Gender and DRM Consultant Rwanda

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Org. Unit:  African Risk Capacity (ARC)

Duty Station:  Remotely based SSA WAE

Duration: 44 days on a period of 6 months

Reporting to: ARC Head of Gender Division

CONTEXT

The occurrence of disasters, especially those that are climate-induced, is increasing worldwide, making it more challenging to achieve the Sustainable Development Agenda, particularly SDG 2 on Zero Hunger. Due to the frequency and severity of climate-related shocks, compounded by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and food crises, there is an increase in resource scarcity, which undermines livelihoods and increases food insecurity, pressures for migration, forced displacement, and the cost of building resilience at the country level. Disasters are also gendered, affecting women and vulnerable groups disproportionately due to underlying socio-economic dynamics and existing gender inequalities in access to resources, services, information and markets. As the impacts of climate change continue to grow and interact with marginalisation and vulnerability dynamics, this is likely to induce further adverse effects on agricultural production, access to food, access to housing, land as well as access to energy, clean air, water and sanitation.

Climate change, economic uncertainties, new epidemics, and food shortages are coming together in a multi-risk environment that evokes considerable concern. There are gender-based vulnerabilities to shocks, that do not emanate from a single factor but reflect historical and culturally specific patterns of social institutions, culture, agricultural practices and personal lives. Gender equality plays a pivotal role in building resilience and adaptation pathways in disaster risk management.

The government of Rwanda has committed itself to implement the Sendai 2015–2030 Framework for Action for Disaster Risk Reduction, which highlights issues affecting human health and well-being that are relevant to disaster risk reduction, climate change, and sustainable development. The Sendai Framework was adopted on 18 March 2015.  

RWANDA BRIEF PROFILE

A small and landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, Rwanda is hilly and fertile with a dense population. [1] About 35% of the country’s population labours in subsistence agriculture, as well as some mineral and agro-processing [2]. Tourism, minerals, coffee, and tea are the country’s main sources of foreign exchange. Despite Rwanda's fertile ecosystem, food production often does not keep up to pace with demand, creating the necessity for importing food. Energy shortages, instability in neighboring states, and lack of adequate transportation linkages are the main hindrances to private sector growth, but a number of positive indicators, have been observed in recent years. [2] Between 2008 and 2014, poverty dropped from 56.7 % to 39.1% and GDP per capita increased from $479 to $720. Growth consistently averaged 7.8% in the same period, with evidence of economic diversification as the share of agriculture’s contribution diminished from 39% to 31%. [3] Climate change and its impacts risk thwarting developments achieved by Rwanda in recent years. This report argues that risk mitigation must be used as an essential tool to ensure continued economic development and political stability as the climate changes. The risk assessments it presents shed some light on to specifically what economic sectors and populations are most at risk now as well as in the projected future. ( UNDRR, 2019)

Rwanda’s disaster profile is dominated by droughts, fire, floods, earthquakes, landslides, heavy rain with strong winds, lightning and thunderstorms, traffic accidents, diseases and epidemics that disrupt people’s lives and livelihoods, destroy the infrastructure and interrupt economic activities and retard development. Disaster Risk Management encompasses a full continuum of aspects including preparedness, Disaster Risk Reduction, mitigation, prevention, relief, recovery and reconstruction. The National Disaster Management Policy (NDMP) specifies the tasks to be performed by organisations/institutions and individuals to deal with identified disaster types. These tasks cover all the cycles of disaster management with a specific focus on Disaster Risk Reduction, Relief and Recovery.

ARC PROGRAMME IN RWANDA

Rwanda has been actively involved with the African Risk Capacity (ARC) since signing the ARC Establishment Agreement in 2012, with representation on the ARC Agency Governing Board. Despite early challenges in operationalizing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in 2013, Rwanda renewed its commitment by signing a new MoU in 2018 and hosting the 8th Session of the ARC Conference of Parties in 2019. The Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) has led these efforts, engaging in multiple consultative meetings and workshops with ARC to enhance understanding and implementation of disaster risk management systems.

