Junior National Consultant- Participatory Photography Project

Background

 

Assignment Title:	Junior National Consultant- Participatory Photography Project
Duration of assignment	Between 1 February 2024 to 28 February 2025
Location	Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Full-time or Part-time	Part time
Type of contract	Special Service Agreement (SSA)
Supervision	Rotvatey Sovann, National Programme officer
Cluster/Project:	EmPower II: Women for climate-resilient societies and PROTECT Project

 

I. 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.

 

The UN Women Cambodia Programme Office (CPO) Strategic Note (SN) 2019-2023 focuses on three key priorities to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE). The priority is to strengthen government capacity and accountability to integrate international norms and commitments (CEDAW, SDGs, Beijing PfA, Sendai) into national legislative and regulatory frameworks, including supporting dialogue and CSO engagement in accountability for GEWE commitments. The second area of focus is Ending Violence Against Women where CCO’s focus includes creating an enabling environment to prevent, respond to and prosecute all forms of GBV as well as ensuring that marginalized women who experience violence, including women migrant workers, access services and protections. Thirdly, CCO works to enhance gender responsiveness in climate change action and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). A focus on empowerment, women’s leadership, challenging negative gender norms and leaving no one behind runs through the programme.

The Empower project: Women for Climate-resilient Societies is a unique partnership between UN Women and UN Environment, supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) that aims to ensure that climate action and disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific respond to gender equality and human rights. From 2018 to 2022, EmPower phase I was implemented regionally across Asia and the Pacific, with national footprints in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Viet Nam. EmPower phase II (2023-2027) was built on successes and lessons learnt of the phase I and aims to scale up for regional implementation and generate new regional commitments and national policies, financial mechanisms and tools, methodologies, evidence, and knowledge to further impact. The project will contribute to the overall Impact: “People in Asia-Pacific are less vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and experience greater gender equality and the full enjoyment of their rights, including equal access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.” EmPower aims to achieve the outcomes bellow:

 

• Outcome 1: Asia-Pacific actors increase action on gender responsive climate change adaptation and mitigation.
• Outcome 2: Women in all their diversity and other marginalized groups are represented as key environmental actors in climate and DRR decision-making
• Outcome 3: Women and other marginalized groups in Asia-Pacific secure climate-resilient livelihoods

EmPower approach is to expand decision-making spaces, raise awareness and support the prevention and response to gender-based violence (GBV) in the context of climate change and disaster. This includes empowering women and girls through amplifying their voice and sharing their stories. EmPower has sought to not only explore women experience as the passive victims of the climate change and disaster but as change agents and the leaders for climate change action and disaster management. As part of the EmPower phase II Program, UN Women Cambodia is developing a participatory photography project with youth group and women living in rural area. The intent is to gain a deeper understanding of the impact of Climate Change to their daily lives and how they have actively engage in the action addressing the issue. The project seeks to explore the potential of photography as a means for youth group (young women) and rural women to document their experiences as they live through and engage with their natural and social environment. The project will be built on feminist and participatory principles, focusing on participating women’s agency and will be designed not simply to extract information from participants but also to provide them with skills in self-expression, reflection and critical thinking. At the same time, it is envisaged that participants’ photos will deepen and enrich understanding of the intertwined impact of climate change to women group’s lives and experiences.

Ensuring Decent Work and Reducing Vulnerabilities for Women and Children in the Context of Labour Migration in Southeast Asia: Protecting the Right of Women and Children in the SEAN region 2024-2026 (PROTECT) by promoting decent work, preventing and responding to violence against women and children, and reducing vulnerabilities of women and children in labour migration, including the prevention of trafficking. The project aims at:

1. Strengthening national legislation, policies, and regional frameworks for the protection of the rights of vulnerable groups, especially women and children in the context of labour migration, in line with international standards. 
2. Improving national and regional capacities and mechanisms for rights-based, gender and child- responsive policy implementation, service provision, and prevention efforts to reduce risks of abuse, exploitation, violence and harassment of at-risk groups especially women and children in the context of labour migration, including trafficking and smuggling
3. Increasing the access of at-risk groups, women migrant workers and children to information, social and legal services, counseling, and association to prevent abuse, exploitation, harassment, violence and trafficking in human being.

Building on lesson and good practice from the Safe and Fair Programme, the project will address important gaps with respect to protecting the rights of women migrant workers to a life free from labour exploitation and violence, adopt a multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral approach to benefit migrants in vulnerable situations, adopt a regional approach working with ASEAN and a corridor approach within Southeast Asia, supporting cross-border knowledge exchange and stakeholder networking, strengthen coordination and collaboration between stakeholders, and strengthen access to basic services for children in the context of migration. The project approach will include cross-border and migration corridor approach: Cambodia – Thailand; Indonesia – Malaysia; as well as emerging migration routes into Cambodia and Thailand (in relation to trafficking for forced criminality into scam operations). This project implemented by ILO (lead), UN Women, UNODC and UNCEF.

