Consultancy for Capacity building on Gender Mainstreaming

Terms of Reference (TOR)

Consultancy for Capacity building on Gender Mainstreaming

Background

Oxfam is a member of Oxfam International (OI) an international confederation of 17 organizations working together in 90 countries with partners and allies around the world to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. On a global level, OI strives to help communities suffering as a result of natural disasters, climate change, conflict, injustice and poverty. OI helps those communities who are most in need, whatever their race, creed, religion, ethnicity or nationality. Oxfam has been working in OPTI since 1982 and supports humanitarian, development, campaigning and advocacy programs both in the West Bank and Gaza including East Jerusalem.

Through the Oxfam Country Strategy (OCS) in OPTI, Oxfam works to increase our impact on development and humanitarian work in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel (OPTI) focusing on three change goals: Gender Justice, Economic Justice and Saving Lives Now and In the Future. Together with Right To Be Heard (RTBH), Gender Justice is also mainstreamed throughout the Oxfam OPTI Country Strategy, addressing the double layer of inequality and violence Palestinian women face, i.e. occupation and patriarchy. The OCS guides Oxfams collective work in the OPTI from 2016-2019 which will be used to focus resources, campaigns and programs over the course of four years to meet our strategic goal and change objectives.

Building the capacity of Oxfams partners and allies in Gender mainstreaming is one of the main approaches that was adopted by the OCS. As the need was identified through the work with partners and allies, Oxfam will hold a two (2) x 3-day trainings for strategic partners and for ally organizations, both in the West Bank and in the Gaza strip, to build their capacities in gender mainstreaming at the level of the organization and at the level of programs and projects. These trainings will help and support the targeted organizations to become more gender-just, and to enable them to make duty bearers responsive to womens priorities and needs, increase womens collective and individual leadership in decision making at all levels in the society, improve womens access and control over resources, and to change social norms and attitudes to be more supportive of equality between men and women in all walks of life and at all levels.

Overall Objectives of the assignment

The purpose of this workshop is to strengthen internal capacities within the Palestinian CSOs to mainstream gender at the level of the organization and to adopt a gender transformative approach throughout their policies and programs by understanding how to develop gender mainstreaming strategies and promoting cooperation on gender justice issues between organizations, Oxfam and its partners and allies.


Scope of work and Deliverables of the assignment:

The assignment will be conducted in full coordination with Oxfam and will target Non Womens Rights Organizations partners and allies of Oxfam in OPTI. The organizations will be invited based on needs identified and discussed with Oxfam.
The Specific Objectives are:

Surface the need and importance of gender mainstreaming within Palestinian CSOs as well as within the context of their activities and raise awareness to the benefits of such processes; (gender and development; gender in emergencies)
Gender mainstreaming steps; develop a gender mainstreaming strategy;
Promote an open-discussion of the challenges, needs and opportunities for gender mainstreaming and cooperate in establishing and refining best practices in gender mainstreaming in the context of Palestinian CSOs;
Identify needs of Palestinian CSOs in capacity building in order to fully develop and implement a gender mainstreaming strategy within their organization;
Develop a risk analysis for the activities of Palestinian CSOs that are related to gender mainstreaming and to the promotion of gender justice;

Based on the above, the key questions to be addressed during the assignment in consultation with Oxfam - are:

What is gender mainstreaming, and what is the international background for such a strategy? What does it require? How is it applicable to Palestinian Civil Society organizations?
How to develop a gender mainstreaming strategy, what are the tools to be used? How to mainstream gender in project development and implementation? How to mainstream gender in a protracted conflict situation?
Lessons from gender mainstreaming processes in the context of other conflicts and how they can be applicable to the OPT context.
What risks for the routine activities of the Palestinian CSOs might arise from promoting a gender justice agenda? How can these risks be mitigated?
Gender balance and power structures within organizations and its relationship to the gender justice work they produce.
Internal capacity: what is needed for a gender mainstreaming strategy to be successfully completed and implemented? What blockers might it meet? Lessons from parallel processes and discussion of internal challenges.
Initiate thinking on how to build a Gender and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning system
Data management, identification of gender issues within existing prior data and methods of classification. Discussion should include the effectiveness of different methods and the contribution for research and advocacy needs in the future.

The key tasks of the assignment are:

Task1: Develop training materials, documents and methodology
Task 2: Carry out and facilitate two (2) x 3-day training workshops (one in the West Bank and one in Gaza)
Task 3: Prepare a workshop summary report highlighting key observations, recommendations and next steps.


