International Consultant to undertake a CSO capacity needs assessment, mapping of service providers and devise recommendations and operationalization plan for women CSO capacity development
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Background
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. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
Over the past two years, and despite an increasingly complex operating environment, Women Civil Society Organizations (women-CSOs) have been at the forefront of the response to the COVID19 crisis and to the growing humanitarian crisis arising out of the military takeover of February 2021.
Women CSOs play a key role in enhancing community and citizen participation, while promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights. Strong, effective and empowered women-CSOs are a development outcome in itself, but – more importantly - they are also key actors in advancing the social, political, cultural and economic development for some of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups. In conflict and post-conflict settings, women CSOs have an especially important and difficult role to play in leading, participating in and influencing development programmes, humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding across the nexus.
Given the situation in Myanmar today, women CSOs have a more critical role than ever to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in a way that shapes the services, norms, and practices to serve the most vulnerable women in the country.
Purpose of the service
This assignment is a home-based consultancy. The purpose of this consultancy is to undertake a needs assessment of women-CSO capacity strengthening needs, mapping service providers on CSO capacity development, and offer recommendations on the way forward by finalizing the Operationalization Plan for women-CSO strengthening as well as Women CSO Capacity Development Strategy (2022-2023) for the UN Women Myanmar office.
The consultant will be paid against completion of each satisfactory deliverable after it has been reviewed and certified by the UN Women’s Head of Programmes/Deputy Country Representative and in accordance with UN Women policies and regulations.
The consultant will build its work on UN Women Myanmar’s ongoing efforts on CSO strengthening to date and take stock of the progress in this area under the various programmes of the country office.
Duties and Responsibilities
The consultant will work with the UN Women Myanmar under the guidance of the Programme Specialist leading the country office work on participation in consultation with other relevant programmes and projects teams.
The consultant will be expected to deliver on three deliverables:
Deliverable 1: Assessment of the main capacity development needs of women CSOs in terms of their ability to implement programing aimed at advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in Myanmar in the current humanitarian, human rights and political crisis context.
Deliverable 2: Mapping of CSO capacity development providers and resources available in Myanmar and of the tools available within UN Women globally in the areas of the needs identified in Deliverable 1.
- Deliverable 3: Finalize the recommendations and an Operationalization Plan as well as the Women-CSO Capacity Development Strategy (2022-2023) for the UN Women Myanmar Office.
In accordance with UN Women guidelines, the consultant will work to:
Deliverable 1:
- Conduct desk review of existing documents/assessments on CSO capacity and design methodology that is complementary to capacity assessments led under the joint UN Women/UNFPA CERF project.
- Conduct a capacity assessment of UN Women Myanmar’s current CSO partners as well as of selected women-led organizations (WLO) and women rights organizations (WRO) working across the HDP nexus, with a view to identifying common needs. The capacity assessment will be conducted through data collection, stakeholder consultation/interviews, and focus group discussions. The selection of the WLOs and WROs for assessment will be done in close consultation with UN Women. (Note that the capacity assessment process should be done in a consultative, constructive and participatory manner. The exercise should reinforce existing strengths and identify opportunities for growth without it being felt as an “external audit”.)
- Develop a comprehensive report that presents a systematic and synthesized assessment of findings and provides strategic recommendations to feed into the elaboration of an Operationalization Plan and enable finalization of the CSO Capacity Development Strategy (deliverable 3 below).
- Hold debriefing session(s) for UN Women and present the findings of the women-CSO capacity assessment. The sessions will serve to help validate the analysis and provide a forum to elicit feedback to shape the next steps in the consultancy.
Deliverable 2:
- Conduct a mapping of the existing actors and service providers of CSO capacity development in Myanmar in the areas of the capacity needs identified. The mapping should take account the quality or comprehensiveness of the service provided, the modality of capacity development (eg. training or mentoring or other type of support), accessibility, relevant experience, gender expertise, and price of service. Actors that might be considered include, but are not limited to, the INGO Forum, other UN agencies, other INGOs, local NGOs. Map and gather internal UN Women global resources on capacity development of CSOs relevant to the needs identified.
- Hold debriefing session(s) for UN Women and present the mapping of CSO capacity development providers. The sessions will serve to help validate the analysis and provide a forum to elicit feedback to shape the next steps in the consultancy.
Deliverable 3:
- Formulate the recommendations for women-CSO capacity development and an Operationalization Plan based on the findings from Deliverables 1 and 2.
- Present the recommendations and Operationalization Plan to UN Women for feedback and internal validation.
- Update the draft UN Women Myanmar’s Women-CSO Capacity Development Strategy (2022-2023) to bring it into alignment with the recommendations and Operationalization Plan.
- Conduct a validation workshop of the Operationalization Plan as well as the Women CSO Capacity Development Strategy with CSOs.
Revise and finalize the Operationalization Plan as well as the Women CSO Capacity Development Strategy after reflecting the feedback received from UN Women and CSO stakeholders.No
Deliverable/Activity
No. of Days (anticipated)
Deliverable
completion timeframe
Payment Schedule
1
Inception report.
