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 supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide. It works globally to make the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals a reality for women and girls and stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on four strategic priorities:
• Women lead, participate in and benefit equally from governance systems.
• Women have income security, decent work and economic autonomy.
• All women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence.
• Women and girls contribute to and have greater influence in building sustainable peace and resilience, and benefit equally from the prevention of natural disasters and conflicts and humanitarian action.
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UN Women Knowledge and Partnerships Centre in the Republic of Korea
The UN Women Knowledge and Partnerships Centre in the Republic of Korea (formerly the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality, hereinafter \"the Centre\") was established in 2022 in partnership with the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (MOGEF) of the Republic of Korea (ROK). The Centre was founded with a shared mandate to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls across Asia and the Pacific.
Located in Seoul, the Centre has, in just over two years, contributed to developing strategic partnerships and strengthening cross-country exchanges and learning among countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including ROK. It has facilitated capacity development, advocacy, and convening of strategic policy dialogues across various thematic areas, including women's economic empowerment, gender-transformative disaster risk reduction, gender-responsive climate actions, Women, Peace and Security, ending gender-based violence, gender statistics, and private sector partnerships. In early 2025, the Centre was rebranded with a new name to emphasize its key functions in facilitating partnership development and knowledge exchange on promising practices and lessons learned for advancing gender equality and women's empowerment.
In 2025–2026, the Centre will focus on accelerating investments in two priority areas: 1) transforming care systems, and 2) tackling Technology-Facilitated Gender Based Violence (TFGBV). The Centre will embrace innovation, including as it relates to new technologies and partnerships, to increase the breadth and impacts of its work, aligning with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Pact for the Future and the on-going regional and global dialogue on Beijing+30 and its transformative promise to leave no one behind. Prioritisation will be given to supporting at the regional and global level: enhanced knowledge, responses and strategies on transforming care system as a cornerstone of women’s overall empowerment; strengthened knowledge, policies and tools to end technology-facilitated gender-based violence; and increased emphasis on advancing multistakeholder partnerships for gender equality and women’s empowerment.
At the global level, under the leadership of the UN Deputy Secretary-General, UN Women recently coordinated an inter-agency working group, which includes the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), ILO, UNOHCHR, and UNDP. This resulted in a UN System policy paper on \"Transforming Care Systems in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals and Our Common Agenda.” The paper provides a practical framework for UN agencies to address care within the context of the SDGs and promotes comprehensive care systems that enable gender equality and social justice. It highlights policy options to support the transformation of care systems and highlights the importance of human rights-based, universal, and transformative approaches to care. This is an important milestone as it will shape and guide UN and system-wide action on Care in the decades to come.
Within the focus on Transforming Care Systems, the TransformCare Investment Initiative Asia-Pacific (TCII-AP) is a UN Women-convened initiative to make care systems prosperous for people and the planet. TransformCare is a global large-scale, long-term response aiming to catalyse multi-donor investments and multi-partner collaborations to build resilient care systems, serving as a foundation for caring societies and inclusive and green economies where women can fully realize their economic rights and participation. Advancing women’s economic empowerment by building caring societies and inclusive and green economies aims to contribute by 2035 to: (i) Benefit 100 million women and girls in all their diversities; (ii) Create 125 million new employment opportunities in the care economy in 2035 as well as in future-oriented sectors, including the green and digital economy; (iii) Release 2 billion hours of time spent by women on unpaid care work
An important part of TCII is to support policymakers with tools and guidance for designing gender-responsive policies and practices to create an enabling environment to transform care systems. Towards this, UN Women is seeking an expert to advance evidence-informed policy design to accelerate actions towards gender equality and women’s economic empowerment through the use of official statistics on care.
Description of Responsibilities/Scope of Work
The objective of the consultancy is to Develop technical guidelines on evidence-informed decision making to transform care systems. The technical guidelines will blend with the UN Women’s HQ standard training on transforming care systems and leverage the experience from the ROK on the use of official statistics, such as time use data among others, to inform the design and monitoring of care policies.
Under the supervision of the Statistics Specialist in the Women Economic Empowerment Unit at the UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Gender Training Specialist, the consultant will develop the technical guidelines, including best practices in the Asia and Pacific region in using relevant official statistics for the design of policies on transforming care system.
The specific tasks of the consultant:
Inception Phase & Workplan Development
Desk Review & Context Analysis
Stakeholder Consultations
Development of the Technical Guideline
Validation and Finalization
Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
This is a home-based consultancy. Meanwhile, as part of the official duty of this consultancy, the consultant may be expected to travel, which will be processed by UN Women following the duty travel policy.
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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:
Criteria No.Technical Evaluation CriteriaObtainable Score 1 Education 20 % 2 Experience and skills 60 % 3 Language and report writing skills 20 % Total Score 100 %
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