 The goal of the African Risk Capacity is to create a new way of managing the impact of weather risks on governments and their constituents by transferring the burden away from African governments to international financial markets that can handle the risk much better and thereby decrease reliance on external aid. In line with this, ARC Ltd, a financial affiliate of the ARC Agency, has provided drought, tropical cyclone, outbreaks, and epidemics insurance coverage to 17 African governments since its inception in 2014 for total insurance coverage of over USD 1 billion and made pay-outs of over USD 130 million to the governments of its member states. These resources have been used to support responses to protect more than 100 million vulnerable people in the participating countries.

OBJECTIVES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the direction of the ARC Gender Unit with support of the ARC Country Engagement Manager, and ARC’s government coordinator in Rwanda, we are seeking to recruit a National Gender consultant to carry out an in-depth gender analysis on DRM in Rwanda in order to make sure the policies, strategies, activities and outputs of DRM-related programme are gender-responsive and transformational. The objective is to ensure that the DRM planning and implementation contribute to advancing gender equality, social inclusion, and women’s empowerment.

The analysis will also focus on gender analysis in the agriculture sector, assessing women’s representation in the agriculture sector and the differentiated effects of disaster on women and men in the agriculture sector.

The critical elements of the Assignment are:

Conduct a gender analysis using the Gender audit methodology – the Gender analysis will focus on the Disaster Risk Management Sector and agriculture. The consultant will produce a report with key recommendations that would be integrated into the collaborative work between ARC, partners and other stakeholders in Rwanda.

In light of the above, the Consultant will:

• Carry out an in-depth gender analysis to better understand the specific challenges of women, girls, men and boys in Disaster Risk Management and in agriculture. The gender analysis should also help understand the barriers to women’s empowerment and participation in DRM and agriculture and the opportunities for policy articulation to strengthen the integration of gender equality into Disaster Risk Management planning and implementation processes.

•  This will be performed by advancing recommendations to gender transformative approaches to ensure gender equality for vulnerable men and women in the promotion of food security and nutrition.

• The gender analysis is required to give an in depth understanding and appreciation of socio-economic, cultural and religious issues affecting women and men, and other vulnerable groups, and the structural inequalities that undermine the preparedness to disasters among women/men, that for example create more vulnerabilities to women during times of disaster. 

• The analysis will also look at implications of these issues for building resilience in the context of DRM and will articulate the implications of the findings for resilience and the need to mainstream gender in Disaster Risk Reduction.

•  The analysis should state the findings, challenges, recommendations and conclusion. The results should include sectorial analysis, analysis of gender disaggregated data for evidence-based identification of gender differences in vulnerabilities, resource allocation, decision making and opportunities for supporting and addressing disaster risk reduction.

• All information must be disaggregated by gender as a minimum; other criteria (age groups, vulnerabilities, rural/ urban, etc.) need to be included as well, where available.

• Based on the audit methodology, the analysis process should be participative and inclusive, ensuring multi-stakeholder consultations (interviews, surveys, working sessions, etc.), including national workshops (inception and validation).

The scope of the consultant should cover:

Literature review of relevant documents, publications briefs, etc., on the DRM scenario, including relevant sector policies or strategies, formulation and design of national gender equality policies and their practical level of implementation and how gender mainstreaming has been incorporated in the context of DRM in Rwanda. Brief situational analysis of national context from a DRM perspective and the agriculture sector, providing an overview on the current country/sector situation from a gender perspective, illustrated as appropriate with references. The analysis should be presented in a format that identifies “strengths and weaknesses” and the various inter-related causal factors, and highlights trends and forces that could contribute to the overall change in existing gender-related relations. It should analyse gender integration into DRM sectorial policies, planning instruments, projects and implemented programmes. This section should include a capacity needs assessment to mainstream gender as well as monitoring and reporting. A Gender Analysis Report, detailing, among others, the level and extent of gender mainstreaming in the DRM processes, including institutions, policy and legal framework, strategies, and plans at both local and national levels. The report should also highlight any challenges, shortcomings and propose key recommendations/strategies.

CONSULTATION DETAILS

The specific details of the activities of this consultation are:

Conduct an in-depth gender analysis of the gender sensitivity and inclusiveness of current disaster preparedness, response and recovery mechanisms in the Rwanda and develop a gender analysis report with an integrated action plan. The Integrated Gender Action Plan will be an addendum to the gender report. To facilitate a validation workshop of the Gender Analysis and Gender Action Plan report. To draft a Gender and DRM training manual that will be used to train the TWG and other stakeholders. To draft a policy brief, summarising the recommendations of the Gender analysis Facilitate the training of trainers and lead the establishment of the training of trainers’ network. Facilitate the policy dialogue and donors’ roundtable.

