PNUD recruits 01 Local Consultant, Assessing Gender Statistics System in Mozambique
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Maputo,Mozambique
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Local Consultant, Assessing Gender Statistics System in Mozambique
Advertised on behalf of : UN WOMEN
Location : Maputo, Mozambique, MOZAMBIQUEApplication Deadline : 28-Sep-20 (Midnight New York, USA)Additional Category : Gender Equality
Type of Contract : Individual ContractPost Level : National ConsultantLanguages Required : English PortugueseStarting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) 12-Oct-2020Duration of Initial Contract : 30 DaysExpected Duration of Assignment : 30 Days
BackgroundUN 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.
In Mozambique, this role is exercised in the context of the overall support provided by the UN system under the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2017-2021. UN Women’s Strategic Note for Mozambique covering the period 2017-2020 focuses on providing financial and technical support to the Government of Mozambique across four thematic areas: women’s economic empowerment (WEE), women’s leadership and participation, institutional strengthening around gender mainstreaming and gender responsive budgeting, women peace and security, as well as combating, preventing and responding to violence against women and girls. 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.
In September 2015, governments united behind the ambitious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which features 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets that aim to end poverty, combat inequalities and promote prosperity by 2030 while protecting the environment. The 2030 Agenda sets out a historic and unprecedented level of ambition to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by 2030” (SDG 5) as well as including 37 gender-related targets in 10 other SDGs. It commits to addressing core issues of gender equality such as eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, eradicating discriminatory laws and constraints on sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recognizing and valuing unpaid care and domestic work and increasing women’s participation in decision-making.
To successfully track the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, a robust and equally ambitious monitoring framework is needed. Significant investments in gender statistics are necessary to ensure that evidence-based policies are devised, the impacts of these policies are assessed and the accountability of policymakers and governments to deliver on these commitments is promoted. Robust indicators and quality data are of critical importance and will determine whether policy efforts are marshalled and whether the goals and targets are achieved or missed.
To support member states in implementing the 2030 Agenda, UN Women’s Flagship Programme Initiative, “Making Every Woman and Girl Count (MEWGC)” aims to affect a radical shift in the availability, accessibility and use of data and statistics on key aspects of gender equality and women’s empowerment. The regional and national components of the MEWGC Programme include a multi-year scope of work with focus on implementing and supporting regional and country activities in East and Southern Africa.
This includes enhancing the linkages between normative and technical work on gender statistics at the regional and national levels in Mozambique in the three inter-related key areas of work:
Building a supportive policy and institutional environment for the localization and effective monitoring of the SDGs;Increasing the quality, comparability and regularity of gender statistics to address national data gaps and meet reporting commitments under the SDGs; andEnsuring that gender statistics are accessible to users in governments, civil society, academia and the private sector, to strengthen adequate demand for their production.In this context, UN Women is seeking the services of a highly qualified consultant to support the assessment of the gender statistics systems in Mozambique. The successful consultant will work closely with the Gender Statistics Specialist based in Nairobi, and direct supervision by the Women’s Economic Empowerment Portfolio Programme Officer (in his capacity as the statistics focal point), as well as the gender machinery and National Statistics Office in Mozambique.
The assignment is aligned with the UN Women Africa Strategy (2018 – 2021) that intends to ensure that «No Woman and Girl is left Behind» as Africa implements and strives to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – particularly Goal 5: “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. It further allows UN Women to coordinate its actions in achievement of the Africa’s Agenda 2063 Goals and Aspirations striving for «An Africa whose development is people-driven, relying on the potential of African people, especially its women and youth, and caring for children» (Aspiration 6). UN Women strategy underscores not only the immense benefits of empowering women and girls, but the inherent value of women’s rights, and empowerment as a women’s human rights imperative. It also aligns with the UNDAF Output 4.4 which seeks to ensure that “Gender disaggregated data is systematically collected, analyzed and disseminated for policy formulation, planning, monitoring and evaluation.”
Duties and ResponsibilitiesThe overall objective of the consultancy is to do an assessment of the gender statistics systems in each country in close cooperation with the gender machinery and National Statistics Offices.
