . Candidates are invited to submit applications together with their CV for these positions. UNDP applies a fair and transparent selection process that will consider the competencies/skills of the applicants as well as their financial proposals. Qualified women and members of social minorities are encouraged to apply. Interested applicants should send an email to: ug.procurement@undp.org for any inquiries.

Duties and Responsibilities

The assignment will focus on company performance in line with the seven GES certification program pillars and any other gender equality gap(s) that will require the attention of the programme. For every cycle of the implementation of the GES initiative, the assignment will take around 12 weeks aligned to the GES implementation cycle.

Implementation of the GES within companies will be participatory requiring the consultant to embark on the following:

1. Facilitate the training of senior management, the GEC members and selected resource persons in the companies.
2. Provision of technical assistance to the GECs to undertake the organizational diagnosis and gender assessment.
3. Desk review of key institutional documents including policies, strategies, and reports and supporting companies to put in place required policies, and procedures to address identified gender gaps.
4. Conduct interviews and discussions with key informants within the companies and institutions.
5. Administer employee opinion survey and analysis of results and producing the employee opinion survey report
6. Undertake field visits to company/institution head offices or branches if necessary (most of the companies/institutions are based in Kampala. However, a small number of companies are based outside Kampala which might necessitate traveling outside the city).
7. Conduct debriefing sessions to share results of the organizational diagnosis with GECs and company leadership.
8. Provide technical assistance to the GEC and the management of the company in the implementation of the GES action plan;
9. Follow-up and monitor progress of implementation of GES in the companies and institutions;
10. Compile the good practices for sharing and learning among companies. and peer to peer exchange;
11. Support the preparation of the independent audit;
12. Provide advisory services to PSFU, UNDP and GES coordination team.
13. Organize/facilitate half day symposium on private sector and gender equality

Competencies

• Demonstrated experience promoting and advocating gender equality and women empowerment.
• Demonstrated past experience in executing similar assignments within a multi stakeholder’s framework.
• Training in the UNDP Gender Equality Seal for Public and private Enterprises is an added advantage
• Demonstrated Sound knowledge on national, regional, and global gender equality frameworks.
• Demonstrated competencies in research and facilitation skills, analytical work as well as ability to multitask, deliver on time, meet tight deadlines and work with limited supervision.
• Demonstrated excellent communication and writing skills in English.

Required Skills and Experience

Masters’ degree in Gender, Women and Development Studies, Social Work and Social Administration, Public Policy Analysis, or other related subjects.

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