Plan International is an independent child rights and humanitarian organisation committed to ensuring children live a life free of poverty, violence and injustice. We actively unite children, communities and other people who share our mission to make positive lasting changes in children’s and young people’s lives. We support children in gaining the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to claim their rights to a fulfilling life, today and in the future. We place a specific focus on girls and women, who are most often left behind. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries. Plan International Jordan was established in 2016 and has programmes throughout the country on education, youth empowerment, and protection (CP, GBV, SRHR) in various governorates across Jordan. Plan’s Global Gender Equality and Inclusion policy states that the core objectives of Plan International’s work are to achieve gender equality, promoting gender justice, realising girls’ rights and fostering an inclusive society. This commitment is reflected in our five-year country strategy, our Values and Behaviours Framework, and our Theory of Change.
We aim to:
BACKGROUND ABOUT THE PROJECT
Tawazon - Promoting the Voice and Leadership of Women activity aims to create transformative change that enhances women’s voice and agency. To achieve these goals, Tawazon will:
Gender actin Plan – Context-
The Gender Action Plan within Tawazon is a document that aims to operationalizes the results and recommendations of the Gender Equity and Social Inclusion Analysis Report (GESI) as well as the findings of the Gender Transformative Marker (GTM) application and provides specific gender actions to be considered by the Tawazon project staff and strategic partners. These actions will help to further promote opportunities for women and girls and support GESI integration across Tawazon objectives to strengthen community commitment for GESI. As part of the ongoing action plan efforts, Plan Jordan should work with the Tawazon consortium to implement the actions outlined in the Gender action plan. Plan will also utilize the Gender action plan along with the gender transformative marker to explore ways to support external partners on the rolling out.
OBJECTIVES
The consultancy's focus will be on providing Tawazon with effective startegy to roll out the project gender action plan through effectively review, validate, and ensure alignment of the Gender Action Plan (GAP) within Tawazon’s objectives to support increasing awareness and familiarity on the main Tawazon GESI priorities while also securing acknowledgement and validation from various units within Tawazon and different stakeholders. Also, the focus should be on producing a finalized GAP version that is based on the prioritized gaps and interest within Tawazon internal and external stakeholders.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
APPROACH
METHODOLOGY
Deliverables/Indicators
Key relationships
In the context of the assignment described, the key relationships can be summarized as follows:
Timeline
The contract shall start from the date of signing the agreement and the complete result should be provided to PLAN as below:
Level of contact with children
This procurement process does not involve direct contact with children.
Technical expertise, skills, and knowledge
General Qualification/skills required
Evaluation Criteria
65% technical review divided as the following :
30% financial review
5 % gender responsive procurement
Plan International defines a gender-responsive business as one that meets criteria for integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment principles in its policies and practices, and which is aligned to international norms and standards. This could be: a. Women-owned business:
Ownership
All documents, project designs, drawings, technical data, filmed and photographed material and other information shall remain the property of the Project and shall be treated as confidential by the consultant(s) at all times. They shall not be made available to any third party whatsoever, in any form, without the prior written approval of a properly authorized employee of Plan International. The utilization of all proposals, plans and reports and other information provided by the consultant(s) to Plan International is the property of Plan International and the use thereof is solely at the discretion of Plan International. All documents and other papers, whether in soft or hard copy and whether containing data or other information, provided by Plan International shall be returned complete to Plan International upon completion of the assignment. All documentation and reports written during and/or as a result of this study, or otherwise related to it in any way, shall remain the property of Plan International and no part shall be reproduced or quoted, or otherwise used in any way except with the prior, express and specific written permission of authorized employee of Plan International.
Ethical and child protection considerations
The assignment will not require the consultant to interface with children never the less the consultant is required to provide a statement on the respect and protection of child rights, human rights and dignity of participants compliant with Plan’s Child Protection Policy.
The consultant shall read and sign Plan’s child protection policy (CPP) as fully understood and in agreement to in all respects and shall follow this in all and every respect during the term of the consultancy.
The consultant must follow Ethical Principles in a research and obtain written/verbal consent from the subjects. Permission from elder should be sought if the children under 18 years are involved as subjects. Signed informed consent of each child and his/her parents need to be taken after explaining the purpose of the study.