SPECIFIC SCOPE OF WORK:
In Mozambique, the consultant will closely work with the gender machinery and National Statistics Offices. The scope of work will include:
Carry out an initial in-depth desk review of the institutional framework of the Mozambique National Statistics Office (INE), Ministries of Economy and Finance (MEF), Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Action (MGCAS) and other line ministries that are involved with data production and use. The review will be aimed at establishing the extent to which the institutional frameworks hinders the regular production of gender statistics and will be using the framework jointly developed by Paris 21 and UN Women to determine what needs to be done moving forward.The review document will primarily focus on the following:document the key institutional mechanisms or constraints that prevent (or facilitate) more regular production of gender statistics at the national level and propose solutions to strengthen them or steps that can be taken to address these constraints. Document broader country level initiatives i.e. M&E framework of SDGs and the extent to which gender equality is integrated into this M&E framework.Document good practices which led to improve availability of gender statistics which may be replicated.Consultation with the NSO and other key government agencies and line ministries to assess the technical capacity gaps in gender statistics among producers and users of data, particularly within the NSO.Consultations including the Planning Commission (NPC), United Nations Country Team (UNCT), national gender machineries, civil society organization groups, universities, research institutions and development partners (e.g. UK AID, World bank, African Development Bank and others) to have a deeper understanding on the needs, constraints and potential solutions to facilitate increased collaboration between users and producers and identify concrete and actionable solutions to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations (CSO), government and UN Country teams to analyze and use gender statistics to inform decision-making.Facilitate a validation workshop and incorporate all inputs to finalize the project document and annual workplan.Propose concrete and actionable approaches to ensure systematic production of gender statistics in Mozambique with respective pros and cons.Support UN Women, the NSO and gender machinery to develop a project document and associated work plan for the advancement of Gender Statistics in Mozambique.
Duties and Responsibilities
Present an Inception Report
-Draw a road map and detailed action plan for the entire consultancy and research (including a timeframe);-The study methodology will be developed by the consultant and presented for approval to UN Women.-Conduct a desk review of existing literature on gender statistics, strategies and policies on the subject;-The inception report should identify possible members that will compose the study reference group. Organize an inception workshop and establish a working relationship with stakeholders. The wider purpose of the workshop will be to introduce the project and explain how the study will be conducted, the questionnaire to be completed, etc. The inception workshop will explain the basic concepts of gender statistics to everyone; explain the purpose of the study; explain the questionnaires that will have to be completed by everyone and introduce the consultant.
Draft a Report and Project Proposal – Mozambique Chapter -Need assessment document focusing on institutional framework and constraints, key data gaps for monitoring of SDGs and other national gender equality priorities, steps to integrate gender indicators including steps that need to be taken to close these data gaps; and to what extent existing gender statistics are used in policy making through whole of society approach;
-First Draft Project Proposal, based on the findings of the national need assessment, focusing on key intervention areas that to support BBS on gender statistics and strengthen national-level SDGs monitoring and reporting in a gender responsive manner; and strengthen UNCT and UN data group collaboration with key partners to help promote and support national plans to localize and monitor the SDGs.-Final Draft of Project Proposal after incorporating feedback and comments UN Women and stakeholders.
Facilitate a Validation Seminar-Prepare the presentation of findings and take note of all the recommendations made by the validation committee;
-Alongside with UN Women, gender machineries, women’s organizations and partners, incorporate all the strong recommendations identified during the validation workshop into the final report and project document.
Present the Study Main Findings at a National EventUpon request conduct a presentation of the mapping, main findings and recommendations in a national event.
Competencies
Corporate Competences and Ethics-Demonstrate integrity, values, and ethics in accordance to UN Women norms
-Promote the vision, mission, and strategic objectives of UN Women-Show respect regardless the race/colour, sex, religion, nationality, and age as well as be sensible to cultural adaptation capacity-Consultant are expected to have personal and professional integrity and abided by the UN Code-Treats all people fairly without favoritism-Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.
