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(Assignment: Gender Mainstreaming Consultant) Terms of Reference for National Consultants to develop Livelihoods Protection and Youth Employment Programme in response to COVID-19 (A joint UN Initiative to support Planning Commission of Pakistan)

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has gripped the entire world, with more than 22 million cases reported. The social and economic effects of COVID-19 are being felt with greater intensity across least developed, developing and emerging market economies irrespective of their income level. Most of them will experience a drop in the GDP and losses in employment and income leading to greater poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition. Concurrently, capacities and resources vary across the world to overcome this pandemic and its intertwined health, social and economic impacts.

Strategic linkages

This activity contributes to the Pakistan Decent Work Country Programme 2016-2020 (extended to 2022), Priority Area 2: “Promoting Job Creation for Youth and Vulnerable Groups”, with international Labour Standards being a crosscutting theme.

Globally, this work contributes to Outcome 3 “Economic, social and environmental transitions for full, productive and freely chosen employment and decent work for all” as envisaged in the ILO Programme and Budget for 2020–21.

In turn, the work would contribute to UN Strategic Development Framework 2018-2022 (Pakistan), Outcome 2 “Decent Work” and the SDG 8.

Socio-Economic Impact Assessment & Response Plan for COVID-19 (SEIA&RP)

The Government of Pakistan is concerned with the social and economic implications of COVID-19 and was one of the first few countries who has developed a COVID-19 “Socio-economic Impact Assessment and Response Plan” through a joint effort of the Government of Pakistan, its relevant ministries and the UN agencies. The Plan reflects both a short-term immediate response to cope with the most exigent socio-economic risks and impacts of the COVID-19, along with medium to long-term policy, regulatory and institutional measures to bring a holistic perspective to the response strategy.

This socio-economic response plan consists of five streams of work – an integrated support to protect the needs and rights of people living under the duress of the pandemic, with particular focus on the most vulnerable groups and people who risk being left behind. The five streams of work that constitute this package include: i) making essential health services available to those in need and protecting health systems; ii) helping people cope with adversity through social protection and basic services and food security; iii) protecting jobs, supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, and the most vulnerable productive actors through economic recovery programmes; iv) guiding the necessary surge in fiscal and financial stimulus to make macroeconomic policies work for the most vulnerable and strengthening multilateral and regional responses; and v) promoting social cohesion and investing in community-led resilience and response systems.

Programme for Livelihood Protection and Youth Employment in response to COVID-19

In follow-up to the SEIA&RP preparation, the Planning Commission of Pakistan has identified five (5) priority areas where specific project proposals will be developed to mobilize resources from Federal and Provincial Government and technical support from development partners will be sought. These areas include Health Systems; Health Surveillance; Education; Livelihoods Protection & Youth Employment; and Gender.

One of the priority areas identified by Planning Commission is to develop a proposal for ‘Livelihoods Protection and Youth Employment Programme in response to COVID-19’. ILO is one of the agencies participating in developing this national programme – in collaboration with other UN Agencies including UNIDO, UN-Women, UNDP, UN-HABITAT, UNHCR, FAO and UNODC. The proposed Livelihoods Protection and Youth Employment programme will focus on following five (5) sub-thematic areas:

• Major Changes in Employment Demand in post-COVID-19: To analyse Pakistani Labour market situation and identify major changes in supply and demand of key economic sectors – along with changes in employers’ demands, new employment areas, key competencies, and skill attributes. The proposal will look into jobs for instance in the care economy (not only health care, but childcare, elderly care, etc). This can be useful for a policy level discussion to promote investment in the care sector, as sector that can generate jobs, and also support women’s labour force participation. Skills development/TVET for care professionals (childcare, elderly care, etc) should also be discussed. This will be important to minimize the risk of increasing gender inequalities. Proposal will also initiate Social Dialogue among Employers, Workers and Government to regularly identify changing trends in employment demands and how to address these changes through affirmative actions;
• Skills Development / TVET: analyse effects of COVID-19 on skills development/ TVET delivery and identify solutions to restart TVET in post-COVID-19 situation and to align it with changing labour market demands. This Section would also review the Skills-component in Government’s ‘Kamyab Jawan Programme’ and will recommend measures to align it with COVID-19 response of the Government particularly by: (a) identifying Mechanisms to reach out to population affected by economic consequences of COVID-19 and to reach out to other vulnerable communities; (b) Ensure gender equality in Kamyab Jawan Programme – particularly to achieve 25% women quota; and (c) Identify measures to improve effectiveness of Kamyab Jawan Programme in response to COVID-19;
• Enterprise Resilience and Development: analyse effects of COVID-19 on business environment after COVID-19 - both for the existing Enterprises as well as for new business start-ups, assess the new opportunities, challenges and identify solutions to support young entrepreneurs for starting their enterprising activities. Focus will be placed also on informal SMEs. These are the ones most vulnerable and intervention measures may not reach them as quickly or at the levels required for livelihood restoration and protection. The principle of “building back better” will be another issue to flag in post Covid-19. The role of green businesses and innovations and green jobs creation will also be a possible link to articulate in the development of a livelihoods protection and youth employment proposal. This Section would also review the Enterprise-component in Government’s ‘Kamyab Jawan Programme’ and will recommend measures to align it with COVID-19 response of the Government particularly by: (a) identifying Mechanisms to reach out to population affected by economic consequences of COVID-19 and to reach out to other vulnerable communities; (b) Ensure gender equality in Kamyab Jawan Programme – particularly to achieve 25% women quota; and (c) Identify measures to improve effectiveness of Kamyab Jawan Programme in response to COVID-19;
• Employments through Employment-Intensive approaches: analyse the most vulnerable groups and identify avenues to start ‘employment-intensive approaches’ in different economic sectors including construction / infrastructure, sanitary infrastructure, community service, health/education service, care-economy, disaster-mitigation, and others - for offering short-to medium term employments to the vulnerable groups.
• Unemployment Benefit Programme: to analyse the scope for a regular ‘Unemployment Insurance / Unemployment Benefit’ programme which shall be capable to provide any support to the laid-off/unemployed workers in case of any natural or human-made calamity – including benefits to the health workforce.

All above chapters will include a focus on special needs for supporting women and men from urban and rural settings particularly young women, returning migrant workers, young workers in rural economies, refugees, persons with disabilities, and other groups with special needs. Proposal will explore opportunity to work on the prevention of violence and harassment at workplaces induced due to COVID-19.

For this purpose, ILO and UN Partner Agencies would engage a team of technical consultants to provide adequate technical inputs in analyzing above thematic areas and based on these analyses, develop a comprehensive Livelihoods Protection and Youth Employment Programme in response to COVID-19– with following specific responsibilities:

• Lead Consultant to coordinate among Team of Consultants and compile final document;
• Consultant to develop chapter on ‘Major changes in Labour Market Demand and Employment trends due to COVID-19 in Pakistan’;
• Consultant to develop ‘Skills Development / TVET’ component;
• Consultant to develop ‘Enterprise Development’ component;
• Consultant to develop component on ‘Employment-intensive approaches’ for short-term employment;
• Consultant to develop ‘Unemployment Benefit’ programme;
• Consultant to focus on gender mainstreaming in the review, analyses and proposal

Specific scope of work and Terms of Reference for each of the six Consultants (Lead and four thematic Consultants) is given in Annex-1-6.

Responsibility Framework

• All Consultants will be responsible to:
  • Identify most relevant and recent literature and tools related to the subject;
  • Develop mechanisms to effectively consult relevant stakeholders and get adequate benefits in a respondent-friendly manner;
  • In view of travel restrictions and other SOPs due to COVID-19 pandemic, make sure to use appropriate technologies and means of communication that suits the requirements of relevant stakeholders;
  • Make a presentation on proposed strategies/programmes for validation workshop;
  • Ensure timely submission of deliverables;
  • Ensure full compliance with Planning Commission, Participating UN Agencies and other stakeholder inputs in the Report;
  • Share all important legislations, regulations, statistics, documents and information obtained during consultancy assignment, which are not available online;
  • Take all necessary measures to complete the assignment within given resources and timeframe;
  
  

• ILO/Participating UN Agencies will be responsible for;
  • Prepare a contract for the Consultants and making necessary payments on different intervals – based on deliverables;
  • Provide an introductory letter to Consultants – which will help him/her to introduce to relevant stakeholders;
  • Provide contact details of various relevant stakeholders;
  • Where possible, extend support in facilitating meetings with relevant stakeholders;
  • Provide technical inputs on outline, and draft Strategy within a reasonable time;
  • ILO will facilitate the ‘Validation Workshop’. If, due to COVID-19 lockdown situation, the workshop has to be online, UN Agencies will provide IT platform for meeting. In case of face-to-face meeting, UN Agencies will manage the entire event including content, venue, and logistics etc.

