invite for consultancy work on Gender Analysis as per the below TOR.
Program Unit: Program Quality and Learning
Terms of Reference on Gender Analysis
Employment type: Short Term Consultancy
Employment period: 97 days to be completed by June- Mid September (date)
Reporting Lines: CARE Ethiopia
Location: Addis Ababa, with a maximum 30 days (In total) of field visit to Arsi,Shashamane, Sebeta, Woliso and Amhara zone.
1. Introduction to partners
CARE International: - operates in more than 90 countries around the world running poverty-fighting programmes and deliver life-saving aid in 79 developing countries playing a key role in engaging with and influencing policy-makers and decision-makers to tackle the structural causes of poverty and social injustice.
CARE Ethiopia: - CARE started working in Ethiopia in November 1984 in response to severe drought and famine that devastated the population and claimed the lives of nearly one million people. Since then, the organization’s activities have expanded to address the root causes of poverty and vulnerability.
Diageo: - Is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands across spirits and beer. Their products are sold in more than 180 countries around the world. Diageo works in Ethiopia partnering with Metaabo brewery share co with more than 4000 small holder farmers supplying barley.
This work is supported by global policy and advocacy work, fundraising, and programme management. As well as supporting CARE’s humanitarian and development work around the world, CARE International UK provides specific expertise in the areas of women’s economic empowerment, inclusive governance, humanitarian response (particularly shelter, and gender in emergencies), and engaging with the private sector
2. Background to the project:
Globally women in supply chains face significant challenges including lack of equity in access to participation and productive resources in comparison with men. This limits women from realizing their full potential and from becoming equal partners in their communities, economies and societies. Globally, women provide 43% of agricultural labour; own less than 2% of land; and receive less than 10% credit for farming. Yet, when more women work their families and communities benefit and economies grow. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, if women had the same access to land, technology, financial services, education, and markets as men, yields on women’s farms could increase from 20 percent to 30 percent, which would feed between 100 million and 150 million more people—children, women, and men who would otherwise go hungry.
African women contribute up to 60% of the agriculture labour but are not regarded as ‘farmers’ or value chain actors. Oftentimes women are invisible or excluded from value chain activities; not only because they lack ownership of assets, suffer from social immobility and lack of access to finance but also due to societal norms, cultural barriers and lack of skills and more.
To achieve our shared vision of empowering women and ensuring they can live a life free from violence CARE Ethiopia proposes to carry out an analysis of Diageo’s Ethiopian smallholder farmer value chain from a gender perspective. This analysis will allow us to identify key barriers and enablers to women’s empowerment in the agricultural value chain, identify successful practices that can be replicated, and make recommendations to improve programmes and practices to take a gender sensitive approach. This directly supports SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
The main objectives are to:
· Identify barriers and opportunities for women within the Ethiopian smallholder agricultural value chain to enable women to realize their aspiration to improve the quality and control over their lives
· Work alongside Diageo’s Local Sourcing programming in Ethiopia to contribute to all partners being able to adopt a comprehensive and integrated gender-sensitive (or gender-transformative as appropriate) approach in their individual implementation projects.
· Establish best practices within Diageo and thereby influence sector-wide changes for women in supply chains
· Make programming recommendations on how to give women a strong and equitable voice and economic opportunities in sustainable sourcing
3. Key Tasks:
· Identify women and men’s roles at the smallholder agricultural stage of the value chain
· Identify key barriers (including the risk of Gender Based Violence) and enablers to women’s economic empowerment for smallholder farmers.
· Assessment of the industry’s internal policies to promote women’s economic empowerment and action to prevent gender based violence objectives and comparison with local norms.
· Based on the research findings, capacity building of staff (as appropriate) to ensure that they can build women’s economic empowerment and action to prevent gender based violence objectives into programming:
· interviews to understand how we deal with gender along value chain
· understand what our partnership potential is – whether they have a gender focus or not – less about capacity
· develop from the assessment understanding of the key performance indicators we want to embed
· introduce a few KPIs as part of pilot programmes to connect with SAI
· Findings and learnings that can be shared with other Diageo sourcing countries and key industry players.
4. Tentative schedule and time allocation
Activities | Number of days |
Internal documents review | 15 |
Assessment of Diageo gender practices in the Ethiopian value chain | 20 |
Pre-testing and fine tuning of the methodology ( Agree on study design) | 7 |
Analysis of gender practices assessment | 10 |
Conduct field assessment in sample Woredas | 20 |
Draft Summary report | 10 |
Debrief with project staff for comments | 7 |
Incorporate comments and submit final report | 8 |
Total | 97 |
5. Methodology or approach
The consultant is expected to develop his/her own approach but should roughly follow at least the following step by step approach for systematic analysis.
1. Identify gender based constraints (barriers for women’s participation particularly in value chains)
2. Assess the consequences of those constraints
3. Propose actions to mitigate the gender-based constraints
6. Deliverables:
· Inception report with clear methodology and approach
· Draft gender analysis report (25-30 page) both in soft and hard copies
· Electronic copies of photos and videos taken (if any)
· Presentation/debriefing for the project team.
· Final gender analysis report, incorporating comments and feedback from the debriefing exercise.
7. Ownership of the gender analysis report and other materials
All data, visual materials and reports generated through this contract and the gender analysis shall remain the property of CARE Ethiopia, and Diageo. The consultant/s and other parties require written consent from CARE Ethiopia if the data and reports are used for a different purpose, other than the objectives stated above.
8. Competency and academic qualification
The competing firm for this particular assignment should possess the following competency and academic qualifications:
· The firm must possess profound operational experience, knowledge and skill in gender and agriculture.
· Experience in undertaking similar assignment/s (gender in value chain analysis) in the recent past.
· An in depth knowledge and good understanding of the agriculture sector in Ethiopia and how it affects men and women differently.
· Advanced degree in development studies, rural development, gender studies, sociology or social anthropology, agricultural economics and the related fields
· Fluency in Amharic and Oromifa
· The firm must show mix of the staff to be deployed, qualified sector specialists with experience and substantial record in gender analysis.
· Integrity, timeliness, openness to learn, willingness to have long term engagement with CARE Ethiopia.
· The lead consultant as well as the consulting team members should possess a Ph.D. or master’s degree in the areas of rural development with 6-10 years of relevant experience in gender analysis/surveys.
· Recent written recommendation will be a plus.