National Consultant-Capacity-building training for the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) project Grantees and sub-grantees on Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA)

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

The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is a partnership between the United Nations and the civil society, which supports women led and women’s rights organizations working to build peace and provide humanitarian response throughout the world. Since the end of 2016, the WPHF has been supporting over 900 civil society organizations (CSOs) and is present in 32 countries including Ethiopia.   

UN Women hosts the Secretariat of the WPHF. The WPHF Secretariat provides support to the Funding Board, mobilizes resources from Governments, companies, foundations and individuals, designs funding windows and mechanisms, provides day to day support to Country Offices implementing WPHF programmes, ensures timely and quality monitoring and reporting.  

The advancement of gender equality and women’s empowerment could not be possible without engaging a wide spectrum of partners to achieve the expected results across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. UN Women Ethiopia has been investing in building M&E and financial management capacities of partners in support of delivering high-quality programming.  Through funding received from WPHF, UN Women has engaged Responsible Parties (RP) such as civil society organization and women’s rights organizations working in peace-building and humanitarian response in Ethiopia to collaboratively deliver results within the project objective. 

In this connection, UN Women would like to invite all WPHF partners on a capacity-building training between 4-8 November 2024 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The training will target WPHF project implementing partners from across its country portfolios to exchange perspectives, review current challenges, learn from each other, and create synergies and partnerships. The training will be hands on to strengthen partners’ capacities on Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA), using the GiHA Handbook and training modules, the Gender mainstreaming pocket guide and other GiHA Tools.  

The trainings’ expected outcomes are: 

• Enhanced knowledge and capacities of WPHF partners on how to mainstream Gender in humanitarian action throughout the HPC cycle, using the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Training modules, the Gender mainstreaming pocket guide and other GiHA tools
• Increased network and collaboration among WPHF partners – identifying joint actions to address challenges and opportunities.   
• Accelerating WPHF impact and reach – promote, sustainability, and scaling of CSO partners’ impacts and reach.  

Participants/Target group:  The target audience of the training is UN Women’s implementing partners, including all listed below: 

• Programme Managers working on UN Women-WPHF funded project.  
• Planning, M&E, Reporting Officers/Analysts/ Specialists directly assigned to the WPHF project.  
• Financial Officers/Operations Managers directly supporting the financial management of the WPHF project. 

In total, 30 WLOs/WROs are expected to take part in the capacity-building training.

Description and purpose of the consultancy 

The consultant, with the guidance and under the supervision of UN Women Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action program team will support to prepare, facilitate, and moderate the capacity-building training and provide a training report. The main objective of the consultant is to develop training sessions, ensure a smooth workflow during the proposed agenda items including plenary, group discussion and training activities, by providing tools and exercises for all the participants.  Specifically, the consultant will be responsible to plan and develop content and deliver the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) training for WPHF partners, using the GiHA Handbook and training modules, the Gender mainstreaming pocket guide and other GiHA Tools.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action Programme Specialist at UN Women ECO, the Consultant will be responsible for delivering the below:

1. Deliver 2.5-days of in-person GiHA training in English and Amharic where applicable, using modern and engaging learning techniques.
2. Provide a session brief/facilitator note in English for use by any new trainer that provides a detailed explanation of the methodology for each of the GiHA training modules.
3. Develop a pre-and post-training survey to measure increase in participants’ knowledge and capacities on GiHA.
4. Submit a training report, including key pre- and post-training survey results, to the UN Women ECO for the training organized and an overall one-page summary of the trainings including demographics of trained humanitarians.

Key Deliverables  

The consultancy is to commence in October 2024 and is expected to require up to 7 days of work.  Key deliverables and tasks are:  

• Inception meeting with UN Women team and prepare training sessions, including session brief/facilitator note.
• Moderation of the sessions and coordination with relevant speakers/team members as required by UN Women.
• A comprehensive training report, including pre- and post-training survey results of the capacity building and an overall one-page summary of the training including demographics of trained WPHF grantees operating in Ethiopia.

Payment will be made upon certification by UN Women that the work has been completed to satisfaction. All raw data files, consent forms and relevant documentation must be returned to UN Women before release of final payment. 

Deliverables	Number of days	Required Approval
An inception report outlining the training sessions and session brief/facilitator note	2	UN Women
Moderation/ facilitation of the training	2.5
A comprehensive training report, including pre- and post-training survey results and a one-page summary of the training	2.5

Competencies

Core Values: 

• Respect for Diversity 
• Integrity 
• Professionalism 

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 Core Values and Competencies:  

 

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES: 

• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Evidence of having undertaken similar assignments
• Experience in providing capacity building trainings.
• High level written and oral communications skills in Amharic and English
• Result-oriented, team player, exhibiting high levels of enthusiasm for gender equality, diplomacy, and integrity.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and professional skills in interacting with CSOs and development partners at regional and federal level.
• Experience in conducting assessment, writing high quality reports both in English and Amharic

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Gender, Humanitarian, general protection, child protection, safeguarding, PSEA, Development Studies, Social Sciences, or another relevant field.

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Humanitarian Action or gender equality.
• Experience in gender and protection mainstreaming, with a proven understanding of rights-based approach to work on gender and protection.
• Experience of interactive / innovative training approaches engaging humanitarian workers.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering training on Gender in Humanitarian Action.
• Experience in delivering trainings on GiHA in Ethiopia is an asset

Languages:

• Fluency in English and Amharic is required.

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