National Consultant- To Facilitate a Training on Gender Responsive Budgeting for Secretariat and committees of the House of Peoples Representatives

Background

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN Women), as part of its 2021-2025 Strategic Plan sets out to address the root causes of inequality and affect broader systems change, including by supporting financing for gender equality. In alignment with the global Strategic Plan, UN Women Ethiopia Country Office (ECO) is working towards ensuring a gender-responsive financing system within Ethiopia's public finance management system. The ECO works to ensure new and existing internationally and nationally agreed commitments on GEWE are effectively financed in Ethiopia by enabling the government to establish a Gender Responsive National Planning and Budgeting system.

In 2023, In implementing its Strategic Plan, UN Women signed a project agreement with the Ethiopian House of People’s Representatives (HoPR) titled “Strengthening institutional and parliamentarians’ capacity for gender responsive Parliament in Ethiopia” with the goal of enhancing gender responsiveness of the parliament and effective leadership of women parliamentarians in the process.

The HoPR is the highest body in the Federal Government of Ethiopia (GoE) with the “power of legislation in all matters assigned by this Constitution to Federal jurisdiction”. Among its other mandates, HoPR is also mandated by the Constitution to review and ratify budgets submitted by the Council of Ministers and House of Federation. In this view, one of the strategies of the project agreement between UN Women and HOPR is to strengthen capacity of Secretariat of the Parliament on gender equality and gender mainstreaming so that they can effectively support members of Parliament to ensure gender is mainstreamed throughout their representative, legislative and oversight function.

Budgeting is the major instrument in executing policies and a tool to measure the commitment of the government in implementing prioritized policies and strategies. Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) is a tool for gender mainstreaming in budgetary process. It is a gender-based assessment of budgets, incorporating a gender perspective at all levels of the budgetary process and restructuring revenues and expenditures to promote gender equality.

As such, leveraging on its constitutional mandate to review and ratify sectors’ budget, HoPR should be accountable in its oversight by pushing other sectors and holding them accountable when submitting their budget reports. The sectors should be required to include the gender budget statement and/or disaggregated information showing the priority issues of women and girls with the budget. As such, parliamentarians have to be empowered to independently analyse the budget if they are to play a meaningful role in the process. In addition, it is important for Parliamentarians to build their knowledge of economic policy, budgets and gender issues.

Against this background, UN Women proposes to recruit a facilitator to provide training for 8 days in four rounds for the secretariat of the HoPR

Duties and Responsibilities

Prepare a training agenda and major points of discussion (e.g using Power Point) that could be easily referred in the organization of the training using GRB took kit prepared by MoF and UN Women.
Facilitate an interactive two-day training on GRB and Gender budget statement for the two committees in two rounds .
Facilitate an interactive two-days training on GRB for Secretariat of the HoPR in two rounds .
Prepare a training workshop report that includes pre and post training assessment of participant evaluations, possible recommendations and lessons learnt.
The consultant is expected to prepare a report after each training .

Competencies

Core Values:

Respect for Diversity
Integrity
Professionalism

Core Competencies:

Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
Accountability
Creative Problem Solving
Effective Communication
Inclusive Collaboration

Functional Competencies:

Sharing knowledge and experience
Seeks and applies knowledge, information, and best practices from within and outside UN Women
Demonstrates excellent written and oral communication skills. Communicates sensitively, effectively, and creatively across different constituencies
Demonstrates very good understanding of and experience in communications and outreach/advocacy
Focuses on results for the client and responds positively to feedback
Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
Proven networking skills and ability to generate interest in UN Women’s mandate
Identifies opportunities and builds strong partnerships with clients and partners
Multidisciplinary skills and the ability to communicate effectively.
Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
Sensitivity to regional political, gender and cultural balance.
A high standard of professionalism.

Required Skills and Experience

EDUCATION :

Master’s degree or equivalent in, social sciences, gender/ women’s studies, Economics, international development, or a related field is required.

EXPERIENCE:

A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in developing and delivering capacity building trainings on gender equality and gender responsive budgeting
Knowledge of adult learning methodologies and participatory processes;
Proven good tracking record on similar job and assignments working with Parliamentarians, and government organizations.

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS:

Fluency in written and spoken Amharic and English required.

Application:

All applications must include (as an attachment) a completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment.
Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment and candidates are required to include in the P-11 form links for their previously published reports and articles completed within the last two years. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

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