Research Support for a Gender-Responsive LED Course for Municipalities

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Overview

Support development of a practical training course on gender-responsive LED for municipalities.

You have:

• Strong research and synthesis skills, including the ability to identify, review and summarize relevant resources and practical examples for municipalities.
• Knowledge of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment and/or local economic development, local governance or municipal service delivery.
• Experience developing training/learning materials and/or supporting course design (including e-learning content) is an asset.
• Excellent command of written English, with strong drafting and editing skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively with technical teams and incorporate feedback from multiple stakeholders.
• Comfort working with templates and style guidance to ensure consistency across materials.

Contract

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Inclusive and sustainable local economic development (LED) requires the full participation of women and men. Yet municipalities often implement LED policies without an explicit gender lens, which can leave structural barriers unaddressed and limit local prosperity. UNDP’s Istanbul Regional Hub (IRH) is developing a practical training course to help municipal staff and local economic development actors apply gender-responsive approaches—so they can identify gender gaps and translate them into more equitable policies, programmes and results.

The online volunteer will support the development of a practical training course on gender-responsive Local Economic Development (LED) for municipalities. This includes helping to research and curate relevant examples, supporting the drafting and structuring of course modules, and contributing to the preparation and quality review of training materials (e.g., slides and exercises) in line with UNDP guidance.

The online volunteer will: • Contribute to the development of course content (e.g., learning objectives, session outlines, key messages and suggested readings) and help ensure logical flow and consistent terminology. • Identify and compile good practice examples, tools and case studies on gender-responsive LED with a focus on municipal responsibilities and levers. • Support liaison and coordination with the M4EG team and gender specialists at IRH and relevant UNDP Country Offices (Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) to gather inputs and examples. • Support quality assurance of the final package (clarity, accessibility, coherence and consistency across modules) and help prepare materials for delivery.

• Strong research and synthesis skills, including the ability to identify, review and summarize relevant resources and practical examples for municipalities. • Knowledge of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment and/or local economic development, local governance or municipal service delivery. • Experience developing training/learning materials and/or supporting course design (including e-learning content) is an asset. • Excellent command of written English, with strong drafting and editing skills and attention to detail. • Ability to work collaboratively with technical teams and incorporate feedback from multiple stakeholders. • Comfort working with templates and style guidance to ensure consistency across materials.

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