UN Women: Gender Data Expert, Home-Based, Turkiye, National Consultancy

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.

In Türkiye, in line with its global Strategic Plan 2022-2025 and Country Strategic Note (2022-2025), and the overall UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for Turkey (UNSDCF) (2021-2025), UN Women works towards the overarching goal of “Women and girls including those at greatest risk of being left behind fully exercise their human rights, enjoy a life free from violence and discrimination, and lead, influence and benefit from sustainable and inclusive socioeconomic development towards the advancement of gender equality in Turkey”. UN Women works in four thematic areas: (i) governance and participation in public life; (ii) women’s economic empowerment; (iii) ending violence against women and girls; and (iv) women, peace and security, humanitarian action and disaster risk reduction. In line with its coordination mandate, UN Women promotes coordination and coherence across the UN system to enhance accountability and results for gender equality and women’s empowerment, including through joint programmatic and advocacy actions and initiatives, standardized tools and guidance and services to strengthen the relevant capacities of the UN system. Towards these goals, UN Women implements programmes and projects that aim to advance gender equality, improve women’s access to opportunities, rights, and services in political, social, and economic life, and combat gender stereotypes, discrimination, and violence, as required by international and national legal and policy commitments. UN Women collaborates with numerous partners – central and local level government authorities, civil society organizations, including women’s organizations and platforms, academia, private sector companies, and other UN agencies. It commits itself to the Leaving No One Behind principle, by supporting targeted actions to remove the obstacles that marginalized and vulnerable groups of women face in accessing their rights and to promote them as agents of change. UN Women Türkiye has been at the forefront of support for Türkiye’s continuous commitment to implement international norms and standards on women’s rights, and the enhancement and implementation of relevant national legal and policy frameworks. The CO has been operational in Türkiye since 2012.

In 2025, the global community will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). Thirty years ago, in 1995, people from every part of the world committed to achieve gender equality when the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was adopted by 189 governments and endorsed by thousands of activists. The Platform for Action provides a roadmap toward equality. Twelve areas of critical concern in the platform cover areas of life requiring the most urgent action to deliver gender equality for Women and men, in all their diversity: poverty, education and training, health, violence against women, armed conflict, the economy, power and decision-making, mechanisms for the advancement of women, human rights, the media, the environment and the girl child. The plan includes numerous proposed actions, including commitments.

UN Women also supports the Development of Country Gender Equality Profile (CGEP) in the countries where it operates. Country Gender Equality Profiles (CGEPs) are in-depth, national-level analyses of the status of women and men, based on both statistical and qualitative data. CGEPs aim to strengthen national understanding and data on the advancement of the international, regional and national commitments towards GEWE with a view to strengthen their integration in policy and programming. They are a primary source for evidence-driven advocacy and programming for national stakeholders, international development partners and the UN System to advance gains and overcome bottlenecks at the national, regional and global level. The format of corporate UN Women CGEPs follow the same structure as UN Women Strategic Plan 2022- 2025 thematic areas. Additionally, and depending on the country context, other issues might need to be added such as Health, Education or other topics included in the Beijing Platform of Action.

UN System Wide Gender Equality Acceleration Plan (GEAP) launched on March 7, 2024, by the UN Secretary-General calls for a principled, strategic, and norms-based approach to advancing and preventing further rollbacks of women’s and girls’ rights. The GEAP has five sets of accelerators to be implemented by 2030: A Clarion Call for Gender Equality, Gender responsive leadership, Accountability for gender equality results, Resources, Actions for girls everywhere. At country level, the GEAP encompasses various aspects aimed at supporting ongoing efforts to improve accountability for gender equality In order to deliver for women and girls and for gender equality at country level the focus of GEAP will include (i)holding both the UN system and countries accountable for progress on gender equality; (ii) corporate alignment with existing UN system gender tools and mechanisms, such as the UNCT-SWAP Gender Scorecard and UN SWAP, and (iii) advocacy and messaging to stand up for gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights in an unequivocal way. Furthermore, there will be two critical accelerators for joint implementation for country level GEAP implementation: Country Gender Equality Profiles (Accelerator 2.1) and Country Gender Equality Biennial Reviews (Accelerator 3.3).

