National Consultant; s​/Trainer; s) Gender Equality Issues

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. UN Women in Georgia supports state and non-state partners towards the achievement of substantive gender equality in Georgia.

In line with international and national commitments, UN Women works on the levels of policies and legislation, institutions and grassroots, in order to achieve transformative results for increased gender equality and greater protection of the rights of women and girls. UN Women Georgia puts special emphasis on the work towards Ending Violence Against Women, promotion and support to Women, Peace, and Security agenda in Georgia, Economic Empowerment of Women and last but not least, Mainstreaming of Gender into National Planning and Budgeting Processes.

Along with these key priority areas that constitute UN Women mandate, UN Women interventions in Georgia are anchored in the UN Country Team’s Partnership for Sustainable Development Framework with the government of  order to enhance the understanding of various stakeholders (state agencies, local communities, private sector entities and non-governmental organizations) on how they can promote gender diversity in their respective industries, UN Women would like to hire National Consultants/Trainers who will be responsible for developing modules, or using already existing modules developed by UN Women and conducting trainings across Georgia on gender equality and women’s empowerment topics.

The topics under the broad heading of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment for the purposes of this ToR include but are not limited to: key concepts to unfold the underlying causes for gender inequality and gender-based discrimination, national and international legal and policy frameworks upholding women’s rights, the Women, Peace and Security agenda, including women’s participation in peace building, conflict prevention, and recovery processes;

disaster risk reduction and climate resilience, key elements for strengthening women’s leadership and agency, different forms of violence against women and best ways for tackling these (changes in the norms and attitudes, prevention and protection mechanisms, etc.), key elements of women’s economic empowerment, etc. The exact training topics / themes will be discussed and agreed with relevant UN Women staff well in advance with the selected consultant/trainer along with the level of training (introductory or advanced) depending on the target audience.

The consultants/trainers will work under overall supervision of UN Women Country Representative and Deputy Country Representative and day to day management and oversight of UN Women Programme Specialists and Project Analysts as relevant, and will be supported by Project Assistant, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues.

The consultants should provide reports to UN Women, describing the completed work in a reporting format provided by UN

The national consultant will be responsible:

• learn / take up existing UN Women training modules on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment issues
• design new or adapt existing training modules / sessions for different target groups / purposes in close consultation with UN Women staff
• conduct a series of trainings on gender equality and women’s empowerment for the training participants coming from different stakeholder groups (in Tbilisi as well as different other urban and rural…