UN Women: Consultant - Support the reprocessing of environment microdata and the creation of a gender-environment data dashboard, Home Based, International Consultant

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. Placing women's rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States' priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

To support the production and use of gender statistics across Asia and the Pacific, UN Women is implementing its flagship programme Making Every Woman and Girl Count (Women Count) across the region. Women Count aims to create a radical shift in how gender statistics are used, produced and promoted to inform policy and advocacy on gender equality. In Asia and the Pacific, the programme prioritizes several key areas of work, including the creation and use of environment statistics, women’s economic empowerment statistics, technology facilitated violence against women statistics, and statistics calculated from big data and non-conventional data sources. The consultant will support the implementation of Women Count activities pertaining to environment statistics and non-conventional data sources. 

In particular, the consultant is expected to support, under the leadership of the Women Count team in Asia-Pacific, the processing of microdata from surveys, geospatial sources, and other sources, to generate methodologically sound and internationally comparable estimates on gender and the environment to populate UN Women’s Gender and Environment Dashboard. In addition, the consultant is expected to liaise with the Global Data Hub team in UN Women Headquarters and the web development vendor to ensure that all estimates are uploaded, visualized and quality assured in a timely, accurate and efficient manner. This assignment succeeds a similar activity completed under the previous phase of Women Count, thereby contributing to expanding the set of indicators included in the dashboard, including on the topic of gender and oceans. 

In connection to the above, the consultant (who will report to the Regional Gender Statistics Specialist) is expected to deliver the following outputs:

Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work

Ultimate result of service

The consultant is expected to generate additional estimates on gender and the environment (building on those generated under the previous phase of this project), including gender and oceans, for all countries where data is available, in line with internationally agreed standards and definitions and for the inclusion on an upcoming UN Women publication. S/He is expected to also ensure the estimates are accurate, timely and comparable. Furthermore, the consultant is expected to ensure the estimates are available on a dedicated space on the UN Women data hub in a timely and efficient manner and that all analytical notebooks are fully reproducible, clearly documented, and aligned with best practices in data transparency and reproducibility. 

Activity 1: Generate comparable and accurate estimates from national gender and environment surveys

 

1.1 Review survey reports from gender and environment surveys in different countries and extract relevant estimates for priority indicators for inclusion in UN Women’s gender and environment dashboard.

 

 

1.2 Review the metadata utilized for the calculation of such indicators in survey reports and ensure it aligns with methodologies used for all other country estimates included in the dashboard.

 

 

1.3 Where there is a misalignment, conduct microdata analysis from gender and environment surveys, to generate data for the 100 Indicators on Gender and the Environment for as many countries as data is available at present but was not during the first phase of this assignment. The estimates must be calculated per the guidance provided by the Gender Statistics Team, and in line with metadata, syntax and formulas provided.

 

 

1.4 Ensure the estimates are accurate by conducting quality checks and comparing with available estimates for the same surveys from national survey reports and other sources.

 

 

1.5 Create reproducible R (markdown or quarto) notebooks with simple graphs and data tables to showcase the findings from different countries, in line with specifications from the Gender Statistics Team and the Women Count Communications lead.

 

 

1.6 Make any adjustments to the estimates based on feedback from the Women Count team.

 

 

1.7 Keep a log note of the a