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Background
UN Women’s goal in Liberia is to promote women’s human rights and gender equality which are key in sustaining and furthering achievements in stability and development. In this regard, its programming in the Country is connected to five corporate priority areas: women’s leadership and political participation; enhancing women’s economic empowerment (WEE); engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes (WPS) and advancing women’s rights to live free from violence (VAW) and Gender Responsive Governance. UN Women also coordinates and promotes the UN system’s joint work in advancing gender equality.
Over the next two years, starting 2024, UN Women will be implementing a joint project with UNFPA and OHCHR titled “Accelerating Digital Opportunities for Youth Civic Participation as a lever for Building and Sustaining Peace in Liberia” as part of the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) Youth Promotion Initiative. The project goal is to increase opportunities for youth participation in decision making processes through the digitalization of existing youth and women-led informal platforms, networks, and organizations. This will be achieved by transforming the youth-led “Atayee centers” and women-led Peace Huts into spaces where youth can meaningfully participate in political and intergenerational dialogues, interact with political actors, women leaders, mentors, traditional and religious leaders and other state actors, and connect to formal civic platforms using a digital interface.
As a part of this project, UN Women Liberia office with the support of Orange Digital Center is planning to provide innovative training for representatives from youth-led and women-led organizations and networks to advance women’s and young peoples’ equal and substantive participation and leadership in peacebuilding processes and civic space advocacy. This will be done by providing and training the participants in using digital tools and platforms for participation in civic spaces and advocacy. The training will be a pilot training for 24 representatives from youth-led and women-led organizations from Montserrado and Lofa counties.
This will provide women and young people with some of the tools they need to actively participate and influence civic spaces in Liberia and to challenge some of the negative norms and attitudes that act as barriers to women’s and youths’ participation in civic spaces, politics, and policy making.
The main objective of this consultancy is to develop and facilitate a 3-days’ workshop to train 24 representatives from youth-led and women-led organizations in the use of social media and other digital platforms. The training aims to build the capacity of representatives from women-led and youth-led organizations and networks to effectively use digital platforms including social media for advocacy and participation in peacebuilding processes and civic spaces. Furthermore, it will build transferable knowledge and capacity of representatives from women-led and youth-led organizations and networks providing them with user-friendly tools they can use to train more women and youths in their organizations and networks.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the guidance and management of UN Women Deputy Country Representative and direct supervision of the UN Women Peace, Women, and Security Program Specialist, the International Consultant will perform the following tasks:
- Conduct a review of the existing curriculum and consultancy plan
- Assess capacities of representatives of targeted women-led and youth-led organizations and networks on the use of social media tools and other digital platforms for advocacy and participation in peacebuilding and civic processes
- Develop a user-friendly training modules Content of the training includes advocacy tools and development, meaningful participation in civic spaces, use of social media, training in digital ethics and cyber bullying etc.
- Conduct Training workshop for representatives from women-led and youth-led organizations and networks (using the module approved by UN Women and Orange)
- Finalize the training modules along with a final training report
All the deliverables, including annexes, notes and reports should be submitted in English language.
Upon receipt of the deliverables and prior to the payment of the first installment, the deliverables and related reports and documents will be reviewed and approved by UN Women. The period of review is one week after receipt.
| Deliverables | Expected completion time (due day) |
| Detailed Consultancy Plan | 17th June |
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24th June |
| User-friendly training modules Content of the training includes advocacy tools and development, meaningful participation in civic spaces, use of social media, training in digital ethics and cyber bullying etc. | 27th June |
| Training Report (with post training results) | 8st July |
| Final consultancy report. The report should include results achieved, recommendations and all annexes including the final training module. | 11th July |
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: https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/application-process#_Values
Required Skills and Experience
Education and Certification:
- Master’s degree or equivalent in Political Science, Digital Marketing, IT, Communications, Public Relations, or a related field is required.
Experience
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in the field of training, Digital Tools, Civic Spaces or Advocacy.
- Previous experience in facilitating capacity building for representatives from CSOs.
- Experience in training, working, and communicating in a multicultural environment.
Experience working with multi-stakeholder organizations is essential: governments, CSOs, and the UN/multilateral/bilateral institutions.
Languages:
- Fluency in English is required.
How To Apply
- Personal CV or P11 (P11 can be downloaded from: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc )
- A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page)
- Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns, or other materials.
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