Mapping Consultant

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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.

Care work is fundamental for human wellbeing as well as essential for a vibrant, sustainable economy with a productive labour force. The centrality of care to sustainable development and its relevance for gender equality are now widely recognized by the global community including as a target under Sustainable Development Goal 5. 1 Care work ensures the complex and life-sustaining web on which our very existence depends; without it, individuals, families, societies and economies would not be able to survive and thrive. Yet, around the world women and girls shoulder a disproportionate share of care work that is unpaid, unrecognized and undervalued. Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, women already did three times as much unpaid care and domestic work as men with women on average doing around 4.1 hours per day compared to men who on average do around 1.7 hours. For women living in rural areas these figures can vary widely, particularly in areas with limited access to regular basic services such as energy, water and sanitation, as women and girls tend to bear the brunt of the unpaid labour to collect and manage these resources and services for daily household consumption.

Furthermore, illness or other crises in the household can increase the time spent by women and girls on care-giving and domestic work. This has been brought into sharp focus by the COVID-19 pandemic which has exacerbated the care demands on women and girls due to pandemic-related measures and lockdowns. As evidenced from previous epidemics, women and girls tend to be the ones who take on the bulk of the extra care needed when national systems are unable to cope. Addressing unpaid care work is particularly relevant in West, Central and Southern African contexts where access to decent work is limited and women’s employment options are significantly constrained by societal expectations that burden them with disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care and domestic work.

The 3R Programme will build on UN Women’s expertise at the global, regional and country level as well as UN Women’s existing strong partnerships with women’s cooperatives and other women’s rights organizations, traditional leaders, communities, men and boys, and the private and public sectors to address unequal power relations, systemic discrimination and harmful norms and practices that underpin inequities in care work. In particular, the 3R programme will complement existing UN Women programmes on climate-resilient agriculture and rural women’s economic empowerment in the three countries, by developing a care component which responds to lessons learned that indicate insufficient attention is given to women’s unpaid care and domestic workloads and overall time poverty. This programme fills a critical gap in this area by developing a holistic package of solutions, i.e. transformative solutions, to these challenges.

Duties and Responsibilities

Programme description:

In order to address the inequities in unpaid care, UN Women has developed a multi country programme dubbed ‘Transformative approaches to recognize, reduce, and redistribute unpaid care work in women’s economic empowerment programming’ programme (‘3R Programme’) to be implemented in Rwanda, South Africa and Senegal. The overreaching goal of the programme is to remove the structural barriers to women’s full and equal participation in the economy by recognizing, reducing, and redistributing unpaid care work. In order to contribute to this overarching goal/impact, the programme aims to contribute to the following two outcomes:

• National and local governments develop/strengthen laws, policies and services that recognize and address the disproportionate share of unpaid care work by women and girls;
• Women’s cooperatives and other organizations provide transformative care services in rural and/or urban areas to reduce and redistribute unpaid care work.

Description of required service/ results:

With the above background, the objective is to perform a mapping exercise and care needs assessment to better understand existing and needed care service provision and social care infrastructure including in urban and rural areas, and to identify any gaps. Secondly, the consultant will develop models and guidelines for care services and timesaving, climate-resilient, environmentally sustainable infrastructure in South Africa, as described in the terms of reference. The results of this exercise will be used to ensure Output 1.2 of *National and Local Authorities have increased tools and capacities to develop and implement laws, policies and services that address unpaid care work*****, and Output 2.1 ***Women’s cooperatives and other organizations have increased capacity to provide care services.***

In conducting the mapping, the consultant will therefore closely work with, but not limited to the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Department of Agriculture, Department of Social Development, the Department of Health and the Department of Basic Education, within the Free State, Limpopo, and KwaZulu Natal Provinces, as well as with Civil Society Organizations and women’s cooperatives that do care services. Secondary to the mapping exercise, the consultant is also expected to conduct care needs assessment of participating cooperatives and other organizations, and prepare guidance notes together with participating organizations on how to influence national policy formulation and interventions, and develop models and guidelines on how to strengthen actions towards the 3Rs, and time saving, climate -resilient, environmentally-sustainable infrastructure.

