Tuesday, March 20, 2018

National Consultant Team Leader to develop Background Study for RPJMN 2020-2024

Term of Reference


Title
National Consultant Team Leader to develop Background Study for National Medium-Term Development Goal (Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah Nasional- RPJMN) 2020-2024
Purpose
Team Leader Background Study RPJMN 2020-2024
Languages Required:
English and Bahasa Indonesia
Duty Station:
Jakarta
Contract duration
5 April -30 November 2018
Contract Supervision
National Program Officer for Governance


I.                    Background

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 centre 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. 
The Indonesian government has committed to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls with ratification of CEDAW and adopted the Convention into Indonesian Law No.7 of 1984.  The commitment continues demonstrated through the issuance of Presidential Instruction No.9 of 2000 on Gender Mainstreaming in National Development. Since then, gender mainstreaming has been further strengthened in the Nasional Long-Term Development Planning (RPJPN) 2005-2025, and breaks down into the National Medium-Term Development Planning (RPJMN). 

The National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) is a national development planning document for a period of 5 (five) years, which is structured as part of the National Long-Term Development Plan (RPJPN) with a period of 20 (twenty) years.. RPJPN 2005 - 2025 is divided into 4 (four) stages of RPJMN, namely; RPJMN I Year 2005-2009, RPJMN II Year 2010-2014, RPJMN III Year 2015-2019, and RPJMN IV Year 2020-2024.

Specifically, Indonesia National development planning is aimed to: a) supporting coordination among development actors; b) ensuring the creation of synergy from national to sub-national level; c) ensuring linkages and consistency between planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring; d) optimizing community participation; and e) ensuring the efficient, effective, equitable and sustainable use of resources.

Indonesia RPJMN III will be completed next year, and Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS) is now leading the preparatory process of development of RPJMN IV 2020-2024 through conducting background study of RPJMN IV in the field of gender equality and women’s empowerment.   The background study aims to provide input for the RPJMN IV 2020-2024 regarding; policy formulation, program priorities, and activities priorities of national development related to gender equality and women’s empowerment.


Based on the above, UN Women in partnership with BAPPENAS seek the support from a qualified national consultant to be the Team Leader for development of Background Study for RPJMN IV 2020-2024. The consultant is expected to lead the team, and along with the team assisting BAPPENAS to finalize background study RPJMN 2020-2024. The team is expected to submit high quality of result of background study for RPJMN IV 2020-2024, and submit the result in a timely manner.


II.                  Objective of the Assignment

Leading the background study team to assist BAPPENAS in finalizing Indonesia Background Study on gender equality and women’s empowerment for RPJMN IV covering period of year 2020-2024. 


III.                Scope of Work/Duties and Responsibilities
Under direct supervision of  UN Women National Program Officers for Governance, and close consultation with BAPPENAS the consultant will perform a task on provision  as follows;

1.      Conduct situational analysis to the current and next five years trend on situation of gender equality and women’s empowerment issues which includes related policies and legislation analysis.
2.      Identify and map strategic issues of RPJMN 2020-2024 in the field of gender equality and women's empowerment through literature review,
3..      Undertake a series of consultation in the national and sub-national level with experts, academia, government officials, NGOs as agreed upon with BAPPENAS,
4.      Facilitate and participate actively in the series of consultations at the national and sub-national level as agreed upon with BAPPENAS,
5..      Prepare the draft of proposal for policy direction, strategy, programme and main activity for RPJMN 2020-2024. This will be developed based on the result from the series of consultations meeting,
6.      Responsible for the quality of the background study team for RPJMN IV 2020-2024 result's works,
7.      Conduct close consultation with BAPPENAS, related ministries and state institutions, government experts, and international agencies that support this background study RPJMN IV 2020-2030.
8.      Provide progress report on a regular basis as agreed with the BAPPENAS Director of Families, Women, Children, Youth and Sports.
9.      Submit a high quality result of RPJMN IV 2020-2024 background study in a timely manner.

IV. EXPECTED DELIVERABLES AND TIME FRAME

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Activities
Deliverables
Deadlines
1
·       Conduct desk review taken from related; reports, academic journals, laws and policy, on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
·       Consultation with Bappenas, and related people as assigned by Bappenas.
·       Outline background study
·       Working methodology to complete background study
·       Concept and definition related to gender equality and women's empowerment that will be used for RPJMN 2020-2024
(This part is considered as draft 0 of the report. Deliver in Bahasa Indonesia)
4th week of April 2018
2
·       Conduct a situational analysis including: the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges in the national and sub-national development related to gender equality and women's empowerment within the framework of the RPJP
·       Analysis of law, regulation, and policy, in relation to national and sub-national development programme implementation.
·       Identifying and mapping strategic issues of RPJMN 2020-2024 in the field of gender equality and women's empowerment
·       Series of consultations; FGD, in-depth interview, workshop, seminar, and discussion with the core-team
a)      Report on the situational analysis that included:
o   achievements, problems, opportunities, and challenges related to gender equality and women's empowerment until 2018
o   results of the analysis of existing law, regulation, and policy in national and sub-national related to gender equality and women's empowerment.
b)      Propose strategic issues for the RPJMN 2020-2024 related to gender equality and women's empowerment
 (This part is considered as draft 1 of the report. Deliver in Bahasa Indonesia)
2nd week of July 2018
3
·       Identifying and mapping recomendation to resolve the strategic issues and achieve targets of RPJMN 2020-2024 in the field of gender equality and women's empowerment within the frame of RPJP 2005-2025
·       Series of consultations; FGD, in-depth interview, workshop, seminar, and discussion with the core-team
Report on recomendation to RPJMN 2020-2024, that included:
a)      Propose strategies, policies, and strategic interventions (programs and key activities) that must be implemented to reach the target of RPJMN 2020-2024 and to resolve the strategic issues.
b)      A conceptual framework for the development of gender equality and women's empowerment in the frame of gender mainstreaming in the context of good governance to achieve the ultimate objective of the RPJP 2005-2025.
 (This part is considered as second draft of report. Deliver in Bahasa Indonesia)
4th week of September 2018
4
Final seminar to the public
·       Final report which included input from the final seminar
·       Summary of key deliverable, lessons learnt and recommendation, not more than 4 pages (English report)
2nd week of November 2018

