2. Duties and Responsibilities The work of the expert consultant will be home-based and they will need to connect with the teams primarily during Asia and the Pacific working hours via online platforms; however, workshops will be undertaken in other regions and thus, the expert will need to be flexible and adjust to the working hours of the relevant region. Approximately 100 days of work for the social norms expert are estimated over the period from June 2023 – May, 2026. However, the first task will be supporting the Feminist Collaborative Evaluation which entails approximately 45 days. The consultant may be requested to travel to support case studies, the costs of which will be covered by UN Women. Under the overall oversight of the IES team leader, the consultant may be requested to contribute to the following: - Provide technical inputs on social norms change to evaluative processes.
- Provide substantive inputs by facilitating sensemaking workshops with key stakeholders.
- Provide technical advice on the country case studies through feminist inquiry, provide guidance on harvesting local measurement frameworks on social norms change that will be documented in the case studies. Lead the case study summaries (brief case study reports). Support UN Women in translating the case study findings into programmatic lessons learned for social norms change.
- Map approaches of external stakeholders on social norms.
- Conduct interviews with internal and external stakeholders and triangulate information with other sources to provide substantive inputs to evaluative processes.
- Contribute to discussions on of the next steps for corporate requirements and tools related to moving the social norms work forward in the organization.
- Synthesize findings and recommendations for UN Women by contributing to the final synthesis report, and short briefing notes or presentations.
- Other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.
3. Duration of Assignment From 1 June 2024 to 31 May 2026 (Maximum 90 days of assignment period; UN Women does not warrant that the maximum of 90 days. The service will be purchased during the term of the Agreement). The consultant will be engaged under a retainer contract, which facilitates direct engagement of the consultant depending on need and availability within the contract period for a pre-agreed fee. 4. Management and Quality Assurance The IES Regional Evaluation Specialist for Asia and the Pacific will be the supervisor of this consultant. The consultant will also interact and receive guidance from UN Women personnel working on the social norms outcome area and other Evaluation Specialists, national consultants, evaluation analysts and/or interns that may be engaged to support different tasks. The Chief of Independent Evaluation Service and the Director Independent Evaluation and Audit Services have oversight over all evaluation activities at UN Women. 5. Ethical Code of Conduct The social norms expert should abide by the principle of UN Evaluation Group’s Ethical Guideline and Code of Conduct for Evaluation in UN System and follow the UN Women Evaluation Handbook. UN Women has developed a UN Women Evaluation Consultants Agreement Form for evaluators that must be signed as part of the contracting process, which is based on the UNEG Ethical Guidelines. All data collected through evaluations are subject to the UN Women Information Security Policy that sets out the basis for UN Women in protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of its data to protect these assets against unauthorized usage, access, modification, destruction, disclosure, loss or transfer of data, whether accidental or intentional. All UN Women staff and other authorized individuals or entities are responsible for maintaining appropriate control over information in their care and for bringing any potential threats to the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of that information to the attention of the appropriate management. Compliance with this Policy is a condition of employment for all UN Women staff and a condition of contract for all other authorized individuals or entities, unless a prior (temporary) waiver is obtained. Failure to comply with this Policy without obtaining a prior waiver shall be dealt with in accordance with Staff Regulations and Rules, or as appropriate, the contractual terms of UN Women’s engagement of the authorized individual or entity. Data Management Plan outlining key aspects of data protection during this DE, namely collection of data and study materials; treatment of consulted populations and observed topics; storage, security and backups; archiving, preservation and curation. The data may be requested and would be property of UN Women. 6. Payments Payments for this consultancy will be based on the achievement of each deliverable and certification that each has been satisfactorily completed. Payments will not be based on the number of days worked but on the completion of each stated deliverable within the indicated timeframes on satisfactory completion of task. Payment will be made upon submission of deliverables with approval of the IES Team leader. All deliverables should be written and generated in English. All data collected is property of UN Women and should be provided upon request.
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