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Consultancy to Contextualize, Adapt and Deliver a Training Workshop on Gender, Migration, Development and Rights” Based on the Manual “Gender on the Move”

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

Home-based

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

20-Jul-2015

Application Deadline :

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

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

4 months

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

4 months

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

UN 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.
Economic empowerment is one of the priority areas of UN Women. UN Women works with governments and multilateral partners (UNDP, ILO, World Bank, regional development banks) to promote women’s economic empowerment and increase their access to economic opportunities, especially for those who are most excluded. This includes the record number of women around the world who are migrating to seek work and better lives. For many, migration yields these benefits; for others, it carries dangerous risks, such as exploitation in domestic work, and vulnerability to violence. Migration policies and practices have been slow to recognize these risks and take steps to make the process safe for women.
Asian Context: While the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) and SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) regions have been the centre for economic growth in the last two decades, the growth is not evenly distributed resulting in rising inequalities within and across countries. These differentials in economic growth between states, and the consequential limited state capacity in some countries to accelerate universal access to decent work and social services which are further compounded by security concerns, subnational conflicts and natural calamities provide both the push and pull factors for labour migration within the Asian region and contribute to growing internal, regional and global labour migration flows. The Asian region provides easy migration opportunities due to the easy navigation and porous borders across most countries. There has been a rising trend of feminization of migration with large number of women across Asia travelling across borders in search of economic opportunities for several years now. However, this employment is largely informal and vulnerable with majority of them concentrating in the lowly paid agriculture sector, working as domestic workers and/or in the care industry and /or as unskilled labourers in the manufacturing zones.
To address these concerns and challenges, the Economic Empowerment Unit of UN Women Asia Pacific Regional Office is currently implementing two projects funded by the Swiss Development Cooperation titled ‘Empowering Regional Women Migrant Workers in Asia (2011-2015) and a DFAT funded project titled, ‘Preventing the Exploitation of Women Migrant Workers in ASEAN (2014-2016)’.
Both of the above listed projects share the objective to enhance the capacities of multiple stakeholders such as state agencies, ASEAN governance mechanisms, civil society organisations and local community groups to be able to: (a) undertake policy advocacy to prevent exploitation of migrant women groups, (b) to have access to knowledge, latest trends, evidence and information to be able to ensure safety of women migrant workers at all stages of the migration cycle, and (c) to develop skills and strategies in mobilising national, regional and international redress mechanisms for ensuring accountability of protection of migrant women workers.
Partnership with UN Women Training Centre:
The UN Women Training Centre in Santo Domingo is dedicated to supporting the UN and other stakeholders to realize commitments to gender equality, women's empowerment and women's rights through transformative training and learning. It provides high-quality training courses, programmes, and resources on key issues related to UN Women’s priorities as well as emerging topics, such as migration. The Centre’s approach to training for gender equality is guided by key international normative instruments, in particular the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Beijing Platform for Action.

On the topic of migration, the Training Centre offers a Training of Trainers (TOT) entitled “Working on the Migration-Development Nexus from a Gender Perspective”, based on its original training manual Gender on the Move. This course aims to provoke thinking and action around migration and development from a gender and rights-based perspective, bringing to the fore the gender dimensions of migration, remittances from a gender perspective, feminization of migration for care work, and migrant women’s rights.

In order to draw upon resources available within the organization, and with the common goal of strengthening capacity to promote and protect migrant women’s rights, the Economic Empowerment unit and the Training Centre of UN Women propose to jointly organize two training workshops entitled “Gender, Migration, Development: A Matter of Rights”, one for South Asia and another for Southeast Asia. Each workshop comprises a 5-day training of trainers for relevant staff of ASEAN governance mechanisms, gender machineries in ASEAN and SAARC, civil society organizations, migrant worker alliances and networks, and a 1-day training for Senior Government Officials.

Each training workshop will include both an online moderated and a face-to-face phase.

The objective of this consultancy is to support UN Women in adapting the existing UN Women Training Centre training package on Gender, Migration and Development to the contexts of South and Southeast Asia, including the design, the development, delivery, and evaluation steps.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Training Associate of UN Women Training Centre in close collaboration with UN Women Regional Office in Bangkok, the consultant will be responsible for the delivery of the following:

Based on the draft agenda and the manual “Gender on the Move”, adapt and finalize the detailed draft agenda for the two trainings (learning objectives, contents, methodology) in order to contextualize the workshop in South and Southeast Asia and prepare list of tasks and work plan (including list of additional resources for participants and case studies);
Map existing resources in the ROs and COs that inform on the context and select resources that could be useful as a reference for the audience;
Prepare training sessions and corresponding resource materials for the online and face-to-face phases, including contextualized case studies and good practices;
Adapt the Training Centre’s evaluation tools;
Co-facilitate all sessions including an online and a face-to-face phase. The duration of the online phase will be around one month and the duration of the face-to-face sessions will be of 5 days for the trainings of trainers and 1 day for the training of Senior Officials. In total there will be 4 groups: two groups for ToT (one per sub-region) and two groups for training of Senior Officials (one per sub-region);
Prepare the evaluation reports, based on the TC tools and templates.

The workshops will take place in two different locations, one in South Asia and one in South East Asia. The consultant will travel to both locations for a total estimated duration of 12 days. All travel-related costs for these workshops will be covered by UN Women.

Expected outputs:

First draft of adapted, detailed agenda for workshops in both including learning objectives, contents, methodology for each session and including resources and technical requirements, in addition to workplan and timeline; due by 27 July 2015
Final agreed version of detailed agenda and training sessions considering results of needs assessment survey; and prepared learning materials (including case studies, good practices, etc.); due by 4 September 2015
Evaluation report of both workshops; due by 19 November 2015

Competencies

Core Values and Guiding Principles:

Integrity:

Demonstrate the values of United Nations and UN Women, act without consideration of personal gain, resist undue political pressure in decision-making, no abuse of power or authority, stand by decisions in the organization’s interest, and take action in cases of unprofessional or unethical behavior.

Professionalism:

Show pride in work and achievements, demonstrate professional competence and mastery of subject matter, conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments and achieving results, motivated by professional rather than personal concerns, show persistence when faced with challenges, and remain calm in stressful situations.

Respect for Diversity:

Work effectively with people from all backgrounds, treat all people with dignity and respect, treat men and women equally, show respect for and understand diverse opinions by examining own biases and behaviours to avoid stereotypical responses, and do not discriminate against any individual or group.

Core Competencies:

Ethics and Values:

Promoting Ethics and Integrity / Creating Organizational Precedents.

Organizational Awareness:

Building support and political acumen.

Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring:

Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation.

Working in Teams:

Building and promoting effective teams.

Communicating Information and Ideas:

Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication.

Self-management and Emotional intelligence:

Creating an emotionally intelligent organization

Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements:

Leveraging conflict in the interests of the organization & setting standards

Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning:

Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Advanced university degree or equivalent in Education, Gender, Social Sciences, International Development, or other related fields.

Experience:

A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in the fields of research , and or training/capacity development related to gender and remittances and migration economics issues in South and Southeast Asia;
Of which a minimum of 5 years of proven experience working on gender and migration and its economic implications as global care chains, caretaking economy;
Of which a minimum of 3-year experience in training for gender equality, the design and management of workshops, training materials and or e-Learning materials;
Of which a minimum of 1-year experience within the UN system, Agencies, Funds or Programmes is required;
Experience and/or knowledge in the area masculinities and/or in online training modalities is considered as an asset.

Language Requirements:

Excellent skills in written and spoken English are required;
Knowledge of another UN official language is an additional asset.