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 is committed to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women across all sectors, including the private sector. In alignment with the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) and building on the successful implementation of the PROCEGEM programme in Mali, UN Women intends to develop a 5-year regional programme aimed at assessing, building capacity, and officially recognizing how well large private companies integrate gender into their business models.
The programme will be implemented in six countries in West and Central Africa: Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It will focus on strengthening the private sector's contribution to gender equality by scaling up best practices, fostering partnerships, and encouraging private sector leadership in achieving gender equality goals.
UN Women seeks an international consultant to lead stakeholder consultations, identify strategic partnerships, and develop a full engagement strategy for resource mobilization and implementation.
The consultant will be reporting to the Deputy Regional Director, and will be supported by Title, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues.
Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work
Deliverables
The main objectives of the consultancy are to:
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the UN Women Regional Office for West and Central Africa (WCARO), and in close collaboration with the Country Offices and relevant partners, the consultant will:
a. Inception Phase
b. Consultations
c. Partnership Mapping and Engagement
d. Proposal Development Workshop
4. Deliverables and Timeline Deliverable Expected completion time (due day) Payment Schedule (optional) Inception report with methodology and work plan Week 2 Stakeholder consultation report (per country and consolidated) Week 8 Partnership and donor engagement strategy Week 10 Proposal development workshop Week 12 Submission of Draft proposal Week 16
Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
This is a home-based consultancy.
As part of this assignment, there will be one visit to WCARO and maximum of 4 trip out of the 6 countries involved.
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Core Competencies:
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How to Apply
Statements :
In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.
Diversity and inclusion:
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