Antecedentes

I.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 marginalised 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.

The current project aims to respond to the most urgent needs of highly vulnerable women and girls, particularly migrant workers, ethnic minorities, people working in the informal sector and those living in disaster-prone areas, who are disproportionately affected by the severe resurgence of COVID-19 pandemic after April 2021 in Mekong countries. It will also contribute to highlighting need for gender-responsive measures into COVID-19 socio-economic recovery plans. The project builds on cross-cutting elements foundational to a comprehensive COVID-19 prevention and response approach. The normative components, including policies and standards, within this project will influence how all gender equality and empowerment of women and girls approaches are adaptive in the COVID-19 context. The services and capacity strengthening components will demonstrate the implementation of these standards and norms within this new context.

UN Women Programme Office is seeking for a consultant for programme development and monitoring on gender response COVID-19 prevention and response that is situated under the ending violence against women programme in Cambodia.

Deberes y responsabilidades

II.Duties and responsibilities

The Consultant will work under the supervision of the National Programme Officer and will work closely with the Country Programme Coordinator to undertake the tasks outlined below:

1. Develop a programme in the area of gender response COVID-19 response and prevention:

• Provide technical inputs, mentoring and capacity development for frontline service providers on gender, risk factors for cross border migration, especially for women migrant workers, and principles and coordinated quality service provision in responding to gender based violence;
• Provide technical inputs, especially from gender lens and women’s right principles, for producing media products to be used for community outreach and campaign which aim to mitigate risk to COVID-19 infection and provide service information on gender based violence;
• Develop inception period report and revisit implementation plan for the gender responsive COVID-19 Response and Prevention. This includes adjustment where it is relevant;
• Develop project impact stories/documentations.
• Provide gender and women’s right technical inputs to work with key stakeholder partners:  including a conduct and analysis of rapid scoping visit to the proposed project target areas. This includes development of concept note for a conduct of rapid scoping visit and meeting with the most relevant stakeholders and report writing.

1. Lead in developing training programme for service providers at the border checkpoints on gender, risk factors for cross border migration, including risks gender-based violence and infection of COVID-19.

• Conduct consultations/meetings with UN Agencies (i.e IOM, ILO, UNFPA, WHO etc.) that have been working along the borders, especially project on providing the support to the government to containment of COVID-19 spread and gender-based violence,
• Design and facilitate trainings focus on gender lens and women’s right principle. This includes a conduct of a quick training needs assessment with potential/identified trainee, lead in developing training manual in consultation with project stakeholders, such as Secretariat of National Committee for Counter Training and Ministry of Women’s Affairs-Secretariat for Technical Working Group-International Cooperation
• Provide training sessions and provide training summary report, including what work well and what need to be improved.

1. Provide technical inputs and advice on planning and communications capacity of UN Women Programme Office in Cambodia in relation to gender responsive COVID-19 response and prevention:  

• Technical inputs and guidance on gender responsive COVID-19 response and prevention to planning and reporting processes
• Training and mentoring leading to the production of communications materials on Gender and COVID-19 response.

II.Expected deliverables and timelines

III.Supervision

The consultant will work in close collaboration with the UNWOMEN programme team in Cambodia under the direct supervision of the National Programme Officer in Cambodia and overall technical guidance of the regional relevant team.

Competencias

V.Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

Functional Competencies: (below are examples to be adjusted to each assignment)

• Excellent analytical skills
• Experience with UN programming
• Demonstrated sensitivity, discretion, tact, and courtesy in relation to gender equality and women’s rights, development principles, implementing partners, and national and international personnel of varied nationalities and backgrounds.
• Strong inter-personal skills, communicate effectively with staff at all levels of the organization;
• Ability to work in a highly pressured environment

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

VI.Required qualifications

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