UNDP Jobs - 56183- International Expert on Data Collection and Data A

International Expert on Data Collection and Data Analysis - UNDP/Gender Equality Project

Location :

Kabul, AFGHANISTAN

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

05-Jul-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

Four Months (90 Working Days)

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.

Background

Gender mainstreaming is identified in the Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS) as a cross cutting issue. The adoption of the National Action Plan for Women in Afghanistan (NAPWA), (2008- 2018) forms the policy and institutional basis for “promotion of women's advancement is a shared obligation within government and it is a collective responsibility of all sectors, institutions, and individuals to include women or/and gender concerns in all aspects of government work.” NAPWA seeks to achieve outcomes in three main areas:

(i) Gender equality in employment, promotion, policy making, and budget allocations;
(ii) Measurable improvements in women’s status, in line with MDG 3; and
(iii) Greater social acceptance of gender equality as evidenced by increased participation by women in public affairs and policy discussions.

Afghanistan has also committed itself to gender equality in other documents such as the Afghanistan Constitution, the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Afghanistan Millennium Development Goal and the Afghanistan Compact and National Action Plan for Women of Afghanistan.

Gender Equality Project Phase II is now in the third and final year of its implementation which is a critical juncture for the project to ensure that it not only achieves the commitments, in line with project document but also to establish strong foundations for the next phase project formulation.

Building on the structure and existing mechanisms of MoWA M&E unit, UNDP through the GEP-II places important attention to further support the improvement of monitoring functions of MOWA, strengthening M&E coordination mechanism between other line ministries and Central Statistical Office (CSO), regular capacity development for the officials of MoWA and other line ministries on the collection of data/information relating to the implementation of National Action Plan for Women of Afghanistan (NAPWA), establishment of a Central Data Base on the data/information, collaboration with the ANDS Secretariat of the Ministry of Finance on facilitating the review of NPPs of other Clusters from a gender perspective, integration of gender issues in the NPPs of other Clusters and present briefs in appropriate platforms for ensuring their effective integration, preparation of reports on MoWA NPP.

Following the mandate of MOWA on policy making, coordination and oversight of the implementation of the National Afghanistan commitments on gender equality and women’s empowerment, the MoWA Monitoring and Evaluation Department, with the support from UNDP GEP-II, has initiated the establishment of a NAPWA indicators online Management Information System.

One of the focused areas of work for UNDP/GEP has been supporting the MOWA M&E department to establish a systematic data collection and reporting mechanism of NAPWA. Reporting on NAPWA progress of indicators has been difficult in the absence of baseline data. To further enrich the NAPWA indicators data collection and reporting mechanism on gender, UNDP/GEP engaged a consultant in 2014 to provide technical support to MOWA. The support resulted in the development of harmonized and refined NAPWA indicators, a NAPWA conceptual framework, data collection tools (qualitative and quantitative), matrix, and reference sheet.

Primary and secondary data of NAPWA indicators will be collected by various stakeholders that include Gender Units, MOWA Monitoring Unit and Central Statistics Office (CSO). This data will be upload into an online web based Management Information System which MOWA is currently developing with support from UNDP and UN Women. A prototype gender management information system has been developed. A technical coordination mechanism comprising of UN Women, UNFPA, UNHCR, CSO, Asia Foundation, and the Ministry of Public Health has been established to provide strategic inputs on the development of the online web based system and collection of the data. The CSO will conduct a national survey in 2015 that provides an opportunity to integrate the NAPWA indicators. A lot of preliminary work will be required to review existing secondary data to identify available data and gaps. CSO will focus on collecting the data that will be missing. Some of the NAPWA indicators are at policy level, and will be collected mainly by the MOWA Monitoring Unit and line ministry Gender Units.

The services of a consultant is required to provide technical support and coordinate all key stakeholders for timely development and or refining of data collection tools, collection of the data, tabulating, designing and packing the data for ease entry into the online web based system; analyzing all the NAPWA indicator data and produce a high quality report that clearly provides a national status of gender (issues, quantitative and qualitative data, milestones, gaps, challenges, lessons, best practices and recommendations) to enable government, civil society and other stakeholders to produce evidence based policy making, monitoring and budgeting. The consultant is expected to focus on principles of ownership, result and evidence based approaches; accountability, and culturally sensitive approaches in undertaking this assignment. MOWA will be capacitated to lead the processes.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work, Expected Outputs and Deliverables

Scope of Work:

The Expert on Data Collection and Data Analysis will be responsible for the below tasks:

To provide technical support to MOWA and key stakeholders to develop and or refine data collection tools, guidelines, protocols, methodologies and frameworks for the NAPWA indicators;
To review secondary data and identify NAPWA indicators already existing so that data collection can only focus on unavailable and or outdated data to facilitate report writing and additional data collection;
To develop any other relevant materials for the collection of NAPWA indicators data in collaboration with MoWA, NAPWA technical coordination team and CSO;
To coordinate key stakeholders to ensure timely collection of the NAPWA indicators data by CSO, MOWA and Gender Units.
To provide technical support on data cleaning, tabulation, packaging for logical entry into the online web based management information system already developed by MOWA;
To provide training on data collection, storage, analysis and reporting to relevant staff of CSO and MoWA, particularly the M&E Unit and Gender Units;
To support CSO and MoWA in pre-testing the questionnaire and make the necessary adjustments prior to the data collection;
To produce a high level quality analytical synthesized report of the primary and secondary data collected using NAPWA indicators in collaboration with MOWA, Gender Units and CSO which include (gender issues, quantitative and qualitative data baseline data, milestones, gaps, challenges, lessons, best practices and recommendations);
Report approved by CSO, MOWA and UNDP including relevance partners;
To provide technical assistance to Central Statistics Office, through MoWA’s M&E Unit to develop and implement the research design for collecting data for NAPWA indicators;
To support CSO and MoWA to analyze data collected and produce an analytical report;
Participate in all NAPWA related meetings to facilitate coordination.

