International Cosultant (GBV Research); Dhaka, Bangladesh (Not for Bangladeshi)

Consultant Programme & Policy

Overview

Conduct GBV service assessment to improve response mechanisms.

You have:

• An advanced university degree in International Development, human rights, international law, Women and Gender studies, psychology, or any other relevant field.
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience in research and analysis, child protection development, Gender Based Violence planning and management.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language is an asset.

Contract

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Background:

An increasing number of women, children and girls including adolescents across the globe require humanitarian assistance; yet, in many developments and emergency-affected locations - it is often complicated and unpredictable. In addition to exacerbating gender-based violence (GBV) risks, such situations also increase the barriers women, children and girls including adolescents face to accessing services, due to cultural norms that restrict their mobility; domestic responsibilities and cultural norms that keep them isolated in their homes; and/or protective approaches employed by their relatives to shield them from violence.

Even in the most challenging settings, UNICEF and partners deliver innovative solutions to strengthen availability, accessibility, and quality of GBV response services. With the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF had to capitalize further on its innovations and inter-agency collaboration in order to reach women, children and girls including adolescents and help them seek for help despite the lockdowns and quarantine restrictions enacted by Governments to response to the pandemic.

Wherefore, UN Women, UNICEF, and UNFPA are working jointly towards supporting MoWCA in strengthening prevention and response mechanisms to tackle GBV, specifically on strengthening GBV response mechanisms that have been disrupted during the COVID-19 crisis. The three agencies are planning to conduct analyses of how the pandemic has disrupted the GBV services, and to gain a more in-depth understanding of the availability and quality of essential services with the focus on the police and the judiciary for GBV survivors as well as new needs emerged from the COVID-19 crisis.

This GBV Service Assessment Methodology aims to guide the scope and process of a rapid assessment of governmental services with the focus in the police and the judiciary in Bangladesh. Such an assessment can assist in understanding the national situation of services for women, children and girls including adolescents who have experienced GBV, and in identifying specific aspects of service quality that can be improved or strengthened. It can also provide information on strengths, where better services are being provided and factors influencing the quality of essential services for GBV survivors.

To this end, UNICEF Bangladesh is currently in need of a highly skilled International GBV Research consultant to jointly work with UNICEF, UN WOMEN and UNFPA national consultants in consolidating the GBV essential services with the focus at the national level with the Police and Judiciary as government services in Bangladesh.

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

The assessment would serve as a comprehensive report that spotlights on areas within the policing continuum that require strengthening, in the overall prevention and response mechanisms to tackle GBV to provide multi sectorial and 360 degrees support to and girls. It will indicate potential points of engagement between various stakeholders such as UN agencies, government, civil society, media, private sector, and others with law enforcement authorities to effectively curb gender-based violence in the community and respond swiftly and efficiently when incidents do occur.

It should include specific directives for essential policing services which constitute prevention, safety and protection, initial contact, pre-trial processes, assistance and support, communication and information and coordination. The study will look at whether services are provided responsibly, following ethical guidelines to ensure no one is made more vulnerable, and further risks of GBV are eliminated. Thus, the assessment report will serve as status-quo reference of the GBV related policing in Dhaka, opening room for further engagement with police to provide GBV services first at national level, and possibly at sub-national and local levels in the future, based on initial findings and availability of funds.

Scope of Work:

Based on the already developed research findings and draft report, the Consultant will review and edit within the methodology of the GBV services assessment, a quality evaluation of GBV services. The aim is to deduce gaps in police response when it comes to GBV, identify areas of lags and bottlenecks, and ways to overcome them. The researcher will use already available data, document review draft report, to arrive at the findings.

Major Assignment/Tasks:

Review, edit the analytical report on the GBV Police, Social Service, Health and Judiciary assessments report that contains

1. Executive Summary
2. Introduction
3. Existing joint and sector justice policies and practices, whether there are specific policies on violence against women and children, girls including adolescents for the justice and policing sectors and if they are
4. Linkages between national policies and action plans, and integration of existing justice and policing services.
5. Legal frameworks in place and the gaps and law reform needs to ensure a comprehensive legal framework for the effective delivery of quality essential justice and policing services
6. Analysis of the Police and Justice services for GBV survivors
7. Retaliation and protection risks (and steps taken to address them)
8. Analysis of adequacy of Police and Justice’s response to GBV cases
9. Conclusions regarding the current essential services
10. Recommendations (including areas of improvement)

Deliverables $ Timeframe:

Highly publishable report – 7 word days

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in International Development, human rights, international law, Women and Gender studies, psychology, or any other relevant field.
• A minimum of [8 years] of relevant professional experience in research and analysis, child protection development, Gender Based Violence planning and management is required.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

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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.

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.

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