UN Women : Business Statistics Consultant, Home-Based, International Consultant
UN Women · Home, KS · 1 mo ago
ConsultingPart-time
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About the role
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Responsibilities
- Work planning and methodological design: co-develop an inception note outlining the proposed methodology, assessment framework, tools/checklists, coordination mechanisms and stakeholder engagement plan, validation approach, timeline, and risk mitigation measures.
- Review and system mapping (all four countries): coordinate with UN Women regional and country teams to review existing statistical tools to assess maturity level of data ecosystems to produce business statistics in official statistics and develop a module for assessing capacity of national data ecosystems to produce business statistics disaggregated by gender, disability and other intersectionality lens.
- Conduct a desk review of relevant national documentation, including legal and regulatory frameworks for the production and use of business statistics, institutional mandates, public guidance on registration procedures, any existing registry modernization initiatives, and any other sources for producing business statistics in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam; include mapping of current business registration workflow in each country (steps for registration, licensing, tax registration, renewal/updates, deregistration, data-sharing arrangements).
- Using mapping tools, conduct stakeholder interviews (remote and/or in-country) with key national stakeholders: business registration authority, ministries of commerce/finance/planning/digital development, tax authority, national statistics office, procurement agency/platform administrators, SME promotion agencies, women’s machineries, business associations, WOB networks, civil society organizations, and organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs).
- Assess feasibility of the data ecosystem for using available data to set up gender-responsive digital business platforms.
- Validation of the mapping: produce a structured overview of the business registry data model, including core variables captured, metadata/definitions, update frequency, and data governance considerations; validate key findings through targeted check-ins with national focal points and UN Women country teams; document points of agreement and contested issues.
- GEDSI and accessibility analysis: assess whether and how registration systems capture sex-disaggregated and disability-related data, and identify administrative and accessibility barriers affecting women entrepreneurs, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups (documentation requirements, time/cost burdens, travel/mobility constraints, digital barriers, language barriers, service design, accessibility of one-stop shops).
- Interoperability and policy-use assessment: assess interoperability and coordination across systems (registry–tax–licensing–statistics–procurement), including presence and use of UBIs or other unique identifiers; data exchange protocols and governance; feasibility of linking registry data to procurement/supplier databases for GRP monitoring.
- Reporting, recommendations, and knowledge sharing: draft country diagnostic summaries and a cross-country synthesis report including prioritized recommendations, feasibility considerations, and proposed entry points linked to GRP, SME development, and digital government agendas; identify gaps and practical options to strengthen data governance, interoperability, and administrative coordination, including quick wins and medium-term reforms; develop presentation materials and present findings to UN Women and relevant stakeholders (for internal validation and/or regional workshop preparation), incorporating feedback into final outputs.
- Deliverables: Inception Package (inception note, stakeholder map and consultation plan by country, mapping tools including interview guides, checklists, templates, and a module on GEDSI in business statistics); Country Mapping & Diagnostic Outputs for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Viet Nam (country diagnostic summary report covering governance, institutional and legal mapping, system map - workflow and administrative burden analysis, assessment of availability and quality of data sources following international recommendations, GEDSI and accessibility assessment).
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information from background. The background is long; we need to include it fully but not add extra. We'll copy the background paragraph(s) as is.
Let's extract background text from the user message: It starts with "Job Description 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. 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. UN Women is mandated to lead, coordinate, and promote accountability for the implementation of gender equality commitments across the UN System. One of the key areas of concern is the economic empowerment of women. It is expressed in targets and indicators of SDG 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls) and SDG 8 (Promote inclusive and sustainable development, decent work and employment for all). Progress toward it depends not only on the adoption of a set of public policies by governments, but also on the existence of an enabling environment and active engagement of the corporate sector. This is also relevant to the achievement of SDG 1 (Poverty Reduction), SDG 10 (Reduced inequalities) and SDG 17 (Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development). The economic empowerment of women (WEE) – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – is a prerequisite for realizing gender equality and empowering women in all areas of life. It is also a cornerstone for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda. UN Women’s global Economic Empowerment Strategy focuses on the key strategic priorities, namely: Advancing Gender-Responsive Business Conduct and Creating More Decent Work Opportunities (WEPs) Accelerating Gender-Responsive Entrepreneurship for (M)SMEs (i.e. Gender-Responsive Procurement & strengthening women’s entrepreneurship) Progressing Safe Migration to Decent Employment Transforming Care Systems WE RISE Together (WRT) – Advancing gender-responsive procurement in the Mekong sub-region is a four-year Mekong-Australia Partnership (MAP) project developed by UN Women. It sits under MAP’s Economic Resilience Fund (MAP-ERF) and addresses its four drivers of resilience (including macroeconomic, household, business, and government resilience). The project responds to the prioritisation of women’s economic empowerment by expanding market access for Women-owned Businesses 1 (WOBs) and Gender Responsive Enterprises 1 (GREs) through procurement opportunities. WRT tackles the structural gender inequities that exist within the global procurement market in which WOBs secure only one per cent of spending worldwide. 