Deadline: 8-May-22
UN Women is seeking applications to identify and select a qualified Firm/Consortium of Consultant(s) to undertake and conduct a Baseline Survey for the Caribbean Regional Spotlight Initiative.
The Spotlight Initiative, a multi-year partnership between the European Union and the United Nations, is the largest global investment to eliminate Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG). This is in recognition that women and girls disproportionately experience gender violence and are exposed to intersecting forms of violence regardless of where they live; hence the investment in five regions across the globe. In the Caribbean, there are six specific country Spotlight Initiative programmes complemented by a Regional Programme.
Aims
- Overall, the regional Programme aims to:
- Increase policy coordination and functional cooperation across the region to address family violence
- Set regional standards for essential services delivery, for monitoring the implementation of regional and national family violence laws and policies
- Advance best practice models for prevention
- Ensure the engagement women’s organisations in regional accountability frameworks. This will be achieved through complementing the investments of regional institutions and contribute to the scale, sustainability, visibility, lessons learnt and replication of programming throughout the region.
Objectives
- The specific objectives of the baseline survey are:
- To provide information for setting of milestones, targets and development of subsequent work plans in line with the principle of ‘leaving no one behind and reaching those furthest behind first’.
- In collaboration with the Spotlight Regional Project Management Unit (PMU) and the Recipient United Nations Organisations (RUNOs), complete the Spotlight Initiative Results framework/monitoring matrix with appropriate baseline values for the identified indicators to determine the measurement of the Spotlight Initiative’s impact for all Stakeholders (Governments, Senior Management within the UN, the donor(s), and other partners, such as civil society and the women’s movement and even the general public).
- To provide recommendations on areas that need more attention and focus during implementation and ways to strengthen performance monitoring and maximize learning.
Outcomes
- Established Baselines, Milestones, and Targets for the Caribbean Regional Spotlight Initiative
- A complete Caribbean Regional Programme Results Framework/Monitoring Matrix
- An updated Caribbean Regional Programme Monitoring & Evaluation Plan
- A Baseline Report the Caribbean Regional Spotlight Initiative
- A Proposal Document of the monitoring system and the instruments and recommended methods for data collection and measurement of the indicators for the Regional Spotlight Program, based on the results framework.
Selection Criteria
Team composition
- The consulting firm or Consortium of Consultant(s) must:
- Demonstrate its understanding and experience of family violence and gender related issues, including gender inequalities and VAWG.
- Demonstrate its experience implementing projects within an International Development results based monitoring framework, similar in scope and complexity to the current mandate.
- Demonstrate its capacity to develop tools and protocols that are incorporate the human rights based approach and is gender-responsive.
- Demonstrate its knowledge and experience in data analysis and reporting.
Organizational Requirements
- Legal:
- Legally registered firm or possession of a business certificate
- Experience:
- Technical knowledge and demonstrated experience in Caribbean related to data collection methods, data analysis and reporting, preferably on violence against women and girls
- Experience in developing evaluation frameworks
- Experience in participatory methods
- Experience in conducting data analysis and reporting
- Documented experience of at least 3 projects of design and survey of baseline studies of programs and projects that include the analysis and integration of the gender approach
- Documented experience of at least 10 years in the field of qualitative and quantitative research.
- Experience of at least 2 projects of similar nature and complexity to this carried out in the last 5 years, one of the two projects on gender-based violence.
- Demonstrated experience in working successfully as a multidisciplinary team
- Understanding of diversity, including cultural and gender awareness
- Skills:
- Language skills (English is mandatory)
- Interviewing skills, especially in interviewing different target audiences
- Facilitation skills, especially in working with groups of different target stakeholders (i.e. beneficiaries, including women and men, adolescents, national and sub-national and local government officers; non-governmental organisations; civil society and UN agencies);
- Data analysis
- Report writing
- Personal ethics:
- Respect the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Code of Conduct
- Be sensitive to beliefs, manners and customs and act with integrity and honesty in their relationship with all stakeholders, in accordance with human rights norms
- Protect the anonymity and confidentiality of institutions and individual informants
For more information, visit https://caribbean.unwomen.org/en/stories/news/2022/04/request-for-proposals-rfp06114-baseline-survey-for-the-caribbean-regional-spotlight-initiative