2 Days
05.04.2022
35% to be paid after submission of 1st Deliverable (no 1-4)
2
Review of documents on capacity needs of women CSO in Myanmar
3 Days
08.04.2022
3
Data collection, stakeholder consultation and analysis
10 Days
22.04.2022
4
Report on women CSO Capacity needs assessment (Deliverable 1)
3 Days
27.04.2022
5
Mapping of CSO capacity development service providers and resources (Deliverable 2)
4 Days
03.05.2022
65% to be paid after submission of finalized 3rd Deliverables (no 5-10)
6
Recommendations and Operationalization Plan for women-CSO capacity strengthening
3 days
06.05.2022
7
Internal presentation of the recommendations and Operationalization Plan, and incorporate feedback.
1 day
09.05.2022
8
Update the Women CSO Capacity Development Strategy (2022-23)
1 day
10.05.2022
9
Validation Workshop with CSOs
1 day
11.05.2022
10
Finalized Operational Plan and Women CSO Capacity Development Strategy (Deliverable 3)
2 days
13.05.2022
TOTAL DAYS
30 days
The consultant will be paid against completion of each satisfactory deliverable after it has been reviewed and certified by the UN Women’s Head of Programmes/Deputy Country Representative and in accordance with UN Women policies and regulations.
Competencies
Core Values
- Respect for Diversity;
- Integrity;
- Professionalism.
Core Competencies
- Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
- Accountability;
- Creative Problem Solving;
- Effective Communication;
- Inclusive Collaboration;
- Stakeholder Engagement;
- Leading by Example.
Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-employment-values-and-competencies-definitions-en.pdf
Required Skills and Experience
Qualifications
Education
- Master's degree in in social sciences with a focus on peace and conflict studies, international relations, political science, development studies, gender studies or a related field, OR
- Bachelor degree in a relevant academic field and 7 years of relevant work experience with at least 4 focused on peacebuilding and conflict prevention, humanitarian assistance.
Experience
- At least 5 years of relevant experience with focus in crisis-affected countries and gender.
- Proven experience working with CSOs in gender and humanitarian assistance, conflict prevention or peacebuilding, and leading stakeholder consultation processes
Demonstrated professional work experience and expertise in Myanmar.
Proven report-writing, and research experience, with the ability to present recommendations supported by findings gathered through desk review, interviews and focus group discussions.
Language Requirements
- Fluency in English is required.
Submission of application
Interested Individual Consultants are requested to submit application package to UNDP Jobs and copy to
[email protected] not later than 25 March 2022.
Submission package includes:
- Letter of Interest (cover letter) explaining the suitability of the candidate to the work as well as
indication of applicant’s availability and start date
- UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded at http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment;
- A brief technical proposal with the proposed methodology for undertaking this assignment, along with a brief work plan with timelines.
- Samples of similar work undertaken in the past (at least two) that demonstrate strong technical skills in gender, gender mainstreaming, gender analysis and/or youth engagement for gender equality.
- Financial proposal or price proposal that indicates a daily rate (in USD) to undertake the terms of reference, and other related costs -if applicable-. Applications submitted without a daily rate will not be considered.
- The contact details of three referees.
Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed and are ground for disqualification.
Note: Financial proposal will be in USD. The proposal shall also specify daily professional fees and any charges related to other expenses, i.e, logistic, travel and communications expenses.
Deliverable 1
US$
Deliverable 2
Deliverable 3
Deliverable 4
Deliverable 5
Other (specify)
Total Financial Proposal
Evaluation
Applications will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis.
- Technical Qualification (100 points) weight; [70%]
- Financial Proposal (100 points) weight; [30%]
A two-stage procedure is utilised in evaluating the applications, with evaluation of the technical application being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.
Technical qualification evaluation criteria:
The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individuals is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria:
Technical Evaluation Criteria
Obtainable Score
- Education
- Master's degree in in social sciences with a focus on peace and conflict studies, international relations, political science, development studies, gender studies or a related field, OR
Bachelor degree in a relevant academic field and 7 years of relevant work experience with at least 4 focused on peacebuilding and conflict prevention, humanitarian assistance.
20%
- Substantive Experience
- At least 5 years of relevant experience with focus in crisis-affected countries and gender.
- Proven experience working with CSOs in gender and humanitarian assistance, conflict prevention or peacebuilding, and leading stakeholder consultation processes
- Demonstrated professional work experience and expertise in Myanmar.
Proven report-writing, and research experience, with the ability to present recommendations supported by findings gathered through desk review, interviews and focus group discussions.
50%
C) Result-based Report writing, editing and language skills
Excellent reporting skills, knowledge of RBM and result-based reporting
20%
D) Experience of working with UN Agencies
Experience of working with and in collaboration with UN Agencies, especially UN Women, will be an asset
10%
Total Obtainable Score
100%
Financial/Price Proposal evaluation:
- Only the financial proposal of candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be considered and evaluated.
- The total number of points allocated for the financial component is 100.
- The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.
- Financial proposal: the financial proposal shall specify a lump sum amount breaking down the professional fee for each deliverable and travel related cost, if necessary (i.e. round-trip airfare from consultant original country to the field locations, and visa fees).
At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.
If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application. UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel 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.)
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