Consultancy, Gender Mainstreaming in Peacebuilding

Nov 9, 2022 | Search for Common Ground
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Search for Common Ground is an international non-governmental organization that works to end violent conflict and build healthy, safe, and just societies. It is the largest such organization dedicated to peacebuilding, with offices in over 30 countries and a media reach of roughly 40 million people.

Background of the Assignment  

Gender equality is central to Search’s work, a main pillar of programming and activities in major projects and programmes. Search places gender equality at the forefront of its peacebuilding and conflict resolution efforts. Mainstreaming a gender perspective in our projects is a goal, and the objectives include: Reducing gender inequalities, and ensuring that women and men equally participate and benefit for the implemented activities and initiatives. Therefore, an initiative was taken at Search to develop a gender mainstreaming manual that is tailored for Search’s staff (and can even be used by partners and stakeholders). The manual consists of two parts: Part one is an introduction to the Common Ground Approach (CGA) to Gender which includes the main gender related concepts, terms and approaches used at Search. The second part is the: Operationalizing Gender at Search, which provides the practical steps to integrating gender perspective at each level of the project’s cycle. The manual is based on shared experiences and lessons learned from Search’s staff. We intend to use the Manual as a main source on how we mainstream gender in our work. Based on the Manual, we also intend to develop a training kit that showcases how to mainstream gender into our CGA. 

Search For Common Ground is looking for an external consultant to further develop and lead the validation of the drafted Gender Mainstreaming Manual and develop a Common Ground Approach (CGA) to gender training manual. The Consultant will report to the global program quality specialist with direct support from the “Network of Practitioners in Gender Mainstreaming at Search.”

Objectives of the Assignment

    • Coordinate the co-creation of a practical guide on applying gender mainstreaming into community peacebuilding;
    • Develop a gender mainstreaming in peacebuilding training kit (to also be used to train Search country teams who are implementing different projects. 
    • Present the results to the “Network of Practitioners in Gender Mainstreaming at Search” (NPGMS) 

Expected Results and Deliverables

    • 1 practical guide on applying gender mainstreaming into community peacebuilding produced in English and French;
    • 1 training kit in gender mainstreaming in peacebuilding composed by a guide for facilitators, handouts and a powerpoint presentation reflecting the key takeaways of each module. The training kit translates the practical guide into a 3 days training manual to build field practitioners and partners capacities in gender mainstreaming in community peacebuilding. The guide for facilitators will reflect the experiential learning methodology providing exercises, case studies and role plays to allow participants practice, observe and reflect prior to conceptualizing.
    • Important note: the deliverables are expected to be produced in both English and French (the consultant will include the translation in their offer as needed). The consultant will also be expected to collaborate with the internal “Network of Practitioners in Gender Mainstreaming at Search”  in the development of the manual and the training kit.
    • The validated practical guide is presented to Search’s staff in 2 virtual sessions in English and French  (with support of internal gender network as necessary)

Minimum Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Gender analysis and development, or in other areas such as: economics, International development, Conflict Studies, Social Sciences, and with profound experience in Gender;
    • At least five years of experience in Mainstreaming gender into programs and projects, especially with organizations working on peace and conflict resolutions
    • Demonstrated experience in developing gender manuals,
    • Demonstrated experience in developing concise and clear knowledge products, such as guidance notes, manuals, etc.;
    • Demonstrated experience in developing training curriculum
    • Written and spoken fluency in English;
    • Experience training multicultural teams;

Desirable

    • Proven experience developing guidance notes and training manuals
    • Proven experience of capacity strengthening or training of iNGOs;

Scoring Criteria

    • Criteria 1 (30%): demonstrated experience with the topic or with Search’s work
    • Criteria 2 (20%): working experience in a region where gender related  activities for peace have been implemented
    • Criteria 3 (25%): proposed methodology to coordinate a co-creation process
    • Criteria 4 (15%): pricing
    • Criteria 4 (10%): language skills (English)

Duration of the Assignment 

The final products are expected by December 10th, 2022.

As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, the position holder may be required to undertake other duties that are broadly in line with the above key responsibilities.