2 By introducing and advancing increased market access through gender-responsive procurement 1 (GRP), WRT operates with the overall objective to empower more women to equally access, lead, and benefit from expanded market opportunities in the Mekong subregion. The project works across the Mekong subregion, namely in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam, leveraging the capacity, network and insights build during its phase 1 implementation. The project will work towards three interlinked outcomes: Outcome 1: Increased awareness and commitment towards GRP at the ecosystem level & and more gender-responsive institutions through the collection of sex-disaggregated data & improved national data infrastructure Outcome 2: Strengthened national policies and public procurement systems that are aligned with Mekong and ASEAN frameworks Outcome 3: Increased market connections and opportunities for WOBs and GREs A core objective of WE RISE Together (WRT), and UN Women’s broader Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) portfolio, is to strengthen enabling environments that expand women’s economic participation, including women with disabilities and other marginalized or underrepresented groups. Across the Mekong subregion, business registration/licensing systems are often a key administrative source for identifying formal enterprises and linking them to markets, government services, and procurement systems. However, these administrative registers typically do not collect sex-, disability-, or other intersectionally disaggregated characteristics at the enterprise or owner level, and data are frequently fragmented across multiple administrative agencies. As a result, statistical systems face limitations in reliably identifying women-owned and other inclusive enterprises, producing supplier-diversity indicators, and supporting the monitoring and evaluation of gender-responsive procurement (GRP) policies. The consultant will be reporting to Gender Statistics Specialist in the Women’s Economic Empowerment Section at the UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and will be supported by Statistics Specialist, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues. In close coordination with UN Women and national stakeholders, the consultant will conduct a diagnostic assessment of data ecosystems, including data governance, for the production of business statistics in official statistics in four select countries in the region, namely Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The diagnostic assessment will also include the identification of challenges and opportunities for integrating gender, disability and intersectionality in business statistics and gender-mainstreaming in the production of business statistics in contexts at different level of statistical maturity. The work will generate an evidence-informed assessment of: Institutional and governance arrangements for the production of business statistics and related administrative data management.Administrative workflows and current processes for business registration, including complexity, duplication of steps/documentation, and resulting burdens on MSMEs. The assessment will examine accessibility and inclusion barriers (legal, administrative, digital, language, and service delivery) that may disproportionately affect women, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups; Interoperability and data exchange among business registries and adjacent systems (e.g., tax, licensing, statistics, SME support platforms, and procurement systems);Identification
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Likely we should only use those headings. If we have content that doesn't fit, we could put under Responsibilities or Requirements. Deliverables could be part of Responsibilities. So we will have About the role (background), Responsibilities (including scope of work and deliverables), Requirements (maybe qualifications/skills). The posting does not list explicit qualifications/requirements besides being a consultant with expertise; but we can infer from description: need experience in data ecosystems, business statistics, gender statistics, etc. However we must not invent detail. If not explicitly stated, we should not create a Requirements section with filler. Better to omit Requirements if no explicit content. Similarly Skills not explicit. So only About the role and Responsibilities.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include the background text (the long paragraph) as prose under About the role. Then responsibilities: list of duties from "Description Of Responsibilities/ Scope Of Work" and "Deliverables". Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we need to turn the responsibilities into list items. Also deliverables could be list items.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's craft:
About the role
... background text ...
Responsibilities
- Work planning and methodological design: co-develop an inception note outlining the proposed methodology, assessment framework, tools/checklists, coordination mechanisms and stakeholder engagement plan, validation approach, timeline, and risk mitigation measures.
- Review and system mapping (all four countries): coordinate with UN Women regional and country teams to review existing statistical tools to assess maturity level of data ecosystems to produce business statistics in official statistics and develop a module for assessing capacity of national data ecosystems to produce business statistics disaggregated by gender, disability and other intersectionality lens.
- Conduct a desk review of relevant national documentation, including legal and regulatory frameworks for the production and use of business statistics, institutional mandates, public guidance on registration procedures, any existing registry modernization initiatives, and any other sources for producing business statistics in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam; include mapping of current business registration workflow in each country (steps for registration, licensing, tax registration, renewal/updates, deregistration, data-sharing arrangements).
