Lead Author - Gender-Focused Regional Socio-Economic Update

Programs and Technical Specialities Anywhere,United States

Prosper Global's Crisis Analytics (CA) teams, working with UNDP, produce a Regional Socio-Economic Update that monitors economic conditions, livelihoods and household welfare across Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. The past year has brought continued regional instability, pressure on prices and labour markets, and reductions in humanitarian and development financing, with effects that are not felt equally by women and men. Evidence on these gender-differentiated effects is scattered across agencies, sectors and countries, and is rarely brought together in a single regional picture that decision-makers can use.

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Prosper Global seeks a consultant to research and write a special edition of the Regional Socio-Economic Update examining key socio-economic developments in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan between September 2025 and September 2026 through a gender lens. The bulletin will analyse how evolving economic conditions and regional instability are affecting women and men differently, with particular attention to livelihoods and employment, labour market participation, household income and resilience, coping strategies, mobility, and access to essential services and economic opportunities.

Where data permit, it will also consider how gender intersects with age, displacement status, disability, household composition and socio-economic vulnerability. The assignment is primarily desk-based, drawing on existing socio-economic, labour market and sectoral data and analysis, and is intended to give policymakers, development partners and practitioners concise, evidence-based insights to inform more gender-responsive livelihoods, economic recovery, resilience and longer-term development programming.

• Consolidate and analyse available evidence on gender-differentiated socio-economic trends in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan over September 2025 – September 2026.
• Identify the groups facing heightened socio-economic vulnerability, applying a gender and intersectional lens.
• Assess how economic hardship and service disruptions shape women's and men's paid work, unpaid care responsibilities, mobility and coping strategies.
• Draw out practical considerations for gender-responsive policy and programming in livelihoods, economic recovery and resilience.

• Inception: hold a kick-off meeting with the CA team and UNDP to confirm scope, audience, length and style; review previous editions of the Regional Socio-Economic Update to ensure consistency.
• Data and literature mapping: identify, assess and map available sex-disaggregated and gender-relevant data and analysis for each country (e.g. national labour force and household surveys, ILO, UN Women, UNDP, WFP, UNHCR, REACH, VASyR , humanitarian needs overviews, sector and cluster reports, and academic and think-tank research), noting coverage, recency, comparability and gaps.
• Analytical framework: develop an analytical framework and annotated…