Consultancy - Technical Support for Development of Data, Materials, etc. in Accessible Format - Plan International

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Consultancy - Technical Support for Development of Data, Materials, etc. in Accessible Format

Background

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is still one of the most prevalent violations of human rights worldwide in general and in Timor-Leste in particular. Violence against women and girls and particularly intimate partner violence in Timor-Leste remains widespread, with 38% to 59% of women between the ages of 15 to 19 experience violence in their lifetime1. In Timor-Leste, at least one in three women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence during her lifetime. Justification of violence remains high, with 74 percent of women and 53 per cent of men aged 15-49 agreeing with at least one justification for wife-beating.  A 2013 Baseline study on masculinities in Timor-Leste found that “in general, the acceptance of or tolerance for GBV increases with age”. To eliminate violence against women and girls, what are needed are effective violence prevention strategies to address the root causes and drivers of violence.

 

To address these issues, Plan International, with funding support from European Union and  UN Women is implementing the spotlight Initiative project for one year to develop a methodology and guidance based on global approaches and best practices and underpinned by a human rights-based approach that places; equality, integrity, agency and autonomy at the centre of prevention efforts; empowerment of women and girls with increased capacities to claim their rights and central role of men and boys in promoting gender equality and positive masculinities.

 

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the development of national evidence-based programmes to promote gender-equitable norms, attitudes and behaviours. Its specific objective is to build Timor-Leste contextualized user-friendly and innovative knowledge products on promising approaches to prevent VAWG as well as develop tools on how to apply knowledge and create agreement about key principles amongst key prevention actors such as government, CSOs, and development partners. The project will set up mechanisms to promote coordination and collaboration among stakeholders; and contribute to comprehensive national behaviour change strategies that work across the ecological model.

The project will contribute to the current Government specially SEII in development the next NAP for 2021-2025 and produced materials for behavior change be designed in 2021 and the project team will participate in SEII’s evaluation of the current NAP and consultation to develop the new NAP and assess current and possible prevention approaches and Knowledge sharing related to prevention for behavior change at individual, inter-personal, institution and societal levels. Provide formal and substantive inputs to development of the new NAP-GBV in Collaboration with UN Women under Spotlight initiative and provided to guide the group working on the NAP GBV development.

 

The Project also will consolidate promising prevention approaches into innovative and accessible format such as visual, info graphics, videos, etc.

 

To achieve those goals above, this project needs a consultant:

1. to identify the skills and resources needed to conduct behaviour change work in Timor-Leste specially how to develop the product related to the behaviour change to eliminate the violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) and all the product base an RESPECT FRAME WORK and will be presented the information in accessible formats.
2. The data will then be uploaded to an online platform (such as Google Drive) and the link to the database will be shared publicly with all interested stakeholders through Plan’s and UN Women’s Facebook page, website, etc

Objective of the consultancy

To consolidate information on existing prevention and behaviour change strategies and materials in Timor-Leste in an accessible format such as visuals or video, including online, for prevention actors in Timor-Leste in terms of style, language and presentation

Timeframe (proposed)

Mid-August-October 2021

Locations

The consultant will be based in Dili and have a possibility to visit Municipality which decided by spotlight team to conduct discussion with the relevant stake holders

Scope & approach

The Consultancy will

• Identify the skills and resources needed to conduct behaviour change work in Timor-Leste. (The project team will provide the reference)   
• Crete an accessible format such as visuals or video, including online, for prevention actors in Timor-Leste in terms of style, language and presentation
• Work together with the project team to provide technical support to project to develop the product
• Involve in the Workshops and seminar conducted by project team, to discuss and analyse the shearing experiences and integration of the RESPECT framework within the next NAP GBV
• Consolidate and produce the materials campaign on Behaviour base on the RESPECT Frame works
• Consult with SEII an online database of VAWG approaches and tools that is innovative, user-friendly and accessible to all interested stakeholders is developed as One-Stop Resource Hub.
• Conduct meeting with key prevention actors to discuss individually with each key prevention actors about how to promote VAWG in Timor-Leste, especially about the areas that have not been discussed during the workshop and seminars
• Coordinate and collaborate with the key prevention actors such as the Secretary of State for Equality and Inclusion, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, the Alola Foundation as the lead organization for the Prevention Pillar of NAP-GBV, Rede Feto, international organizations supporting prevention work in Timor-Leste, and other Spotlight activities related to behaviour change and messaging on violence against women and girls.
• Consult with VAWG organizations, including those working with vulnerable groups such as people with disability and LGBTQI, youth groups, in developing contextualized knowledge products and social and behavioural change communication (SBCC) materials such as videos, posters, social media messages and will link closely to UNICEF’s work in Pillar 3.
• Organise and Upload the Data an online platform (such as Google Drive) and the link to the database will be shared publicly with all interested stakeholders through Plan’s and UN Women’s Facebook page, website, etc

