1. ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION

2. BACKGROUND

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.

The UN Women Cambodia Country Office (CCO) Strategic Note (SN) 2019-2023 focuses on three key priorities to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE). The first priority is to strengthen government capacity and accountability to integrate international norms and commitments (CEDAW, SDGs, Beijing PfA, Sendai) into national legislative and regulatory frameworks, including supporting dialogue and CSO engagement in accountability for GEWE commitments.  The second area of focus is Ending Violence Against Women where CCO’s focus includes creating an enabling environment to prevent, respond to and prosecute all forms of GBV as well as ensuring that marginalized women who experience violence, including women migrant workers, access services and protections.  Thirdly, CCO works to enhance gender responsiveness in climate change action and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).  A focus on empowerment, women’s leadership, challenging negative gender norms and leaving no one behind runs through the programme.

In support of gender responsive climate change actions and DRR, UN Women Cambodia Country Office (CCO) is currently implementing a joint five-year regional project titled ‘EmPower – Women for Climate Resilient Societies’, with UN Environment that is supported by the Swedish International Development Agency. The EmPower’s work targets climate decisions and investments in the Asia-Pacific region to be more gender-responsive and human-rights inclusive.

Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries in South-East countries to disasters. Flood and drought are the major disaster risk in Cambodia. Cambodia has undergone loss of over USD 1 billion due to a series of disaster mostly flood like Ketsana flood in 2009, and flood in 2011 and 2013. Disaster management (DM) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) are long term tasks which the end cannot be defined as the natural and human-induced hazards as well as the environmental, technological and biological risks and hazards keep increasing.

Women, children, elderly and people with disabilities are considered as the most vulnerable group worst affected by natural disasters. They are affected differently by the disasters due to their knowledge, capacity and skill. However, women are more vulnerable than men to the disaster in particular flood, so it is important to engage women and men in the planning, decision, capacity building and son on. As a cross-cutting issue, gender is mainstreamed in different sectors. Gender is highlighted in DRR and DM related policies, law and strategies such as Law on Disaster Management and National Action Plan for DRR 2019-23.

Taking this into consideration, the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) that was established as the headquarters of the Royal Government to lead, administer and coordinate all disaster management activities in Cambodia. Its mission has also made notable commitments to addressing gender inequality in DM/DRR through mainstreaming gender into the planning at all levels.

In this regard, the EmPower Programme of UNWOMEN Cambodia seeks for services of a consultant to develop a Guideline for Mainstreaming Gender into its Annual Plan and provide capacity building for the officials from the six Departments of NCDM’s General Secretariat.

3. OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSULTANCY

1. To develop a guideline for mainstreaming gender into annual workplan of NCDM’s General Secretariat that enable technical departments to address different gender needs at national and sub-national levels;
2. To engage the technical Departments and Gender TWG within NCDM’s General Secretariat to provide inputs into the guideline; and
3. To increase understanding in gender mainstreaming for the technical Departments and Gender TWG.

4. SCOPE OF WORK

The consultancy covers two main aspects:

(1). Provide technical advice strengthening the programme in the area of Climate Change/DRR and Gender;

• Provide technical inputs, mentoring and capacity transfer to the newly recruited Programme Coordinator for the Gender and CC/DRR Programme; 
• Support reviewing on State of Gender Equality report in context CC/DRR including providing feedbacks and recommendations by working with the Empower team.
• Support the development of the Empower’s donor report.
• Developing most significant story indicating the result of the EmPower programme implementation in Cambodia.
• Provide technical support on women’s leadership initiative of the Empower Project including provide technical trainings and reporting and analyzing on the training report.

(2). Develop general mainstreaming guideline;

• Conduct desk review focusing reviewing documents related to DRR, DM and Gender such as Law on Disaster Management, National Action Plan for DRR (NAP-DRR) 2019-23, Mid-term review report of the NAP-DRR 2014-18.
• Identify areas of focus and main substances in line with the capacity of the NDCM secretariat and priorities including tools and methodologies for the consultation.
• Provide capacity building on gender for the technical Department and Gender TWG within the NCDM’s General Secretariate
• Produce the final guideline through the consultation with key stakeholders

5. Expected Deliverables:

6. Institutional arrangement 

The consultant will work in close collaboration with the CCO personnel in Cambodia Country Office, particularly the EmPower team under Economic Governance Programme Analyst and Officer in Charge, UN Women Cambodia Country Office.

7. Duration of the work

The duration of this consultancy is between 20 February to 30 September 2021.

8. Duty station

Home-based

11. EVALUATION

Application will be evaluated based on Cumulative Analysis the following criteria:

• Technical Qualification (100 points) weight; [70%]
• Financial/Price Proposal (100 points) weight; [30%]

A two-stage procedure is utilized in evaluating the proposals, with evaluation of the technical proposal being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.

11.1. TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION EVALUATION CRITERIA:

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria:

Only candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as a technically qualified candidate.

11.2. FINANCIAL/PRICE PROPOSAL COMPARISON:

• Only the financial/price proposal of candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be considered and evaluated.
• The total number of points allocated for the price component is 100.
• The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.

12. SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION

Interested candidates are requested to submit an electronic application to cco.procurement@unwomen.org no later than 18 February 2021 at 17:00 local time in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Late application submissions will not be considered.

13. APPLICATION PACKAGE:

1. Application letter explaining why the candidate is the most suitable for the work; 
2. CV and Copies of Educational Qualifications;
3. Personal History Form (P11).  The P11 Form can be downloaded from the following:http://www2.unwomen.org/~/media/field%20office%20eseasia/docs/misc/2012/p_11_form_unwomen.doc?v=1&d=20160811T044602 or http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs 
4. Financial proposal. The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount must be all-inclusive and take into account various expenses that will be incurred during the contract, including: the daily professional fee; living allowances at the duty station; communications, utilities and consumables; and any other relevant travel expenses related to the performance of services under the contract.

All applications must include (as attachments) the P11 Form, CV, and the Financial Proposal.

UN Women-Cambodia requires that all international personnel, regardless of contract modality or position status, should comply with UN Cambodia Residential Security Measure (RSM) for accommodations and housing in Cambodia.  A residential inspection is required and will be conducted by UNDSS, whereupon corrections may be identified to achieve compliance with UN Cambodia RSM Standards.  As such, newly arriving personnel are advised not to enter into long-term housing arrangements until inspection and compliance are verified.  For personnel who are already in-country, steps must be taken to achieve UN Cambodia RSM compliance.