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Individual Consultant for Assessment of Women and Girls Safe Spaces Established/Supported by UNFPA GBV Implementing Partners

17 May 2023
Beirut, Lebanon

 

Official Job Title:

Assessment of Women and Girls Safe Spaces Established/Supported by UNFPA GBV Implementing Partners

 

Duty Station

Lebanon, UNFPA Office

Hiring Office

UNFPA Lebanon

Grade (Classified)

NOB       

Vacancy Ref #

UNFPA/LBN/2023/004

Duration

One month and a half

Start-up Date

19 May until 30 June 2023

 

 

 

 

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Purpose of consultancy:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA expands the possibilities for women and young girls to lead healthy and productive lives. Since UNFPA started working in 1969, the number and rate of women dying from complications of pregnancy or childbirth has been halved. Families are smaller and healthier. Young people are more connected and empowered than before.

 

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a profound human rights violation with major social and development impacts for survivors of violence, as well as their families, communities, and society more broadly. Addressing GBV contributes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, namely achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls, reducing poverty, improving health, and promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, etc.…

 

UNFPA Lebanon promotes gender equality and women empowerment and prevention and protection against GBV. It supports service provision, evidence generation, and capacity development interventions for better GBV prevention, risk mitigation, and response. UNFPA Lebanon established, in collaboration with its implementing partners (namely national and international NGOs) women and girls’ safe spaces (WGSSs) where beneficiaries benefit from a range of comprehensive GBV services, including case management, psychosocial support, psychological assistance, and referrals to specialized services. In addition, awareness-raising, recreational, life skills, and skills-building activities are usually offered in the WGSSs.

 

The establishment of WGSSs emerged in Lebanon as a key strategy for the protection and empowerment of women and girls specially in the context of the Syrian humanitarian crisis facing the country since 2011 and subsequent crisis. WGSSs serve as a structured place where women and girls’ physical and emotional safety is respected and where women and girls are supported through processes of empowerment to seek, share, and obtain information, access services, express themselves, enhance psychosocial wellbeing, and more fully realize their rights. WGSSs are established following international guiding principles to ensure they are inclusive, accessible, and client/survivor centered as well as UNFPA experience in the region in running this model. It is worth noting that in the previous years, UNFPA has been conducting on a yearly basis an impact assessment of WGSSs and the consultant would need to build on the assessment findings to take stock of our experience and improve programming.

 

Based on the above, a consultant will be engaged to assess the implementation of WGSSs supported by UNFPA in terms of their functionalities, minimum standards[1] and structural requirements and ability to realize the intended objective[2]. Specifically, the assessment will a) provide an overview/mapping of the 9 UNFPA-supported WGSSs including assessment of essential criteria[3]; b) analyze the quality, relevance and impact of services and support provided in WGSSs, including psychosocial support, health care, legal assistance, and skills training; c) assess existing capacities; d) assess access, safety and fair treatment of beneficiaries when seeking services, as well as provision of services in a respectful and dignified way; e) determine the impact of the WGSSs in promoting the empowerment, protection, and participation of women and girls; f) assess the extent to which WGSSs are being inclusive and diverse through taking an intersectional approach; g) identify best practices, gaps, and challenges. Based on the findings, the consultant will develop concrete recommendations at various levels (normative, governance, services, etc) to improve the condition of the WGSSs (i.e., design, implementation, monitoring and feedback mechanisms, etc) with the aim to enhance the wellbeing of women and adolescent girls.

 

Scope of work:

 

(Description of services, activities, or outputs)

The consultant will work under UNFPA’s supervision to carry out the following tasks:

  1. Prepare an action plan with a timeline of activities to be carried out under this assignment.
  2. Conduct a literature review including relevant policies, guidelines, and standards related to safe spaces for women and girls.
  3. Describe data collection methods to be used (e.g., interviews, surveys, focus groups, observation checklists, etc.) and develop relevant tools (i.e., Key informant interviews with WGSS stakeholders, focus group discussions with women and girls accessing safe spaces, checklist for site visits to safe spaces to assess the physical infrastructure and quality of services, etc.).
  4. Collect data through UNFPA GBV implementing partners and conduct KII with UNFPA staff and other stakeholders and based on step 4 above.
  5. Draft a report in English and present in a technical meeting (report template to be discussed with UNFPA)
  6. Finalize the report based on UNFPA input and comments + a PPT summarizing the methodology and key findings + recommendations.

