A Task under theEconomic Growth Support Activity
Purpose
To seek a Gender Expert to provide consultant service to provide measures,gap,
potential and analysis in the areas where EGSA works
Background
USAID Indonesia awarded Devtech sys inc with anexecuted task order No.
72049719F00006 Economic Growth Support Activity (EGSA).EGSA project effective
date was on November 1, 2019. EGSA project will work inclose collaboration with
USAID, with several objectives as follows:[1]
- Enable evidence-based decision making through ongoing analysis linking the
Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS), Journey to Self-Reliance (J2SR), and Government of
Indonesia (GOI) priorities and potential USAID/Indonesia assistance under
USAID/Indonesia’s next Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS).
- Increase and improve GOI technical capacity in tax collection, public
expenditure, and financial accountability.
- Improved business enabling environment for foreign and domestic business
entities
Broad-based economic growth across all sectors is essentialto sustainable and
inclusive long-term development. It creates opportunities toreduce poverty,
expand access to basic services and enables countries to charttheir own
prosperous futures. Economic Growth programming is central to USAID’sPrivate
Sector Engagement (PSE) strategic approach that consults, strategizes,aligns,
collaborates, and implements with the private sector for greater
scale,sustainability, and effectiveness of development or humanitarian outcomes.
EGSA (Economic Growth Support Activity) is a task driven projectthat supports
USAID-Indonesia in determining targeted areas for technicalassistance under the
Mission’s next Country Development Cooperation Strategy(CDCS), strengthen
working relationship with central government ministries insupport of future
collaboration with USAID/Indonesia and identifying partnersto support and
leverage their activities with the Government of Indonesia (GOI),donors, and
the private sector.
EGSA’s main areas of work are: (i) Public FinancialManagement (assisting GOI in
strengthening its capacity with respect toeffective tax collection and
execution of the budget); (ii) Economic Growth (enableevidence-based decision
making through ongoing analysis linking the Indo PacificStrategy, Journey to
Self-reliance, GOI priorities and potentialUSAID/Indonesia assistance under
USAID/Indonesia’s next CDCS); and (iii)Business Enabling Environment (improved
business enabling environment forforeign and domestic business entities)
Objective of Gender Expert
The Gender Expert will ensure that gender assessment and integrationare
mainstreamed in EGSA’s work program by working with the EGSA core team by:
- ensuring that gender considerations are fullyconsidered in performing
donor mapping and in identifying areas for future EGSAor USAID assistance;
- providing guidance to EGSA team on ensuring andreporting on
appropriate balance in EGSA tasks, setting up monitoring andevaluation systems,
and tracking EGSA tasks with breakdowns of beneficiaries bysex, disadvantaged
groups, and geographies.
- Seek opportunities to promote the equitableprofessional development
of women in assisted GoI institutions project inthe policy level and or
implementation level.
Services provided:
· In coordination with the Chief of Party with PFM,EG and BEE expert:
o Identify specific EG areas of intervention thatcan promote gender-informed
policies, laws, regulations, and administrativepractices that are aligned with
the USAID’s Women Economic Empowerment, WomenGlobal Development and Prosperity,
and GOI priorities and target closing thegender economic gap
o Assess an Indonesian economic sector from genderperspective
o Assesthe equitability, effectiveness, efficiencies of the EG projects
againstprinciples of good Gender equality including develop specifics tool to
assessinterventions on the opportunities to reduce biases or risks embedded
infiscal, economic and tax policies, systems and procedures
· Develop recommendations to improve the datacollected for monitoring and
evaluation purposes be sex-disaggregated andsurveys and other monitoring and
evaluation tools used or proposed must includequestions to elicit information
enabling differentiation of impact based ongender
· Provide team with inputs from the genderintegration perspective when
necessary
· Organize and facilitate group discussion,Interview stakeholders in
Indonesia to identity opportunities to strengthenwork in the PFM, EG and BEE
work that may bring about better inclusion of womenand other underserved groups
· Participate in the debriefs to the designatedUSAID/Indonesia staff and
relevant USAID/Indonesia implementers of economicsgrowth activities of the
assessment’s chief findings and recommendations
· Support the Chief of Party in preparing the finalreport, responding to
comments received from USAID/Indonesia and Devtech
· Travel within Indonesia as required
Deliverables
· Assessment report on targeted gender analysis ofthe Indonesian economic
sector, specifically looking at constraints to women’sempowerment,
participation in labor, and women-owned SME participation in theeconomy.
· Assessment report which sets forth analysis,findings and recommendations
of the specifics interventions to reduce biases orrisks embedded in fiscal,
economic and tax policies, systems and procedures
· Recommendation for gender informed M&Emechanism and practices
Qualifications
- A university degree (Masters or equivalent is preferred) in gender study /
development studies / international relations / social science/ political
science or in any other related discipline.
- At least 7 years of relevant professional experience in gender study /
development studies / international relations / social science/ political
science in the Indonesian context may be accepted in lieu of an advanced
university degree.
· Possessing advanced and up-to date knowledge of genderintegration issue
in the economic space in Indonesia as demonstrated with workexperience and
recent publications.
· Having experiences working on USAID projects ispreferred.
Level of Effort:
The estimated durations of this activity for consultant is up to 60days from
April – September 2020
Please kindly submit your application to egsa.jakarta@xxxxxxxxx by 27 March
2020.
Thank you
[1]EGSA objectives based on task order from USAID
