Consultant, Beneficiary Data Protection Assessment

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WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is a leading organization delivering food assistance and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. We also support governments of developing countries in their efforts to eliminate hunger and malnutrition by addressing the underlying causes and disparities in access to food and good nutrition to ensure that no one is left behind in line with the Agenda 2030, Sustaining Peace and Agenda for Humanity. WFP is particularly focused on Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) and Goal 17 (Partnerships). Delivering on our mandate of Zero Hunger requires us to have a diverse, inclusive and gender-balanced workforce.

The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to WFP is recognition that ending hunger is a critical first step towards global peace. WFP recognizes that one of the greatest contributions it can make to humanity is to provide a voice to the 690 million hungry people in the world. The Nobel Peace Prize gives us a platform to make their needs heard and to mobilize support for the assistance they need.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in social science, law, development/humanitarian studies, International relations, or other relevant subjects

Experience:

 At least 2 years of relevant work experience in the field of protection, human rights or legal research  Knowledge of legal frameworks on human rights, data protection and privacy and international humanitarian law  Proven professional experience in conducting legal research and analysis or applying data protection analysis tools and structured analytical techniques  Experience in convening research validation stakeholder workshops and training events

Key skills:  Excellent communication, research, written and oral presentation skills  Good understanding of existing and new technological solutions for information management in humanitarian and development contexts  Ability to conduct work remotely with little oversight at times;  Team spirit and excellent interpersonal relations.

Languages: Fluency (level C) in written and spoken English and Bangla (intermediate level).

OPERATIONAL CONTEXT

WFP within the overall scope of the Country Strategic Plan (CSP) supports governments to address food security and nutrition and the underlying causes and disparities ensuring that no one is left behind in line with the Agenda 2030, Sustaining Peace and Agenda for Humanity. Protecting personal data is about protecting people’s life, dignity, and integrity, which is the core commitment set forth by the Protection and Accountability Policy (2020) of WFP. Moreover, with the WFP Guide to Personal Data Protection and Privacy (2016) and draft Beneficiary Identity Management Guidance (2020), WFP has taken concrete steps to put forward beneficiary data protection in the way it operates and has developed Data Protection Toolkit (2019) to support this objective. To this end, WFP processes large numbers of beneficiary data within its own programmes and operations, including technical support to Governments and emergency assistance, and is expanding the use of the technological-based solution for beneficiary information and transfer management platform, which is designed to support both humanitarian and development activities for the attainment of Zero Hunger – SDG 02 and Partnering for the SDGs’ – SDG 17 by 2030.

WFP provides technical assistance to the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MoWCA) in the planning and implementation of the national safety net programmes targeting women and children from the poor and vulnerable families. These programmes are: Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) Programme and Mother and Child Benefit Programme (MCBP). In the Government Fiscal 2020-2021 (from July 2020 to June 2021) the social protection budget of MoWCA was Taka 34,011 million which was more than 4% of total social security budget of the Government. Giving the reach of the safety nets, these programmes have the potential to deliver impact on food and nutrition security at scale, while also addressing gender inequality, by targeting vulnerable women, including pregnant women and mothers of infants and young children, to enhance their access and control of resources.

The VGD programme supports over one million vulnerable women and their household with a monthly ration of rice for two years, along with training on life skills and income generating opportunities. As part of the VGD reform, MoWCA has planned to include a one-time grant for investing in income generating activities in 66 Upazilas. This is called the Investment Component for Vulnerable Group Development (IC-VGD) programme. Limited preparatory works for IC-VGD are underway. Full scale implementation of IC-VGD is expected from January 2022. The targeted women assisted under VGD or ICVGD are engaged in the decisions around the utilization of the resources and sensitized to their rights and entitlements.

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The MCBP supports vulnerable pregnant women and mothers of children until the age of 36 months through monthly cash transfer combined with nutrition Social Behaviour Change Communication SBCC and education session to promote good maternal and child nutrition through enhanced knowledge, decision making and access to resources . To date the MCBP is being implemented in 7 locations, reaching 34,279 women and children. Preparatory works are underway to expand programme coverage to 66 Upazilas and gradually to all over the country, including urban areas, by 2026 subject to the availability of resources.

WFP has supported the design of the self-enrolment process so that eligible women register themselves for enrolment in MCBP and the VGD Programme that contribute to reduce the inclusion errors. Under these programmes, number of stakeholders have access to the beneficiary enrolments data and the systems which might expose for potential data risk and may affect the beneficiaries negatively. The Government to Person (G2P) payment system allows mothers to receive payments directly into their preferred bank account – enhancing women’s inclusion in the formal financial sector as well as control over the assistance they receive from government.