- Using mapping tools, conduct stakeholder interviews (remote and/or in-country) with key national stakeholders: business registration authority, ministries of commerce/finance/planning/digital development, tax authority, national statistics office, procurement agency/platform administrators, SME promotion agencies, women’s machineries, business associations, WOB networks, civil society organizations, and organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs).
- Assess feasibility of the data ecosystem for using available data to set up gender-responsive digital business platforms.
- Validation of the mapping: produce a structured overview of the business registry data model, including core variables captured, metadata/definitions, update frequency, and data governance considerations; validate key findings through targeted check-ins with national focal points and UN Women country teams; document points of agreement and contested issues.
- GEDSI and accessibility analysis: assess whether and how registration systems capture sex-disaggregated and disability-related data, and identify administrative and accessibility barriers affecting women entrepreneurs, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups (documentation requirements, time/cost burdens, travel/mobility constraints, digital barriers, language barriers, service design, accessibility of one-stop shops).
- Interoperability and policy-use assessment: assess interoperability and coordination across systems (registry–tax–licensing–statistics–procurement), including presence and use of UBIs or other unique identifiers; data exchange protocols and governance; feasibility of linking registry data to procurement/supplier databases for GRP monitoring.
- Reporting, recommendations, and knowledge sharing: draft country diagnostic summaries and a cross-country synthesis report including prioritized recommendations, feasibility considerations, and proposed entry points linked to GRP, SME development, and digital government agendas; identify gaps and practical options to strengthen data governance, interoperability, and administrative coordination, including quick wins and medium-term reforms; develop presentation materials and present findings to UN Women and relevant stakeholders (for internal validation and/or regional workshop preparation), incorporating feedback into final outputs.
- Deliverables: Inception Package (inception note, stakeholder map and consultation plan by country, mapping tools including interview guides, checklists, templates, and a module on GEDSI in business statistics); Country Mapping & Diagnostic Outputs for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Viet Nam (country diagnostic summary report covering governance, institutional and legal mapping, system map - workflow and administrative burden analysis, assessment of availability and quality of data sources following international recommendations, GEDSI and accessibility assessment).
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information from background. The background is long; we need to include it fully but not add extra. We'll copy the background paragraph(s) as is.
Let's extract background text from the user message: It starts with "Job Description 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. 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. UN Women is mandated to lead, coordinate, and promote accountability for the implementation of gender equality commitments across the UN System. One of the key areas of concern is the economic empowerment of women. It is expressed in targets and indicators of SDG 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls) and SDG 8 (Promote inclusive and sustainable development, decent work and employment for all). Progress toward it depends not only on the adoption of a set of public policies by governments, but also on the existence of an enabling environment and active engagement of the corporate sector. This is also relevant to the achievement of SDG 1 (Poverty Reduction), SDG 10 (Reduced inequalities) and SDG 17 (Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development). The economic empowerment of women (WEE) – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – is a prerequisite for realizing gender equality and empowering women in all areas of life. It is also a cornerstone for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda. UN Women’s global Economic Empowerment Strategy focuses on the key strategic priorities, namely: Advancing Gender-Responsive Business Conduct and Creating More Decent Work Opportunities (WEPs) Accelerating Gender-Responsive Entrepreneurship for (M)SMEs (i.e. Gender-Responsive Procurement & strengthening women’s entrepreneurship) Progressing Safe Migration to Decent Employment Transforming Care Systems WE RISE Together (WRT) – Advancing gender-responsive procurement in the Mekong sub-region is a four-year Mekong-Australia Partnership (MAP) project developed by UN Women. It sits under MAP’s Economic Resilience Fund (MAP-ERF) and addresses its four drivers of resilience (including macroeconomic, household, business, and government resilience). The project responds to the prioritisation of women’s economic empowerment by expanding market access for Women-owned Businesses 1 (WOBs) and Gender Responsive Enterprises 1 (GREs) through procurement opportunities. WRT tackles the structural gender inequities that exist within the global procurement market in which WOBs secure only one per cent of spending worldwide. 2 By introducing and advancing increased market access through gender-responsive procurement 1 (GRP), WRT operates with the overall objective to empower more women to equally access, lead, and benefit from expanded market opportunities in the Mekong subregion. The project works across the Mekong subregion, namely in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam, leveraging the capacity, network and insights build during its phase 1 implementation. The project will work towards three interlinked outcomes: Outcome 1: Increased awareness and commitment towards GRP at the ecosystem level & and more gender-responsive institutions through the collection of sex-disaggregated data & improved national data infrastructure Outcome 2: Strengthened national policies and public procurement systems that are aligned with Mekong and ASEAN frameworks Outcome 3: Increased market connections and opportunities for WOBs and GREs A core objective of WE RISE Together (WRT), and UN Women’s broader Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) portfolio, is to strengthen enabling environments that expand women’s economic participation, including women with