Antecedentes

Millions of women and girls worldwide suffer some form of gender-based violence, be it domestic violence, rape, female genital mutilation/cutting, dowry-related killing, trafficking, sexual violence in conflict-related situations, or other manifestations of abuse. In fact, for women and girls 16-44 years old, gender based violence is a major cause of death and disability (About UNiTE: Fact Sheet, p. 1 http://endviolence.un.org/pdf/factsheets/about_unite.pdf;). Up to 70 per cent of women experience violence in their lifetime (Violence Against Women: The Situation; http://endviolence.un.org/pdf/factsheets/unite_the_situation.pdf).

Violence against women persists in every country in the world as a pervasive violation of human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality. Such violence is unacceptable, whether perpetrated by the State and its agents or by family members or strangers, in the public or private sphere, in peacetime or in times of conflict. The UN Secretary-General has stated that as long as violence against women continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development, and peace (“In-depth study on all forms of violence against women”, Report of the UN Secretary-General, 6 July 2006, p. 9;).

States have an obligation to protect women from violence, to hold perpetrators accountable and to provide justice and remedies to victims. Eliminating violence against women remains one of the most serious challenges of our time. The knowledge base and tools to prevent and eliminate violence against women developed over the past decade must be utilized more systematically and effectively to eliminate all forms of violence against women. This requires clear political will, outspoken, visible and unwavering commitment at the highest levels of leadership of the State and the resolve, advocacy and practical action of individuals and communities (ibid;).

In order to support the Government of Georgia to meet its obligations undertaken on the international, regional and local levels inter alia in terms of eliminating violence against women and in particular domestic violence, with the generous support by the Swedish Government, the second phase of the UN Joint Programme for Gender Equality (hereinafter UNJP) has been launched in January 2016. The UNJP is implemented by UNDP, UN Women, and UNFPA.

The second phase of the Joint Programme continues to respond directly to the women’s rights and gender equality commitments undertaken by the Government of Georgia (GoG) on international and national levels, and will upscale the results achieved by the UNJP in previous phase and UN agencies in general, as well as other stakeholders in the area of gender equality and women’s empowerment in Georgia.

The Joint Programme addresses gender inequality in a coherent and comprehensive manner, covering a wide range of issues, such as political and economic empowerment of women, reducing violence against women and girls and promotion of women’s sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights.

The overall goal of the UNJP is to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment by means of strengthening capacities of government at both central and local levels and across the executive, legislative and judicial branches, engaging civil society and raising public awareness about gender equality. This ambitious goal will be achieved by realization of the following outcomes:

• Enhanced women’s political and economic empowerment;
• Enabling environment to eliminate violence against women and girls, especially sexual and domestic violence, created in Georgia;
• Advanced gender equality and reproductive rights, including for the most vulnerable women, adolescents and youth.

UN Women leads work under the second outcome of the UNJP being responsible for creation of enabling environment to eliminate violence against women and girls, especially domestic and sexual violence in Georgia. In order to achieve this outcome UNJP strives to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia to promote gender equality and zero tolerance towards violence against women and girls and domestic violence.

Education from early childhood on plays crucial role in the establishment of social and cultural patterns that nurture values of equality and human rights persisting throughout adulthood. Therefore, it is of vital importance that learning process at all stages encourages and promotes equality between women and men, respect for diversity and human dignity and challenges discriminatory gender norms and stereotypes.

As teachers inter alia, the personnel of Vocational Education Institutions of Georgia come with their own social-cultural values and practices they may reproduce gender-stereotypes in the teaching process that can further perpetuate gender inequality and discriminatory gender stereotypes, which inter alia result in condoning violence against women and girls.

In the light of the above, UNJP plans to recruit a National Consultant (hereinafter the “Consultant”) who will conduct gender sensitization training courses for the personnel of Vocational Education Institutions authorized by the State in partnership with Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) that is leading teachers’ retraining programme jointly with the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia.

Deberes y responsabilidades

Duties and responsibilities of the National Consultant are:

• Elaborate a two-day training programme encompassing international and domestic legal instruments regarding gender equality, EVAW/DV for the teachers of Vocational Education Institutions;
• Conduct up to 6 two-day trainings for teachers on the basis of the elaborated programme;
• Prepare and submit relevant training reports to UN Women.

Deliverables:

• Elaborate a two-day training programme encompassing international and domestic legal instruments regarding gender equality, EVAW/DV for the teachers of Vocational Education Institutions by 16 July 2018;
• Conduct up to 6 two-day trainings for teachers on the basis of the elaborated programme and provide reports regarding each of the training by  5 December 2018.

Competencias

Functional Competencies:

• Excellent academic writing skills (Georgian);
• Excellent presentation/public speaking skills

Core Competencies:

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

 Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

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

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

Education

• Graduate Degree or equivalent to Master’s degree in Gender studies, Sociology, Law or related field.

Experience

• At least 7 years of experience in working on the issues of gender equality; women’s rights or domestic violence;
• At least 5 years of experience in developing training programmes on gender issues; women’s rights or domestic violence;
• At least 5 years of experience in delivering trainings on gender issues; women’s rights or domestic violence

Language Requirements

• Proficiency in Georgian.

Evaluation procedure:

The candidates will be evaluated against the following technical and financial criteria:

• Graduate Degree or equivalent to master’s degree in Gender studies, Sociology, Law or related field (max 50 points);
• At least 7 years of experience in working on the issues of gender equality; women’s rights or domestic violence (max 100 points);
• At least 5 years of experience in developing training programs on gender issues, women’s rights or domestic violence (max 90 points);
• At least 5 years of experience in delivering trainings on gender issues, women’s rights or domestic violence (max 80 points);
• Proficiency in Georgian (max 30 points).

Maximum total technical score amounts to 350 points. Only candidates who have passed over the minimum qualification criteria and have accumulated at least 245 points out of maximum 350 under technical evaluation will qualify for the next stage i.e. evaluation of their financial proposals.

Evaluation of submitted financial offers will be done based on the following formula: S = Fmin / F * 150

S – score received on financial evaluation;

Fmin – the lowest financial offer out of all the submitted offers qualified over the technical evaluation round;

F – financial offer under consideration.

The winning candidate will be the candidate, who has accumulated the highest aggregated score (technical scoring + financial scoring).

Management arrangements:

The contractor will report to and work under direct supervision of the UNJP / UN Women Programme Component Manager and under the overall guidance of the UN Women National Programme Officer and the Head of the Professional Training Division of the MIA Academy

Financial arrangements:

Payment will be disbursed upon submission and approval of deliverables and certification by UNJP / UN Women Programme Component Manager that the services have been satisfactorily performed as specified below:

Payment will be disbursed upon submission of the two-day training programme and reports on each of the conducted training.

Application procedure:

• CV;
• Dully filled Personal History Form PHF11 that can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment
• Financial Proposal  - lump sum proposal/offer* in Georgian Lari including breakdown of this lump sum into the costs of respective deliverables with the indication of the fee for each of the training.

*The applicants are required to submit an aggregated financial offer (“aggregated financial offer” is the total sum of all financial claims of the candidate for accomplishment of all tasks spelled out in this ToR).

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

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