Background

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (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. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality are translated into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts while building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

The Government of Tanzania (GoT) is in the process of preparing its third Medium Term Plan (2021/22 – 2026/27). Since 2016, Mainland Tanzania has been implementing the National Five-Year Development Plan 2016/17– 2020/21 (FYDP II) under the theme: "Nurturing Industrialization for Economic Transformation and Human Development”. The theme of FYDP II incorporated the focus of the two frameworks, namely growth and transformation (FYDP I) and poverty reduction (MKUKUTA II). Key interventions of FYDP II were strategically set to ensure the desired outcomes. These include: (i) promotion of growth and industrialization for economic transformation; (ii) enhancement of human development; (iii) improvement of the enabling environment for enterprise development; and (iv) improving implementation effectiveness. Gender equality is embedded in FYDP II and an important means and outcome of “unleashing Tanzanian women, men, girls’ and boys’ potentials to contribute to the envisaged social-economic transformation”.

The first two Medium Term National Frameworks are aligned with Tanzania’s Development Vision (TDV) 2025 which aspires to have Tanzania transformed into a middle income and semi industrialized nation by 2025, characterized by: (i) high quality and sustainable livelihoods; (ii) peace, stability and unity; (iii) good governance and the rule of law.  Vision 2025 articulates the desire to eliminate all forms of discrimination including gender-based discrimination as it states that:

“Ideally, a nation’s development should be people- centered, based on sustainable and shared growth and be free from abject poverty. For Tanzania this development means that the creation of wealth and its distribution in society must be equitable and free from inequalities  , and all forms social and political relation which inhibit empowerment and effective democratic and popular participation of all social groups (men and women , boys and girls , the young and old and the able – bodied and disabled persons)  in society. In particular, by the year 2025 racial, and gender imbalances will have been addressed such that economic activities will not be identifiable by gender or race. All social relations and processes which manifest and breed inequality in all aspects of society- i.e. law, politics, employment, education and culture) will have been reformed.” (Vision 2025 doc.pg.3).

Given this background, UN Women as part of mandate to support Member States’ priorities and efforts on GEWE is partnering with UNDP and the Ministry of Finance and Planning (MoFP) to support the development of FYPD III. In this regard, UN Women wishes to hire two national consultants to support mainstreaming gender in the FYPD III process, make key recommendations, and provide technical advice to the government throughout the FYDP III development process.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall guidance of the Lead National Consultant, the Research Assistant will be responsible for the following key functions.

• Contribute substantial inputs to the development of the inception plan/ report and methodology.
• Conduct a literature review of national and sector policies/plans and legislations relevant to the assignment and summarize results as requested.
• Collect and analyse data and provide insights into review of FYPD II, Situation Analysis on GEWE with recommendations, and relevant Policy Briefs on Data, Integrated National Financial Framework (INFF) and Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanisms.
• Conduct interviews with a variety of actors, using participatory methodology developed by the lead consultant.
• Attend meetings, workshops related to the assignment and act as the principle note-taker/rapporteur.
• Assist in the logistical support and planning of meetings, workshops, dialogues and focus group discussions with key stakeholders.
• Summarize and keep records of interviews, dialogues, focus group discussions and other relevant documents.
• Assist in the authoring of the Gender Review Report, Situation Analysis with recommendations and relevant Policy Briefs on Data, National Integrated Financial and Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanisms.
• Manage and respond to correspondence.
• Perform any other related tasks assigned by the Team Lead.

Competencies

Core Competencies

Integrity:

• Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

Professionalism:

• Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.

Work in teams:

• Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multi-ethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.

Communicating and Information Sharing:

• Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for effective communication.

Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making:

• Demonstrate informed and transparent decision-making.

Functional Competencies

• Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative gender analysis skills, including on social development; economics, data and statistics  

• Knowledge of the women’s rights issues including on gender and the economy, data & statistics, financing for gender equality and monitoring
• Ability to produce clear reports with in-depth analysis and strategic recommendations in English in the relevant fields;
• Demonstrated ability to organise meetings and focus group discussions
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Very effective at multi-tasking.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in using ICT for research, including electronic/digital data collection, analysis, and reporting.  
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Kiswahili

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Economics, Sociology, Public Administration, Political Science, Statistics, Development Studies, and Gender

Experience:

• At least five years of experience as a research and gender analytical work in Tanzania.
• Proven experience of conducting gender analysis of macro economic policy and planning including qualitative and quantitative  statistical / data analysis.
• Good knowledge of development National Economic Development Frameworks.
• Experience in developing project/programme, guidance/toolkit, and/or systems to enhance gender mainstreaming in policies, plans , projects, implementation mechanisms
• Knowledge of quantitative or qualitative research methods.
• Excellent spoken and written English; fluency in Kiswahili is a requirement.
• Citizen or permanent resident of Tanzania

Languages:

• Fluency in written and oral English and Kiswahili is required.

Application Procedure:

The following documents should be submitted as part of the application:

• Letter of interest indicating suitability and availability for the assignment, providing initial observations on the Terms of Reference and an outline of the methodology you would use;
• A UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded at http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment, including highlighted references to previous relevant work and publications;
• Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment;
• A financial proposal in TZS for completion of the required tasks.