Consultant -- Mid-term Evaluation of Project: Enhancing LGBTIQ+ inclusive learning spaces in Asia

OVERVIEW

Parent Sector : Education Sector (ED)

Duty Station: Bangkok

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Job Family: Education

Type of contract : Non Staff

Duration of contract : From 1 to 6 months

Recruitment open to : External candidates

Application Deadline (Midnight Paris Time) : 25-JUL-2024

UNESCO Core Values: Commitment to the Organization, Integrity, Respect for Diversity, Professionalism

OVERVIEW OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE POST

BACKGROUND:

Working in partnership with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer (LGBTIQ+) youth networks in 4 Asian countries, UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok (UNESCO Bangkok) is supporting the design and implementation of innovative approaches to enhancing inclusion in education, while simultaneously advancing solutions to combating discrimination and violence in learning spaces based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression (SOGIE). The 5-year project, which is being implemented over the period 2021-2026 and is valued at USD 360,000, aims to achieve results in 2 outcome areas:

1. Outcome 1: Youth members of LGBTIQ+ networks have strengthened technical and advocacy skills to promote the creation of LGBTIQ+ inclusive learning spaces (approx. 60% project budget); and
2. Outcome 3 Learning spaces become more LGBTIQ+ inclusive, through implementation of tools and approaches by LGBTIQ+ youth leaders working in partnership with the education sector (approx. 40% project budget).

To deliver on these project outcomes, UNESCO Bangkok is collaborating with at least 1 youth network in each of the 4 project countries: Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines and Japan, to reach the following targets:

- at least fifty youth per country context, as direct beneficiaries of skill-building activities;
- at least 1 education institution (eg university), engaging at least 800 student peers, and 100 university faculty/management staff through advocacy and outreach approaches.

Key activities being implemented by country-level youth networks with UNESCO Bangkok’s technical and financial support include:
(i) co-creating with students, an advocacy approach and activities for LGBTIQ+ learner inclusion that responds to evidence of LGBTIQ+ learners’ needs and priorities in their respective education setting(s);
(ii) carrying out a rapid mapping of the skills and other capacity-needs to be strengthened among LGBTIQ+ and ally students for them to implement their advocacy approach and activities;
(iii) design and delivery of relevant skills/capacity-building workshop(s) for advocacy on LGBTIQ+ learner inclusion, that respond to …