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.

UN Women’s work is guided by the Strategic Plan that outlines strategic direction, objectives, and approaches to support efforts to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The Strategic Plan supports implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and contributes to the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has provided resources to UN Women through the Strategic Partnership Framework (SPF) to support the implementation of UN Women’s Strategic Plan in areas of women’s political participation and governance and women, peace and security, resilience, and humanitarian action. The partnership was established in 2012 and is currently in its third phase supporting the implementation of UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025.

UN-Women is seeking to document high-level achievements of the SPF, UN Women’s pioneering programme modality where resources are flexibly and strategically earmarked at the high result level of the Strategic Plan, for communications and visibility purposes as well as for the outreach to other potential partners.

The objective of the assignment is to conduct analysis of various programme reports and develop two programme briefs documenting the programme’s achievement in an evidence-based and engaging format to be used to inform programme’s stakeholders, including potential new partners, about the SPF modality and the results achieved over the last decade.

Under the overall supervision of the SPF Global Programme Manager and in close collaboration with the SPF Thematic Leads from Women, Peace and Resilience, Humanitarian Action and Women’s Political Participation teams, the consultant will:

1. Develop an outline and format of the two briefs in line with the UN Women’s standards for products and publications.
2. Undertake desk analysis of the SPF programme documents (result and resource framework and programme document, annual report, ten-year impact assessments for the three areas supported by the programme, internal evaluation).
3. Analyze and summarize programme’s achievements by focusing on the most important and impactful results that can influence UN Women’s future programming for possible replication and scale-up.
4. Highlight critical factors that enabled achievement of the results looking at the overall design and approach of the SPF, operations, coordination, impact on women’s lives and overall impact on UN Women’s sustainability in supporting women and girls, including environmental context that enabled the design and implementation of the SPF.
5. Emphasize the benefits of the strategic partnership with the donor and the SPF modality of loosely earmarked and strategically allocated resources for achieving results at a scale and impact, for UN Women, development partners and programme beneficiaries.
6. Identify entry points for other partners to join the partnership including by highlighting results and impact on women’s and girls’ lives that could be achieved with the additional support, should this become available.

Deliverables

1. SPF brief for the phase I and phase II of the programme (2-4 pages max)
2. SPFIII brief focused on 2022 achievements (2 pages max)

Briefs should follow UN Women standards for communications products. Brief template and design available at the link: UN Women brief - template.

Duration and duty station for the assignment

Estimated 12 workdays home-based as per below breakdown (the exact number of days and time frame will be agreed with the selected consultant):

• 3 workdays – desk research and consultation with the SPF team and other relevant stakeholders.
• 6 workdays – draft the two briefs, obtain and incorporate the SPF’s team feedback.
• 3 workdays – finalize the briefs and obtain approval from the SPF’s team.

Functional competences

• In depth knowledge of development issues and United Nations functioning with UN-Women experience considered as an advantage.
• Knowledge of principles and methods of evaluation, particularly in the context of international development.
• Excellent analytical skills, including ability to rapidly analyze and integrate diverse information with a discerning sense for quality of data.
• Good knowledge of partnership building and donor relations.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills in English.
• Creativity, innovation, and initiative.
• Result-oriented and able to respect deadlines.
• Ability to work and coordinate with numerous stakeholders.

Ethics and Values:

• Cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
• High integrity and ethics
• Effective communication
• Inclusive collaboration
• Stakeholder engagement

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in human rights, gender/women’s studies, international development, or a related field is required.

Experience:

• At least 10 years of experience in programme development and/or programme monitoring and/or evaluation in the UN and/or international development. Familiarity with UN Women is considered an asset.
• Experience with result-based management evaluation methodologies and gender sensitive impact-based results assessments.
• Experience in developing communications products or communicating development results.
• Strong communications skills, both written and oral.
• Experience with working and coordinating with various organizational departments.

Language

• Excellent speaking and written English

Recommended Application

Personal CV and P11 - all applicants must provide the completed UN Women Personal History form (P11) which can be downloaded from https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/application-process indicating all past experience from similar projects as well as contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references. Please combine all your documents into one single PDF document as the system for application allows to upload maximum one document.