UN Women: International Consultant - Monitoring, Reporting and Documentation, Bangkok, Thailand

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 is committed to promoting gender equality and empowering women globally, working to eliminate discrimination and achieve equality between women and men in all areas of life. The organization leads and coordinates efforts within the United Nations system to ensure that gender equality commitments are realized, providing strong leadership and fostering partnerships with civil society and other stakeholders.

Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) is central to UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025 and 2026-2029, aligning with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that focus on gender equality, decent work, poverty reduction, and inclusive growth. In the Asia-Pacific region, UN Women’s initiatives aim to advance gender-responsive business practices, transform the care economy, support women entrepreneurs, and promote gender-responsive markets for climate action. These efforts are integrated with broader work in sectors such as climate change, ending violence against women, and humanitarian action.
The UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific’s Women’s Economic Empowerment team is seeking to hire an International Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant. This position will be under the supervision and guidance of the Regional Advisor for Women’s Economic Empowerment. The Consultant will work closely with the Junior International Consultant on Monitoring and Evaluation.The consultant will have oversight and provide MEL support for the entire WEE portfolio and will lead the MEL for projects, such as:

Gender Action Lab: Gender Action Lab (GAL) for Asia and the Pacific aims to foster private sector innovations and concrete actions that advance gender equality and women’s empowerment and build more inclusive economies across the region. In collaboration with the private sector, the GAL will identify, pilot and scale up innovative multi-stakeholder partnership initiatives aligned with the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), such as thematic innovation labs, hackathons, incubators and accelerators, policy labs, applied research initiatives and other partnership support programmes. Finally, the GAL will generate new data and evidence and provide technical assistance to advance policy, investment and ecosystem development for gender-transformative innovations.

WE RISE Together Phase 2 (WRT 2.0) is an initiative funded and supported by the Australian Government through the Mekong-Australia Partnership (MAP) and implemented by UN Women over four years (1 March 2025 to 28 February 2029). The purpose of WRT 2.0 is to advance Gender-Responsive Procurement (GRP) in the Mekong subregion, targeting Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Thailand and Viet Nam. The project will work on three outcome areas i) Outcome 1: Increased awareness and commitment to GRP, demonstrated through increased adoption of GRP practices by public and private institutions and strengthened gender-responsive data on procurement practices ii) Outcome 2: Strengthened national public policies and/or practices related to GRP and/or women-owned businesses (WOBs) / gender-responsive enterprises (GREs) promotion that are aligned with existing regional frameworks iii) Outcome 3: Increased market connections and opportunities for WOBs and GREs.

Climate and Care Entrepreneurship Programming: Supported by Visa Foundation, the UN Women Care and Climate Entrepreneurship Accelerator works across the Asia-Pacific and Latin America regions to support women-owned and women-benefitting enterprises operating in the care economy, the green economy and their intersection. This gender-smart acceleration programme provides enterprises with essential business support, gender expertise, mentorship, access to opportunities to raise capital and access to networks to build inclusive and resilient businesses. It also fosters cross-regional collaboration and knowledge-sharing and engages policymakers, experts, financiers and enterprise-support organizations to strengthen the ecosystem of support for impact enterprises and to catalyse investments in the care and green economies.