The models and guidelines will be separate, (i) for care work services and (ii) for early childhood development. They will include topics, but not limited to; capacity development needs for care services; improving access to care services; how could care arrangements carried out by NGO,s, cooperatives, women’s self help groups, communities and other initiatives be scaled up, measures to facilitate redistribution of care work-policies and laws; models to recognize, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work. Similarly for early childhood development.

All outputs derived from this exercise will be utilized by the 3R Programme in South Africa to inform capacity development gaps and technical support needs of women’s cooperatives and other organizations that provide care work. The guidance notes will serve as useful background documents to advocate for strengthened actions to recognize, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work in South Africa; and secondly influence national policy formulation and interventions. The models and guidelines will be implemented to increase capacity of care services.

3.1. Tasks and Outputs

• Develop an Inception Report, with time frames on executing the Tasks and outputs of Part 1 and Part 2.

Part 1: Mapping exercise to better understand existing and needed care service provision and social care infrastructure including in urban and rural areas (Refer to Section 3.2 for geographical Areas covered). The consultant will be allocated per district (17 days)

• Desk Review of the unpaid care work in South Africa; national and provincial developmental plans, (including identifying gaps in laws and policies related to unpaid care work);
• Develop a mapping tool to be used for the mapping of existing and needed care services;
• Document review of existing care tools, services and infrastructure within the care services including early childhood development services, basic education, etc.
  • Liaise with Stakeholders and solicit required information to conduct mapping;
  • Review National Development Plans, regulations, other government documents and available resources that address care work and basic education within the South African context.
• Conduct the mapping in the target districts;
• Develop synthesis report from above activities ie Develop guidance notes to influence national, local policy interventions.

Part 2: Conduct care needs assessment of participating cooperatives and other organizations, and prepare guidance notes together with participating organizations on how to strengthen actions towards the 3Rs (20 days)

• Develop a tool to conduct care needs assessment of participating cooperatives and other organizations;
• Obtain and review a database/(s) of cooperatives and other organisations that will be assessed, from the national, local, district government stakeholders. Synthesis and confirm database to be used with the UN Women;
• Conduct care needs assessment in the target districts;
• Prepare Guidance notes together with participating organisations on how to strengthen actions towards the 3Rs;
• Develop synthesis report from above activities.

In conducting Part 1 and Part 2 of the assignment above. The consultant should be in a position to: Develop guidance notes on how to influence national policy formulation and intervention; Develop at least 2 models of care services and at least 2 guidance notes to provide technical assistance for care services and time saving, climate -resilient, environmentally-sustainable infrastructure in collaboration with the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Department of Agriculture, Department of Social Development, the Department of Health and the Department of Basic Education. (The models should specify how the time saving technologies/infrastructure/solutions will save women’s time in unpaid care work and what impact this has on care and care services. The models should also outline how the infrastructure/technologies will be managed (by women, women's cooperatives) and maintained.

3.2. Geographical Areas covered

The current 3R programme is so far being implemented in the following regions.

Group

Province

Regions

Group 1

Limpopo Province

Capricorn, Mopani, Sekhukhune District

Group 2

Free State

Motheo, Thabo Mofutsanyane District

Group 3

KwaZulu Natal, and Mpumalanga

UMgungundlovu District (KZN); Ehlanzeni (MPU)

One consultant will be appointed for each group region/corridor.

