| Overview : Submission of application deadline is extended to Thursday 13th June 2019 Interested candidates are requested to submit electronic application to liberia.procurement@unwomen.org no later than Thursday, 13 Juney 2019. Submission of package 1.Cover letter; 2.CV, including contact information of 3 referees; 3.Financial proposal. The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount per each deliverable, including any travel, per diem and administrative fees, based on the template in Annex 1. The lump sum costs must be accompanied by a detailed breakdown of costs calculation. All applications must include (as attachment) a CV and financial proposal. Applications without a financial proposal will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further processing. National Consultant to provide technical support to the drafting of a Gender Policy for the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA). Duty Station/Location: Monrovia, Liberia Application Deadline: 31 May 2019 Type of Contract: Contract for Consultant (CFC) Language required: English Starting Date: 6 June 2019 Expected duration of the assignment: 6 June 2019–20 August 2019. 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. UN Women’s goal in Liberia is to promote women’s human rights and gender equality which are key in sustaining and furthering achievements in stability and development. In this regard, its programming in the Country is connected to five corporate priority areas: women’s leadership and political participation; enhancing women’s economic empowerment (WEE); engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes (WPS); advancing women’s rights to live free from violence (VAW) and Gender Responsive Governance. In addition to these, UN Women emphasizes the gender dimensions of disasters as an issue of disaster risk reduction (DRR) effectiveness. UN Women advocates for equal rights and opportunities, strengthened language relating to women’s equal participation and leadership, as well as inclusion of gender-responsive targets and indicators as per the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Therefore, recognizing and documenting women’s contribution into planning & implementation phases of disaster response in both national and local levels means empowerment of not only women themselves, but also girls, boys and men. This collective empowerment, in the long term, pave way to reduce harms in possible future disasters such as loss of lives, loss of control in assets, intangible as well as material losses. DRR involves reducing disaster risks through efforts to analyze and reduce their causes. Genderresponsive DRR refers to analyzing and taking into account the needs, opportunities, roles and relationships of women, men, girls and boys informed by gender norms within a given culture and society. It requires specific attention to women’s rights and gender equality as part of a proactive and peoplecentered approach to reducing risks and vulnerabilities. Disasters affect women, men, girls and boys in different ways. Gender inequalities increase women’s and girls’ vulnerability because they limit women’s and girls’ access to information, services and resources. This makes it more difficult for them to be resilient and recover from disasters. The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) has taken several steps to demonstrate its strong commitment to promoting gender equality in the Agency and through its policy frameworks by the establishment of a Gender Department with the objective to develop policy guidelines and strategies that would inform the activities and programmes of NDMA in mainstreaming gender effectively in these interventions at the national and local government levels; and effectively coordinate and inform the different phases of disaster management from preparedness to recovery. NDMA has a Draft Gender Policy that incorporates inputs/comments from gender officers in the various counties. In addition, it aims to ensure that gender is integrated at both the structural and programmatic levels to influence the coordinating role of the Agency in collaborating with stakeholders from different backgrounds for a comprehensive gender-responsive approach to address the different challenges of disaster management. Against this backdrop, UN Women Liberia seeks to hire a National Consultant to finalize the Draft Gender Policy for disaster management and develop a costed Action Plan for NDMA. | 
