Apply for International Consultants-Incorporating Gender Dimensions in four AfCFTA Impact Assessment Studies, Kigali, Rwanda Job Vacancy | Position

Result of Service

The major goal of this task is to include the gender dimensions in all of the components of the paperwork and course of to a technical evaluation for four (4) AfCFTA impression evaluation research. The consultants will likely be paid in response to the next deliverables:

• 25% Reviewed Comoros AfCFTA impression evaluation study – 25% Reviewed Djibouti AfCFTA impression evaluation study – 25% Reviewed Senegal AfCFTA impression evaluation study – 25% Reviewed Zambia AfCFTA impression evaluation study

Work Location

Home primarily based with journey

Expected period

April 1st-June 30

Duties and Responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES I. Background The Subregional Office for Eastern Africa (SRO-EA) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), is supporting four African Least Developed Countries (LDCs) which are pre-qualified to graduate from LDC standing, aiming to boost their prospects of reaching commencement with momentum. In this context, SRO-EA has commissioned impression evaluation research on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) for the four beneficiary nations: Comoros, Djibouti, Senegal, and Zambia. To strengthen the robustness of those impression assessments, it’s important that every study incorporates the gender dimension in all components of the paperwork i.e. each in the qualitative evaluation and GTAP simulations. Additionally, a technical high quality evaluation is required to enhance the draft research in phrases of each content material and presentation. The consultants will, if mandatory, restructure the general framework of every study and embrace substantial, constructive gender-related suggestions earlier than ultimate publication. To obtain this, ECA SRO-EA will recruit two consultants, who will work underneath the direct supervision of the Regional Integration and AfCFTA Cluster of SRO-EA. Duties and obligations The principal duties and obligations of the consultants embrace: 1. Undertake a complete desk evaluation of the AfCFTA impression evaluation research, specializing in the shape, evaluation, and alignment with a gender-responsive analytical framework that disaggregates labor, capital, and family impacts by gender. 2. Review and assess the qualitative and simulation sections, verifying that gender-differentiated impacts on employment, wages, capital possession, and family revenue are totally included and according to the methodology in all of the components of the four paperwork. 3. Ensure the evaluation is complete and highlights how AfCFTA implementation might have an effect on women and men in a different way, together with impacts on employment, entrepreneurship, and family welfare. 4. Work intently with the drafters and related ECA employees to establish and incorporate mandatory substantive adjustments, making certain that the GTAP simulations are up to date and gender-disaggregated knowledge, evaluation, and findings are totally built-in throughout all sections. 5. Edit the doc totally with the view to bettering the language, formulation of sentences, and financial that means of ideas. 6. Enhance coverage relevance of the research by making certain that suggestions replicate gender-sensitive approaches to commerce coverage, inclusive financial progress, and the discount of gender gaps in AfCFTA-related alternatives. The Consultants are conscious of and comply with the truth that info obtained throughout the evaluation is confidential and that it should stay so throughout and after the evaluation.

Qualifications/particular expertise

Academic Qualifications: The Consultant is anticipated to have a Master’s/post-graduate diploma in economics, statistics or associated areas, with emphasis on any of the next areas – knowledge administration, knowledge evaluation, econometrics, and associated fields. A PhD is a bonus. A minimal of seven (7) years {of professional} expertise engaged on integrating gender into simulation fashions worldwide commerce and financial coverage, industrialisation or associated space, is required. Prior expertise engaged on commerce modelisation and industrial coverage is extremely fascinating. Experience engaged on the African Continent, significantly in the economic undertaking is extremely fascinating.

Languages

Language: Fluency in English and French (each oral and written) is required.

Additional Information

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No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.