RFP for the production of a compilation of lessons learned, innovations and good practices on supporting women parliamentarians in the region for Arab States

UN Women ROAS is seeking Qualified firms/institutions or team of individual consultants to document  lessons learned, innovations and good practices of UN Women’s and other actors’ work to support women members of parliaments in the region, to promote cross-fertilization within organization-wide as well to external audiences.  

Identifying, validating and documenting lessons learned, innovations and good practices are paramount to organizational learning. These processes also help in the generation of new ideas, and promotion of evidence-based policy advocacy.     Taking into account that there is a diverse group of actors working with parliaments and specifically women in parliaments in the region; it is also important to understand, document, and learn from the work conducted by others.   To this end UN Women ROAS is seeking to document  lessons learned, innovations and good practices of UN Women’s (and its 4 predecessor entities) and other actors’ work to support women members of parliaments in the region, to promote cross-fertilization within organization-wide as well as to external audiences.  The proposed scope of work should make a positive contribution towards realizing the following objectives:

1. To guide future UN Women's interventions concerning enhancing female MPs’ capacities;
2. To promote organizational learning regionally;
3. To increase knowledge sharing and knowledge building across the region emphasizing learnings and programme innovations;

The Offeror will be expected to:

1. Develop appropriate qualitative and quantitative research tools for data collection to document innovations, good practices and lessons learned from the work carried out by UN Women and other actors in the region;
2. Collect the data from  the different stakeholders; 
3. Perform data analysis, synthesis and writing of the publication.

The Offeror is responsible for covering UN Women’s and other actors’ work across the Arab States region, including but not limited to:  Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, oPt, Tunisia and UAE