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.
Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality (GE) and gender mainstreaming translate into action globally. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
UN Women Office in North Macedonia is implementing the programme “Promoting Gender Responsive Governance in North Macedonia” funded by Sweden. The overall goal is to ensure that women and girls in North Macedonia benefits from accountable, transparent and gender responsive governance. It builds on UN Women’s past work and results achieved in promoting gender responsive policy making and budgeting and transposing the EU Gender Equality Acquis into national strategies, policies and actions and it grounded on the longstanding partnership established with the Government of North Macedonia to advance gender equality.
The programme is in line with its priorities set in the UN Women Strategic Plan (2022-2025) and the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (2021-2025) envisages a complex set of interventions that aim to respond to the growing demand created for expertise, knowledge, and tools for mainstreaming gender in the strategic planning processes and public finance management and the implementation of the EU Gender Equality acquis.
The Intervention under the Gender Equality Facility (GEF) focus on comprehensive and synergetic approach with EU accession and IPA programming and implementation, creating synergies and enhancing collaboration between relevant stakeholders at national and regional level. It will provide gender mainstreaming expertise for the advancement of the national legislative strategic, policy and negotiation frameworks, in their alignment with the EU Gender Equality acquis, and support for capacity building within EU/IPA national structures and public administrations bodies to secure inter-institutional cooperation on gender equality. Thematic capacity development and exchange opportunities with focus on the international standards and best practices (regional peer to peer) will also be provide for CSOS to be able to meaningfully participate in relevant drafting processes and meetings decision makers.
The UN Women Office in North Macedonia is seeking the services of an experienced national consultant to conduct advanced professional Training of Trainers on Gender Mainstreaming in IPA, based on already conducted advanced level/Training of Trainers on Gender Mainstreaming in the EU processes to IPA structures in line ministries and other relevant institutions.
The consultant will be reporting to the GEF Outcome Coordinator, under overall guidance of the UN Women Head of Office in the country.
Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work
The national consultant will be expected to complete the following deliverables:
Deliverable | Expected completion time (due day) | Payment Schedule (optional) |
Developing of methodology for the Training of Trainers on Gender Mainstreaming in IPA processes in collaboration with the International Consultant and preparation of agenda, training materials, PPT; | From15 July to 19 July 2024 | From 20 July to 10 August 2024 |
Preparation of list of participants, evaluation questionnaires in collaboration with the International Consultant, submitted, and approved by GEF team | From 22 July to 24 July 2024 | From 25 July to 10 August 2024 |
Conduct one training (in total two days) for the Training of Trainers on Gender Mainstreaming in IPA processes in close cooperation with SEA, the International Consultant and GEF team | From 25 July to 10 September 2024 | From 11 September to 20 September 2024 |
Preparation of Guidelines for developing and conducting Gender Equality Training; | From 10 September to 20 September 2024 | From 25 September to 30 September 2024 |
Preparation of final report submitted and approved by UN Office in the country. | From 21 September to 30 September 2024 | From 01 October to 15 October 2024 |
Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
This is a home-based consultancy. As part of this assignment, the place for the training will be specified later.
Core Values:
Core Competencies:
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FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:
Specialist/Advisor levels:
• Advanced academic degree (minimum Master’s) in Gender/Women’s Studies, Development Studies, EU Studies, Law, Public Administration, Political Sciences, Social Sciences, or related field
• University Degree (Bachelor’s degree / first level) with a combination of two additional years of relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
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