Call for Proposal: INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT(S) FOR THE FIT FOR LIFE SPORT AND GENDER EQUALITY GAME PLAN

• Country: Paris, France
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNESCO
• Gender: Both 
• Deadline:2024-01-12

PURPOSE

This consultative work was kicked off with a “Fit for Life Workshop: Empowering Girls and Young Women Through Sport” gathering 70 stakeholders from government, civil society, the sport movement and the private sector. During this workshop, consensus was reached on the need to harmonize approaches to the development, design and measurement of inclusive sports initiatives at the levels of policy and practice. Several calls to action were made, including:

1. the urgent need for shared metrics to advance outcome-oriented measurement, to inform advocacy and scale smart investments in sport as a driver of sustainable development
2. the importance of participatory development processes and the use of an intersectional lens to support inclusive, relevant and gender-transformative policies, curricula and projects
3. the need to prioritize capacity-building and communications to promote the value of investing in grassroots sport to advance equality outcomes, and to accurately measure social and economic returns on investment
4. the identification and promotion of mechanisms for collective action to ensure engagement and ownership from diverse public, private and civil society stakeholder groups, including those outside of the sport sector, alongside core constituencies such as athletes and sport media

OBJECTIVES OF THE GAME PLAN

These needs were reaffirmed during UNESCO’s 7th Global Conference of Sports Ministers (MINEPS VII) held in June 2023, in various panel discussions and in the adoption of the outcome document by more than 100 countries.

To respond to these calls to action and reflect the needs and perspectives of policy makers, women and girls, the Game Plan is being designed iteratively with the support of UNESCO’s Group of Friends on Sport and Gender Equality. Through consultations, this group of over 25 technical experts and stakeholders from the sports ecosystem has been providing inputs and feedback on the structure and key contents, including by suggesting examples of good practices (tools, initiatives, programmes, methodologies, research…) to be featured in the publication as inspiration and guidance for its readers.

The Game Plan’s content will be structured around:

• Data and Research
• Integrated and Participatory Policy Making
• Capacity Building and Delivery
• Policy Sustainability and Financial Management
• Communications and Advocacy
• Evaluating and Measuring Impact

Long Description

METHODOLOGY OF THE GAME PLAN

The development of Game Plan’s content will build from the detailed structure, including indicative key content for each chapter, which has been advanced by the UNESCO Secretariat and UNESCO’s Group of Friends for Sport and Gender Equality.

To guide and support the elaboration of this structure into a fully-fledged toolkit, the Consultant will be provided with the following materials:

– a inexhaustive mapping of relevant good practices relating to sport and gender equality collected through consultations, to be used as the basis for the examples and case studies of the publication

– a “Sport and Gender Equality” Theory of Change

– a matrix of key performance indicators for inclusion in each chapter

UNESCO will also share other relevant documents, reports and materials to support the development. However, it is expected that the Consultant may have to collect further information from relevant stakeholders, with the support of UNESCO, or conduct additional desk research to complement these materials.  The Consultant will be responsible for strategically inputting to the design and structure of the publication.

CONTRACT DURATION, TIMETABLE AND EXPECTED DELIVERABLES

It is expected that the development of the Game Plan will commence in late January 2024 and be completed at the latest by early June 2024.

Working under the guidance of the UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Sector, and the supervision of the Sport Section, the Consultant will produce the following deliverables:

• Detailed structure with indicative content: building on the structure provided by UNESCO, including detailed overviews/aims for each chapter, proposals for the case studies and draft indicative content, as well as integrating data and good practice case studies shared by the Secretariat and UNESCO’s Group of Friends for Sport and Gender Equality; (Tentative Date of Submission: mid-February 2024).
• Fully drafted introduction and sample chapter, including feedback by UNESCO (Tentative Date of Submission: mid-March 2024).
• Draft Final report, including fully drafted and referenced foreword, introduction and conclusion, case studies and chapter content, checklists/ recommendations differentiated per stakeholder group, resources, and indicators (Tentative Date of Submission: 25 April 2024).
• Final report (including an Executive Summary, Annexes, final formatting, suggestions for the lay out) integrating the feedback of UNESCO and the Group of Friends on Sport and Gender Equality and other peer reviewers on the Draft Final report (Tentative Date of Submission:  25 May 2024).
• Communication, knowledge and dissemination-related material (e.g. powerpoint presentations, flyer) summarising the content of the Game Plan to be delivered to UNESCO (Tentative Date of Submission: 15 June 2022).

COMPETENCIES (Core / Managerial)

Accountability (C)

Communication (C)

Innovation (C)

Knowledge sharing and continuous improvement (C)

Planning and organizing (C)

Results focus (C)

Teamwork (C)

Professionalism (C)

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• A PhD or Master’s degree in any of the following fields: Sport, Development Studies, Gender Studies, Policy analysis/design or any other related studies.

Work experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in conducting research and delivering policy reports and/or policy-oriented toolkits of this type, ideally at the international level and with a focus on gender equality / gender-based violence.
• Experience in designing and developing practical toolkits for policy guidance, ideally for a UN agency or international organization, and supported by a minimum 2 references..

Skills/Competencies

• Excellent analytical and drafting skills in English, including the ability to design and structure practical reports for a policy audience.
• A good understanding of data collection, analysis and impact measurement concepts and methodologies, including how to design, refine and use key performance indicators.
• Proven knowledge of the international sports and sports for development ecosystems, including their key stakeholders and frameworks, governance, policies

Languages

• Excellent knowledge (spoken and written) of English (required) and very good knowledge of French (desirable) or other UN languages.

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