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National Consultant – Gender and Social Development | |
Location : | Dhaka, BANGLADESH |
Application Deadline : | 19-Jan-22 (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-Jan-2022 |
Duration of Initial Contract : | 115 working days from 24 January to 30 June 2022 |
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. |
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SWAPNO is a public-works and social transfer-based poverty graduation project that targets ultra-poor rural women who are widowed, divorced, abandoned or left with a disabled husband. The project does not only aim at lifting poor women out of poverty during the project period; it also helps them sustain with a higher income level after the end of project support. To achieve this goal, the focus is on future employability. The idea is that the set of skills learnt from training will help women invest their savings for productive purposes, which would yield a stream of income in years to come. In addition to self-employment, SWAPNO also helps place women in jobs in local Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and private sector companies in the formal and informal sectors. While SWAPNO has demonstrated success, lessons show that women risk falling back into poverty as they are malnutrition, vulnerable to climate and disaster risks, and can risk facing gender-based violence by participating in a project that can be perceived to be challenging social norms. At the same time, the project has successfully piloted public-private partnerships that improve the women’s skills and help place them in formal sector jobs; it also ran successful microplots that used mobile money for promoting financial inclusion and improving efficiency in the government-to-person (G2P) platform. The findings on mobile money will inform national policy on scaling up digital payments through G2P across Bangladesh. By integrating these lessons, this proposal outlines SWAPNO’s strategy to support women’s access to decent employment, ensure discrimination-free environment in public workplaces, develop adaptive livelihoods and access to financial services for sustainable graduation from extreme poverty, and develop local government capacity to implement pro-poor projects. SWAPNO will achieve the following results:
The Social and Gender Development Specialist will bear the responsibility of life-skills development and women empowerment component. S/he will ensure that the graduation strategy for core beneficiary women is implementable considering local gender conditions and engage in advocacy to remove obstacles and create a more congenial environment. Apart from Life-skills development interventions, s/he will advise on specific training needs of women UP representatives and devise training interventions accordingly. S/he will also support partnership development initiatives of the project and formal sector employment specialist with the corporate sector for employment and resource mobilization Social and Gender Development Specialist will also closely work with the UP-standing committee, local administration and District Legal Aid Committees to ensure safe job environment and access to legal support OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSIGNMENT The Consultant is to lead and implement the activities under Gender and Social Development component of SWAPNO project. The main objective is to create awareness on gender equality, equity and social development in project area to strengthening the women empowerment and prevention and precaution of Gender-based Violence. The specific objectives are:
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Duties and Responsibilities |
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SCOPE OF WORK,DELIVERABLES
IMPACT OF RESULTS Women beneficiaries and their dependents will have improved human capital in terms of empowerment, nutrition, health, education and voice. Ultimately, it will help for graduation of the extreme poor and pro-poor economic growth. DURATION OF ASSIGNMENT, DUTY STATION Duration of the assignment is for 115 working days from 24 January to 30 June 2022. Duty station is Dhaka, Bangladesh. SUPERVISION, REPORTING AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION The consultant will be supervised by and report to the National Project Manager, SWAPNO who will also carry out a performance evaluation at the end of the assignment and also work closely with Enterprise and Employment specialist of the project to achieve project outputs. INPUTS From the project:
From the consultant:
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Competencies |
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Corporate Competencies:
Functional Competencies: Development and Operational Effectiveness
Leadership and Self-Management
Knowledge Management and Learning
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EVALUATION METHOD AND CRITERIA Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology: Cumulative analysis The award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 point or 70% would be considered for the Financial Evaluation. Financial score shall be computed as a ratio of the proposal being evaluated and the lowest priced proposal received by UNDP for the assignment Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 70 points)
DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED WHEN SUBMITTING THE PROPOSAL
Interested individual Consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Proposers who shall not submit the below-mentioned documents will not be considered for further evaluation.
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