Local Consultant

Background:

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, men and diverse genders as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. 

All human development and human rights issues involve gender dimensions. UN Women globally focuses on key priority areas that are fundamental to women's equality, and that can unlock progress across the board. UN Women's priority areas include increasing women's leadership and participation in political spaces, ending violence against women, enhancing women's economic empowerment, engaging in all aspects of women peace and security processes, making gender equality central to national planning and budgeting through Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) and advancing gender in intergovernmental processes.

UN Women's work on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) or Gender Budgeting (GB) involves ensuring that national planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation processes incorporate a gender perspective. UN Women's GRB programmes at the regional and country level have made significant contribution towards this by building political support, developing technical resources and capacities, generating good practices for improving women's access to services and increasing accountability for Gender Equality and Women's empowerment (GEWE). At the forefront of global, regional and local advocacy for application of GRB, UN Women has built partnerships with diverse government, inter-governmental and non-governmental partners to further efforts and demonstrate GRB's relevance to sustainable development, aid effectiveness, public sector reform and financing for development.

UN Women's India Country Office, based in New Delhi is implementing a project with the objective of strengthening institutional mechanisms for GRB resulting in an increase of gender perspective in budgets, improved availability of data, and tracking of progress on gender equality initiatives across ministries and select states/UTs. It will aim to create a conducive policy environment and enhance institutional capacities on gender budgeting at the national and State/UT level.  It will identify strategies and operational approaches to strengthen on-going efforts in the area of GRB. Insights generated from this project will enable key stakeholders at the national and state level to accelerate their efforts to ensure that women's priorities are adequately reflected in national and state budgeting processes, and to make concrete changes for adequate resource allocation towards women's priorities. 

UN Women through this programme will work with national ministries including Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Ministry of Finance and line ministries to deepen anchoring of GB across union ministries and sectors. It will create and strengthen institutional mechanisms for GRB and institute methodological changes in Planning-Budgeting and Auditing (PBA) systems for enabling gender responsive actions. The project will aim to enhance capacities of government officials and other stakeholders to implement the gender responsive PBA measures, and leverage technology to advance gender budgeting including through and e-governance tool.

Within this context, UN Women seeks the services of GRB Technical Coordinator- MWCD to be embedded in Ministry of Women and Child Development, GoI in New Delhi. Reporting to the Program Analyst- GRB, UN Women and working closely with the nodal official in MWCD, the GRB Technical Coordinator- MWCD will be responsible for coordinating and implementing programme activities with MWCD on Gender Budgeting. 

Roles and Responsibilities :

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of Program Lead- GRB, the GRB Technical Coordinator- MWCD will support in strengthening the efforts of the national government on Gender Responsive Budgeting.

The GRB Technical Coordinator- MWCD will work closely with the nodal official in MWCD, and have the following tasks:

Strengthening coordination with relevant Ministries on GB-

• Technical assistance to MWCD on expansion of GB to central ministries/ departments and states/UTs
• Providing inputs to various Ministries/Departments on gender issues, particularly for new policies, programmes and legislations.
• Undertaking assessment of Ministries/Departments and States on their progress on GRB and supporting in the development of the Ministry wise and State wise Action Plans on GRB.
• Administer self-assessment tool on GB and support ministries/ departments to undertake and update tool periodically. 
• Analysis of document s/references from different Ministries/ States from a gender perspective
• Collate, compile and analyze information and data received from Ministries/gender Budgeting Cells on Gender Budgeting
• Analysis of the Gender Budget Statement, pre and post gender budget analysis of sectors and coordination with Ministries/ Departments with regards to the same.
• Support in conducting a national pre-budget consultation with MWCD, MoF and women's group and civil society to enable participation and inclusion of women in budget-making processes

Research, Documentation and Dissemination of relevant GRB Resources

• Contributes substantively to the analysis and research of the political, social and economic situation in the country on gender responsive governance/ GRB and prepare substantive inputs
• Document and disseminate resources for GRB, such as case studies and best practices;
• Assist in preparation of documents pertaining to GRB, including Annual Reports, Annual Plans and Results Framework Documents etc;
• Process papers/proposal received for GRB;
• Assist in preparation of Sanction Orders and Bills and monitor progress of unutilized receipts and disbursements, utilization certificates, vouchers, etc. related to assignments pertaining to Gender Budgeting Scheme;
• Assist in preparatory work for review meetings with Secretary and Ministers, including, preparation of resource materials, agenda papers, minutes etc;
• Support IT specialist in roll out and implementation of e governance tool on gender budgeting

Facilitating Training and Capacity Development of various stakeholders on GRB

• Conduct trainings and orientation programmes on Gender Budgeting for (i) Union Government, (ii) State Governments, (iii) District level officers, (iv) PRI members, (v) Training Institutes and (vi) NGO and others;
• Collaborate with training institutions/organizations engaged in training activities with a view to furthering the aims and objectives of Gender Budgeting and providing technical inputs on Gender Budgeting;

Developing Training and IEC Material on GRB 

• Developing training tools, manual, and other IEC materials on GRB, as required; 
• Provide technical assistance to MWCD in developing guidelines on deepening gender budgeting at panchayat/ urban ward levels 
• Provide technical assistance to MWCD in developing guidelines on Gender Auditing and taking gender audit forward.

Any other duties assigned by Supervisor in MWCD and UN Women

Key Deliverables:

• Substantive positioning of gender budgeting in government policies and strategy
• Effective implementation of gender budgeting in 10 union Ministries and select States in coordination with MWCD
  
   

Core Values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women's Values and Competencies Framework: 

Qualifications and Experience :

Education:

• Master's Degree or equivalent in Social Sciences/Economics/Social Work /Gender Studies/Public Administration/Policy or related fields.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience at the national/state level working with development projects preferably on Gender Responsive Governance, Gender Equality and Women Empowerment; with hands-on experience of design, implementation and monitoring/evaluation of projects.
• Some experience of working with national/ state governments on gender issues, preferable on gender responsive budgeting. 
• Experience of undertaking budgetary/ policy analysis and capacity building of government officials.
• Proficiency in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.).

The evaluation process for selection of the candidate will be based on the following assessment:

• Interview
• Written Test 
  
  Statements :

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

Diversity and inclusion:

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