Le bureau d’ONU Femmes de Tunis lance un appel à candidature pour un(e) rapport-eur(rice) dans le cadre du projet « Femmes, Paix et Sécurité » عودة إلى الفرص

Le bureau d’ONU Femmes de Tunis, organise des ateliers durant l’année 2017, dans le cadre du projet « Femmes, Paix et Sécurité ». A cette fin, ONU Femmes compte recruter un(e) rapport-eur (rice) pour documenter et élaborer les rapports de ces ateliers.

Terms of Reference (ToR) : Recruitment of a Workshop Reporter

Réf: TUN/UNW/2017/002

Place: Tunis, Tunisia

Starting date: 30 March 2016

End date: 30 November 2017

Type of contract: National Consultancy (SSA)

Languages: Arabic and French. Good knowledge in English is an asset

Number of working days: 20 days

Context and justification

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 all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. 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 Multi‐Country Office (MCO) Maghreb in Tunis, Tunisia is currently implementing a programme that seeks to leverage the global normative framework on women, peace and security1 to address the women’s rights and gender equality challenges faced in the region by countries both affected by crisis and transition, and those supporting communities displaced by crisis.

This programme will create the space, opportunities and support to amplify women’s leadership in the areas of conflict prevention, humanitarian engagement, conflict resolution and long‐term peace building. It will support national bodies, governments and civil society to call for and ensure the implementation of the global commitments on women, peace and security. Specifically, it will support the Arab League in its initiative to develop national action plans, with measurable indicators, on SCR 1325 and its subsequent resolutions throughout the region, while assessing the experience in Iraq to date and supporting them to accelerate NAP implementation.

The overall goal of the programme is to contribute to the creation of an enabling environment for implementation of WPS commitments, by addressing attitudinal and cultural biases through strong accountability frameworks and continued building of evidence based advocacy.

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the women, Peace& security program coordinator at UN Women Maghreb – Tunisia office, the consultant will provide support in documenting 5 two‐day workshops related to on “Women, Peace and Security” in Tunisia. The assignment requires presence during the workshop and remote work to produce the reports.

Objectives

Overall Objective:

To produce a final report summarizing five two‐day workshops on the Women, Peace, and Security agenda in Tunisia reporting main recommendations and findings.

Specific Objectives:

Under the overall supervision of women, Peace& security program coordinator, the consultant will:

• Develop the reports’ format
• Take the minutes and write a report of the 5 workshop in French.

Do any suggested modifications upon review of the report by the supervisor.

Main tasks and activities

The consultant will have the following duties and responsibilities:

• Ensure accurate documentation of two‐day workshop by ensuring proper collection of all documents produced during the workshop (list of participants, notes from panels, speakers’ presentations, etc.)
• Summarize findings of the panel discussions
• Produce a draft report (in French) including:
  • An executive summary (1 page)
  • An introduction explaining the context and the objectives of the workshop (1 page)
  • A description of how the workshop was held (1 page)
  • A summary of recommendations from workshop’s panels
• Getting feedback from UN Women on the draft report and ensuring the finalization of the report accordingly

Deliverables

By the end of the consultancy, the external resource should have produced the following:

• A draft report in French of the workshop (including attendance of the workshop)
• Final (revised) workshop report as well as the supporting documents as stated before
• The dates of the workshops will be shared on time with the consultant, the first one will be held on 30‐31 Mars 2017.

Selection criteria

The consultant’s application will be examined according to the criteria contained in the following document:

ToRs Workshop Reporter 1325

The contract will be awarded to the offer with the lowest price among technically qualified offers.

Payment Modalities

Payment will be in TND according to the following modalities:

‐ 20% upon submission of each finalized report.