disabilities and other marginalized or underrepresented groups. Across the Mekong subregion, business registration/licensing systems are often a key administrative source for identifying formal enterprises and linking them to markets, government services, and procurement systems. However, these administrative registers typically do not collect sex-, disability-, or other intersectionally disaggregated characteristics at the enterprise or owner level, and data are frequently fragmented across multiple administrative agencies. As a result, statistical systems face limitations in reliably identifying women-owned and other inclusive enterprises, producing supplier-diversity indicators, and supporting the monitoring and evaluation of gender-responsive procurement (GRP) policies. The consultant will be reporting to Gender Statistics Specialist in the Women’s Economic Empowerment Section at the UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and will be supported by Statistics Specialist, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues. In close coordination with UN Women and national stakeholders, the consultant will conduct a diagnostic assessment of data ecosystems, including data governance, for the production of business statistics in official statistics in four select countries in the region, namely Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The diagnostic assessment will also include the identification of challenges and opportunities for integrating gender, disability and intersectionality in business statistics and gender-mainstreaming in the production of business statistics in contexts at different level of statistical maturity. The work will generate an evidence-informed assessment of: Institutional and governance arrangements for the production of business statistics and related administrative data management.Administrative workflows and current processes for business registration, including complexity, duplication of steps/documentation, and resulting burdens on MSMEs. The assessment will examine accessibility and inclusion barriers (legal, administrative, digital, language, and service delivery) that may disproportionately affect women, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups; Interoperability and data exchange among business registries and adjacent systems (e.g., tax, licensing, statistics, SME support platforms, and procurement systems);Identification
About the role
... background text ...
Responsibilities
- Work planning and methodological design: co-develop an inception note outlining the proposed methodology, assessment framework, tools/checklists, coordination mechanisms and stakeholder engagement plan, validation approach, timeline, and risk mitigation measures.
- Review and system mapping (all four countries): coordinate with UN Women regional and country teams to review existing statistical tools to assess maturity level of data ecosystems to produce business statistics in official statistics and develop a module for assessing capacity of national data ecosystems to produce business statistics disaggregated by gender, disability and other intersectionality lens.
- Conduct a desk review of relevant national documentation, including legal and regulatory frameworks for the production and use of business statistics, institutional mandates, public guidance on registration procedures, any existing registry modernization initiatives, and any other sources for producing business statistics in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam; include mapping of current business registration workflow in each country (steps for registration, licensing, tax registration, renewal/updates, deregistration, data-sharing arrangements).
- Using mapping tools, conduct stakeholder interviews (remote and/or in-country) with key national stakeholders: business registration authority, ministries of commerce/finance/planning/digital development, tax authority, national statistics office, procurement agency/platform administrators, SME promotion agencies, women’s machineries, business associations, WOB networks, civil society organizations, and organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs).
- Assess feasibility of the data ecosystem for using available data to set up gender-responsive digital business platforms.
- Validation of the mapping: produce a structured overview of the business registry data model, including core variables captured, metadata/definitions, update frequency, and data governance considerations; validate key findings through targeted check-ins with national focal points and UN Women country teams; document points of agreement and contested issues.
- GEDSI and accessibility analysis: assess whether and how registration systems capture sex-disaggregated and disability-related data, and identify administrative and accessibility barriers affecting women entrepreneurs, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups (documentation requirements, time/cost burdens, travel/mobility constraints, digital barriers, language barriers, service design, accessibility of one-stop shops).
- Interoperability and policy-use assessment: assess interoperability and coordination across systems (registry–tax–licensing–statistics–procurement), including presence and use of UBIs or other unique identifiers; data exchange protocols and governance; feasibility of linking registry data to procurement/supplier databases for GRP monitoring.
- Reporting, recommendations, and knowledge sharing: draft country diagnostic summaries and a cross-country synthesis report including prioritized recommendations, feasibility considerations, and proposed entry points linked to GRP, SME development, and digital government agendas; identify gaps and practical options to strengthen data governance, interoperability, and administrative coordination, including quick wins and medium-term reforms; develop presentation materials and present findings to UN Women and relevant stakeholders (for internal validation and/or regional workshop preparation), incorporating feedback into final outputs.
- Deliverables: Inception Package (inception note, stakeholder map and consultation plan by country, mapping tools including interview guides, checklists, templates, and a module on GEDSI in business statistics); Country Mapping & Diagnostic Outputs for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Viet Nam (country diagnostic summary report covering governance, institutional and legal mapping, system map - workflow and administrative burden analysis, assessment of availability and quality of data sources following international recommendations, GEDSI and accessibility assessment).