Deliverables 

• Create accessible format for VAWG Prevention
• Develop Various tools base on consultation and agreed
• Develop One stop online data (share the link)
• Develop Prevention activity messages
• Produce activity report  

Schedule   

Task	Lead	Support	Deliverables	Consultant Days	Timeframe 2021
Update from Project team	Spotlight team			1	August
Identify the skills and resources needed to conduct behaviour change work in Timor-Leste.	Consultant	Plan TL	Delivered the result	2	August
Create an accessible formats accessible format such as visuals or video, including online, for prevention actors in Timor-Leste in terms of style, language and presentation	Consultant	Plan TL	Materials	10	August-September
Consolidate and produce the materials campaign on Behaviour base on the RESPECT Frame works	Consultant	Plan TL	Materials	12	September
Consult with SEII an online database of VAWG approaches and tools that is innovative, user-friendly and accessible to all interested stakeholders is developed as One-Stop Resource Hub.	Consultant	Plan TL, SEII	Discussion	3	September
Conduct meeting with key prevention actors to discuss individually with each key prevention actors about how to promote VAWG in Timor-Leste, especially about the areas that have not been discussed during the workshop and seminars	Consultant	Plan TL	the draft of	5	September
Consult with VAWG organizations, including those working with vulnerable groups such as people with disability and LGBTQI, youth groups, in developing contextualized knowledge products and social and behavioural change communication (SBCC) materials such as videos, posters, social media messages and will link closely to UNICEF’s work in Pillar 3.	Consultant	Plan TL	Draft of materials has produced	5	September-October
Upload the Data an online platform (such as Google Drive) and the link to the database will be shared publicly with all interested stakeholders through Plan’s and UN Women’s Facebook page, website, etc	Consultant	Plan TL	The Data and Materials	10	October
Final Report	Consultant	Plan TL	Including clean data sets, response to review and feedback	15	October
Total days				63

Travel

Travel will be mostly by vehicle which will be arranged by Plan TL. 

Payment

Table of Payment Schedule:

Milestone	Detail	Amount to be paid (%)	Expected timeframe
Tranche 1	Consultant fee on plan approval of inception Report	40%	TBC
Tranche 2	Consultant fee on key delivery   accessible format and develop one stop for online data	30%	TBC
Tranche 3	Consultant’s fee on Plan approval of final Report on or before 16th October 2021.	30%	TBC

• submission of invoice for services based on timesheet. Or otherwise, would be negotiated before the contract signing.

Qualifications of Consultant

Formal qualifications (required):

• Masters level degree (or undergraduate level coupled with appropriate practical experience) in a relevant field, such as Social and culture, international development, IEC Material Development, Facilitation Capacity on material development related to women and human rights, etc.
  

 

 Practical skills and experience (Required):

• Demonstrable expertise in GBV issue
• Demonstrable experience (3-5 years) in designing and conducting data collection method
• Performed team leader functions in similar review assignment.
• Ability to meet deadlines and respond to requests and feedback appropriately and in a timely manner
• Understanding of country level policies and context, framework and strategy on GBV Prevention
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent report writing skills in English
• Excellent in crate accessible format, designing, produce and upload data on line
• Excellent and demonstrated understanding of Child Protection and Safeguarding, Gender sensitive approach to data collection and analysis, and ethical issues in research
• Demonstrable expertise on FGD, interview   

To apply

Plan International welcomes applications from qualified applicants or consultancy firms and hopes that the successful candidate can start by 23 August 2021. All interested candidates should submit a cover letter in English describing their suitability based on the above required qualifications and experiences. The candidate should include a recent CV, principles and approach that will be used to achieve the purpose/objectives of this Consultancy work, a financial proposal, 2 referees and if possible, examples or summaries of similar past work. Applications must be submitted electronically to and copy Quang.Tran@plan-international.org and PlanTL.Jobs@plan-international.org   no later than Monday 16 August, 2021