TERMS OF REFERENCE

Title: Consultants to produce papers on current issues in gender and

violent extremism in the Philippines (up to 5 consultancies; 1
consultant per proposal)
Duration of assignment: 14 January 2019 to 15 February 2019
Location: Home-based, travel as assigned by hiring unit.
Type of contract: Special Service Agreement (SSA), full time

Supervision: UN Women Philippines – Women, Peace and Security Specialist

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 will lead and
coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality
and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong
and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective
partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

In 2000, the Security Council adopted the ground-breaking resolution 1325 on Women, Peace
and Security — the first to link women’s experiences of conflict to the international peace and
security agenda. It focused on the disproportionate impact of conflict on women and called
for their engagement in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. The Security Council has passed
seven additional resolutions on women, peace and security since the adoption of resolution
1325. Among these, Security Council resolution 2242 (2015) provides one of the most
important pronouncements of the linkages between countering terrorism and violent
extremism, and women, peace and security. It delivers a roadmap and issues a call to action
for ensuring a gender perspective in all efforts, and that an emphasis is placed on prevention.

Building on over fifteen years of experience in the area of women, peace and security (WPS),
including conflict prevention and resolution, peacebuilding, security sector reform and access
to justice, UN Women Philippines Programme Office has been working to ensure a gender
sensitive and gender responsive approach to understanding and preventing violent
extremism (PVE), including through knowledge sharing and research generation. The
Government of the Philippines is expected to adopt a National Action Plan on C/PVE in early
2019. Priority areas for C/PVE intervention include Violent Extremist Offenders (VEOs) in
prisons; Migration, Overseas Foreign Workers (OFWs) and PVE; security reform and C/PVE in
the context of the Bangsamoro transition; social media users and C/PVE; and religious
education and C/PVE. To support the implementation of the NAP-C/PVE, UN Women
Philippines is seeking to better understand the gender dimensions of these areas through
analysis and the production of recommendations on how government and civil society actors
can ensure gender-responsive implementation of C/PVE initiatives.

With this in mind, UN Women seeks expert consultants to produce short briefing papers
analyzing the gender dimensions of priority C/PVE areas and providing recommendations for
C/PVE programming to respond to them.

Proposals should address one or more of the following questions:

• What are the challenges of the security context faced by women with regards to
both violent extremism and Bangsamoro normalization, and how can C/PVE
implementation and Bangsamoro transitional governance better respond to their
needs?
• What are the challenges faced by women family members of VEO detainees and the
potential C/PVE programmes to support them?
• What are the vulnerabilities to VE faced by women OFWs and how can these be
addressed through C/PVE programming?
• How can C/PVE interventions target and engage women social media users in the
Philippines in a gender-sensitive manner?
• How can religious education in the Philippines engage women in peaceful religious
messaging and strengthen their role in C/PVE initiatives in religious environments?

II. Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Women, Peace and Security Specialist, the consultant will
undertake the following tasks:

• Produce a brief expert discussion paper (10 pages max) on a specific issue relating to
gender and VE in the Philippines, incorporating recommendations for Bangsamoro
governance, civil society, and international actors;

• Produce a final paper, integrating feedback received.

III. Expected Deliverables

No. Tasks & Deliverables Target dates

1. Workplan and methodology. 15 January 2019

Deliverables: Workplan and methodology

2. Draft paper on gender and PVE in the Philippines and 1 February 2019
recommendations.

Deliverable: Draft Report

3. Presentation of paper incorporating UN Women comments at 8 February 2019
1 roundtable discussion;
 No. Tasks & Deliverables Target dates
Deliverable: Validation meeting presentations.
4. Final paper on gender and PVE in the Philippines and 15 February 2019
recommendations

Deliverable: Final paper

IV. Competencies

Essential knowledge and experience:

▪ Excellent grasp of substantive gender equality, WPS, conflict, and violent extremism
dynamics and frameworks in the Philippines and ARMM. 

▪ Experience on supporting peace and security and gender equality initiatives in the
Philippines, including in the ARMM. Specific experience working on programmes
related to conflict and/or violent extremism is an asset.
▪ Excellent writing skills. Experience in writing mappings and reports on issues including
gender equality, peace and security, and violent extremism to a publishable quality is
a distinct advantage. 


Corporate Competencies: 

▪ Demonstrates integrity by modeling the United Nations' values and ethical standards;
▪ Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of the UN and UN Women;
▪ Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and
adaptability; 

▪ Ability and willingness to work as part of a team to meet tight deadlines and produce
high quality work.

V. Contract period and work location

The consultant will be home-based, presenting at one validation meeting in Manila. UN

Women Philippines will cover the costs of any travel and DSA required.

VI. Required qualification

▪ Master’s degree in conflict, gender issues, economics, public policy, law, international
relations or another related field. 

▪ Minimum 7 years of relevant experience with a demonstrable ability to undertake
research and analytical reviews, and provide technical expertise in the areas of
gender, conflict and violent extremism.
▪ Excellent command of Tagalog and English. Other UN languages an asset.

VII. 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:

Technical Evaluation Criteria Obtainable

Score
A) Education 20 %
Master’s degree in conflict, gender issues, economics, public policy,
law, international relations or another related field. 

B) Experience and skills 60 %
Minimum 7 years of relevant experience with a demonstrable ability to
undertake research and analytical reviews, and provide technical
expertise in the areas of gender, peace and security, and violent
extremism.
C) Language and report writing skills 20 %
Excellent command of English and Tagalog. Other UN languages an
asset.
Total Obtainable Score 100 %

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/Price 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.

VIII. Submission of application

Interest candidates are encouraged to submit electronic application to

hr.bangkok@unwomen.org and king-arthur.arambulo@unwomen.org not later than
7 January 2019, COB.

Submission package includes:

▪ Updated CV
 ▪ Personal History Form (P11) downloadable through
http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs
▪ Financial Proposal as template below

Items Amount (PHP)

1. Lump Sum fee (equivalent to daily fee x no. of days)
Number of days refers to actual days that the consultant
works in order to produce deliverables as required by the
ToR, NOT the number of days covering the whole period of
consultancy.
✓ Workplan and methodology

✓ Draft report on gender and PVE in the Philippines

and recommendations
✓ Validation meeting presentations.

✓ Final paper on gender and PVE in the Philippines

and recommendations
2. Others (please provide details as applicable)
Total Financial Proposal

IX) Payments
Payments for this consultancy will be based on the achievement of each deliverable and
certification that each has been satisfactorily completed.