Within the first year of the project implementation in Cambodia, UN Women will conduct series of meetings and events with partners and relevant stakeholders to introduce the project as well as replicate the impactful photo exhibition of the participatory photography project to empower women migrant workers and showcase this innovative initiative.

In this regard, UN Women Programme office in Cambodia is seeking a service of a junior national facilitator to facilitate communication and maintain constructive relationship with selected participants of the participatory photography initiative which has been an integral part of the EmPower phase II. Further, a junior national facilitator will assist UN Women EmPower team in Cambodia to facilitate media Campaign on the linkage of GBV and Climate Change disaster, including monitoring audiences’ engagement as well as provide support on the conducts of the project events. In addition, the junior national consultant will also support PROTECT project in meeting and event organization.

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant will work closely with an international consultant and UN Women programme team to perform the following time-bound tasks:

 

Provision of facilitation and organization support to implement a participatory photography initiative, with application of multidisciplinary approaches including photography and feminist principles

 

1. Support project team to conduct selection process to identify potential women groups to participate in participatory photography project including doing outreach and communicating with potential women groups to engage in the selection process and follow up with their decision
2. Work with project team to co-organise the learning workshops for selected participants;
3. Lead in maintaining communication with selected and trained participants to conduct regular check-in and support them for sharing the photographs for archive;
4. Lead in organizing and maintaining online platform for keeping collected photographs and stories from project participants; and
5. Provide update of communication and relation with project participants;
6. To assist the lead international consultant in organizing and arranging online as well as face to face workshop, for image analysis and the further use of the images and stories.
7. To assist in undertaking administrative and operational processes related to tasks, ensuring high quality, accuracy, and consistency of UN Women’s works.

 

Provision of general assistance for the organization of the events/workshops/trainings for the programme including monitoring of participants’ engagement and successful event organization

 

1. Provide general support for event organization and travel focusing on the administrative and logistic support
2. Assist in creating brief note/report on event result and participants’ engagement and suggestion in the event

 

II. Expected deliverables and timelines

Key Tasks	Deliverables	Target Date
1	Task: Support project team to conduct selection process to identify women to participate in participatory photography project group 3 including doing outreach and communicating with women groups to engage in the selection process and follow up with their decision.   1st Deliverables:   Submission of activity report, including workplan for communication with potential groups	15 February 2024
2	Task: Work with project team to co-organise the learning workshops for selected women group 3   2nd Deliverables:   Submission of activity report, including an updated list of project participants, brief reflection note, update of progress as well as observation of participant’s engagement	07 March 2024
3	Task: Lead in organizing and maintaining online platform for keeping collected photographs and stories from project participants from the 3 groups   3rd Deliverables   Submission of activity report, including an established online platform and communication update with selected and trained participants	15 March 2024
4	Task: Lead in maintaining communication with selected trained women (group 1, 2 and 3) and coordinate the communication between the international consultant and participants for one-on-one follow up and support.   4th Deliverables:   Submission of activity report, including workplan for one-on-one follow up between international consultant and the participants and the report of the session and the key issue discussed	30 March 2024
5	Task: Provide general support for event organization and travel focusing on the administrative and logistic support Assist in creating brief note/report on event result and participants’ engagement and suggestion in the event   5th Deliverables:   Submission of minute/report of summary of event’s result and successful organized events and travels including summary of logistic support and other administrative tasks including correspondence; translations and other ad hoc tasks	15 April 2024
6	Task: Lead in organizing and maintaining online platform for keeping collected photographs and stories from project participants from the 3 groups   6th Deliverables   Submission of activity report, including an established online platform and communication update with selected and trained participants	April 30, 2024
7	Task: Lead in maintaining communication with selected trained women (group 1, 2 and 3) and coordinate the communication between the international consultant and participants for one-on-one follow up and support.   7th Deliverables:   Submission of activity report, including workplan for one-on-one follow up between international consultant and the participants and the report of the session and the key issue discussed	15 May 2024
8	Task: Provide general support for event organization and travel focusing on the administrative and logistic support Assist in creating brief note/report on event result and participants’ engagement and suggestion in the event   8th Deliverables:   Submission of minute/report of Summary of successful organized events and travels including summary of logistic support and other administrative tasks including correspondence; translations and other ad hoc tasks	15 June 2024
9	Task: To Assist the international consultant in organizing and arranging online workshop and/or face to face workshop for image analysis with the 1st and 2nd women group   9th Deliverables:   Submission of activity report including the planning for the photo analysis workshop, note from the pre-event meeting and the observation and reflection note from the workshop.	20 June 2024
10	Task: Lead in organizing and maintaining online platform for keeping collected photographs and stories from project participants from the 3 groups   10th Deliverables:   Submission of activity report, including an established online platform and communication update with selected and trained participants	30 June 2024
11	Task: Lead in maintaining communication with selected trained women (group1, 2 and 3) and coordinate the communication between the international consultant and participants for one-on-one follow up and support.   11th Deliverables:   Submission of activity report, including workplan for one-on-one follow up between international consultant and the participants and the report of the session and the key issue discussed	15 July 2024
12	Task: To Assist the international consultant in organizing and arranging online workshop and/or face to face workshop for image analysis with the 3rd women group   12th Deliverables:   Submission of activity report including the planning for the photo analysis workshop, note from the pre-event meeting and the observation and reflection note from the workshop.	30 July 2024
13	Task: Provide general support for event organization and travel focusing on the administrative and logistic support Assist in creating brief note/report on event result and participants’ engagement and suggestion in the event   13th Deliverables: Submission of minute/report of Summary of successful organized events and travels including summary of logistic support and other administrative tasks including correspondence; translations and other ad hoc tasks	15 August 2024
14	Task: Work with international consultant to conduct and document a final reflection report which include lesson learn, good practices key discussion point emerge from the whole participatory photography process especially way forward for future learning for women empowerment in Climate action.   14th Deliverables:   Submission of reflection report, which include lesson learn, good practices, key discussion point emerges from the whole participatory photography process, especially way forward for future learning for women empowerment in Climate action.	15 September 2024
15	Task: Provide general support for event organization and travel focusing on the administrative and logistic support Assist in creating brief note/report on event result and participants’ engagement and suggestion in the event   15th Deliverables:   Submission of minute/report of Summary of successful organized events and travels including summary of logistic support and other administrative tasks including correspondence; translations and other ad hoc tasks	15 December 2024

