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National consultant to assist in conducting a country study for assessing the fiscal and employment effects/benefits on gender equality through early childhood education and care in Nigeria | |
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Location : | Home based, NIGERIA |
Application Deadline : | 04-Nov-20 (Midnight New York, USA) |
Additional Category : | Gender Equality |
Type of Contract : | Individual Contract |
Post Level : | National Consultant |
Languages Required : | English |
Expected Duration of Assignment : | 25 working days spread over 4 months |
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. |
Background |
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Grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) 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. Through its programmes and projects, UN Women is providing technical assistance to national partners (governmental and non-governmental) in the implementation of existing international and national commitments to women’s rights and gender equality, facilitates networking and exchange of good practices and advocates for women’s rights and gender equality in all areas of life. Women economic empowerment is key for achieving gender equality, poverty eradication, inclusive economic growth and sustainable development. Despite some progress in increasing the presence of women in the public life, their participation in the labor market is still low and globally the gender participation gap is 31 %.[1] One of the important causes for low participation of women in the labor market is their unequal share in the unpaid care work and the failure by member states to recognize, reduce and redistribute the domestic and care work.[1] Globally, women continue to do 2.6 times the unpaid care and domestic work men do. Based on the recent assessment of causes for low participation in the labor market in the country, gender-based discrimination and unpaid care work appeared as one of the main barriers to increasing women employability and empowerment. Addressing existing care deficits and inequalities will be critical in responding to the COVID-10 pandemic and economic recovery efforts. Recognizing, reducing and redistributing the drudgery of unpaid care and domestic work is central to the progress in gender quality, poverty eradication and economic growth. Gender equality is important priority for the Government of Cote D’Ivoire/Senegal/Nigeria and so is the elimination of the barriers that hamper its achievement. Central to devising national policies that would enable women’s empowerment and their equal engagement in the national economy is the recognition, reduction and redistribution of unpaid care work. As a first step in this direction is the assessment of the costs for the institutionalization of the family care and the fiscal and employment effects on gender equality.
Given the global recognition of the importance of investing in social care infrastructure, UN Women is engaging a team of experts (one international and one national) to assess the costs of expanding early childhood education and care (ECEC) and its potential impact on women labor participation rate. The national expert is required to support the international expert in assessing what levels of investments would be needed to expand the availability of ECEC, as well as the employment and fiscal revenue effects that these investments would produce. The team of experts will work under the supervision of UN Women office in xxx and in close consultation with the economics specialist on macroeconomics in the economic empowerment section at UN Women Headquarters.
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Duties and Responsibilities |
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Scope of work The main objective of the assignment is to support government in devising policies that will redress gender inequalities by providing data and evidence on the costs and benefits in the institutionalization of the care in the country. In order to do so, UN Women -through the work of the team of experts – will support the collection of data for cost estimation of childcare and the simulations of their impact on the employment and fiscal revenue effects. For this purpose, the national expert will be responsible for providing support to the International expert in collecting the relevant national data (such as for example time use data, input/output tables etc.) in conducting the meetings with the national stakeholders and in the finalization of the Assessment report.
Working in close coordination with the international expert and with the UN Women project team and under direct supervision of the UN Women Head of Office, the national expert will be responsible fro data collection and support the analysis of the country studies to be conducted in Nigeria. S/he will have the following tasks and responsibilities:
Reporting Under the overall supervision of the UN Women Regional Policy Advisor for Women’s Economic Empowerment, and in close coordination with the international consultant and UN Women Project team, the national consultant will deliver the above listed outputs in accordance with the indicative timeframe. All deliverables of an acceptable standard and quality should be submitted to UN Women and in languages as specified above.
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Competencies |
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Functional Competencies
Leadership and Self-Management
Core Values:
Core Competencies:
Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-employment-values-and-competencies-definitions-en.pdf
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Required Skills and Experience |
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Academic Qualifications At least Master’s degree in, economics, statistics, development studies, and/or gender studies. Experience
Language Fluency in English is required. |
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