National Consultant – Women, Peace and Security
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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. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments to 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.
In view of the important role women play in conflict prevention and resolution as well as in peace building, United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 1325, which was endorsed on 31 October 2000, has focused on issues such as mainstreaming a gender perspective into peace processes, promoting women’s equal and full participation in such processes, strengthening their role in decision making and implementing effective mechanisms for ensuring the protection and participation of women and girls. Resolution No. 1820, which was endorsed on June 19, 2008, emphasized the protection of girls and women affected by gender-based violence during conflict and transitional periods, including addressing the needs of victims/survivors, promoting a zero-tolerance policy for sexual violence and preventing sexual violence.
UN Women’s work on women, peace, and security is guided by 10 UN Security Council resolutions—1325(2000), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009), 1960 (2010), 2106 (2013), 2122 (2013), 2242 (2015), 2467 (2019) and 2493 (2019) and is bolstered by a number of related normative frameworks, which make up the broader women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda. In addition to these resolutions, which are the core pillars of the women, peace and security agenda, additional supplementary resolutions have been endorsed by the UN Security Council.
UN Women leads on implementing the WPS agenda through its technical inputs, research initiatives, data collection, learning exchanges, and documentation of good practices to inform policy and programming. UN Women support Member States’ efforts to translate the WPS agenda from policy to practice and work to build capacities and increase opportunities for women at the local, national, regional and national levels.
The First National Action Plan (NAP) (2067/68 - 2071/72) for Resolution No. 1325 and Resolution No. 1820 was implemented by the Government of Nepal.
The Government of Nepal (GoN),) endorsed the National Action Plan (Phase II) on women, peace and security (UNSCRs 1325 and 1820) with a specific focus on victims/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence under the leadership of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA). The NAP endorsement is a complementary step of Nepal government opening avenues for initiating the promotion of the rights of conflict victims including survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.
UN Women is seeking the services of a national consultant to provide technical and capacity development to government and other partners to support the implementation of the NAP II .
This is a home-based assignment for one year (20 August 2023 – 20 August 2024) on retainer basis (as and when required) with a maximum of 80 working days. The assignment may also include participation in meetings and consultations in Kathmandu and across Nepal. UN Women will not be committed to purchasing any minimum quantity of the Services, and purchases will be made only if there is an actual requirement upon the issuance of a Purchase Order based on this retainer contract. UN Women shall not be liable for any cost in the event that no purchases are made under this retainer contract. The expected deliverable and payment schedule are as follows:
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Deliverables
Expected numbers of working days[1]
Expected Timeline
1
Build capacity of MOHA Officials, other line ministry officials and National Conflict Victim Women Network (CVWN) on the Women Peace and Security (WPS) and their roles during the implementation phase
Up to 10 Days
By end of December
2
Provide technical support to document the digital stories of conflict related sexual violence survivors to MOHA
Up to 5 Days
By end of December
3
Provide support for coordination between UN agencies, UN And Development Partners
Up to 5 Days
By end of December
4
Development of “Code of Conduct for confidentiality and sensitivity” for local government
Up to 10 Days
By 2nd week of September
5
Facilitate consultation meeting with MOHA and other line ministry officials to discuss and finalize “Code of Conduct for confidentiality and sensitivity.”
Up to 5 Days
By 2nd week of September
6
Facilitate consultation meeting with MOHA and other line ministry officials to finalize the “Curriculum to build the capacity of Sub-committee at local level.”
Up to 5 Days
By end of August
7
Support UN Women team in the baseline study and desk review, to develop necessary tools, formats, checklist (including reporting and monitoring frameworks, to plan for NAP II)
Up to 10 Days
By end of October
8
Design and deliver capacity building training for government agencies on NAP II implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Up to 10 Days
By end of December
9
Provide technical support to MOHA to facilitate the Training of Trainers on NAP II in all seven provinces.
Up to 10 Days
By end of December
10
Support government in research initiatives, learning exchanges, documentation of good practices, capacity building exercise, national and provincial and local level strategic workshops, trainings, orientation;
Up to 10 Days
By end of December
Payment for this consultancy will be based on the achievement of each deliverable and certification that each has been satisfactorily completed. Payment will be based on the submission of the SSA report along with the relevant supporting documents for the achievement of deliverables.
