National Consultant to strengthen capacity of Service Providers on VAW to integrate HIV-sensitive service and Covid-19 protocol on GBV.

Background

UN Women joined UNAIDS as co-sponsors under UNAIDS Unified Budget, Accountability and Result Framework (UBRAF). The UBRAF is an instrument to translate the UNAIDS Strategy into action, mobilizing the contributions of UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat to support the achievement of the Targets of the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (2011). Under this mechanism, UN Women project in Indonesia is carrying out a number of initiatives to integrate gender equality and human rights principles into national HIV/AIDS response. The program will engage HIV/AIDS key government institutions, UN agencies, and community representatives of Women Living with HIV (WLHIV).

 

Indonesia face prevailing challenges of the HIV epidemic particularly in relation to persistent gender inequalities that have caused higher risks of infections among women and girls. Of the 620 000 adults living with HIV, 220 000 (35.48%) were women. New HIV infections among young women aged 15–24 years were more than half of those among young men: 9600 new infections among young women, compared to 14 000 among young men (UNAIDS, 2018).

 

Along with the number of women living with HIV (WLHIV) in Indonesia continues to increase at the same time they also face particular challenges, including stigma, discrimination and violence. The WLHIV are very vulnerable to experience various forms of violence such as physical, emotional, sexual and psychological violence which leads them to the poor quality of life. As quoted by Aryal, 2012, globally around 60-75% of physical violence and 32 to 36% of sexual violence committed by intimate partners of women living with HIV[1]. Intimate partner violence also makes them more vulnerable to depression and non-adherence with their antiretroviral therapy, which can weaken their immune system. However, IPV is an iceberg phenomenon because it is difficult to express, and, in the Indonesian context, it is a social taboo, especially among women living with HIV.

 

In 2019, UNFPA together with the Ministry of Health have developed the Intimate Partner Notification guidelines key populations and PLHIV. The guideline has been piloted in 5 cities, namely Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Denpasar and Makassar in 2019. To respond to problems related to intimate partner violence, UN Women contributed to the implementation of the guideline by developing an operational procedures standard to address the issue of violence and to impede in the intimate partner relationships of key populations and PLHIV called it as the Standard Operational Procedure Intimate Partner Violence (SOP IPV). This SOP became an integral part of the Intimate Partner Notification guideline and appreciated as a tool to leverage interventions addressing intersectionality of VAW and HIV.

 

In order to gain its lessons learned from trial of implementation of this SOP during 2019, in early 2020, UN Women conducted a review workshop to share the findings and discussed the improvements that can be implemented by the outreach workers as the front-liners of the SOP. Identified the workshop, three strategies to better implementation of the SOPs on Intimate Partner Notification with Operational procedures on reduction of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). They are: 1) Increase capacity of the outreach workers in the implementation of Guidelines on IPV-IPN to ensure screening is done properly and referred to respective service providers in five selected key-cities in Indonesia; 2) Strengthening capacity of intermediary organization to provide response to VAW cases and ensure its follow up with the service providers; and 3) Increase existing integrated service provisions on VAW with emphasize on its intersection with HIV by service providers in selected five key-cities.

 

As a follow up of these recommendations, in particularly to increase integrated service provisions on VAW with emphasize on its intersection with HIV by service providers, an intervention will be carried to achieve a better service for WLHIV who experienced VAW. The focus area is in the abovementioned five pilot cities undertaking the implementation of IPN-IPV.

 

With the Covid-19 pandemic that also increases vulnerability of WLHIV to violence and access to health services, it is important to equip outreach workers and service providers on respective protocols on VAW and on HIV related. And therefore, strategies in implementing IPN-IPV will also include capacity building in response to the situation during and beyond Covid-19 pandemic.

 

In this regards, UN Women Indonesia seeks qualified national candidate to carry out capacity building of Service Providers on VAW to integrate HIV-related sensitive service as well as Covid 19 protocol on GBV.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of UN Women Representative for Indonesia and, direct supervision of UN Women Program Specialist, the consultant shall undertake the following tasks:

• Development of protocol on inclusion of HIV related measurement at GBV service providers as part of the internal standard operational procedural of the Forum of Service Providers.
• Integration of Covid19 Protocol on GBV in the provision of service by service providers.
• Facilitate trainings to strengthen the capacity of Service Providers to understand and apply intersectionality between  HIV and VAW and providing mentoring support, if required

Expected Deliverables

 

No.	Tasks & Deliverables	Target Dates
1.	Development of protocol on inclusion of HIV related measurement at GBV service providers as part of the internal standard operational procedural of the Forum of Service Providers.   Deliverable: Updated HIV & VAW Module by Service Providers organized by Service Providers Forum (FPL)	05 August 2020
2.	Integration of Covid19 Protocol on GBV in the provision of service by service providers.   Deliverable: SOP of service delivery at Service Providers that include Covid-19 protocol on GBV	20 September 2020
3.	Facilitate trainings to strengthen the capacity of Service Providers to understand and apply intersectionality of HIV and VAW.   Deliverables : Training Module to strengthen Service Provider addressing intersection of HIV and VAW. Report on training to strengthen Service Providers addressing intersection of HIV and VAW.	20 October 2020

Competencies

Essential knowledge and experience: 

 

• Hands on experience in designing, implementing and monitoring development of policies and program for HIV response in Indonesia.
• Hands on experience in working closely with HIV key stakeholders, the Ministry of Health, International Organizations, CSOs and networks in Indonesia working on HIV and prevention and response to violence against women and girls is desirable.
• Good understanding of issues on HIV, Public Health and its link to violence against women and girls.
• Good knowledge of policies, programs and priorities of government in preventing and responding to HIV and violence against women and girls in Indonesia.
• Familiarity with VAW service providers both supported by government and non-government organizations.

 

 

Corporate Competencies:

 

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the United Nations' values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of the UN and UN Women;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability; ?
• Ability and willingness to work as part of a team to meet tight deadlines and produce high quality work.

Required Skills and Experience

 

The consultants can be a firm and or a team of specialists. The following are the collective selection criteria for the consultant :

 

• Advance study in Gender Studies, Public Health, Development Studies, Human Rights, Social Science or other related fields.
• A minimum five years experience working related to in the field of HIV/AIDS and/or VAW/ Gender Equality in Indonesia.
• Excellent reporting and communication skills particularly in Bahasa Indonesia and communication in English.

 

 

Applications will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis.

• Technical Qualification (100 points) weight; [70%]
• Financial Proposal (100 points) weight; [30%]

 

A two-stage procedure is utilized in evaluating the applications, with evaluation of the technical application being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.

 

Technical qualification evaluation criteria:

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria:

 

Technical Evaluation Criteria	Obtainable Score
A)    Education	20 %
B)    Experience and skills	60 %
Language and report writing skills Excellent command of written English, with proven report writing experience. Other UN languages an asset.	20 %
Total Obtainable Score	100 %

 

 

Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as technically qualified candidates who may be contacted for validation interview.

 

Financial/Price Proposal evaluation:

 

• Only the financial proposal of candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be considered and evaluated.
• The total number of points allocated for the price component is 100.
• The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/ evaluated and compared among those qualified technical candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.

 

Submission of application

Interest candidates are encouraged to submit an electronic application (CV, P11) and FINANCIAL PROPOSAL to UNDP website 15 July 2020 COB.

 

 

Payments

Payments for this consultancy will be based on the achievement of each deliverable and certification that each has been satisfactorily completed.