| Overview : Background The Government of Ethiopia is currently implementing various industry friendly policies and strategies that responds to the vision of transforming the structure of the economy and placing the country amidst the middle income countries by 2025. For the industry sector in particular, GoE states that the objective is to “………strive to realize the vision to make our country Africa’s leading and globally competitive light manufacturing industry sector, accelerating the growth and the role of strategic heavy industry development, laying the foundation to create an industrially developed country, thereby enabling its peoples to benefit through an environmentally sustainable sector by 2025”. The country is one of the fastest growing economies in the World and in Africa with a sustained annual average GDP growth rate of 11% for the last 12 years. Since July 2015 the country has started implementing the 2nd 5-year Growth and Transformation Plan that helps to realize its vision of becoming a middle income country by 2025. Manufacturing is among the top priority sub sectors which are on the front line of sustaining the growth and transforming the economy in the next 10-20 years. The priority sectors for GTP2 are agro processing industries, chemical and pharmaceuticals Industries, textile & garment industries, leather and leather products industries, metal engineering industries, ICT and electronics industries, petrochemical industries and biotechnology Industries. Objectives of the Study The main objective of the study is to develop a better understanding of critical gender issues in the manufacturing sector at various levels of the value chains in the priority sub sectors and to come up with possible interventions. The study is expected to give an overview of the diversity of gender dynamics in the manufacturing sector; insight into interventions / crucial ‘windows of choice’ for the inclusion of a gender perspectives into the manufacturing sector. Here are the specific objectives: - Identify and examine existing situation, outlook and emerging constraints to increase participation and benefit by women, through employment and business development, in the accelerated expansion of the industrial sector and manufacturing sub-sector over GTP ll and GTP lll and identify practical and strategic solutions for removing or modifying the impact of those constraints.
- Design and develop a knowledge base and information framework that builds understanding and solutions for improving women participation and benefit in the industrial sector, manufacturing in particular, in Ethiopia, across all regions, enterprises (including all stages of the value chain) and all priority sectors.
- Assess the current assumptions, cultural attitude and prejudice that make women inclusion and exclusion in the manufacturing sector.
. . . Scope of the study I.Analyzing priority sub sectors in the manufacturing sector with a gender perspective. This consists of the following major issues for examination: - Participatory drawing of the respective manufacturing priority sector’s value chain maps including the support services and measuring the position of women in each value chain
- Collect gender disaggregated quantitative/ qualitative data at each manufacturing value chains.
- Conducting overlays of the women in respect to their labor productivity, age group, education level, annual income, skill composition, social status, work ethics, leadership, etc. for manufacturing
- Full analysis of the financial and non-financial benefits of women working in the manufacturing sector and compare with basic living costs.
- Women’s voice and bargaining power within manufacturing enterprises
- Different duties, responsibilities, capabilities of men and women and their respective roles in the manufacturing sector
- Review and identify different policies, strategies and directives that facilitate participation and benefit of women in the manufacturing sector
- Assess the Availability of a productivity improving conducive work environment for women in the manufacturing sector
- Measuring and assessing the quality of support services available and delivered to women in the manufacturing sector of Ethiopia
. . . Deliverables - Inception report with clear and agreed methodology and approach
- Survey of women in business of manufacturing and women employees.
- Draft comprehensive scoping study of women in the manufacturing sector of Ethiopia both in soft and hard copies
- Comprehensive gender sensitive Action plan/policy matrix for GTP 2 and GTP 3 document to boost the participation, involvement and realize benefits to women and the manufacturing sector under the study
- Validate the scoping study and gender sensitive action plan on 2 national validation workshops
- Final report on women in manufacturing analysis and strategic plan for the next 10 years.
- Mechanism of designing M & E especially tracking of employment opportunities for youth and woman during GTP2 period (60% for lower scale and 30% for medium).
Qualifications: Technical Competency - The consultant must have rich international experience and expertise in Industry policy analysis, gender specialization, socioeconomics including labour markets; sociology, survey design and data collection and analysis, quantitative/qualitative;
- The consultant must possess Master’s Degree in gender studies
- Must have at least 15 years of relevant experience in the area
- In depth knowledge and good understanding of the manufacturing sector in Ethiopia, the policies and strategies, and how it affects and may affect women differently;
- Integrity, timeliness, openness to learn, willingness to have long term engagement with GoE
- Experience in Africa is desirable
Functional Competencies - Outstanding communication skills in English
- Positive and constructive approaches to work with energy
- Demonstrate openness to change and ability to receive and integrate feedback
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong time management and meet established time lines
Language and Other Skills - Excellent knowledge of English, including the ability to write reports clearly and concisely and to set out a coherent argument in presentation and group interactions
- Capacity to facilitate and communicate with different stakeholders
- Computer skills: full command of Microsoft applications (word, excel, PowerPoint) and common internet applications
APPLICATION INSTRUCTION: - Group of Individuals and/or Firms are not eligible for this consultancy assignment (open only for individual consultant).
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED: The Proposals shall be submitted before application deadline September 30, 2016 via UNDP Ethiopia Secured mail address: procurement.et@undp.org - Technical Proposal in pdf under file name: ETH-IC-2016-077 – TP - [insert your name]
- Financial Proposal in pdf under file name: ETH-IC-2016-077 – FP - [insert your name]
Please note that these proposals shall be submitted to the designated secured email into two files but in one email unless both Files are Greater than 9MB file size IMPORTANT NOTE: - UNDP Ethiopia Country Office posted this consultancy assignment on behalf of Ministry of Industry (MoI)
- Failing to submit anyone of the documents stated above will automatically disqualify the candidate from further technical evaluation;
- Those prospect consultants who fail to submit both Technical and Financial proposals and to the designated secured email will not be further considered for evaluation.
EMAIL SUBJECT LINE WHILE SUBMITTING PROPOSAL (Compulsory): - While submitting your proposals to procurement.et@undp.org be sure your email subject line is ETH-IC-2016-077 in order to let MOI focal point will easily locate your respective proposals from secured email and be considered in subsequent evaluations.
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