Deliverables:

Output/ Deliverable

Activity

Timeline

(40 days)

Inception Report and drafting of the mapping tool (Part A) and the needs assessment tool (Part B)

Brief meeting with UN Women and other concerned institutions, prepare and present a comprehensive inception report which includes among others the mapping tool, needs assessment tool, to be used for the mapping of existing and needed care services timeframes and methodology

Present to the UN Women

3 days

Mapping (17 days)

Desktop study

Desk review of existing tools, services and infrastructure within the care services including basic education, and liaise with relevant stakeholders including the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Department of Agriculture, Department of Social Development, the Department of Health and the Department of Basic Education, CSOs and women’s cooperatives. Also identify gaps in laws and policies related to unpaid care work

10 days

Mapping of existing and needed care services

Conduct mapping exercise as stipulated on the Tasks and Outputs, to better understand existing and needed care service provision and social care infrastructure including in urban and rural areas(Refer to Section 3.2.Geographical Area)

Guidance notes for Policy formulation

Develop guidance notes to influence national policy formulation

5 days

Models and guidelines for care services and time-saving, climate resilient, environmentally-sustainable infrastructure

Develop models and guidelines for care services and time saving, climate -resilient, environmentally-sustainable infrastructure.

Presentation to UN Women

Share draft with UN Women and stakeholders for their input, thereafter finalise report based on the recommendations from the draft.

2 days

Conduct Needs assessment (20 days)

Desktop study

Obtain and Review a database of cooperatives and other organisations to assess. Give inputs

Conduct desktop study of unpaid care work in the South African context

Obtain and review database/(s) of cooperatives and other organisations, and synthesise

2 days

Care needs assessment

Prepare Guidance notes, Models and guidelines for care services and time-saving, climate resilient, environmentally-sustainable infrastructure

Conduct care needs assessment of participating cooperatives and other organizations (skills gap, capacity needs; technical and facilities, and related)

Prepare Guidance notes together with participating organisations on how to strengthen actions towards the 3Rs. (Develop models and guidelines for care services and time saving, climate -resilient, environmentally-sustainable infrastructure)

15 days

Presentation to the UN Women

Share draft with UN Women and stakeholders for their input to later finalise the guidance notes based on the recommendations and inputs given by UN Women and stakeholders.

3 days

Timeframe and reporting:

The research institution is expected to conduct the baseline study for a period not exceeding 40 days from the signing of contract day as envisaged on the deliverables table above.

The appointed consultants/(s) will report to the 3R Programme National Coordinator within the time frames agreed to on the Terms of Reference.

Competencies

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: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf

Functional Competencies:

• Strong programme formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation skills;
• Strong budget and finance skills;
• Strong knowledge of Results Based Management;
• Ability to synthesize program performance data and produce analytical reports in order to inform management and strategic decision-making;
• Strong analytical skills;
• Good knowledge of UN programme management systems.

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification:

• A Masters University degree in Child Development, Care Work, Gender equality, social work or other related field experience is required;
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Recruitment Qualifications:

• A minimum of eight (8) years of experience in education/care work with significant field experience working on ECD interventions, Care Work, unpaid care work, women’s rights and empowerment, gender equality in technical and/or coordination role;
• Demonstrated experience in developing Care work; ECD (plans, programmes and budgets and strategies);
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team in a challenging and highly fluid and complex environment, flexibility and ability to handle ambiguity and constant change;
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines;
• Relevant experience in a cross-sectoral ECD coordination role in a UN system agency or similar organization is considered as an asset;
• Experience of working with government institutions specifically those in the care work services, and ECD;
• Good analytical skills and knowledge of quantitative, qualitative and participatory research methodologies and analysis on care work and ECD;
• Excellent facilitation, organization and planning skills;
• Proven information management and data skills (Excel, PowerPoint, MS word) in the areas of multi-modal, cross-sectoral data collection, data visualization, including mapping and M&E.
• Proven skills and knowledge of project management / cycle and family engagement for care work and ECD.

Language Requirements:

• Demonstrated excellent English written and oral communication skills and the ability to clearly and accurately convey information;
• Fluency in English is required;.
• Understanding of South African Indigenous languages (IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, and Sesotho) is an advantage for conducting the assignment;
• And Knowledge of other UN official working languages is an asset.

Note:

Please note that applications without a completed and signed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

UN Women Personal History form (P-11) can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment

UNWOMEN is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

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