 

III. Supervision

 

The consultant will work in close collaboration with the UNWOMEN personnel in Cambodia under the direct supervision of National programme officer.

IV. Contract period and work location

 

The assignment period is from 1 February 2024 to 28 February 2025. The consultant may be required to travel outside of Phnom Penh as needed for the purpose of the assignment where required by UN Women-Cambodia. The standard UN Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA) will apply to any travel outside duty station that may be required in the fulfillment of this assignment.

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

 

Functional Competencies:

• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong knowledge of UN Women processes and systems
• Strong networking skills
• Strong inter-personal skills, communicate effectively with staff at all levels of the organization;
• Ability to work in a highly pressured environment

Required Skills and Experience

Education:	Master’s degree in international relations, media, art, gender and other related Disciplines A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:	Minimum 2 years progressively responsible relevant experience with/in providing support for women empowerment project is required Experience of coordinating and mobilizing participants for event and or workshop is required Having basic understanding and knowledge of women human rights, gender issue, environment issue and community participation is preferred Experience using computers and standard software packages (such as Microsoft office) and experience in managing photography and/or document in shared online programme such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Cloud etc. are assets
Language Requirements:	Fluency in English is required.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

V. Evaluation

Applications will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis:

• Technical qualification (100 points); weight: (70%)
•  Financial proposal (100 points): weight (30%)

 

A two-stage procedure is utilized in evaluating the applications, with evaluation of the technical application being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.

 

Technical qualification evaluation criteria:

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria: Technical Evaluation Criteria	Obtainable Score
A) Education: Master’s degree in international relations, media, art, gender and other related disciplines A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.	15
B) Experience and skills: Minimum 2 years progressively responsible relevant experience with/in providing support for women empowerment project is required Experience of coordinating and mobilizing participants for event and or workshop is required Having basic understanding and knowledge of women human rights, gender issue, environment issue and community participation is preferred Experience using computers and standard software packages (such as Microsoft office) and experience in managing photography and/or document in shared online programme such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Cloud etc. are assets	70
C) Language and report writing skills Fluency in English is required.	15
Total Obtainable Score	100 %

 

Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as technically qualified candidates who may be contacted for validation interview.

Financial/Price Proposal evaluation:

• Only the financial proposal of candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be considered and evaluated.
• The total number of points allocated for the price component is 100.
• The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/ evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.

 

VI. Submission of application

 

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit electronic application to    , with cc to not later than not later than 26 January 2024 by mid-night New York Time U.S.A. Late application submissions will not be considered

 

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Payments:

 

Payments for this consultancy will be based on the achievement of deliverable and certification that each has been satisfactorily completed. Payment will not be based on the number of days worked but on the completion of each stated deliverable within the indicated timeframes on satisfactory completion of task.

 

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If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.  

 

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