| Overview : Description of the assignment: The National Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist will contribute to the team by supporting the overall function as listed below to ensure Gender and Social Inclusion aspects are incorporated. 1. Carry out a participatory gender analysis to fully consider the different needs, roles, benefits, impacts, risks and access to/control over resources of women and men (including considerations of intersecting categories of identity such as age, social status, ethnicity, marital status, disability etc.) given a project’s context, and appropriate measures taken to address these and promote gender equality; identify the most vulnerable and marginalized populations in the proposed project sites, collect gender responsive baseline data relevant to project planning and monitoring; identify the share of female and male direct beneficiaries. 2. Assist in organizing and carrying out gender responsive stakeholder consultation sessions to solicit inputs and ensure both male, female and other stakeholder involvement and buy-in to the project. Provide written guidance notes and training on the application of these to the project implementation team particularly in using participatory techniques that involve women, men and others in project activities that involve assessments and discussions. 3. Ensure that key project activities are gender and inclusion responsive: work with the project team to elaborate the project activities and ensure that all applicable activities are disaggregated by sex, social groups, disability and other relevant, intersecting forms of identity; ensure that gender considerations and issues of most vulnerable and marginalized groups are integrated into project activities. 4. Assess the project gender co-benefits for all activities as an integral part of outlining project sustainable development aspects and provide a summary section on Gender Co-benefits in the Feasibility Report. Project name/Organizational Unit: Energy, Environment, Climate and DRM Unit, UNDP CO Nepal Period of assignment/services (if applicable): 50 days spread over 1 May – 31 December 2019 Proposal should be submitted by email to procurement.np@undp.org not later than 17:30 hours (Nepal Standard Time) of 18 April 2019 mentioning reference No. UNDP/PN/09/2019 – Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist | 