Duration working schedule:

May 19, 2023-June 30, 2023

Place where services are to be delivered:

Lebanon

Delivery dates and how work will be delivered (e.g. electronic, hard copy etc.):

Delivery Date: June 30, 2023

All deliverables will be submitted electronically

Monitoring and progress control, including reporting requirements, periodicity format and deadline:

Milestone

Deliverables

Timeline

Payment
  • Conduct literature review and develop action plan.
  • Develop and finalize data collection tools.

 

 

 

 

 

  • Complete data collection process.
  • Develop report and finalize it as per UNFPA inputs and comments.
  • Action plan prepared and data collection tools finalized.
  • Progress report submitted.

 

 

 

 

  • Final assessment report submitted.
  • Final consultancy report submitted.

June 20, 2023

 

 

 

 

July 20, 2023

30%

 

 

 

 

 

70%

 

 

Supervisory arrangements:

The consultant will work under the direct supervision of UNFPA GBV programme specialist

Expected travel:

N/A

Required expertise, qualifications and competencies, including language requirements:

The Consultant should fulfill the following requirements:

 

A. Education: Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Development Studies, Public Health, with previous work experience and considerable skills in conducting research studies.

 

B. Experience:

  • 5 years’ experience in social sciences, gender studies or related subject areas.
  • Extensive knowledge in Gender/Gender- Based Violence and Women and Girls Safe Spaces at the national level.
  • Experience ion humanitarian settings is an asset.
  • Relevant experience in conducting qualitative research.
  • Ability to collect and analyze data.
  • Ability to work independently and to take initiative and ownership of the task.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to establish effective and working relations with different stakeholders.
  • Excellent writing and reporting skills.
  • Ability to work efficiently and adhere to deadlines.

C. Language and other skills: Proficiency in oral and written English and Arabic is essential.

●Excellent written and spoken communication skills in Arabic and English.

Inputs / services to be provided by UNFPA or implementing partner (e.g support services, office space, equipment), if applicable:

UNFPA will support the consultant through:

  • sharing details regarding UNFPA supported WGSSs
  • sharing relevant documents/reports
  • facilitating contact with the IPs
  • reviewing the consultancy tools and draft report

 

Other relevant information or special conditions, if any:

N/A

 

Signature of Requesting Officer in Hiring Office: Nicia El Dannawi

Date: 8/5/2023
 

[2] The objective to be aligned with objective set in Women & Girls Safe Spaces: A guidance note based on lessons learned from the Syrian Crisis, March 2015, UNFPA Regional Syria Response Hub

 

[3] Quality: Whether members think that the quality of the service meets their expectations; Relevance: Whether members think that the service is relevant to their priority needs; Impact: Whether clients think that the service will have the impact that they want to see upon their lives. Access, Safety and Fair Treatment: Whether members think that they can access the service without barriers, whether they feel safe when accessing the service and / or think that the aid is provided fairly (based on need and without discrimination. Respectful and Dignified Treatment: Whether members think that the service is being delivered by WGSS staff in a respectful and dignified way. Empowerment and participation: Whether members think that they have an ability to influence relevant programming decisions made by the WGSS service provider organization (and/or partners, if applicable) and whether they are being empowered to meet their own needs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Application process and deadline:

Interested consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

  • A cover letter explaining your suitability for the work;
  • Personal History form (P-11  Download here);
  • Updated and relevant Personal CV.

The above-mentioned documents should be submitted together by May 17, 2023, through the email link: bids_lbn@unfpa.org

Incomplete submission can be a ground for disqualification.

 

[2] The objective to be aligned with objective set in Women & Girls Safe Spaces: A guidance note based on lessons learned from the Syrian Crisis, March 2015, UNFPA Regional Syria Response Hub

 

[3] Quality: Whether members think that the quality of the service meets their expectations; Relevance: Whether members think that the service is relevant to their priority needs; Impact: Whether clients think that the service will have the impact that they want to see upon their lives. Access, Safety and Fair Treatment: Whether members think that they can access the service without barriers, whether they feel safe when accessing the service and / or think that the aid is provided fairly (based on need and without discrimination. Respectful and Dignified Treatment: Whether members think that the service is being delivered by WGSS staff in a respectful and dignified way. Empowerment and participation: Whether members think that they have an ability to influence relevant programming decisions made by the WGSS service provider organization (and/or partners, if applicable) and whether they are being empowered to meet their own needs.