Background

Duties and Responsibilities

• Inception report: Prepare and present the inception report that summarizes existing information, understanding of the assignment, scope of the work, and data collection methodology and tools.
• Desk review: Conduct desk review on existing reports on the situation of community development in Zanzibar, Tanzania and other parts of the world and draw lessons learned.
• Mapping of existing community development interventions and services: Map existing initiatives and services in Zanzibar and compare with experience from other countries, to identify the gaps and advise on what needs to be done.
• Stakeholder’s consultations: Hold consultation meetings with different groups, including but not limited to, community development workers, service providers, government and local government officials, women, children, youth, parents including people with disabilities. Consultations can also be done through in-depth interviews, focused group discussion and stakeholders’ meetings. Data collection tools can include questionnaires and interview guides.
• Write the Policy: Design the Community Development Policy with the theory of change, state the vision, mission, objectives, priority areas. Incorporate feedback from various stakeholders to include changes and fine-tune the policy. The plan should take into consideration the existing initiatives listed in the mapping and build synergy with them, leverage them and bring them under the new policy.
• Validation: Hold validation meetings with MDAs, UN Agencies, CSOs, Women and men including people with disabilities.

The individual consultant will provide high-quality services to the RGoZ through conduct desk review and strategic consultation with stakeholders to explore opportunities and concerns around the engagement of men and boys towards securing gender equality and ending VAWG and harmful practices against women and girls as among prerequisite to strengthen community development. The desk review will include identifying documents and reports that contribute to understanding the gaps and bottlenecks to address the problem, including lessons learned from previous initiatives to implement and enforce existing provisions. The individual consultant/consulting firm will include the findings of the secondary research in the inception report that could be elaborated further by strategic consultation. Secondary research findings and strategic consultation should inform the policy.

Deliverables

The individual consultant will be required to undertake the following tasks:

• An inception report with the details of the assignment, modalities of the work and the Work Plan.
• First draft Community Policy (2023 – 2028).
• Final Community Development Policy
• Report on stakeholders’ consultations to review and validate the draft national plan of action.
• Final draft National Plan of Action – English version including Final process report with raw data in both soft and hardcopy.

Co-ordination, Reporting and Accountability of the Assignment

• The individual consultant will work under the overall supervision of the UN Women EVAW Specialist in Zanzibar; and receive guidance to ensure that high standards are well preserved/observed during the exercise.

• Under the guidance of the Ministry of Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, the Technical Working Group will oversee the process of developing the policy. At technical working group meetings, all deliverables will be reported for discussion and actions as required.
• Regular reporting to the Ministry of Community Development, Gender Elders and Children.
• All financial matters will be managed in accordance with UN WOMEN procedures and in line with the project work plan.

Competencies

• Timely and quality Programme design and inputs
• Timely and quality of Programme document with clear budget and results framework
• Relations with partners and stakeholders
• Well written project document
• Regular communication with key partners and staff
• Adherence to UN women standards and rules

CORE VALUES / GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• Integrity: Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.
• Professionalism: Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.
• Cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity: Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Ethics and Values: Demonstrate and safeguard ethics and integrity.
• Organizational Awareness: Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment.
• Work in teams: Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multiethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
• Communicating and Information Sharing: Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for effective communication.
• Self-management and Emotional Intelligence: Stay composed and positive even in difficult moments, handle tense situations with diplomacy and tact, and have a consistent behavior towards others.

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:

• Strong technical knowledge and expertise on EVAW and VAC
• Outstanding technical knowledge and experience on development of Capacity Building Plan for government.
• Outstanding writing skills, with proven ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Communicates sensitively, effectively and creatively.

Required Skills and Experience

Submission of application:

Please note that applications without a completed and signed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

UN Women Personal History form (P-11) can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment.

UNWOMEN is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.