The Duration and Schedule of the assignment:

The timeframe of this assignment is schedule for a maximum of 9 working days commencing on February 1st 2018 and completed no later than March 31st 2018. It is the responsibility of the consultant to ensure that the number of days earmarked for this consultancy is adhered to. All materials produced in the course of the consultancy are the property of Oxfam. The consultant will not share any internal documents provided by Oxfam with the outside world without the explicit written permission of Oxfam.

During the assignment, the consultant will deliver on the outputs described in the table below. Documents will be submitted in English in electronic format: Microsoft word format/PDF.

The following is a suggested timeline (availability and revised timeline should be submitted by the consultant in the expression of interest). Timelines may be subject for review during contract signature with Oxfam.

Key tasks and Deliverables Description of Outputs Proposed # of Consultancy Days
Task 1: Develop training materials and relevant documents The consultant will submit the proposed training methodology, agenda, training plan, Power Point Presentation, exercises, pre and post training evaluation questionnaires that will address gender mainstreaming for Oxfams approval. 2 days
Task 2: Carry out and facilitate 2 x 3-day training workshop in both West Bank and Gaza The training will be: interactive, and draw from the experiences of the participating organizations in order to contextualize the gender mainstreaming expertise provided by Oxfams consultant; providing brainstorming and food for thought alongside the introduction of practical, easily implemented initial tools; will include a seminar session requiring the participants to put together a strategy for gender mainstreaming at their CSOs and write a specific gender sensitive project so that the participants will have a document they can put into action in their organization.
6 days

Task 3: Prepare a workshop summary report highlighting key observations, recommendations and next steps.
- Submit a draft workshop summary report and debrief Oxfam;
- Finalize the report based on Oxfams revisions and comments.
- Submit final report to Oxfam 1 day
Total # of Estimated days for the assignment 9 days

Payment:

A payment plan will be developed upon consultation and agreement with the selected consultant prior to signing the service contract. Payment installments will be issued upon receipt of deliverables as agreed between Oxfam and the selected consultant and following submission of official documents as prescribed below:

1. Individual consultants, private companies, are eligible to apply, subject to the availability of official documents of registration in the country/state where located, as follows:
A. Companies registered under the Palestinian Authority (PA) are required to an official tax invoice;
B. Companies registered under the Israeli authorities are required to submit an official tax invoice;
D. Individual consultants subject to local income tax will be treated based on nationality and applicable local tax laws.

Budget:

The maximum budgeted amount for the full consultancy assignment is 3,600 EUR.
All other costs will be covered by Oxfam. The contract will be awarded to the administratively and technically compliant bid that is the most economically advantageous, taking into account the quality of the services offered and the price of the offer. Oxfam reserves the right to negotiate, accept or reject any or all proposals and quotations at its sole discretion and to pursue or act further on any responses it considers advantageous.


Consultancy Service Requirements:

This consultancy is open to both local and international consultants who will fulfil the following requirements:

Academic degree in social sciences, gender studies, law, or development studies;
Extensive knowledge in gender concepts, and gender mainstreaming in the context of CSOs.
Extensive knowledge and skills in workshop and training facilitation;
Experience in participatory and gender-sensitive M&E methods;
Excellent interpersonal, communication and analytical verbal and writing skills in English;
Strong knowledge and understanding of context in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

Applications

Oxfam invites bids from individual consultants or firms with the experience and skills described above. Bids must include the following:

A letter of motivation outlining how your experience, skills, qualifications and professional background fit with the required deliverables (maximum one page) attaching at least two concrete examples of similar work demonstrating the consultancy service requirements.
A Curriculum Vitae (CV) detailing relevant skills and experience including three contactable referees (maximum two pages).
A financial offer that covers all consultancy related costs inclusive of VAT (excluding training logistic costs that will be covered by Oxfam) in PDF format;
A proposed detailed timeline and work plan that includes the basic methodology based on the key deliverables described above; (the selected consultant will be requested to adjust the work plan for resubmission- as the first deliverable, following the signing of the consultancy contract with Oxfam).

The bids should be submitted via email addressed to Isabelle de Champlain-Bringué, Gender Justice Adviser:

[email protected], with a copy to Anton Naber: [email protected]

received no later than midnight GMT, January 19th 2018.

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