Description du poste Masculinities and Social Norms - International Consultant
Masculinities and Social Norms - International Consultant
Location :
Part-time and home-based
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. Placing women's rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States' priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
In the Arab States region, UN Women has just initiated in October 2023 the implementation of an exciting and unique three-year regional programme entitled ‘Dare to Care' (DTC) with the goal of transforming patriarchal social norms and masculinities, with a focus on four priority countries: Morocco, Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia. This ground-breaking regional programme aims to promote gender equality and women's empowerment using the involvement of men and boys in unpaid care and household responsibilities as entry point. The programme is also meant to contribute to shift discriminatory social norms and break stereotypes that impede women's participation in paid employment and the public sphere.
The 'Dare to Care' regional programme is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the German International Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ) and the Basque Country's International Development Cooperation Agency. It works towards the achievement of three following three outcomes:
Outcome 1: Societies across the MENA region demonstrate an increased involvement of men and boys in caregiving and household responsibilities and more empowerment of women and girls; Outcome 2: Key institutions effectively transform patriarchal masculinities and social norms, with a focus on advancing caregiving and household responsibilities of men and boys and the economic empowerment of women and girls; Outcome 3: More men and boys are able to take their share in caregiving and household responsibilities with more enabling laws and policies that promote their caregiving and household responsibilities, and paternity leave.
The programme also aims to engage with religious actors and institutions to promote gender equitable interpretations of religious teachings and practices, particularly to promote the involvement of men and boys in unpaid care and household responsibilities, and to eliminate stereotypes against women's participation in the public sphere.
The programme has a strong focus on the mobilization of young people to transform patriarchal masculinities and social norms, and it is building this work upon partnerships with youth-led CSOs, women's CSOs working with youth, national women's machineries and youth-serving institutions from national governments of target countries of the programme.
About the position:
Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the ‘Dare to Care' Regional Programme Manager, and in close cooperation with other team members of the DTC regional programme and partners of UN Women, the Masculinities and Social Norms Consultant will provide high-quality technical support to the DTC programme for the accomplishment of key deliverables of the programme related to the core objective of the programme: transforming patriarchal masculinities and social norms across the Arab region.
The consultant will also work in close coordination with DTC team members -including the M&E consultant of the DTC programme- and partners in order to support the management of partnerships and the development of M&E systems for the key deliverables of this assignment, including: the trainings and implementation of the community-based model for social norms change in Egypt, Morocco and Jordan; the trainings to and management of the network of male decision makers to promote gender equality and men's caregiving; and the trainings and implementation of the partnerships with youth-serving institutions in Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia.
The assignment of the consultant is home-based and the travel costs of any work missions/trainings of the consultant to the target countries of the programme will be covered by the DTC programme.
The total number of workdays for this consultancy is 180 days, which is estimated in 15 workdays per month. The progress of the work of the consultant will be delineated and supervised by the DTC Regional Programme Manager. The consultant will submit a monthly report on the progress of work that will need to be cleared by the DTC Regional Programme Manager before the monthly payment is processed.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of the ‘Dare to Care' (DTC) Regional Programme Manager, and in close coordination with other DTC team members and partners of the programme, the Masculinities and Social Norms consultant will provide substantive technical support to the DTC regional programme to carry out the following functions:
Support for the successful implementation of the model for social norms change in target communities of Egypt, Morocco and Jordan to promote gender equality and increase the involvement of men and boys
In unpaid care and household responsibilities in these target communities, including through the establishment of a regional Community of Practice (CoP) to enable coordination and exchanges; Support for the successful establishment and implementation of the regional network of male decision-makers to promote gender equality, women's empowerment and men's caregiving; Support for the successful implementation of partnerships with youth-serving institutions in Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia to promote the involvement of men and boys in unpaid care and domestic work, and break stereotypes around women's participation in paid employment; Strengthening of capacities of partners of the DTC programme in the area of transforming patriarchal masculinities and social norms, including through the development of training materials for the above three activities and delivery of training to key implementers/partners; Provide timely and quality submission of inputs, reports, and analysis on the key deliverables; Support the development of the monitoring systems of the DTC regional programme for the above three activities, in close coordination with the DTC team members including the M&E consultant; Provide advice and technical assistance on masculinities and social norms to the DTC programme team as needed.
Deliverables
Number of workdays
Time frame
Development of TOR for the partnerships with CSOs/CBOs to implement the model for social norms change of the DTC programme in selected communities in Egypt, Morocco and Jordan, which include feedback provided by DTC team members
5 days
31 January 2024
Development of TOR for the regional network of male decision makers to promote gender equality, women's empowerment and men's caregiving that includes a mapping exercise to identify and select the 20-30 network members in coordination with UN Women offices, incorporating feedback provided by DTC team members.
10 days
29 February 2024
Development of training package for the selected CSOs/CBOs that will implement the model in target communities, incorporating feedback provided by UN Women on draft versions of documents of the package. This training package will include guidance notes/facilitator's guide, PowerPoint and other relevant materials.
18 days
31 March 2024
Development of a training manual/toolkit fo
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