International Consultancy: Gender Programmatic Review Consultant (64 Days, Home-based/Remote)

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a childhood

Ethiopia is situated in the Horn of Africa and is the second most populous country on the continent with an estimated population of 115 million. It borders six African countries: Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan, and covers 1,104,300 square kilometers. Approximately 85 percent of the population lives in rural areas. Ethiopia represents a melting pot of ancient cultures with Middle Eastern and African cultures evident in the religious, ethnic, and language composition of its people.

Over the past two years, children and their families across Ethiopia faced multiple and complex emergencies, such as the conflict in the northern Ethiopia and the drought, which resulted in millions of people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. UNICEF has programmes in Child Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Social Policy, and Education and serves over 15 million children in Ethiopia. Join UNICEF Ethiopia to contribute to improving the lives of children and women.

How can you make a difference?

Scope of Work:

UNICEF Country offices are required to go through a Gender Programmatic Review (GPR) at least once in a programme cycle either in preparation for a new Country Program Development (CPD) or at the time of a Mid-Term Review. The current CPD for the Ethiopia Country Office (ECO) will come to an end in 2025 and the office has initiated the design of a new CPD. Hence, the ECO plans to conduct a gender programmatic review to identify new or strengthen existing gender priorities in the country programming in line with the Gender Action Plan 2022–2025, Strategic Plan 2022–2025 as well as national priorities and strategies for gender equality and women's empowerment.

Guided by UNICEF’s GPR Management and operations Guide, the process covers the following four steps:

• Step 1: Analysis of the nine gender results in the GAP within the national context, leading to prioritization of a subset of gender results to address in programming, based on national relevance and priorities, the CO’s ongoing work, and available financial and human resources. The analysis and prioritization should also apply to UNICEF’s programming in humanitarian and displacement settings.
• Step 2: Identification of the root causes of gender-inequitable outcomes underlying the set of gender priorities selected in Step 1, using in-depth gender analysis (such as causal analysis).
• Step 3: Development of programmatic response – solutions, outputs, and indicators to track progress; assessment of resource requirements; and availability of expertise and partnerships for programming.
• Step 4: Documentation of findings and agreements in a GPR report – including gender priorities, interventions, indicators, and resources – for eventual integration into key country documents (CPD, action plan/gender strategy, etc.).

Work Assignment Overview

Tasks/Milestone:

Deliverables/Outputs

Timeline

Conduct desk review and analysis of relevant documentation and stakeholder interviews and submit an Inception Report

Inception report with comprehensive desk review findings and preliminary recommendations, proposed areas for in- depth analysis and workplan with timeline

1-15 Feb 2024

Conduct In-depth discussion with country teams and field visits to agree on GAP priorities for integration into country programme

• Field visit to program implementing areas conducted.
• In-depth discussion with country teams and partners held.
• Presentations of findings an
• Agreement reached on CO level on 2–6 GAP priorities for integration.

26 Feb-8

March 2024

Submission of first draft report of Gender Programmatic Review

First Draft Report in line with the template/outline provided in UNICEF GPR management and operation guide.

14 March

2024

Submission of consolidated final report, power point presentation and a 2-pager summary on key findings and recommendations

• Final Report
• 2-page summary

15 April 2023

Additional considerations

International Travel: Yes. The consultant will be travelling to Ethiopia for a two-week period.

Local Travel: Field visit to 3 regions will be conducted from 26 Feb-8 March 2024. Exact dates, and sites will be confirmed based on the project sites to be visited.

DSA: For the two weeks in-country visit, the consultant will be paid a DSA.

Notice for consultancy advert:

Please note that applications submitted without a fee rate will not be considered.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Advanced university degree in gender studies, social sciences, public health, or international development.
• At least 8 years of strong technical skills in gender, research and ability to support countries especially on gender assessments or reviews.
• Knowledge of gender mainstreaming approaches and strategies, including the integration of gender considerations into program design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Experience in conducting gender assessments or reviews in a development or humanitarian context.
• Substantive and programmatic experience in gender issues, with an understanding of social change, is essential.
• Demonstrated experience in using the evidence base on gender in shaping and implementing programmes.
• Strong analytical skills in gender programme design and assessment, ideally at the national level
• Understanding of intersectionality and the importance of addressing multiple dimensions of inequality in gender programming
• Experience with UNICEF or UN agency programme planning, gender-related policies and frameworks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong interpersonal and presentation skills.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.