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. UN Women was established to accelerate progress in meeting their needs worldwide. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and work with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes, and services to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide.

In Indonesia, UN Women works with the government, civil society organizations (CSOs), academia, the media, youth activists, the private sector, and the public to address national gender equality priorities and women’s empowerment. Placing the advancement of women’s rights at the center of our work, UN Women Indonesia has three key programmes: 1) Ending Violence Against Women; 2) Women’s Economic Empowerment; and 3) Governance, Peace, and Resilience.

  UN Women is mandated to eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against women, empower women and girls, and achieve gender equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development outcomes and the fulfilment of human rights. In June 2012, UN Women became the eleventh co-sponsor of UNAIDS, an essential step towards ensuring that gender equality is at the heart of global action on HIV. UNAIDS’ co-sponsors under the UNAIDS Unified Budget, Accountability and Result Framework (UBRAF) are an instrument to translate the UNAIDS Strategy into action, mobilizing the contributions of UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat to support the achievement of the Targets of the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (2011). Under this mechanism, UN Women in Indonesia supports several initiatives to integrate gender equality and human rights principles into the national HIV/AIDS response. The programmes engage key government institutions, UN agencies, and most at-risk populations, mainly focusing on girls & women, including Women Living with HIV (WLHIV).

The Ministry of Health’s quarterly report showed that the number of newly reported HIV cases in the women population consistently increased from year to year. One reason for the growth in the number of new HIV cases in women populations can be explained by the increased HIV testing in communities through the efforts of Indonesia’s HIV control. However, the Ministry of Health   estimates that in 2022     32% of new HIV infections came from low-risk women. Women's vulnerability to HIV can also be seen in the HIV projections for 2023 onwards. Among sub-populations, excluding key populations, women has the highest transmission rate.

Despite Indonesia's progress in expanding access to HIV prevention services like HIV testing for pregnant women and PrEP for key populations, significant challenges persist.  Misinformation surrounding HIV transmission and new infections among women, often linked to social norms and taboos, contributes to ongoing issues.   Further, discrimination against people living with HIV and key populations still prevails in society. It occurs in various settings, whether in their daily lives, public areas, or health facilities.

To address the above issues, UN Women works with various key stakeholders, including CSOs.  Since 2021, UN Women has been collaborating with Ikatan Perempuan Positif Indonesia (IPPI), a national network of women living with HIV, to improve WLHIV’s access to  services.  UN Women provides technical support to IPPI to serve as an intermediary organization that provide support services to WLHIV and their families. As an intermediary organisation, IPPI plays a role in bridging WLHIV who are subjected to violence to required essential services. It also documents violence against women living with HIV cases in 10 provinces and   develop an online complaint reporting system called  DELILA, stands for Dengar (Listen), Lindungi (Protect), and Laporkan (Report).

As a result, IPPI has capacity to regularly issue reports on VAW cases of women living with HIV. In 2023 and 2024, there were 73 cases and 54 cases respectively,  documented and shared through IPPI’s annual reports. This has  contributed to the Komnas Perempuan’s (National Commission on Violence against Women) annual report. In 2022, IPPI and other communities affected by HIV established Puan Lingkar HIV (Women in the HIV circle), a network of women living with HIV. This network engages women from various backgrounds, such as women living with HIV, women infected with tuberculosis, young and adolescent women, transgender women, female sex workers, women who use drugs, female workers, migrant women, and women and transwomen with disabilities.

Based on the position paper developed by Puan Lingkar HIV in 2023, there are quite a lot of cases of violence experienced by women in key populations and women who are vulnerable to HIV. However, these cases are not well documented, and if reported, referrals have not been adequately established. For example, several organizations that are part of Puan Lingkar HIV, such as Women Voice (Works on the issue of women and transwomen who use drugs), OPSI (Working for female sex workers), and Yayasan Rekat (Working on the issue of female TB survivors) provide support services to victims, but do not have guidelines for documenting and referral mechanisms for cases of violence against this group of women. Cases of violence against this group of women are not well documented and not reported to the government. The referral mechanism has not been established, so often, women victims of violence in these groups do not get the services they need, and case follow-up is not properly monitored.

In this regard, technical support will be given to expand the role of intermediary organization to the three organizations of Puan Lingkar HIV. This is critical to strengthening women-led organizations in HIV response in managing and documenting gender-based violence cases and referring victims to receive quality essential services. This will enhance community organizations’ capabilities in improving their reports on violence cases and incorporating data on women affected by HIV in national data and reports, by which the scientific evidence influences power and impact on the policy- and decision-making process of the Indonesian government, including to ensure the availability of the services and protection and women in HIV circles who conflict with the law or situations of violence.

Against this backdrop, UN Women is seeking an experienced national consultant to provide technical assistance in building capacities for three organizations, namely Women Voice, OPSI, and Yayasan Rekat, to serve as intermediary organisations.

Sub-population group is the women’s group affected by HIV outside the key populations (Female Sex Workers, Drug users, MSM, Transgender), namely women in the general population who are a couple of PLHIV or key populations, Migrant Women, TB survivors, young people etc.

The objective of the assignment is to produce the following deliverables:

1. Develop the module of intermediary organization for three organizations from Puan Lingkar HIV based on the needs of the Women and Transwomen Drugs Users, Female Sex Workers, and Female TB Survivors groups.
2. Conduct and facilitate training for the organizations to strengthen their capacities as intermediary organizations.
3. Develop a report highlighting the technical assistance provided to strengthen each intermediary organization's capacity.   

Scope of Works/Tasks

Under the direct supervision of the Program Analyst EVAW and the HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Gender Officer at UN Women Indonesia, the consultant will be responsible for the following scope of work:

• Develop an inception report to inform methodology, activities, work plan and timeline. 
• Conduct a need assessment of each organization and develop a guide/module on intermediary organization.  
• Conduct and facilitate a series of trainings for the three organizations to strengthen their capacities as intermediary organization.
• Provide technical assistance for the three organization after the training to provide coaching and mentoring on roles as intermediary organizations.
• Develop final report of this consultation activities, highlighting lesson learned and recommendations for future interventions.

The consultant will be reporting to EVAW Program Analyst, and will be in a day to day coordination with the  Program Officer HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Gender.

Duties and Responsibilities

Deliverables

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a home-based consultancy.

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 

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies:  

https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/application-process#_Values 

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES: 

• Research
• Partnership Building
• Writing

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification:

• Advanced study in Gender Studies, Communication, Social Science, or other related fields or a bachelor’s degree in the same fields with ten additional years of relevant experience.

Experience:

• At least eight (8) years of master’s degree or ten (10) years with a Bachelor’s degree of professional experience working on Gender Studies, Communication, Social Science, or other related fields on HIV, and women’s issues, particularly on ending violence against women (VAW). 
• Extensive experience working on public health issues, HIV, and VAW.
• Extensive experience in designing programmes and capacity building for community organizations, especially in the issues of HIV—VAW.
• Extensive experience as a trainer or facilitator, specifically on the issues of gender and VAW.
• Experience working with civil society organizations in Indonesia.
• Excellent analytical skills, particularly in issues on gender equality, violence against women, women’s leadership and empowerment;
• Previous professional experience with development agencies and the United Nations is an asset.

Languages:

• Excellent writing and communication skills in English and Bahasa Indonesia;

HOW TO APPLY

• Personal CV or P11 (P11 can be downloaded from:) https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc )
• A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page)
• Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns, or other materials.