KEY DELIVERABLES

Deliverable 1: Inception Report

Detail the methodological framework, work plan, timetable, list of stakeholders and stakeholder engagement plan and terms of reference for potential working sessions with key stakeholders.

Deliverable 2: Gender Analysis Report and Action Plan

This will highlight the process and conclusions of the in-depth gender analysis which will include the outcomes of the multi-stakeholder consultative process, potential actions for further capacity building at the political, legal, institutional and programmatic levels for gender mainstreaming, and recommendations to remove existing barriers in disaster response planning, implementation and management.

Deliverable 3:  Validation workshop: Gender Report Validation Workshop and National Gender Action Plan

A workshop whereby the consultant will present the findings of the gender analysis and the proposed Gender Action plan to key stakeholders in order to get their inputs and comments for quality purpose

Gender and DRM Training Manual

The manual will be used to train members of the technical working group, for the training of trainers

Deliverable 4: Publication of policy brief

The Policy brief will make a summary of key recommendations from the gender analysis and make policy recommendations. 

Facilitation of Training of Trainers

Training the Technical working group, establish the training of trainer’s network and to establish the gender, advocacy, and communication group within the technical working group

Facilitation of Policy Dialogue and Donors’ roundtable

The policy dialogue takes place at the end of the training of trainers where key government departments, led by the gender ministry, development partners civil society organisations, with the objective to present the policy brief and to discuss the establishment of the gender transformative fund.

Calendar of deliverables

The consultation will be carried out for 44 working days during the period between January and June 2025.

TASK DELIVERABLES AND NUMBER OF DAYS

TASK Submit inception report

NUMBER OF DAYS 3 days

DELIVERABLES Inception report approved

TASK Conduct Gender Analysis in DRM in the Rwanda and report write up

NUMBER OF DAYS 18 days

DELIVERABLES Gender Analysis and Gender Action plan submitted

TASK Preparing and holding validation workshop 

NUMBER OF DAYS 4 days

DELIVERABLES Gender Analysis and Gender Action Plan approved

TASK Drafting of gender and DRM training manual

NUMBER OF DAYS 6 days

DELIVERABLES Training Manual approved

TASK Drafting Policy brief

NUMBER OF DAYS 4 days

DELIVERABLES Policy brief published

TASK Prepare the Training of the TWG, of stakeholders, and the trainers of trainers

NUMBER OF DAYS 6 days

DELIVERABLES Training for TWG and ToT held,ToT network established, Gender and Advocacy and Communication sub-group established

TASK Preparing policy dialogue and donors’ roundtable

NUMBER OF DAYS 3 days

DELIVERABLES Policy dialogue and donors’ roundtable held

DUTY STATION, RELOCATION AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

Duty Station: Rwanda, recruited locally 

Institutional arrangement

• The Consultant will have access to the relevant information necessary for the performance of the tasks within the framework of this mission.

•  The consultant will be responsible for providing their own workstation (i.e. laptop, Internet, telephone, scanner/printer, etc.) and must have access to a reliable Internet connection;

•  The consultant must be available for consultations and be in reliable contact by e-mail for a defined number of hours that corresponds to the working hours of the Government or the African Risk Capacity

•  The Consultant will carry out his/her tasks under the direct supervision of the Head of the Gender Unit and the General Direction of the Head of Country Engagement of the ARC Programme in the Rwanda.

 DESIRED EXPERIENCES AND EDUCATION

• Extensive experience in research and analysis in the field of gender equality and at least in one other related theme, including disaster risk management, climate change reduction and/or environmental adaptation and/or sustainable development.

•  Good understanding of the links between DRM and gender issues.

•  Experience or knowledge of the work of the United Nations system and/or other multilateral, bilateral and civil society development partners.

•  Excellent analytical, writing and communication skills.

• Master's degree in one of the related fields: gender, CRM, climate change, environmental science, sustainable development or comparable university degrees.

•  At least ten (10) years of progressively advanced and relevant professional experience at the international and national level in gender mainstreaming in development projects and policies; in the development of manuals and training materials for gender mainstreaming on at least one other related theme, including the DRM, the environment and/or sustainable development.

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