UN Women Terms of Reference for a Short Term Consultant to Mainstream Gender in the CPST Curriculum-Jobs in Kenya 2013

 

Terms of Reference for a Short Term Consultant to Mainstream Gender in the CPST Curriculum
1.0 Background
The general elections held on 4 March 2013 heralded a change in the governance structures of Kenya premised upon the foundations of the Constitution that was promulgated in 2010. The Constitution established a two-level governance structure, comprising a national government and 47 County governments.

This system of government, commonly referred to as devolution, aims to improve public service reach and government responsiveness to the needs of all citizens. It also seeks to make access to, and use of public resources more equitable, efficient and transparent.

The new model intends to bring both decision making and financial resources closer to the people and enhance the space for citizen’s involvement in local governance and development. It recognizes the importance of gender equality as a key principle in achieving sustainable development.
It shall be noted that the transfer of power to local institutions will result in the handling of key functions such as management of financial resources, local elections, tax management and administration. Since this is a new dispensation in Kenya, a key need is to support the smooth roll out of this system and assist county governments to perform their functions better and in particular, to deliver gender responsive public services.
Overall, this model is expected to reduce the potential for social conflict around the quest for equitable distribution of resources and sharing of power, narrow the existing gender inequalities and is likely to lead to inclusive and sustainable development.
Significant progress has been registered since the promulgation of the Constitution. The March 2013 elections ushered in new institutions and a new crop of leaders. At the national level, the Constitution has created a two-chamber Parliament; the National Assembly and the Senate. Article 27 and 177 of the Constitution, include representatives of women, youth and persons with disabilities.
At the county assemblies’ level, Members of County Assemblies, Speakers and Deputies Speakers were elected.
UN Women has in the last few years supported women’s leadership in line with UN Women’s strategic priorities. The devolved governance provides an opportunity for UN Women and strategic partners to scale up its work and broaden activities to support the development and enhancement of women’s political leadership.
Strategies aimed at ensuring the smooth evolution of the devolution model need to be thoroughly conceptualized so that its overall objective for poverty reduction, sustainable development, health, disaster prevention and management, social integration and overcoming social exclusion and discrimination are fulfilled as per the constitution goals.

Over the last two years, The Centre for Parliamentary Studies and Training (CPTS) developed a training curriculum. This curriculum is being used in induction trainings for both members of Parliament and county assemblies.

The plan going forward is to have more sustained training beyond induction especially targeting staff of parliament and county assemblies. UN Women in partnership with CPST intend to have gender mainstreamed in all the courses of the CPST curriculum, which has 17 courses. UN Women, in partnership with CPST, is seeking the services of three consultants to mainstream gender in the entire CPST Curriculum and take into account issues of county assemblies.
2.0 Aim and Objectives:
The objective for mainstreaming gender in the CPST curriculum is to;
1) To ensure that all the courses in the curriculum address gender issues i.e. in the objectives, courses and units
2) Develop the capacity of county assembly members and especially the women leaders to understand their representative, legislative, and oversight role to help in articulating the gender issues as county and national priorities in the county assemblies.
3) Develop the capacity of women leaders on the various roles they can play in the county assemblies which include an agenda setting strategy, budget oversight based on the constitutional requirements

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9.0 Application process

Applications should be sent to: consultancies.eharo@unwomen.org with the subject line clearly marked “GENDER MAINSTREAMING OF CPST CURRICULUM CONSULTANT”
The deadline for submission of applications is COB Monday 12 August 2013.



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