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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. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
In Nepal, UN Women Nepal Country Office (NCO) has embarked on the first year of its five-year Strategic Note (SN) 2023 – 2027 to support the national stakeholders in advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women in line with internationally agreed normative standards. The SN is aligned with and contributes to Nepal’s national priorities and commitments as described in the Nepal Constitution 2015 and the Fifteenth Periodic Plan, the needs of women’s organizations, and the UNSDCF with a commitment of leaving no one behind.
With an aim to tackling structural gender inequality and transforming social norms and ending harmful practices, one of the key approaches adopted by NCO is communication for development using storytelling to understand and implement interventions to support social norm change. NCO with support from the Government of Finland is implementing a multi-year initiative “Measuring social norms change through storytelling in Nepal: Advancing the transformative shift towards gender equality by 2030.” The initiative leverages the power of storytelling to measure and influence change in gendered power relations and social norms. It builds on the premise that women and girls are the best sources for self-identifying indicators for complex and hard to access dimensions of change in gendered power relations and social norms. The initiative aims to understand and measure the patterns of change in social norms and harmful practices through storytelling and find pathways to influence relations between individuals and across social institutions (household, community, market and state) for transformative programming for gender equality.
In this context, NCO seeks story writer/editor who will draft, review and copy-edit the human-interest stories and communication materials collected from the project partners. These story writer/editor will ensure the stories not only meet UN Women editorial guidelines and standards, aligning them with project accomplishments. These stories of change will be shared through UN Women’s web and social media channels upon consent from project participants. The consultant will work closely with the storytelling and comms team of UN Women Nepal. The consultant may need to collaborate with other national consultants to finalize the stories.
Under the direct supervision of UN Women Communications for Development Analyst, selected story writer/editor is expected to capture and reflect on the impact of UN Women’s interventions on women’s lives ensuring intersecting identities while highlighting the challenges and opportunities within context. The consultant is required to prepare stories of programme participants both in English languages as follows:
Methodology and Scope of Work:
To complete the task effectively and efficiently, the consultants should:
Inputs:
Duration of the assignment and duty station:
This is a home-based assignment under retainer contract modality for 2 years (15 February 2024- 14 February 2026) with a maximum of 100 working days.
UN Women will not be committed to purchasing any minimum quantity of the Services, and purchases will be made only if there is an actual requirement upon the issuance of a Purchase Order based on this retainer contract. UN Women shall not be liable for any cost in the event that no purchases are made under this retainer contract.
Schedule of payments:
Payment will be made on the basis of quality of the work actually delivered upon certification of satisfactory performance by the supervisor. A work plan for the service delivery will be discussed and reconfirmed upon the signing of a contract. The contractor’s performance will be evaluated against such criteria as: timeliness, responsibility, initiative, communications, accuracy, and quality of the products delivered.
Core Values:
Core Competencies:
Required Qualifications, Experience and skills:
Travel:
Evaluation and Selection Criteria
If required, an interview will be conducted before making the final decision on selection of the consultant.
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:
Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as technically qualified candidate.
The financial proposal of candidates who meet the technical assessment threshold will be evaluated. The financial assessment will count as 30% of the total points. In this methodology, the maximum number of points assigned to the financial proposal is allocated to the lowest price proposal. All other price proposals receive points in inverse proportion.
A formula is as follows:
p = y (µ/z)
Where:
p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated
y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal
µ = price of the lowest priced proposal
z = price of the proposal being evaluated
Documents to be included when applying
Interested applicants should apply to this announcement through UNDP jobs site: jobs.undp.org
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications in one single PDF document:
The financial proposal shall specify the per day consultancy fee based on which the total contract value will be calculated. UN Women HR might request the candidate to share evidence of the per day consultancy fee of the previous assignment(s).
Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment, please combine all your documents into one single PDF document. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form and the written sample will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.
Note:
In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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