- Travel and Accommodation Expenses
If consultants are required by UNWOMEN to travel beyond commuting distance from their usual place of residence, UNWOMEN will provide an airline ticket, or if not, the consultant will be entitled to reimbursement of airfare for UNWOMEN authorized travel, upon presentation of used airline stubs in an amount not to exceed the economy class fare or excursion fare, if applicable. For UNWOMEN authorized travel, the consultant will receive a daily subsistence allowance at United Nations authorized rates when traveling. Other necessary travel related expenses may be reimbursable on the basis of UNWOMEN's current practice and authorized rates.
[1] To be referred for financial proposal
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of the Programme Specialist, the consultant is responsible for supporting in the implementation of activities of four pillars of NAP II. The consultant will work in close coordination with relevant UN Women programme colleagues, other UN and government partners. The consultant shall be responsible for:
- Build capacity of government and other stakeholders including conflict victim survivor networks on Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, to support implementation and monitoring of NAP II
- Provide technical and policy advisory support to Government on WPS (through consultation and dialogue programme), including development of tools, guidelines, code of conduct, SOPs, monitoring and evaluation frameworks
- Provide technical support to UN Women’s partners in designing and executing research initiatives, learning exchanges, documentation of good practices, capacity building exercise, national and provincial and local level strategic workshops, trainings, orientation.
- Provide technical support to design Women Peace Resource Centers at federal level and in its implementation modality;
- Provide technical support to conflict victims network by supporting to add impact and reconciliation stories of survivors to be documented in the digital platform .
- Provide technical support to draft concept notes, project proposals and briefing materials.
Competencies
Core Values and Guiding Principles:
- Integrity: Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.
- Professionalism: Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work; and
- Respect for diversity: Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity.
Core Competencies:
Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
Accountability
- Creative Problem Solving
- Effective Communication
- Inclusive Collaboration
Stakeholder Engagement
Leading by Example
Required Skills and Experience
Master’s Degree in international development studies, gender/women’s studies, peacebuilding and gender, public policy, development economics, political science, non-traditional security etc.
A minimum 10 years of relevant work experience in, women- peace and security and other related areas.
- Proven experience in facilitating high level consultative workshops for governmental institutions and CSOs on WPS and NAP
- Proven experience of working with women survivors of Nepal’s conflict-related sexual violence using multiple and innovative approaches
Excellent knowledge and skills of training design and delivery for government agencies on issues related to NAP implementation including monitoring and evaluation.
Excellent command of written and oral English.
- Knowledge of additional UN language is an asset.
- Documents to be included when submitting the proposals
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:
• Expression of interest explaining why you are interested to this position and what professional skills and experiences make you a strong candidate.
• UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded: http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment
• A separate page of financial proposal[1], professional fee per day not extending 80 days. Please note that DSA for field missions will be paid at UN rates and travel, booked in compliance with UN Women policy, will be reimbursed at actual cost so these costs do not need to be included in the financial proposal.
[1] Please refer to the table under section 3.Key deliverables, Timeline, and Schedule of Payment.
- Evaluation Selection Criteria
A two-stage procedure is applied in evaluating the proposals.
- The technical proposal is assessed first based on the qualifications listed above. Those proposals that meet a minimum threshold (scoring at least 70% on the technical assessment) will be considered further, including through assessment of the financial proposal.
Technical evaluation criteria (including minimum qualifications):
- Qualification- Master’s degree in Gender and Development Studies, Political Science, Social Science, or any other related field of studies (10 points);
- A minimum of 10 years of professional experience and expertise in working on gender equality and women’s empowerment, specifically on women-peace and security (35 points);
- Working with the UN system (5 points) ;
- English and Nepali written skill based on the specific writing samples from unedited publications/documents of maximum 2-3 pages including but not limited to concept note, project brief, strategic paper, report (20 points) .
- Financial proposal of candidates who meet the technical assessment threshold will be evaluated.
The financial assessment will count as 30% of the total points. In this methodology, the maximum number of points assigned to the financial proposal is allocated to the lowest price proposal. All other price proposals receive points in inverse proportion.
A formula is as follows:
p = y (µ/z)
Where:
p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated
y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal
µ = price of the lowest priced proposal
z = price of the proposal being evaluated
Note: In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
UN Women is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Qualified Women, Dalits, Janjatis, Madhesis, Persons with Disabilities, gender and sexual minorities and other minorities are specially encouraged to apply.
UN Women does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
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