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Jobs in Tanzania 2023: New Job Opportunities at UN Women Tanzania, 2023
đź’ĄInternational Consultant – Strengthening the Governments’ Capacity to Undertake Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting
International Consultant at UN Women September, 2023
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. Placing women’s rights at the centre of
its efforts, UN Women is mandated to lead and coordinate the United
Nations’ system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality
and gender mainstreaming are translated into action. It is also mandated
to provide strong and coherent leadership in support of the Member
States’ priorities and efforts and build effective partnerships with
civil society and other relevant actors.
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The SDG monitoring
indicator 5.c.1 requires the Members States to track and make public
allocation for gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE)
commitments, including the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
(BPfA), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW) and other instruments, linking the policy and
legal requirements for gender equality with resource allocations for
their implementation. Gender-responsive planning and budgeting (GRB)
enables governments to effectively reduce gender inequalities through
policies, plans and budgets that address equally the specific needs and
priorities of women and men, girls, and boys, including the most
excluded. It is an effective tool designed to track and analyze the way
governments make plans, allocate budgets, and use funds to promote
gender equality and attention to the leaving no one behind (LNOB) issues
through a variety of interventions. GRB generates data revealing both
policy gaps and achievements, helping to guide governments and other
institutions to improve their plans, allocations, and spending to
promote gender equality and LNOB in line with national, regional, and
local priorities.
The SDG target 5.4 envisages GEWE through the
so-called 3R strategy to address the disproportionate burden of unpaid
care work on women. Across the globe, unpaid care work remains a key
constraint on women’s economic empowerment. By recognizing, reducing,
and redistributing (“3R”) unpaid care work and rewarding and
representing (“5R”) those who are engaged in the care economy, the 3R/5R
strategies allow for a coherent understanding of policy opportunities
to address unpaid and underpaid care work and provide a framework for
care policy analysis and policymaking. To implement the 3R/5R strategies
and monitor the progress towards the SDG target 5.4, the budgeting and
planning process that apply a care lens is critical to identifying the
care policy gaps and promoting necessary interventions. GRB provides a
useful framework to analyze, budget and plan programs that fill the care
policy gap and value care responsibilities.
The UN system in
Tanzania, through the new UN Sustainable Development Cooperation
Framework (UNSDCF), identified GRB crucial to increase and track
financial commitments and accelerate progress towards the GEWE and LNOB
commitments. Also, UN Women Tanzania’s Strategic Note 2023-2027 sets
forth an output (2.1.1) envisaging the increased capacity of national
and subnational governments to address women’s disproportionate share of
unpaid and domestic care work. Furthermore, Tanzania’s National Five
Year Development Plan (FYDP) III 2021/22-2025/26 entails strong elements
on GEWE and LNOB, providing yet another opportunity for UN Women and
other UN agencies and development partners to strengthen GRB capacities
of national and subnational governments to deliver concrete results for
the most vulnerable groups including women. The COVID-19 pandemic
recovery measures also require an increased innovative financing for
GEWE and LNOB as the pandemic revealed the disproportionate burden of
care work on women.
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The UN Women Tanzania Country Office (CO) has
been implementing GRB initiatives and projects over the past eight
years with national and subnational governments and civil society
organizations (CSOs) with positive results. The CO is also increasingly
addressing the disproportionate care burden on women through the 3R/5R
strategies in partnership with subnational governments and CSOs.
Against
this background, the CO plans to scale up and expand its technical
assistance to the governments on gender-responsive, inclusive planning
and budgeting processes. As the care economy is emerging as key to
women’s economic empowerment, the CO intends to apply a care lens
analysis to the on-going GRB capacity building support. To accomplish
these goals, the CO seeks to hire an international consultant (IC) with
expertise in GRB with a good understanding of care economy and the 3R/5R
strategies. S/he will report to the country representative of UN Women
and work closely with the program staff at the CO and one national
consultant to be hired through a separate contract. The two consultants
will work as a team, with the IC as the lead, responsible for overall
quality assurance.
