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Gender Equity Curiosity Collective Consultant
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Habitat for Humanity
Remote (global)- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Consultancy
- Humanitarian or Development: Development
- Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (global)
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Deadline: 31/05/2024
- Location: Remote (global)
25% of the population lives in substandard shelter, impacting their health, livelihoods and education. Women make up the majority of the world’s poor, suffer disproportionately in disasters and go without secure, dignified and adequate housing. They often lack access to clean water, durable housing, improved sanitation facilities and sufficient living area. Women have increased risk of homelessness, violence, forced evictions with detrimental consequences on their health and/or economic well-being. Furthermore, women continue to face barriers to owning property or accessing housing finance due to legal, cultural, and socioeconomic factors. Property rights and inheritance laws favor men. For low-income women particularly, lack of financial literacy further impedes access to housing finance. Women and girls are also underrepresented in decision making relating to planning, design and construction of houses and communities.
The Gender Equity Curiosity Collective (GECC) represents a first step at HFHI to explore and transform its approach to gender equity into its programs. The GECC will carefully balance simplicity with complexity; challenge the status quo building on existing knowledge; it will be grounded in an open and inclusive invitation to join something exciting, explicitly encouraging people to confront personal, organizational and broader societal barriers to promoting gender equity.
The GECC will:
The Gender Equity Curiosity Collective (GECC) represents a first step at HFHI to explore and transform its approach to gender equity into its programs. The GECC will carefully balance simplicity with complexity; challenge the status quo building on existing knowledge; it will be grounded in an open and inclusive invitation to join something exciting, explicitly encouraging people to confront personal, organizational and broader societal barriers to promoting gender equity.
The GECC will:
- Identify promising practices & opportunities for improvement in Habitat’s existing program & support to advance gender equity
- Identify key priority areas requiring global investment
- Influence the development of a gender equity framework, guidance & tools to improve Habitat program outcomes
- Position Habitat more credibly as a leader in promoting global gender equity with donors & peers
- Design and implement programs that meaningfully address gender inequities within the housing ecosystem
Purpose
The consultant will focus on 4 areas: conceptual framework, support to inquiry teams, collective learning, and reporting.
Scope of Work and Deliverables
- • Develop a gender equity conceptual framework and methodology to guide the content and methodology of the inquiry
- • Provide support to the participant teams in developing their inquiry proposals, in guiding methodology, exploring and analysing their findings and finalising their inquiry report
- • Provide on-going support to the participant teams: including delivering or identifying training, coaching, providing feedback and checking in on progress; promoting an inclusive, curious, and open approach to learning; exploring how it fits into broader team goals
- • Facilitate collective learning: informed by the inquiry sites this may include global/regional learning groups, methodological or thematic learning groups or other groupings. It will include facilitating on-line meetings; in person workshops and promoting networking/exchange between teams
- • Draft an annual global report
Deliverables will include:
- • A conceptual framework
- • Appropriate guidance notes for inquiry sites
- • Demonstrated learning and change in relation to program practice
- • Annual global learning report
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