Macedonia: Conducting Gender Equality and Climate Change Trainings

Deadline: 14-Jul-21

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is inviting you to submit your quotation in MKD, VAT excluded for Conducting Gender Equality and Climate Change Trainings.

The overall objective of this assignment is to conduct 10 trainings on Gender Equality and Climate Change and extend the capacity building programme on gender and climate change with mentorship.

The specific objectives of the assignment are as following:

To increase knowledge of the participants on the gender component of the climate change;
To understand the gender perspective climate change;
To get insights into gender differences in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation;
To strengthen the participants’ skills to mainstream gender equality in their climate change programs, institutions and policies;
To improve participants understanding of the basic elements of gender mainstreaming approach and strategies;
To strengthen the implementation of the Gender and Climate Change Draft Action Plan.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Project Manager and in close cooperation with the two UNFCCC focal points as well as other relevant consultants engaged by the project, the contractor shall be responsible to deliver 10 trainings on Gender Equality and Climate Change and provide 3 months mentorships services for the training participants.

The consulting company is expected to conduct the following tasks:

Identify relevant target audience on national and local level that will participate at trainings (representatives from public enterprises; administrative employees working on procurement on national / local level).
Update existing training modules with latest country specific gender and climate change data.
Develop a training plan for delivering the trainings;
Prepare set of the training materials for each training participants;
Provide translators for the trainings on local languages (if needed);
Deliver 10 trainings (2 in Skopje and 8 in each administrative region) on Gender Equality and Climate Change taking into consideration COVID restrictions. Each regional training should cover all municipalities within that region;
Evaluate the success of the trainings by developing a set of indicators;
Develop a Report for the trainings, capturing statistics, lessons learned, findings and recommendations for improvement;
Design and implement 3 months mentorship programme for training participants in order to support the authorities on local and national level to start with implementation of gender and climate change mainstreaming within their responsibilities. The mentorship should be provided in the period Sep — Nov 2021.

Eligibility Criteria

Gender Specialist
- Minimum university degree. Advanced degree will be an asset.
- At least 3 years of relevant professional experience in organizing/delivering trainings on gender mainstreaming/gender equality.
- Minimum 3 relevant projects. (trainings/workshops or consultative events on gender; list of relevant projects/assignments shall be included.
Climate Change Specialist
- Minimum university degree in the relevant field (technical, natural sciences or similar). Advanced degree will be an asset.
- At least 3 years of relevant professional experience in analysis, research and projects in the area of Climate Change.
- At least 3 relevant projects (climate change relevant capacity building activities/analyses/studies and similar); list of relevant projects/assignments shall be included.
- Experience as presenter/lecturer at trainings/workshops or consultative events in the field of Climate Change shall be considered as asset.