Capacity-building training for the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund

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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 8-12 July 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 enable partners to develop theory of change, planning and monitoring frameworks, results-based reports, resource mobilization strategies, etc. with the aim to improve delivery and impact of WPHF funded projects that are implemented in the country.  

The trainings’ expected outcomes are: 

• Strengthened institutional capacities of implementing partners in planning, monitoring, and reporting which demonstrates verifiable results in the lives of women and girls.  
• Increased knowledge of RBM and how it strengthens work in humanitarian settings. 
• Enhanced understanding and strategies of resource mobilization. 
• Increased network and collaboration among IPs – 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 workshop 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.

Duties and Responsibilities

• The consultant, with the guidance and under the supervision of UN Women 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 planning, monitoring and evaluation (PMR) training for implementing partners, including on Results Based Planning Approach and resource mobilization strategies.

Responsibilities    

• The consultant will be responsible for planning, facilitating the training, including during plenary and group discussions, to ensure a cohesive voice and presence and guiding the participants throughout the whole training. The consultant is also expected to write a comprehensive training report. The specific timeline and expected number of workdays for each deliverable will be discussed between the consultant and UN Women. In additions, the consultant: 
• With UN Women programme team, prepare training sessions by identifying the specific objectives and methodology.  
• Moderate and facilitate each agenda item as guided by UN Women Programme team. 
• Provide guidance for ensuring a productive discussion between the participants.  
• Wrap up the key recommendations and next steps. 
• Write training report. 

Key Deliverables  

The consultancy is to commence in July 2024 and is expected to require up to 20 days of work.  Key deliverables and tasks are:  

• Inception meeting with UN Women team and prepare training sessions.
• Preparation of the moderation of the sessions and coordination with relevant speakers/team members as required by UN Women.
• A comprehensive training report of the capacity building training on result-based management (RBM) throughout the HPC/PCM and resource mobilization strategy for the WPHF grantees operating in Ethiopia.

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree in M&E, Finance, Accounting, Project Management, Business Administration, or other relevant fields is required.  

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in monitoring and reporting, including report writing to different audiences, project monitoring, result based management, and project planning and guiding the CSOs/NGOs, in the resource mobilization strategy.
• Experience in capacity development on results-based management, resource mobilization and advocacy, and/or monitoring and reporting. 
• Familiarity with women’s, CSOs’ role and leadership in peace and security and humanitarian response.  
• Experience in working and liaising with different stakeholders, including WLOs/WROs, United Nations/international organizations, governments and/or Funds.  
• Training facilitation skills and familiarity with various effective training methodologies and techniques. 
• Excellent ability to communicate effectively in English and Amharic with people of all ages and all backgrounds. 
• Previous experience working with UN agencies is considered an asset. 

Languages:

• Fluency in English and Amharic is required.

Source: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=116819

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