National Consultant to Develop a Roadmap to Improve Data on Gender and Environment Nexus in Georgia

Background:

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls, the empowerment of women, and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
UN Women in Georgia supports state and non-state partners towards the achievement of substantive gender equality in Georgia. In line with international and national commitments, UN Women works on the levels of policies and legislation, institutions and grassroots, to achieve transformative results for increased gender equality and greater protection of the rights of women and girls. 
One of the four strategic pillars of work for the UN Women Georgia Country Office (CO) is Women, Peace and Security (WPS), Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) supporting to the lives and livelihoods of women and girls resilience to disasters and threats, thereby contributing to sustainable, secure, and thriving communities. This pillar is in line with UN Women Global Strategic Plan (2022–2025), Impact 4: Women, peace and security, humanitarian action and disaster risk reduction; UN Women Georgia Strategic Note (2021-2025) and biannual workplans, as well as Outcome 5 of the UNSDCF of Georgia. 
In October 2024 UN Women, with the generous support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), started the implementation of the project Gender in Disaster Risk Reduction (GDRR). The impact-level goal of the project is to reduce population’s vulnerabilities towards climate-induced hazards, with emphasis on women’s and girls’ increased resilience towards disaster risks in Georgia.

When disasters disrupt the normal functioning of a community or society at any scale, they affect everyone - but vulnerable groups are impacted the most. A growing body of evidence indicates that disasters have disproportionately negative effects on women and girls. Women and girls around the world often face limited access to resources and information, as well as exclusion from policy and decision-making processes. Thus, women have limited power and resources to influence decision-making processes. Because of these limitations and constraints, women and girls are more likely to die as a result of disasters, and their life expectancy is disproportionately reduced as a result of disasters. Furthermore, women tend to take a longer time to recover from these shocks due to gender-specific barriers and exclusion.

Despite the collective efforts of international and local stakeholders, the gender dimensions of climate-induced disaster risks are not fully mainstreamed in Georgia's disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts. One of the key challenges pertains to the limited collection and utilization of disaggregated climate and disaster data at the national level. The lack of robust gender analysis to understand the gendered nature of climate and disaster risks poses a key challenge to progressive and inclusive disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions. Available data is often only project-based and not always disaggregated by sex, age and disability which is critical for designing inclusive and gender-responsive disaster risk management (DRM) policies, plans, and interventions. The GDRR project seeks to support national stakeholders in collecting data and evidence that illustrate the link between gender and the environment, with the goal of advancing gender-responsive interventions and actions. Currently, available data on climate and disaster risk reduction (DRR) offers limited insight into how women and men interact with and are affected by the environment. 
To fulfill the existing data gaps, UN Women Georgia CO plans to hire a local consultant who will assess available data sources from environment and gender perspective, identify the needs and opportunities for improving the production of gender data and climate change, and prepare a package of recommendations on priority set of indicators on gender and environment. The local consultant will work in close partnership with data producers and data provides, such as the National Statistics Office of Georgia (GEOSTAT), the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure; Emergency Management Service (Ministry of Internal Affairs) and other relevant stakeholders. 
While there is no internationally agreed-upon set of indicators for climate, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and gender, several key resources are available. UN Women’s established methodology on gender and the environment, as outlined in the Gender and Environment Data Resources of the UN Women Data Hub, provides a comprehensive approach, including model questionnaire and the list of and indicators measuring nexus between gender and environment. The consultant is expected to review UN Women’s existing resources on gender and environment survey methodology. 
The consultant will work under overall supervision of UN Women Country Representative and Deputy Country Representative and day to day management and oversight of UN Women Programme Specialist and Project Analyst as relevant.

Description of Responsibilities / Scope of Work

•     To familiarize oneself with UN Women’s established methodology on gender and the environment, as outlined in the Gender and Environment Data Resources, including model questionnaire and the list of and indicators measuring nexus between gender and environment.
•     To identify and conduct desk review of relevant Georgia-specific studies, assessments, reports and policy papers/strategies and action plans to establish data gaps and relevance of the above-mentioned list of indicators to Georgian context.
•     To conduct stakeholder consultations (bilateral and multilateral meetings), engaging development partners, key national stakeholders engaged in climate change/DRR, GEOSTAT and relevant civil society representatives. 
•     To liaise with GEOSTAT and relevant institutions to identify data need priorities and develop a roadmap, considering the national and international commitments. 
•     To prepare a gender and environment data roadmap to improve gender and environment data collection and analysis practices in Georgia, including assessment of the available sources and recommended national set of indicators on gender and environment - specifying data sources and responsible agency for collecting data.

Deliverable
•     Inception report containing detailed work-plan, specifying methodology to be deployed for undertaking consultancy, activities and timelines agreed with UN Women. 1 working day, submitted by May 23, 2025
•     Assessment of data sources conducted. This includes desk review and consultation meetings with stakeholders in order to identify needs, sources and gaps in gender and environment/climate data. 10 working days, submitted by June 27, 2025
•     Draft gender and environment data roadmap including assessment of the available sources and recommended national priority indicators on gender and environment nexus prepared and submitted to UN Women.  7 working days, submitted by July 28, 2025
•     The gender and environment roadmap presented and validated with the national stakeholders. 5 working days, submitted by September 26, 2025 
•     Roadmap finalized in line with stakeholders’ feedback and submitted to UN Women. 2 working days, submitted by October 10, 2025

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
This is a home-based consultancy. 

Competencies :

Core Values:

Core Competencies:

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Functional Competencies:

•     Ability to think, analyze and articulate strategically on gender, disaster risk reduction and climate change.
•     Ability to establish partnership with different levels of stakeholders. 
•     Excellent research, data analytical, drafting and writing skills to produce and present concise knowledge products.
•     Strong knowledge in gender equality, frameworks of gender and environment with the focus on disaster risk reduction and climate change. 
•     Technical knowledge in developing roadmaps, assessing different data sources, reports, policy papers and other relevant materials.

Required Qualifications

Education and Certification:

•     Advanced (at least Master) degree in one or more following areas: gender/women’s studies, human rights, sociology, law, statistics, international development or related field. 
•     A first-level university degree in combination with seven (7) additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

•     At least 5 (five) years in case of master’s (or 7 years with bachelor’s ) of relevant professional experience working on national survey and census methodologies, with an emphasis on analyzing and interpreting data on gender and environment. 
•     At least 5 (five) years in case of master’s (or 7 years with bachelor’s ) of experience in working with administrative data sources, with an emphasis on gender and environment nexus.
•     At least 5 (five) years in case of master’s (or 7 years with bachelor’s) of proven experience in working on monitoring and evaluation system, including designing the indicators from environment and gender data perspective. 
•     Familiarity with Georgian context is required. 
•     Solid understanding of national and international frameworks relevant to environment, climate change, and disaster risk reduction. 
•     Previous professional experience in analyzing and interpreting sex, age, and disability disaggregated data (SADD) in the context of gender and disaster risk reduction and/ or climate resilience is an asset.
•     Previous professional experience with development agencies and/or the United Nations is an asset.

Languages:
•     Fluency in Georgian is required.
•     Fluency in English is an asset. 

Statements:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

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