To respond the changing vulnerability landscape in Bangladesh, efforts are being made to rollout the MCBP in urban areas, and design a new programme, Vulnerable Women Benefit (VWB) programme focusing on women’s economic empowerment through enhanced digital financial inclusion as an urban complement to the ICVGD programme.

WFP, together with other Government and non-Government agencies is advocating to include good quality SBCC and integration of others complementary services to programme beneficiaries. For this purpose MoWCA need to have proper data management policy before they share beneficiaries data with other stakeholders.

The data management for safety net programmes, includes the management of personal information. Managing people’s personal data and identity is extremely sensitive. Unintended use of personal data, especially if fallen in the wrong hands, may cause harm to the people that the government seeks to assist.

JOB PURPOSE

Protecting personal data is about protecting people’s life, dignity, and integrity, which is the core commitment set forth by the Protection and Accountability Policy (2020). Moreover, with the WFP Guide to Personal Data Protection and Privacy (2016) and draft Beneficiary Identity Management Guidance (2020), WFP has taken concrete steps to put forward beneficiary data protection in the way it operates and has developed Data Protection Toolkit (2019) to support this objective.

Assessments of data protection concerns, and data processing have played a key role in furthering WFP’s engagements with governments. In support of this, a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) needs to be conducted. The PIA aims at identifying, evaluating, and addressing the risks (e.g., protection, legal, born from gender dynamics and social norms, marginalisation, stigmatisation, etc.) arising from the processing of personal data related to a specific activity, project, programme or other initiative. The PIA is a multifunctional exercise, which draws from the expertise of various functions. Under the leadership of the country management, the consultant will lead the PIA by soliciting and compiling the various inputs from concerned functions. The final findings and conclusions should be jointly reviewed and cleared by the managers and the concerned functions.

The Consultant will be based in Dhaka. He/she will be under the line management of the Programme Advisor (Nutrition, M&E and Protection and Gender) and the technical supervision of the Regional Humanitarian Adviser (Protection, Accountability to Affected Populations, and Inclusion) based in Bangkok. The Consultant will lead, develop, and complete the PIA for WFP selected government Safety Nets implemented with technical assistance from WFP.

The objectives of this Data protection analysis consultancy are to: • Assess existing and potential data protection risks (along the data life cycle), identifying, evaluating, and addressing the risks (e.g. protection, legal, government etc.) arising from the processing of personal data related to MCBP and VGD. • Providing effective and practical recommendations to support national policies and guidelines to prevent and mitigate the existing and potential risks on the lifecycle of the data protection for the abovementioned programmes and for future similar programmes • Equip the programme team developing context specific theoretical framework for programme related data collection, maintenance and measurement of data protection risk outcomes and results outlined in the WFP Protection and Accountability Policy, Guide to Data Protection and Privacy as well as, will develop relevant SOPs.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

The consultant will be responsible for drafting the Privacy Impact Assessment for MCBP, VGD and other programmes in collaboration with WFP’s Social Safety Nets and Gender and Protection teams as well as other relevant units of Department of Women’s Affairs (DWA).

Completing the Assessment includes, but is not limited to:

• Undertake relevant secondary literature review related to the selected safety net policy documents and programmes; legal framework on data privacy and protection in Bangladesh and any previous data protection assessment conducted on national safety nets in Bangladesh or other safety nets implemented in similar contexts, including mapping of key findings • Conduct primary data collection, including tool development, field testing and data collection of that through focus group discussions (FGD) and key informant interviews (KII) with beneficiaries, entrepreneurs, Upazila and District DWA officials, Upazila and District administration, cooperating partners as well as relevant WFP and government staff. • Analysis of data flows in the management of information system of DWA, for the above-mentioned programmers, and identify existing data protection risks and provide practical recommendation on storage and sharing of data security standards to mitigate the risks. • Report development including the planning and facilitation of a validation workshop with government and cooperative partners at national level to incorporating their feedback in the analysis and recommendations before finalizing the report • Other tasks as required

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

 Work experience on data protection guideline, laws and policies, familiar with National Social Security Strategy.  Prior experience working with in the field of protection, MIS and developing data protection analysis at an operational level  Experience working on digital rights  Good understanding of protection, gender in humanitarian and development settings, gender-based violence, information management system and data protection, policies, humanitarian policy issues and linkages with food security and nutrition  Good knowledge of government’s social safety nets policies, strategies and programmes in Bangladesh

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Contract Type : International Consultant

Contract Duration : 6 Months

Duty Station : Dhaka, Bangladesh

Number of post : 01

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

30 September 2021

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Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.