IV. DURATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT
The total duration of the contract assignment will be between 30 March-30 November 2018, with tentative schedule of potential mission for series of consultation with government, NGOs, academia in the sub-national level..

VI. SCHEDULE OF PAYMENT   

Date
Deliverables
3rd week of May (20%)
·       Upon completion of the zero draft of the background study RPJMN 2020-2024
2nd week of August (30%)
·       Upon completion of the first draft of the background study of RPJMN 2020-2024
2nd week of October (30%)
·       Upon completion of the second draft of the background study of RPJMN 2020-2024
4th week of November (20%)
·       Upon completion of the final draft of the background study of RPJMN 2020-2024, and summary of key deliverables, lessons learnt, and recommendations.

V. INPUTS  
·       UN Women and Bappenas will provide the consultant with necessary background materials for the desk review.
·       The consultant is expected to work remotely using his/her own computer, but may access the UN Women office printing or relevant documents or should he/she be required to work on-site at any point during the assignment.

VI. EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
All deliverables, must be written in Bahasa Indonesia, and for the key summary report in English (see point IV).
Upon receipt of the deliverables and prior to the payment of the installment the deliverables will be reviewed and approved by UN Women. The period of the review is maximum 10 working days after receipt.

VII. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
The consultant’s performance will be evaluated based on: timeliness, responsibility, initiative, communication, accuracy, and quality of the products delivered.

IX. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
The consultants should fulfill the following requirements:

1. Education
·       Minimum master’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Gender Studies, Development Studies, Public Policy, Social Science or other related fields.

2. Experience and skills
·       At least 8 years of experience of relevant work in the field of gender and good governance and or gender and public policy.
·       Proven experience working with multi stakeholders such as NGOs, government, academia and international agencies in doing his/her research
·       Proven experience in doing policy research and its implementation.
·       Proven experience as a team leader of related academic research as per purpose of this ToR
·       Proven experience familiar with Indonesia RPJP and RPJMN in his/her work
·       Proven experience and understands the context of gender mainstreaming in the government institutions..


3. Language and other skills
·       Excellent verbal and written English skill.
·       Computer literacy and ability to effectively use office technology equipment, IT tools, ability to use Internet and email.
X. EVALUATION 
Applications will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis.
§  Technical Qualification (100 points) weight; [70%]
§  Financial Proposal (100 points) weight; [30%]

A two-stage procedure is utilised in evaluating the applications, with evaluation of the technical application being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.
Technical qualification evaluation criteria:
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:

1
Minimum master’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Gender Studies, Development Studies, Public Policy, Social Science or other related fields and at least 10 years of experience of relevant work in the field of gender and good governance and or gender and public policy
10 points
2
Proven experience working with multi stakeholders such as NGOs, government, academia and international agencies in doing his/her research
10 points
3
Proven experience in doing policy research by combining qualitative and quantitative methodology
20 points
4
Proven experience as a team leader of related academic research and or policy research as per purpose of this ToR
20 points
5
Proven experience familiar with Indonesia RPJP and RPJMN in his/her work
20 points
6
Proven experience and understands the context of gender mainstreaming in the government institutions.
20 points
Total technical competency
100 points

Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as technically qualified candidates who may be contacted for validation interview.
Financial Proposal evaluation:
§  Only the financial proposal of candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be considered and evaluated.
§  The total number of points allocated for the price component is 100.
§  The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/ evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.


XI. APPLICATION PROCEDURE AND DEADLINE
Interested candidates are requested to submit electronic application to: hr.bangkok@unwomen.org with copy to: dian.heryasih@unwomen.org  not later than, Thursday, 29 March 2018, 5pm Jakarta time

Submission Package
·       Personal History Form (P11)
·       CV
·       Cover letter containing selection criteria (required experience and qualification) aforementioned and provide applicant's result of work.
·       Financial proposal. The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum based on each deliverable breaking down a daily professional fee, proposed number of working days per each deliverable and cost for potential mission from the origins to Jakarta.

All applications must include (as an attachment) cover letter, CV, P11, and financial proposal. Applications without financial proposal will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

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