Consultants Job Opportunities DSM and
Kigoma at UN Women (UNW) – Tanzania | Deadline: 16th September, 2018
Consultant:
Refresher Training on Gender Responsive Local Economic Development, Planning
and Budgeting for LGAs (Kibondo, Kakonko and Kasulu)
Location
: Dar es Salaam and Kigoma, TANZANIA
Application
Deadline : 16-Sep-18 (Midnight New York, USA)
Type
of Contract : Individual Contract
Post
Level : National Consultant
Languages
Required :
English
Starting
Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) 24-Sep-2018
Expected
Duration of Assignment : 15 working days
Background:
UN
Women (UNW), 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
centre of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations
system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality are translated
into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in
support of Member States’ priorities and efforts while building effective
partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
The
UN Women Tanzania Country Programme is part of the United Nations Delivering as
One and included as part of the UN Development Assistance Programme, (UNDAP) II
(2016-2021) Outcome area “The economy is increasingly transformed for greater
pro-poor inclusiveness, competitiveness and improved opportunities for decent
and productive employment”, the UN Women Tanzania, Country Strategic Framework
2017 – 2021; the UN joint Programme for Kigoma Region 2017-2021 on Goal 5
‘Achieve Gender Equality and Empower all Women’), CEDAW and other international
and regional commitments.
The
UN Women’s project, Women’s Economic Empowerment -Increasing Entrepreneurship
Skills for women UN Joint Programme for Kigoma (2017-2021) aims at ensuring
that “Women, especially the poorest and most excluded, are economically
empowered and benefit from development”. The project covers three districts of
Kasulu, Kibondo and Kakonko in Kigoma Region.
Justification
of the consultancy:
The
economic empowerment of women is a human rights and social justice issue, but
it also reduces poverty, and strengthens economic growth and development.
Interventions aimed at promoting women’s economic empowerment will help in
achieving full recognition and realization of women’s economic rights and,
ultimately, sustainable development. Studies have shown that countries with a
high level of gender equality are more successful in reducing poverty than
those with a low level of gender equality. While recognizing the role of
private sector in economic growth processes, it is equally important to invest
in basic social services, social protection and infrastructure to improve
people’s lives particularly women and girls.
Enabling
women to become successful in business development requires addressing
underlying policy and regulatory constraints which falls under the LGA mandate.
Information
available in the Socio- economic profiles, district plans and budgets for
Kibondo, Kakonko and Kasulu, have gender mentioned however the budget
allocations to e.g. infrastructure, do not sufficiently prioritize the specific
needs of women. Consultations with women entrepreneurs from the three districts
indicate that women spend a lot of hours on unpaid care and domestic work e.g.
taking care of children, and other family members, food preparation, fetching
water or firewood, and are therefore time-poor and have less time to engage in
income generating activities. Most women also indicated that they don’t own
land or other productive resources to increase their income. They lack access
to both, technology as well as information. While some women indicate that they
belong to various self-help groups like VICOBA and other social networks, some
also indicate that their husbands don’t allow them to join such groups. Such
marginalization constitutes a major obstacle to socio-economic development of
the women, their communities and the economy at large.
In
November 2017 UN Women engaged two national consultants to conduct a
tailor-made training for LGA experts and District Councillors on gender
responsive planning and budgeting as well as identification of interventions in
LGA planning to enhance women’s economic empowerment. The training resulted to
development of Action Plans for Women’s Economic Empowerment in each district
of Kakonko, Kasulu and Kibondo.
UN
Women would now like to engage a consultant to:
Conduct
a refresher training to the LGAs on Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting;
Review
the implementation of the Women Economic Empowerment Plans developed in
November 2017 and gather lessons learned, challenges faced and agree on the
next steps;
Work
with the Ministry of Health, Community Development Gender Elderly and Children
(MOHCDGEC) to support and strengthen the implementation of the Women
Development Fund in the respective LGA.
Development
objective:
The
development objective underlying the proposed training is to build capacity of
LGA officials involved in development planning to ensure that the government
plans are addressing the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in terms of
their access to capital, technology, information and prioritizing interventions
that will reduce women’s time poverty.
Immediate
objectives:
To
refresh the knowledge of LGA Officials and policy makers on local economic
development and gender responsive planning and budgeting;
To
follow-up the implementation of the activities for local economic development,
gender responsive planning and budgeting as agreed in last year’s planning
sessions and to identify good practices, and discus mechanisms to address
emerging challenges;
To
support the LGAs to strengthen the implementation of the women development
funds in the respective LGAs.
Duties
and Responsibilities
The
consultant will have an overall responsibility to lead the training, to produce
reports, and to liaise with UN Women.
The
consultant will deliver on the following:
Liaise
with MOHCDGEC to develop a tailor-made refresher training module for the
promotion and access of women development funds and for the Gender Responsive
Planning and Budgeting – GRPB;
Gather
from the LGAs their lessons learned, challenges, agree and outline the next
steps for the implementation of women economic empowerment plans;
Train
a total of 60 participants from the three LGAs, Regional Secretariat and with
support from selected Central Government Ministries. The training will be
conducted in Kiswahili and will take place in Kasulu district on 1st October to
5th October 2018;
Manage
all reporting requirements for the training, compile and submit the final
report.
Deliverables:
The
consultant in collaboration will be responsible for delivering the following:
Meeting
with UN Women on 19th September 2018;
Provide
all training materials by 26th September 2018 to UN Women for review along with
a programme for training;
Incorporate
UN Women feedback into the training modules prior to training;
The
consultant will provide UN Women with a draft report in English for comments
and review as per the objectives listed above by 8th October 2018 and next
steps for the different districts;
UN
Women will provide feedback on the report by 10th October 2018;
The
final report incorporating UN Women’s feedback will be submitted by 12th
October along with copies of all finalized training materials in English and
Swahili. The report and training materials will be provided in both soft copy
and one hard copy.
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;
Please
visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and
Competencies:
http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-employment-values-and-competencies-definitions-en.pdf
Functional
Competencies:
Excellent
communication, report writing and presentation skills;
Ability
to synthesize information into analytical report to inform strategic
decision-making and partnerships;
Excellent
interpersonal and cross-cultural skills;
Sharing
knowledge and experience, communicating ideas and managing information flow;
Respond
positively to feedback and differing points of view;
Ability
to prioritize and complete tasks in a very limited time span under pressure.
Required
Skills and Experience
Education:
-master’s
Degree in Gender, Economics, Sociology, Law or other related field of study and
preferably with experience in training/facilitation (a PhD is preferred).
Experience:
At
least 10 years’ experience working on gender and women’s economic empowerment;
Significant
experience in carrying out gender training and applying gender mainstreaming to
the empowerment of women and women’s rights.
Languages:
High
proficiency in written and spoken English;
Knowledge
of Kiswahili is a must.
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.