Functional Competences-Knowledge of legislation, programme and public policies on gender, women’s economic empowerment, and women’s rights in general in Mozambique
-Ability to pragmatically apply in-depth knowledge and experience of issues and practices in the fields of judiciary systems; legal reform; gender equality,-Strong skills and experience in presenting evidence and ideas for policy and programme.-Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude.-Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities.-Strong communications skills (written and oral)-Demonstrated experience in gender and development related research-Leadership and skills to work with autonomy and initiative-Strong Advocacy skills-Excellent knowledge of gender equality, women’s human rights and women’s empowerment in Mozambique-Strong knowledge of UN system.
Managing knowledge and learning-Promote knowledge sharing and a learning culture;
-Team working; and-Strong communication skills, oral and written in Portuguese and English; knowledge of local languages is an asset.
Ethical Code of Conduct-Independence: Consultant shall ensure that independence of judgment is maintained and that the study findings and recommendations are independently presented.
-Cultural Sensitivity/Valuing diversity: Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.-Impartiality: Consultant shall operate in an impartial and unbiased manner and give a balanced presentation of strengths and weaknesses of the key players in the field.-Conflict of Interest: Consultant are required to disclose in writing any experience, which may give rise to a potential conflict of interest, and to deal honestly in resolving any conflict of interest which may arise.-Honesty and Integrity: Consultant shall show honesty and integrity in their own behaviour, negotiating honestly the study costs, tasks, limitations, scope of results likely to be obtained, while accurately presenting their procedures, data and findings and highlighting any limitations or uncertainties of interpretation within the study.-Competence: Consultant shall accurately represent their level of skills and knowledge and work only within the limits of their professional training and abilities in study, declining assignments for which they do not have the skills and experience to complete successfully.-Accountability: Consultant are accountable for the completion of the agreed deliverables within the timeframe and budget agreed, while operating in a cost-effective manner.-Obligations to Participants: Consultant shall respect and protect the rights and welfare of human subjects and communities, in accordance with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights conventions. Consultant shall respect differences in culture, local customs, religious beliefs and practices, personal interaction, gender roles, disability, age and ethnicity, while using study instruments appropriate to the cultural setting. Consultant shall ensure prospective participants are treated as autonomous agents, free to choose whether to participate in the study, while ensuring that the relatively powerless are represented.-Confidentiality: Consultant shall respect people’s right to provide information in confidence and make participants aware of the scope and limits of confidentiality, while ensuring that sensitive information cannot be traced to its source.-Avoidance of Harm: Consultant shall act to minimize risks and harms to, and burdens on, those participating in the assignment, without compromising the integrity of the study findings.-Accuracy, Completeness and Reliability: Consultant have an obligation to ensure that the study report and presentations are accurate, complete and reliable. Consultant shall explicitly justify judgments, findings and conclusions and show their underlying rationale, so that stakeholders are able to assess them.-Transparency: Consultant shall clearly communicate to stakeholders the purpose of the study, the criteria applied and the intended use of findings. Consultant shall ensure that stakeholders have a say in shaping the study and shall ensure that all documentation is readily available to and understood by stakeholders.-Omissions and wrongdoing: Where consultant find evidence of wrong-doing or unethical conduct, they are obliged to report it to the proper oversight authority.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:Master’s degree (or equivalent) in development related disciplines, gender studies, economics, statistics, development, or other social science fields.
Experience:-A minimum of 15 years of experience in the field of gender and statistics at the national and/or international level;
-Experience in statistical training and related statistical activities in developing countries is required;-Strong technical expertise in the drafting of statistics-based research and related reports, and in providing training on statistical and data management issues, preferably in the context of gender statistics;-Experience in data processing, data quality assessment and data analysis. Familiarity with the development and application of household-based survey tools, establishment surveys and administrative records for generating information on progress towards gender equality and empowerment of women (SDG 5 and other gender-related SDG indicators);
Familiarity with UN Women’s mandate and related work in the Africa region.
Language Requirements:
Excellent command of written and oral English and Portuguese (both spoken and written).
UNDP 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.
UNDP 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.POSTULER