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| Consultant for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Gender Policy Paper and Conceptual Framework |
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| Procurement Process : | IC - Individual contractor |
| Office : | Headquarters - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
| Deadline : | 21-Nov-14 | | Posted on : | 06-Nov-14 |
| Development Area : | HEALTH  |
| Reference Number : | 19212 |
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| Overview : UN Women is requesting a consultant to conduct a literature review, write a policy paper and develop a conceptual framework for gender equality within RMNCH, which identifies the causal pathways of lived women’s experiences and health outcomes.
Although evidence points to the correlation between gender-based discrimination and unequal power and poor RMNCH outcomes, a comprehensive framework for addressing how gender dimensions affect health outcomes both in the community and within the health sector and cataloguing of relevant gender-responsive interventions does not exist. This activity seeks to close the gap between what we know through existing evidence and programs, how the causal pathways operate diminishing women’s health outcomes and what strategies exist to directly address gender inequality within health care delivery throughout a woman’s lifecycle.
As part of the Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s And Children’s Health (2010) focused on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCH) and in support of the UNSG’s Global Movement of Every Women Every Child (EWEC - www.everywomaneverychild.org). UN Women, as a member of the H4+ partnership of UN agencies - UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank, UNAIDS and UN Women – who have joined forces to support countries with the highest rates of maternal and newborn mortality, seeks a consultant with relevant experience to develop knowledge products examining the role of gender as social determinant of health.
The H4+ primary focus is working with countries to strengthen their health systems to provide better maternal and newborn health services in order to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 75% and achieve universal access to reproductive health – and advance the two targets under MDG 5 and to reduce child mortality as called for by MDG 4. The work of the H4+ is also linked to MDG 3 promoting gender equality and empowering women and MDG 6 combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. A critical area of work for H4+ is to tackle the root causes of maternal, newborn and child mortality and morbidity, including gender inequality, low access to education (especially for girls), child marriage and adolescent pregnancy.
According to the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, gender biases in power, resources, entitlements, norms and values, and the way in which organizations are structured and programmes are run damage the health of millions of girls and women. Equality in health depends vitally on the empowerment of individuals to challenge and change the unfair and steeply graded distribution of social resources to which everyone has equal claims and rights. There is direct link between women’s health—a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing—throughout their life cycle and the level of national development. The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system. They are most responsible for health inequities - the unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries. A major barrier to women’s health is inequality between women and men, and among women in different geographical region, social classes, among others. |
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