International Consultant - Analysis of the United Nations contribution to gender-related sustainable development goals and targets

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Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

In 2012, the United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) endorsed the System-Wide Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN-SWAP) for adoption across the UN system. For the purpose of accelerating gender mainstreaming in the UN system, two aligned dimensions of accountability for gender equality and the empowerment of women were developed and have been recently updated: the UN-SWAP to focus on corporate processes and institutional arrangements at the individual entity level and the United Nations Country Teams Performance Indicators for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard), introduced in August 2008 to focus on joint processes and institutional arrangements within the UNCT.

In response to a changing international development landscape, Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015. Gender equality was recognized and affirmed as a precondition for the realization of sustainable development and also defined as a key sustainable development goal (SDG) by itself, Goal 5. UN Women was assigned a central role in the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As a result, the accountability frameworks UN-SWAP and the UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard were updated and extended as of 2018 to cover development and normative results tied to the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The UN-SWAP 2.0 contextualized the framework to the 2030 Agenda by adding three performance indicators related to the SDGs.

The UN-SWAP 2.0 aims at supporting aggregation of gender-related results across the UN system to respond to the mandate of the UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/72/279 requesting “the UN development system, as the starting point for its commitment to the Funding Compact […] to provide annual reporting on system-wide aggregated information on system-wide results”. Major constraints to aggregate across the whole UN system include the diverse mandate, size and governance structure of UN entities.

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant is expected to review the existing UN-SWAP results reporting framework to produce a report summarizing the UN contribution to SDG-related gender results, including a detailed explanation of how change, including transformative change, is defined and implemented, and a description of the ways in which it is complemented with intermediary, attainable results.

In addition, the consultant will assess other initiatives in the UN system that are also focusing on highlighting the results of the UN contribution to the SDGs and will provide a methodological reporting framework that can streamline different approaches and report requests. For example, the UN Sustainable Development Group has approved an Output Indicator Framework with a menu of 64 indicators from which UN Country Teams are to select 15 in their annual reporting and cooperation frameworks.

Competencies

Expected Outputs

  • Review of existing assessments of current reporting gaps and existing system-wide initiatives to report on results contributing to the SDGs, including methodologies to aggregate information across the UN system.
  • Analysis of evaluations and annual reports from UN entities and from UNCTs to identify the level of reporting on results as well as methodologies for data analysis and aggregating actual results.
  • Analysis of entity-specific UN-SWAP reports on 2022 performance regarding the achievement of the high-level results included in strategic documents.
  • Contribution to 2023 individual report cards for UN-SWAP reporting entities, with a particular focus on achievement of high-level results captured in their strategic documents.
  • Contribution to drafting and dissemination of system-wide reports on gender mainstreaming as well as relevant ECOSOC resolutions.
  • Development of a methodology to capture and aggregate gender results across a variety of UN entities taking into account a diversity of mandate, geographical scope of implementation, governance systems, size and source of funding.
  • Production of a report on the UN contribution to SDG-related gender results, particularly connected with Strategic frameworks at the entity and Country Team levels.
  • Contribution to the planning and implementation of the UN-SWAP annual conference with a focus on presenting and discussing the methodology and report summarizing the UN contributions to SDG-related gender results.

Required Skills and Experience

Educational Qualifications:

  • A Master’s Degree or equivalent in Political/Social Science, International Development Studies, Gender/Women’s Studies, Economics or Sociology

Work Experience:

  • At least 7 years of relevant experience in gender-responsive RBM systems and evaluation
  • Experience working with the United Nations at the corporate and country levels
  • Excellent report writing skills in English
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