Background

UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.  A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.  UN Women supports UN member states as they set global standards for achieving gender equality and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to implement these standards.  It stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on five priority areas: (1) increasing women’s leadership and participation; (2) ending violence against women; (3) engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes; (4) enhancing women’s economic empowerment; and (5) making gender equality central to national development planning and budgeting. UN women coordinates and promotes the UN system’s work in advancing gender equality.

 

Ending Violence against Women and Girls is one of the priority areas of UN Women. The Ending Violence against Women Section in New York is part of the Policy Division at UN headquarters, dedicated to providing knowledge-based policy and programming guidance to a diverse array of stakeholders at international, regional and country levels. With an effort to map our impact on Ending Violence Against Women. the EVAW Section will develop a report to track our impact against the SDG’s targets and UN Women’s SP milestones. The report and analysis will be used to improve programming, policy and to help communicate results in ways that support increased funding and public support.

 

The purpose of this consultancy is to support the EVAW Section to analyse organizational programmatic results for VAW prevention and response, and develop an impact report with data visualizations and infographics related to the institution’s Ending Violence against Women work in 2022. The consultant will be supervised by the Policy Specialist on Knowledge Management, Monitoring, and Reporting.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

The scope of work for this consultancy is to generate an impact report with data visualizations and infographics on the results of UN Women’s EVAW programming and policy work, with an in-depth analysis of VAWG prevention results with the list of tasks defined below.  

Tasks

Tasks and deliverables include:

 

Tasks

Deliverables

Timeline

  1. Conduct a literature review of relevant information related to the different EVAW programmes UN Women supports, the Strategic Plan, the taxonomy developed, and any other relevant documentation

 

Literature review of relevant information related to the different EVAW programmes UN Women supports, the Strategic Plan, the taxonomy developed, and any other relevant documentation

 

05 Sept 2023

  1. Conduct consultative meetings with key staffs to refine the scope and focus of the report, as well as refine different elements of the taxonomy

 

Meeting minutes with a set of decisions and recommendations

10 Sept 2023

  1. Use an impact mapping software for quantitative and qualitative information analysis and coding to capture more in-depth information on outcomes, and key quotes; to create a searchable knowledge base for UN Women’s work, which can be drawn from year after year for different briefs and research product

 

Reports, documents and information uploaded on the impact mapping software

30 Sept 2023

  1. Analyse, aggregated, and synthesize qualitative and quantitative data and results to generate an impact report, with in-depth focus on VAWG prevention results (15-20 pages). This includes a 3 pager of visual overview report

 

Report of aggregated, analysed, synthesized data on EVAW impact, with in-depth focus on prevention results

 

30 Oct 2023

  1. Conduct consultative meetings with key staff members to validate data and information, and to get inputs for the report

 

Meeting minutes and set of data validated

 

30 Nov 2023

  1. Draft the narrative report with charts, visualizations, and infographics showcasing UN Women’s EVAW results, with in-depth focus on VAWG prevention (3 rounds of reviews)

 

Impact report with data visualizations, charts, and infographics

28 Feb 2024

 

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

  • Good knowledge of gender equality and women’s rights issues
  • Excellent writing and analytical skills in English
  • Knowledge and understanding of UN system and familiarity with inter-governmental processes
  • Flawless attention to detail and organizational skills
  • Strong sense of responsibility, confidentiality, and accountability;
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

 

Required Skills and Experience

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

  • PhD in gender equality, social and/or human development, education international development/affairs, women’s studies, sociology, public health or a related field;

 

Experience:

  • At least 12 years of progressively responsible experience in conducting analyses of complex data (quantitative and qualitative) for impact reporting and management at the international level;
  • Experience in developing data analysis methodology for reporting programming results;
  • Experience with using impact mapping software to organization data and information, and analysis;
  • Experience in participatory research approaches, methodology, data visualization, technology for social good, strategic planning, software and product development;
  • Knowledge and experience working in the field of social justice, gender equality and diversity, and women’s rights
  • Experience in working with UN organizations and international development organization;  
  • Fluency in English is required; working knowledge of another UN language is an asset.