Expected Outputs and Deliverables:

Working under the supervision of the GEP Project Manager the consultant coordinate stakeholders to achieve the following outputs timely;
Enhanced government and civil society capacity to monitor and report on national and international commitments impacting women;
Enhanced evidence based policy making, monitoring and budgeting by stakeholders.

Expected results:

Data collection tools, guidelines, protocols, methodologies and frameworks refined and other relevant materials developed in collaboration with MoWA and CSO;
Data on NAPWA indicators collected by CSO, MOWA, Gender Units, Enumerators and relevant stakeholders on NAPWA indicators;
Collected data cleaned, tabulated packaged for logical entry into the online web based management information system already developed by MOWA;.
Analytical synthesized report of the primary and secondary data collected using NAPWA indicators in collaboration with MOWA, Gender Units and CSO;
Report approved by CSO, MOWA and UNDP including relevance partners.

The outputs / deliverables of the consultant and the estimated duration to complete the deliverables are given below:

Deliverables/Outputs/Target Due date after contract signing/inputes

(a)Data collection tools, guidelines, protocols, methodologies and frameworks refined and other relevant materials developed in collaboration with MoWA, technical coordination team and CSO.NAPWA indicators available compiled and remaining integrated on CSO national survey. (b)Analytical report of NAPWA indicators - May 2015 (30%);
Primary data collected, data cleaned, tabulated, packaged for logical entry into the online web based management information system already developed by MOWA in collaboration with CSO and other stakeholders - June 2015 (20%);
Analytical synthesized report of the primary and secondary data collected using NAPWA indicators in collaboration with MOWA, Gender Units, CSO and key stakeholders - July 2015 (40%);
Report approved by CSO, MOWA and UNDP including relevance partners, End of assignment report - August 2015 (10%).

Working Arrangements:

Institutional Arrangements

Liaise with MoWA M&E, technical coordination team and CSO for all data collection and database system process;
Liaise with Gender Equality Project and all relevant stakeholders;
Prepare all the necessary reports, tools and documents;
Any other tasks that may be given by UNDP/GEP II Policy and Planning Specialist and Project Manager.

Duration of the Work:

The duration of the assignment is four months.

Duty Station:

The consultant will be based in Gender Equality Project II, Ministry of Women Affairs-Kabul but will also spend considerable time at Central Statistics Office.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

Ethics and Values: Demonstrate and safeguard ethics and integrity;
Organizational Awareness: Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;
Development and Innovation: Take charge of self-development and take initiative;
Team Work: Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multi ethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds;
Communicating and Information Sharing: Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for effective communication.

Functional competencies:

Ability to work under pressure and meeting tight multiple deadlines with minimum supervision;
Ability to develop creative solutions;
Ability to work in culturally diverse environments and display diplomacy and tact.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Minimum the Master Degree on Statistics, Computer Science, Social Science or other relevant disciplines.

Experience:

A minimum of 7 years’ experience on gender statistics, gender mainstreaming, gender responsive mainstreaming, and database methodologies;
Special skills/ experience on gender mainstreaming policies, gender related data analysis of sectorial program;
Expertise in gender responsive monitoring, gender disaggregated statistics analysis, database development;
Proficiency in data management, including database development, data entry and cleaning;
procedures;
Familiarity with Afghanistan and its political, social and Islamic context;
Successful working experience in Afghanistan or other Islamic countries;
Familiarity with the gender equality and women’s empowerment concepts;
Experience, knowledge and understanding of data collection and analyzing, preferably in conflict/post conflict situations;
Experience related to UNDP's mandate and activities an asset;
Previous experience of working in UNDP or the UN system highly desirable;
Good experience and skills for capacity building, team building and teamwork;
Experience of working in data collection and data analyzing in post-war countries.

Language:

Excellent written and oral English skills a necessary requirement;
Competence in Dari and/or Pashtu desirable;
Knowledge of the local languages and the region is preferred.

Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments:

The proposal from the consultant in relation to this assignment should be expressed as a lump sum payment. The financial proposal should clearly include the following budget items. Professional fees, living allowance, air ticket, visa fees, accommodation, communication and any other. The consultant is expected to stay in Kabul for a continuous period of four months. The payments will be implemented and linked with the below deliverables and timeframe given.

Evaluation Method and Criteria:

The award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

The offer will be evaluated by using the Best Value for money approach (combined scoring method). The Technical Proposal will be evaluated on 60%. Whereas the Financial Proposal will be evaluated on 30%. Relevant education and experience will be evaluated on 10% making total score to be 100%. The breakdown for evaluation is found below. Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points (70% of the total technical points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation.

Technical Proposal:

Methodology and approach to fulfilling the outlined deliverables - 60%

Financial Proposal: 30%

Qualification and Experience: (10%)

Master Degree on Statistics, Computer Science, Social Science (5 %);
A minimum of 7 years’ experience in collection and analyzing of data (5%).

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information:

Personal CV and P11, including at least three professional references; (Annex);
Technical proposal describing his or her approach, methodology and timeline to achieve the deliverables (to be included in the online submission);
Financial proposal that indicates thefixed total contact price for a six-month assignment, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per the template provided.

Note:

Only one document can be uploaded and hence it is suggested that the CV, P-11, financial proposal and sample writing/editing/publication are uploaded as one document;
Only 3-5 best candidates would be invited to the interview and be requested to submit financial proposals.

Annex (to be downloaded from UNDP Afghanistan Website, procurement notices section.

http://www.af.undp.org/content/afghanistan/en/home/operations/procurement.html