Deadline: 6-Sep-20
UN Women has announced a call for proposals to build a research system on the status of gender equality and women’s rights in Syria.
Gender equality is not only a basic human right, but its achievement has enormous socio-economic ramifications. Empowering women fuels thriving economies, spurring productivity and growth. Yet gender inequalities remain deeply entrenched in every society. Women lack access to decent work and face occupational segregation and gender wage gaps. They are too often denied access to basic education and health care. Women in all parts of the world suffer violence and discrimination. They are under-represented in political and economic decision-making processes.
UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide
Over many decades, the United Nations has made significant progress in advancing gender equality.
Main Objectives and Purpose
The contractor will develop and pilot a research system on the status of gender equality and women’s rights issues in Syria. The ambition is to build a system that could produce analysis on a quarterly basis to act as a barometer on the changing status of women’s rights and gender equality. The specific objectives of the research system include:
- Design a comprehensive, conflict sensitive research system on a range of gender equality and women’s rights issues;
- Develop and implement a pilot system;
- Generate a report (English and Arabic) on research findings.
Scope of Work & Tasks
Working in close coordination with UN Women, the following will be undertaken:
- Develop a research system, including methodological plan, to guide the implementation of the pilot:
- Create a system, drawing on a mixed methods approach, to gather and triangulate findings on the status of gender equality and women’s rights in Syria;
- Develop a sampling method to ensure diversity in the types of respondents, across geographies, political affiliation, religion, displacement status, age, and more;
- Create a comprehensive consent and secure data storage process to protect the identity of respondents;
- Create a risk mitigation matrix and plan to manage security risks related to the research system;
- Develop a workplan for the pilot of the system, data analysis, report drafting, translation, and professional layout of the final report;
- Implement the research system pilot
- Implement the pilot system using the methods agreed in the approved methodological plan;
- Provide verbal briefing to UN Women on the implementation of the pilot, including overview of geographies covered, emerging findings, risks, challenges, and lessons learned;
- Analyze report outlining key findings from research system pilot
- Analyze findings to identify trends and patterns on gender equality and women’s rights dynamics, including how these patterns manifest differently across the country;
- Draft key findings into a report (maximum of 20 pages) that includes data visualizations to accessibly communicate key findings;
- Establish a set of recommendations to inform policy and programming discussions on women’s rights and gender equality in the Syrian context;
- Finalize report in response to feedback from a UN Women hosted Reference Group;
- Translate report into Arabic;
- Professional layout out report in English and Arabic (both for public use) with support from a graphic designer.
- Draft a report on how to sustain a research system
- Create a report (internal, 5 pages) which puts forward options on how to sustain and take the research system forward, including dissemination of key findings, and assessment of lessons learned from the pilot process.
Deliverables
- Inception report – methodological plan, inclusive of research system design and proposed methodology on how to gather data on the status of gender equality and women’s rights in Syria
- Draft report in English (20 pages) – inclusive of all areas under task 3
- Final report in English and Arabic (20 pages) – inclusive of all areas under task 3
- Internal options paper (5 pages) – inclusive of all areas under task 4
For more information, visit https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/112798