UN WOMEN: National Consultant- Data Entry Operator for Developing Database of Pre-Crisis Gender Profile Dashboard

Protecting human rights and promoting gender equality is central to humanitarian action. The needs of women, men, girls, boys, people with disability, and gender diverse people are different and distinct, and often these differences are even more pronounced during humanitarian crises. Addressing gender equality during a humanitarian crisis implies planning and implementing humanitarian programming addressing the specific needs of diverse groups in a community. Despite significant efforts and increased awareness within the humanitarian community, there is evidence indicating that gender equality and women’s empowerment is still inadequately and inconsistently integrated within sectoral programme cycles in humanitarian responses. As such, there has been an increasing effort to better integrate gender equality and strengthen participation of women, men, girls, boys, people with disability and gender diverse people in humanitarian programming, taking full account of their differentiated needs. This is supported by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender in Humanitarian Action Handbook[1],  IASC 2008 Policy Statement on Gender Equality, and the IASC Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action, among others. A Global IASC Reference Group on Gender in Humanitarian Action (Gender Reference Group/Gender RG/GRG) was formed in 2006 as a community of practice to support the integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment in the humanitarian action system.

With the endorsement of the Department of Women Affairs and the Humanitarian Coordination Task Team (HCTT) in Bangladesh, the Inter-Cluster Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group was established on 22^nd February 2017 to ensure effective mainstreaming of gender equality in humanitarian action. UN Women co-chairs, together with the Department of Women Affairs, the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) working group. The Group consists of gender focal points of various thematic clusters and working groups under the HCTT, and other organisations working to uphold women’s rights.

To strengthen the work of GiHA in Bangladesh, UN Women wants to establish a database of disaggregated data to support the humanitarian actors to undertake gender analysis especially at the wake of a disaster. In this regard, UNWOMEN, in collaboration with UNOCHA has designed a gender profile dashboard.

ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT 

Bangladesh is ranked ninth in the World Risk Index (2022), indicating the country’s extreme exposure and high vulnerability to natural hazards. Women and girls in Bangladesh are disproportionately impacted before, during, and after disasters due to persistent gender inequalities, gender-based discrimination, and violence, which are often reinforced, perpetuated, and exacerbated by disasters. Pre-existing gender inequalities and women and girls’ resultant lower resilience mean that they face greater barriers in responding to and adapting to, as well as recovering from, disasters.

To address gender inequality in humanitarian situations gender disaggregated data is extremely important. Without this unique vulnerabilities and needs of men, women, girls and boys are not possible to ascertain and address.  Although provision for the collection of sex and age disaggregated data (SADD) exists, it doesn’t always happen, or it is collected inconsistently. This may relate to lack of capacity and tools, and in some cases, it is simply not prioritized because its use for targeting and programming is not well defined.

Instead of significant importance, well-structured pre crisis gender profile data is not available in Bangladesh for humanitarian interventions to support the gender-responsive programming by mainstreaming gender equality in the actions of each of the thematic clusters, inter-cluster working groups (WG), and the overall joint response and preparedness efforts throughout the humanitarian action phase (emergency response preparedness, assessment, analysis, strategic planning, resource mobilization, implementation, monitoring, review, and lesson learning).

UN Women Bangladesh Country Office, in collaboration with UNOCHA has been working to establish a gender profile dashboard to accelerate the gender responsiveness in humanitarian interventions by making relevant pre-crisis disaggregated data available to humanitarian actors. This dashboard will support evidence-based decision making by providing district wise pre-crisis disaggregated data on population, internet and mobile phone, marital status, profession, access to financial services, literacy rate, Not in Education, Employment and Training (NET), housing condition etc. to support the humanitarian actors.

However, there are limited sources of reliable data; primarily limited to data produced by the  Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). The  BBS data, required to establish a pre-crisis dashboard are available only either in hard copies or in PDF format. UN Women is seeking the services of a national consultant to collect and compile relevant information. This will entail entering data in formats/templates required for developing the pre-crisis gender profile, dashboard and database.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of the consultancy is to collect and compile relevant information from available and credible sources for developing a district wise pre-crisis gender profile, dashboard, database, for 25 districts.

Under the direct supervision of the UN Women Programme Specialist (DRR/CCA/HA), the national consultant will work with UNWOMEN, UNOCHA, and other relevant stakeholders for extraction of existing data and consolidation of information, specifically  data entry in the database.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Kick- Off meeting with UNWOMEN DRR-CC- HA team and UNOCHA for  orientation on scope and background of the assignment.
2. Undertake desk research to identify sources of authentic data beyond BBS
3. Extract data from BBS survey reports, census
4. Populate the database created by UNOCHA for UN Women as per the data requirement by UNOCHA technical team.
5. Support UNOCHA technical team and UNWOMEN in the validation of database to ensure data quality
6. Provide technical support in uploading the database on the dashboard under the guidance of UNOCHA team.

DELIVERABLES

Expected Outputs and Deliverables

Deliverable 1: Listing of  data sources beyond BBS

Deliverable 2: Evidence of data extraction  from BBS reports and other sources

Deliverable 3: Populated  database and the Dashboard and evidence of support UNOCHA technical team and UNWOMEN in validation process of database to ensure the data quality

Duration of the Work and duty station

The is home based assignment and duration of contract will be from July 01- September 30, 2025

The contract will commence on the signature date and payment will be done as follows:

Institutional Arrangement

The consultant will work under supervision of the Programme Specialist of UN Women and in close collaboration and  guidance of UNOCHA.

COMPETENCIES

• Comprehensive knowledge of data analysis and statistical interpretation.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills;
• Strong knowledge on Gender and Inclusion
• Openness to change and ability to receive/integrate feedback;
• Ability to plan, organize, implement and report on work;
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines;
• Proficiency in the use of office IT applications and internet in conducting research
• Demonstrates integrity and ethical standards

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics or related field is required in combination of 1 year of relevant experience

Experience

• At least 1 year of proven experience of data entry
• Sound knowledge on data collection methodologies, data analysis, and data quality assurance.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.

Language

Fluency in English is required.

Nationality

Bangladesh

Timeline

Payment for Services

Technical Evaluation Table:

The consultancy recruitment process will be governed by the rules and regulations of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).

Application Procedure:

The following documents should be submitted as part of the application:

• Personal CV and  P11 (P11 can be downloaded: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc)
• A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) 

How to Submit the Application:

• Download and complete the UN Women Personal History Form (P11)
• Merge your UN Women Personal History Form (P11), CV and Cover Letter into a single file. The system does not allow for more than one attachment to be uploaded;
• Click on the Job Title (job vacancy announcement);
• Click ‘Apply Now’ button, fill in the necessary information on the first page, and then click ‘Submit Application’;
• Upload your application/single file as indicated above with the merged documents (underlined above);
• You will receive an automatic response to your email confirming receipt of your application by the system.

Notes:

• UN Women retains the right to contact references directly. Due to the large numbers of applications, we receive, we are able to inform only the successful candidates about the outcome or status of the selection process.
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