UNDP Request for Proposals: Cambodia Gender Economic Assessment

Deadline: 5 October 2018

UNDP is seeking request for proposals for its “Cambodia Gender Economic Assessment” to deliver a more systemic account providing a gendered economic assessment covering all aspects of women’s role within Cambodia’s economy, including both productive and equity dimensions – what they contribute and what they receive, and their role over economic decisions in households, businesses and in the public realm.

Scope

The purpose of the assignment is to produce (with the IC) a Gender Economic Assessment for Cambodia, providing a gendered account of production and trade, and the distribution of incomes, rooted in gender relations, strurtural constraints and biases. Furthermore, to bring these together to provide an estimate of the macroeconomic impacts, including on growth, along with policy recommendations to enhance the inclusion of women.

Elements

• Labour market dynamics and human capital: women’s/ men’s participation in work, the quality of male versus female employment and rewards (and specifically an authoritative estimate of the wage gap, i.e. after controlling for non-gender bias differences using an appropriate method and covering for all sectors). This is to use secondary data sources – CSES, CDHS etc. This includes an account of women’s position in education and training, hence differences in the level/ quality of human capital formation.
• Capital market/ asset ownership differences, women’s economic status, command over assets and ability to access credit, and hence how they affect the entrepreneurship and the supply of credit/ investment (again using secondary sources such as CDHS, CSES etc).
• Explore gender poverty differences, probing: (1) income/ consumption poverty and hence intrahousehold (this will require use of secondary sources – i.e. CHDS data and some primary qualitative empirical research via 3-4 focus groups); and (2) analysis of multi-dimensional poverty by gender (based on the CDHS dataset).
• Some discussion of the unpaid (domestic and care) sector, and how this interacts with the money economy, to include developing preliminary proposals for future empirical work (i.e. time-use surveys).

Duration

The assignment is timed to take place over a 12-month period from 30 October 2018 to 28th Febru30 September 2019. For the national team (3 researchers), the assignment duration is estimated at a total of 150 full time equivalent days (i.e. 30 working weeks, the allocation to individual team members is a matter for the counterpart organization).

Eligibility Criteria

Service Provider

The qualifications of the service provider will be assessed through these minimum requirements as follows:

• 7 years professional experience in research;
• Standing within the research community and good relationship with government;
• Commitment to impartiality and an evidence-based approach;
• Standing within the research community and good relationship with government;
• Commitment to impartiality and an evidence-based approach;
• Past track record in this area of research assignments;
• Experience of similar delivery modalities;
• Commitment to UN agenda and human rights, specifically gender equality.

Senior Researcher

• Education: PhD in economics or other relevant social science.
• Experience:
  • At least 7 years of Experience of similar joint working assignment modalities (i.e. working with an international counterpart).
  • Hands-on experience of data gathering and analysis (quantitative and qualitative).
• Competencies:
  • Have knowledge of gendered economy issues; strong written and verbal presentational skills.
  • Knowledge of labour market economics and poverty analysis; econometric/ statistical skills, knowledge of modelling techniques.
• Language Requirements: Fluent in English and Khmer.

Team Member

• Education: PhD in economics or other relevant social science.
• Experience:
  • At least 7 years of Experience of similar joint working assignment modalities (i.e. working with an international counterpart).
  • Hands-on experience of data gathering and analysis (quantitative and qualitative).
• Competencies:
  • Have knowledge of gendered economy issues; strong written and verbal presentational skills.
  • Knowledge of labour market economics and poverty analysis; econometric/ statistical skills, knowledge of modelling techniques.
• Language Requirements: Fluent in English and Khmer.

How to Apply

Applicants can submit their applications via email at the address given on the website.

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