- As part of the social analysis, conduct participatory gender analysis in collaboration with other specialists (e.g., social scientists, hygiene specialist, and community participation specialist).
- Identify the socioeconomic profile of key stakeholder groups in the target population and disaggregate data by gender. Analyze the link between poverty and gender.
- Examine gender differences in knowledge, attitudes, practices, roles, constraints, needs, and priorities in the water supply and sanitation sector, and the factors that account for such differences.
- Assess men’s and women’s capacity to participate and the factors affecting it.
- Assess potential gender-differentiated effects of the project and options for maximizing benefits and minimizing adverse effects.
- Identify government agencies, nongovernment and community-based organizations and women’s groups that can be utilized during PPTA and project implementation. Assess their capacity.
- Review the related policy and legal framework (e.g., inheritance law, water users group bylaws), as necessary.
- On the basis of the analysis, develop a gender-responsive and participatory project design and any further sector work and policy/sector reform required. In particular, recommend specific strategies and mechanisms to ensure women’s active participation and address their special needs in all project activities.
- Develop a gender-responsive M & E mechanism and indicators.
- Prepare terms of reference for implementation and M & E consultants.
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- Develop or, if one already exists, refine the gender strategy of the project and review the implementation plan.
- Assist the project office in recruiting staff to ensure women’s equal representation and gender focus. Conduct gender awareness training for project staff at all levels. Maintain the desired level of gender awareness.
- Help recruit female community mobilizers, if required. Conduct gender training for them. Assess the training needs of beneficiary women in water supply and sanitation. Supervise community-level training for these women to ensure adequate technical and skills training in water supply and sanitation suited to their needs.
- Assist the project office in monitoring the implementation of the project. Pay particular attention to potential resistance to women’s participation and facilitate conflict resolution, as required.
- Assess other needs of beneficiary women (e.g., credit, literacy program, skills training for income generation) as these emerge, and propose to the project office practical ways of addressing these needs in the project.
- Assist the benefit nonitoring and evaluation (BME) consultant in collecting gender-disaggregated and women-specific data. Assist female community mobilizers (if exist) in mobilizing beneficiary women for participatory monitoring and evaluation. From the findings, propose the required corrective measures to the project office.
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