Organization: UN Women
Job identification: 34114
Vacancy category: Consultancy
Job function: Economic Empowerment
Job schedule: Full time
Posting date: May 13, 2026, 03:12 PM
Application deadline: May 22, 2026, 06:59 AM
Locations: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Kigoma, Tanzania
Initial contract duration: 40 working days over a three-month period
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, peace and security.
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 are translated into action worldwide. The organization provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts while building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
In Tanzania, UN Women has played a leading role in advancing gender-responsive planning, climate action, and women’s empowerment. It has strengthened partnerships with national and local government institutions, including Kigoma Regional Authorities, to promote gender-responsive and climate-resilient development approaches.
These efforts are aligned with the National Gender Policy 2023, which recognizes the critical intersection between gender equality, climate change, disaster risk reduction, peace and security.
Tanzania’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2025–2029 provides a strategic framework to enhance women’s participation, protection, and leadership in peacebuilding, disaster risk management, and recovery processes. UN Women supports the operationalization of this framework and other national frameworks by working with government counterparts to translate policy commitments into practical tools, institutional mechanisms, and localized action.
Kigoma Region is characterized by significant structural and socio-economic vulnerabilities that reinforce its exposure to climate and disaster risks. According to the 2022 Population and Housing Census, the region has a population of approximately 2.47 million people, of whom 75.4 percent reside in rural areas, with livelihoods largely dependent on agriculture and natural resources.
Although labour force participation is high at 91.5 percent, much of this engagement is within low-productivity and informal activities, limiting income security and resilience to shocks.
Gender disparities further deepen vulnerability in Kigoma. Evidence from the socio-economic profile shows that women have lower access to productive resources, including land ownership, with 29.9 percent for women compared to 36.8 percent for men. Women also have lower literacy rates, at 77.7 percent compared to 85.5 percent for men.
In addition, a significant proportion of households rely on unpaid and labour-intensive activities such as firewood collection, which is used by 71.2 percent of households. This disproportionately burdens women and limits their economic participation.
While national frameworks provide a strong foundation, gaps remain in the systematic operationalization and institutionalization of gender and Women, Peace and Security priorities within regional disaster risk reduction systems, planning processes, and climate response frameworks.
This highlights the need for strengthened institutional capacity, improved coordination, and the development of practical, gender-responsive tools that link national policies with local implementation.
In this context, the assignment aims to bridge the gap between national policy commitments and subnational implementation by developing a practical, action-oriented framework that integrates gender equality, climate resilience, disaster risk reduction, and Women, Peace and Security priorities while strengthening institutional capacity for sustained implementation.
The assignment also includes strengthening women’s participation in climate-related sectors and decision-making processes, and ensuring that disaster risk reduction systems effectively address risks related to gender inequality and gender-based violence.
The main objective of this consultancy is to conduct a comprehensive gender analysis of climate and disaster risks in Kigoma and develop a gender-responsive regional Disaster Risk Reduction framework.
The framework will enhance:
The consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:
The consultant will prepare and present an inception report that:
The consultant will conduct a comprehensive gender analysis of climate, disaster, peace and security risks in Kigoma.
The analysis will examine:
The consultant will facilitate consultations with key stakeholders to validate findings from the gender analysis and ensure contextual relevance and ownership of results.
Key stakeholders will include:
The consultant will develop a gender-responsive Disaster Risk Reduction framework for Kigoma Region.
The framework should be aligned with:
The framework must be action-oriented and include:
The consultant will conduct capacity-building workshops for local government officials and community leaders on gender-responsive disaster preparedness and response.
The workshops should place strong emphasis on:
The consultant will be expected to submit the following deliverables:
The inception report should include:
The gender analysis report should focus on disaster-related risks in Kigoma and include:
The finalized Disaster Risk Reduction framework for Kigoma Region should be aligned with the National Gender Policy and the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2025–2029.
It should integrate:
The capacity-building package and training report should document:
The assignment will be supervised by the Program Specialist in Women’s Economic Empowerment in close coordination with UN Women programme teams and relevant government counterparts at national and regional levels.
The consultant will carry out the assignment over an overall period of three months from the date of signing the contract.
The consultant will sign specific contracts that provide details including:
Payments will be made upon submission and acceptance of the specified deliverables. The payments are grouped into three tranches, with the percentage of facilitation fee indicated below.
The level of payment will be determined by the profile of the candidate.
UN Women reserves the right to withhold all or a portion of payment if performance is unsatisfactory, if work or outputs are incomplete, if deliverables are not submitted, or if deadlines are not met.
All materials developed by the consultant will remain the copyright of UN Women. UN Women will have the right to adapt and modify them in the future.
The consultant’s performance will be assessed based on the following indicators:
Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the United Nations Code of Conduct.
Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the relevant substantive areas of work.
Demonstrate appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. The consultant should also demonstrate an international outlook, appreciate differences in values, and learn from cultural diversity.
The consultant should demonstrate the following competencies:
The consultant should have:
The assignment requires the services of a reputable consultant with at least a master’s degree in one of the following fields:
The consultant should have:
The consultant must have:
Applications will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
How to Apply:
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