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United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) strives to promote gender equality and women’s human rights, strengthen the implementation of gender-sensitive policy and legislation, and eliminate all forms of violence against women. UN Women is strategically positioned at both the national and provincial levels in moving towards the realization of gender equality and women’s empowerment. UN Women provides support to innovative initiatives that promote women’s human rights, with a special focus on their economic security, governance/ political participation, freedom from violence, as well as access to justice. Building strategic partnership with partners and enhance their capacity development is among the core organizational efficiency and effectiveness of UN Women. It supports partners to deliver and foster the achievement of key strategic note results in the different thematic areas of the agency work including women, peace, security, and humanitarian action.
Women and young women-led organizations (WLOs) have been playing crucial and pivotal roles in responding to the needs of vulnerable communities, particularly women and young women, in Sudan. The historical background of the context in Sudan has accentuated the indispensable role of WLOs in driving change among women of various intersectionalities. The political fragility, frequent conflicts, and intercommunal tensions, along with relative stability in some states, have significantly contributed to diversifying the roles that WLOs play. WLOs have steadfastly built their interventions and have invested in the triple humanitarian-peace and development nexus. During conflict, WLOs direct their efforts to provide essential humanitarian response, and during peacebuilding efforts, they are instrumental in building resilient communities and supporting early recovery processes by focusing on addressing the development needs of women and young women.
UN Women has been diligently collaborating with WLOs to enforce accountability in Women, Peace, and Humanitarian Action (WPHA) and to establish an environment conducive to transformative gender change. Despite the pivotal role of WLOs in promoting gender equality and women’s rights, they are confronted with capacity gaps that impede their capacity to deliver high-quality reports and adhere to UN Women's financial requirements and regulations.
UN Women is seeking to recruit Two consultants to work closely with a UN Women team on a project funded by WPHF. The project's primary objective is to bolster the institutional capacity of CSOs and WLOs and improve their programmatic intervention in WPS across 13 states of Sudan (East Darfur, Gazira, River Nile, Blue Nile, Gadarif, Kassala, Red Sea, North Darfur, South Darfur, White Nile, Northern state – Shamalia ,North Kordofan and South Kordofan). The two consultants will rigorously assess the programmatic, financial, and knowledge aspects that support the capacity of the targeted WLOs and CSOs to deliver with utmost efficiency and effectiveness. In addition, the two consultants are expected to deliver a comprehensive response/intervention plan incorporating clear guideline, 2 training manuals on proposal writing, project design, reporting, monitoring, and evaluation, and on transformational gender change and leadership. Additionally, the consultants are responsible of designing training materials,, tools, and indicators to measure post-implementation progress.
Under a direct supervision of the WPHF lead, the 2 consultants are required to work closely with the UN Women programme, operation, communication, and M&E teams to conduct a comprehensive capacity assessment and develop an intervention plan, as well as with a financial specialist to support the designing of training manual and materials and with other hired facilitators to support the capacity development of the WPHF IPs. It is imperative that the consultant utilize the organizational capacity assessment training manual (OCAT) and make necessary adaptations to align with the capacity assessment requirements.
Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work
Overall Objective
.Specific Objectives:
Geographical locations/Target WLOs: Across 13 states of Sudan (East Darfur, Gazira, River Nile, Blue Nile, Gadarif, Kassala, Red Sea, North Darfur, South Darfur, White Nile, Northern state – Shamalia ,North Kordofan and South Kordofan).
Assessment Approach, and Methodology
The 2 consultants in close supervision and collaboration with the data collectors should utilize an innovative participatory approach to conduct the assessment and develop effective interventions including training manual materials. Additionally, they should employ appropriate methodologies for designing data, creating collection tools, sampling, and conducting data analysis, considering the context of war and the challenges of accessing the conflicted affected areas.
Task, and responsibilities of the consultant
Deliverables
Deliverable |
Expected number of working days |
Payment Schedule (optional) |
Inception report submission |
5 days |
30% upon the submission of the inception report |
Training of data collectors |
3 days |
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Preparatory workshop with the IPs |
3 days |
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First draft the capacity assessment, and the response plan |
10 days |
|
Validation work of the assessment findings |
2 days |
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Final draft of the capacity assessment, and the response plan/intervention |
3 days |
20% |
Preparation and design of the training manual materials including validation meeting with UN Women team |
13 days |
30% |
Training of the IPS |
6 days |
20% |
Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
The 2 consultants will be working from Port Sudan. Any trips to other cities will be confirmed accordingly
Core Values:
Core Competencies:
Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies:
https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/application-process#_Values
FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:
Education and Certification:
Experience:
Languages:
Fluency in English and Arabic is required.
How to Apply