Duties and Responsibilities
The UN
Women Tanzania Country Office (CO) is looking for an international
consultant (IC) with substantial experiences in GRB coupled with a good
understanding of care economy and the 3R/5R strategies. S/he will be
responsible for providing technical support to government partners (both
national and subnational) on engendering the public financial
management (PFM) framework that are responsive to women’s and girl’s
needs, harness opportunities for their economic empowerment, and
addresses the care work’s disproportionate burden.
Under the
overall guidance of the country representative of UN Women and in
coordination with the WEE program specialist as well as the national
consultant, the IC will provide technical expertise on GRB to address
opportunities and challenges in promoting sustainable development The
consultant will strengthen the government partners’ capacity and promote
efforts necessary for the inclusion and mainstreaming the gender and
care perspectives in the national and subnational policymaking process
in line with the international standards.
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The IC’s main duties and responsibilities are as follows.
- Document critical findings of last year’s UN Women’s GRB capacity needs assessment surveys
- Prepare one policy brief on the care economy and its significance for Tanzania as a member of the global Care Alliance
- Provide
capacity building support for the Ministry of Finance (MoF) on GRB,
including the development of a list of actions to reach the 2027 targets
of GRB mainstreaming as per the Public Financial Management Reforms
Project (PFMRP) VI - Finalise the GRB guidelines in coordination with the Budget Unit at the MoF and support its publication and dissemination.
- Preparation
of TORs for the GRB Coordination Technical Working Group (GRB TWG) and
participation in initial engagements with the group. - Provide
technical support for the Joint IMF-UN Women Regional Workshop in close
coordination with the MoF and the Ministry of Gender scheduled in
November 2023 - Ensure the integration of GRB into the Integrated
National Financing Framework for Tanzania through consultations with
line ministries and UN agencies. - Develop the capacity of Gender focal Points on GRB to the Gender Focal Points in the line ministries.
Deliverables
- Assessment with key findings of UN Women’s GRB TNA survey of 2022 of selected ministries/agencies
- Policy
brief on the care economy of Tanzania, its linkages with the SDGs,
challenges in integrating into the mainstream economy and policy
recommendations and costing. - Substantive Gender Responsive
Budgeting inputs in the integrated National Financing Framework and
prepare a list of actions for the PFMRP VI’s targets for 2027 for
mainstreaming GRB. - Gender Responsive Budget Guidelines submitted to MOF for dissemination to sectoral ministries.
- Gender focal points Gender responsive Budgeting training presentation
- Development of TOR for the GRB Technical Working Group.
- Organizing at least three consultations in support of the establishment of an inter-ministerial coordination mechanism.
- Substantive
UN Women inputs and representation in the Joint IMF- UN Women Ministry
of Gender and Ministry of Finance meeting including consultations with
partners, UN Women regional and HQ.
Competencies
CORE 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/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf
Required Skills And Experience
Education:
- Master’s
degree or equivalent in international development, economics, political
science, social science, gender/women studies, human rights,
international relations or other social science fields is required
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Experience:Â
- At
least 7 years progressively responsible experience in designing and
managing programmes and advocating for Gender Responsive Budgeting,
ideally, with some experience in Tanzania - Understanding of public financing in care economy
- Experience in public policy analysis and strategic planning engaging government officials
- Experience
in working and building partnerships with governments, donors and civil
society organizations internationally and in the field - Experience in working with the UN is an asset
- Experience in working in the Southern and East Africa region is an asset
Language Requirements:
Fluency in English is required
Knowledge of the other UN official language is an asset
Submission of Applications:
The interested consultant (s) should respond to this TOR by submitting to UN Women:
- A cover letter explaining why the candidate is the most suitable for the work with fee quotation.
- A Curriculum Vitae with professional references
- A sample of the candidate’s written work, ideally a policy document that she/he helped to develop or revise.Â
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Please note that applications without a completed and signed UN Women
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further assessment.
UN Women Personal History form (P-11) can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment .
UNWOMEN
is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender,
nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous
groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply.
All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
Application Deadline: 12-Sep-23 (Midnight New York, USA)