Gender Expert - Brussels, België - Expertise France

Expertise France

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Brussels, België

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Sophie Dubois

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Beschrijving

Expertise France is the public agency of French international technical cooperation.

The agency operates around four priorities:
- democratic, economic and financial governance;
- security and stability of countries in crisis/post-crisis situations;
- sustainable development;
- strengthening health systems, social protection and employment.

In these areas, Expertise France carries out engineering and implementation missions for capacity building projects, mobilizes technical expertise and acts as an aggregator of projects involving public expertise and private know-how.

With an activity volume of 233 million euros, more than 400 projects in portfolio in 80 countries, and 63,000 days of expertise,
Expertise France focuses its action towards France's solidarity policy, influence and economic diplomacy.

General objectives
The objective of this assignment is to prepare a Gender Strategy and a Gender Action Plan for IYBA-SEED in coordination with other Implementing Partners of the project, across the 5 target countries (Benin, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and Togo)

Expected deliverables (compulsory deadlines have been set - see attached ToR
):

IYBA-SEED Gender Strategy
IYBA-SEED Gender Action Plan
Training sessions on gender considerations and on IYBA-SEED Toolbox

Specific objectives and main duties
The specific responsibilities and main duties of the gender expert under this assignment are:

Develop an IYBA-SEED Gender Strategy

Developing a comprehensive Gender Strategy aligned with the IYBA-SEED programme's objectives and EU regulations in coordination with other Implementing Partners of the project, across 5 target countries.

This will include meetings and interviews with different stakeholders:

representatives of the 5 European development agencies (including Project Management Unit but also Gender experts of each Agency), Country Teams, local civil society representatives, local gender experts, etc.

The gender strategy will include:

Clearly identified
genderrelated goals and objectives of the project, aligned with broader gender equality and women's empowerment principles.
Measures to ensure
gender mainstreaming** throughout the project needed to integrate a gender sensitive approach in all project activities, outputs, outcomes and indicators.
Recommendations to successfully
reach the target group (women as Seed beneficiaries) to ensure their meaningful participation during project activities.
Identified and flagged
potential genderrelated risks and vulnerabilities that the project might unintentionally exacerbate and develop strategies to mitigate these risks.
Proposed
strategies for raising awareness about gender equality and the project's genderfocused objectives.
Proposed strategies to ensure
sustainability and continuity of Gender mainstreaming efforts.
Defined
metrics and methods to measure the effectiveness of the Gender Strategy.
Work with the C&V expert to ensure that the IYBA-SEED C&V Strategy and C&V Plan are
using the proper communication channels, material and are mainstreaming our Gender strategy.
Develop an IYBA-SEED Gender Action Plan

Developing the project Gender Action Plan, outlining specific activities, tasks, timelines, responsible parties required to implement the strategy, in consultation with the project team, the EU and Expertise France's Gender Expert.

The Gender Action Plan will include:

Gender Toolbox for the design and implementation of activities to be included in the Country and International Action Plans, to ensure taking full account of gender considerations and enabling therefore the highest empowerment of women entrepreneurs in the 5 target countires. When preparing the toolkit, the expert will take into account the many tools already developed by the Implementing Partners.
List of specific tasks and activities that need to be completed to execute the Gender Strategy.
Proposed mechanisms for coherent and adapted collaboration between the project stakeholders (PMU and Country Team) on gender issues (assigning individuals or teams responsible).
Proposed key performance indicators with recommendation on mechanisms to collect genderdisaggregated data to track progress and outcomes and evaluation methodology adapted to gender and women empowerment**
Develop and deliver training sessions on gender considerations and using IYBA-SEED Toolbox
Conduct a
needs assessment to understand the participants' current knowledge of gender issues and their training needs,
Define the
specific objectives of the training session and the desired outcomes
Create engaging presentation, handouts, case studies, and interactive exercises that align with the learning objectives,
Encourage open discussions and group interactions, allowing participants to share their experiences, challenges, and insights related to gender,
Prepare a training report summarizing the objecti