In this light, UN Women wishes to hire a National Expert who will support the production, analysis and use of gender statistics and sex-disaggregated data and knowledge in Türkiye related to the progress towards gender equality since the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995).

Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work

The objective of this assignment is to produce knowledge products based on data and statistics demonstrating the progress in the in the twelve areas of critical concern in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

Under the overall guidance of the UN Women Deputy Country Director and the direct day-to-day supervision of the UN Women Programme Specialist, National Consultant on Gender Statistics for Beijing 30+ will implement a set of tasks, including:

1. Identification of the need for specific data/statistics to be used to assess the progress on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) in Türkiye under the twelve areas of critical concern of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action also considering the data availability and quality. While determining the data to be used, review and refer to the relevant documents including but not limited to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and Commission on the Status of Women documents.
2. Provide technical support to UN Women in collaboration w/ nat. Institutions including TurkStat on the acquisition of relevant data and analysis, and identification of the gaps in publicly available data and development indicators.
3. Draft a comprehensive assessment/analysis report focusing on GEWE indicators and statistics under 12 areas of concern of Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and finalize it in line with the comments received from UN Women.
4. Contribute to knowledge and capacity building among UN Women staff and provide expert support to UN Women staff in activities of data collection and analysis Identify and disseminate good practices, lessons and knowledge; as identified in production, analysis and use of gender statistics and sex-disaggregated data and knowledge in Türkiye.
5. Develop a CGEP report building on the report to be developed on the progress in the field of GEWE since Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995).

Deliverable

Estimated working days

Time Frame

List of gender data and statistics to be used in the assessment of the progress in Türkiye in the twelve areas of critical concern in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

5 days

August 2025

Preparation of the draft report on the progress since Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) in 12 areas of critical concern in Türkiye, using secondary quantitative data and statistics.

12 days

September 2025

Finalization of the report

5 days

November 2025

Conduct a half day capacity development session for the UN Women Türkiye CO staff and/or selected partners staff on in production, analysis and use of gender statistics and sex-disaggregated data and knowledge in Türkiye. Submit a session assessment report 1 week after the session.

3 days

August 2025

Support country level UN System Wide Gender Equality Acceleration Plan (GEAP) implementation

10 days

September 2025

Provide ad hoc support to UN Women in activities of data collection and analysis

5 days

December 2025

Total

40 days

All deliverables shall be received and cleared by UN Women. All reports shall be presented in English, in electronic version.

The mentioned number of working days has been estimated as being sufficient/feasible for the envisaged volume of work to be completed successfully and is proposed as a guideline for the duration of assignment. It cannot and shall not be used as criteria for completion of work/assignment. The provision of envisaged deliverables approved by the UN Women shall be the only criteria for consultant’s work being completed and eligible for payment/s.

The National Consultant will be reporting to Programme Specialist and will work together with the different programme teams at UN Women and also with focal points at the national institutions including Turkish Statistical Institute.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

The assignment is home-based, and no travel is foreseen for the assignment. If there will be any need to travel outside of consultant’s city of residence, UN Women Türkiye CO will organize the travel of the consultant and cover the expenses in line with the UN Women’s travel rules and policies.

Mandatory Training Courses

The Consultants shall complete all the mandatory and other required UN training courses and modules on time. The certificates shall be submitted to the supervisor.

Competencies :

Core Values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework:

Functional Competencies:

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to work independently
• Good knowledge of gender equality and women’s rights issues;
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong report writing skills

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Gender Equality/Women Studies, Statistics or another related area.
• Doctorate degree in Social Sciences, Gender Equality/Women Studies, Statistics or another related area is an asset.

Experience:

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in conducting research, study and analysis on gender equality, women’s rights in Türkiye is required. More than 10 years of relevant experience is an asset.
• Experience in writing academic publications/book chapters on gender equality and women’s empowerment in Türkiye is required
• Research experience in using both quantitative and qualitative data analysis in social sciences is a strong asset
• Experience in working with UN agencies will be an advantage.
• Experience in liaising/working with government institutions in Türkiye is an asset

Languages:

• Fluency in written and spoken Turkish and English is required.

Statements :

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Diversity and inclusion:

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.)

Note: Applicants must ensure that all sections of the application form, including the sections on education and employment history, are completed. If all sections are not completed the application may be disqualified from the recruitment and selection process.

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