Special Provisions

• COVID-19: Consultants will be required to fully comply with applicable UN and Government regulations and SOPs for prevention against spread of COVID-19 and organize work in such a way to ensure safety of self and other stakeholders.
• Security: As per new UN regulations, if the assignment includes traveling to any city other than Islamabad, Lahore or Karachi, the Consultant will have to complete a special Security Training Course (SSAFE) preferably before starting the assignment. UN Agency will facilitate enrollment of Consultant to the course (and will pay for the course) – but these training days will not be paid by UN Agency.
• Reporting: Consultants will be required to report to ILO. All materials produced by Consultant will be reviewed by Planning Commission, ILO and Participating UN Agencies for technical quality assurance.

How to submit:

Interested individuals are requested to submit the Expressions of Interest, along with following supporting documents (duly dated and signed) through email to: islamabad@ilo.org, cc: shahnila@ilo.org by Sunday, 13th September 2020.

• Clearly mention the title of Assignment in your email subject, for which you are applying ;
• CV or profile of the individual
• Brief methodology to carry out the assignment (not more than 1 page);
• Number of workdays required to complete this assignment
• Fee per day (in PKR) – exclusive of all taxes and other expenses

Any offer received after the official closing time and date will not be accepted.

Questions and replies:

Should you have any questions, please contact us at the latest by date only by email (islamabad@ilo.org; cc shahnila@ilo.org) quoting the RFQ reference.

Scope of Work for Gender Mainstreaming in Livelihoods & Employment Proposal

Scope of Work

The Consultant for ‘Gender Mainstreaming’ will be responsible to review the proposal for ‘Livelihoods Protection & Youth Employment in response to COVID-19 in Pakistan’ and provide inputs to the sectoral Consultants and assist Lead Consultant to ensure all proposed activities are fully aligned to the principles of gender equality and fairness.

Specifically, the Consultant will:

• Coordinate with Lead Consultant for effective inputs to the proposal on gender mainstreaming;
• Coordinate with other Consultants in the Team to develop a comprehensive proposal for Livelihood response to COVID-19 – with effective exchange of information and ideas.
• Review and synthesize draft Chapters and provide specific inputs to improve the quality of each chapter from gender perspective and ensure all proposed activities are fairly addressing gender issues – both practical gender needs and strategic gender needs;
• Review existing programmes of Government (particularly, Kamyab Jawan Programme) and development agencies (UN, Donors, etc) – and recommend measures to ensure adequate benefits delivery to women and achieve their respective targets for gender mainstreaming;
• Provide any other support necessary to ensure gender mainstreaming in the final product.

Terms of Reference for Technical Consultants

The Consultant will be required to undertake following assignments:

• Review different chapters produced by team of Consultants;
• Provide timely feedback to all Consultants to make sure that their proposed activities are fully aligned with principles of gender equality and social justice;
• Participate in a validation workshop with all tripartite-plus stakeholders and get feedback on the Chapter;
• Assist Lead Consultant to finalize the Proposal with adequate measures to ensure gender equality and principles of gender mainstreaming.

The above outputs may be completed within _____ days of time (final product to be delivered by 15th October 2020) – with following break-up of workdays:

• Review sectoral Chapters and provide inputs for GE __ days
• Review Draft Proposal and provide inputs for GE __ days

Deliverables

Consultant will be required to deliver the following:

• Inputs to sectoral Consultants on their respective chapters for gender mainstreaming;
• Inputs to Lead Consultant for final product to be fully aligned with principles of gender mainstreaming.

Required Qualification and Experience

The Consultant should have the following qualification and experience:

• Post-graduation in social sciences;
• Minimum 5 year experience of dealing with matters related to gender mainstreaming and social justice
• Must be well aware of institutional and organizational situations related to employment and labour issues in Pakistan;
• Previous work experience with UN System in general and with ILO in particular, will be added advantage;
• Strong competence to use computer and office-related software.