Position: Individual consultant - Review business marketing and advertisment content to identify stereotypes which promote gender socialization of children and adolescents in Tanzania.
Job Number: 525546
Locations: Africa: Tanzania,Uni.Re
Work Type : Consultancy
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Business marketing and advertisements target and reach millions of
people on a daily basis and, therefore, have a significant impact on
society. Gender sensitive marketing has recently become a central
concern of UNICEF for the impact it could have on gender socialization
of children (boys and girls). UNICEF cares about marketing practices
that could affect development outcomes for children and prevent UNICEF
from achieving its goals. Addressing how business marketing and
advertisements impact children’s gender socialization is aligned with
UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan and Strategic Plan Goal 5: Every Child has
an Equitable Chance in Life. Thus, giving the opportunities to address
harmful practices and promoting positive gender norms through effective
business marketing and advertisements.
In January 2019 UNICEF Gender Section organized an internal global
workshop which brought together staff from the Region, Country Offices
and relevant headquarters departments to explore possible business
engagement opportunities that can contribute to deconstruct harmful
gender stereotypes and promote empowering gender norms through business
marketing and advertisement.
It is evident that businesses whether small or large, interact with
and have effects on the lives of children both directly and indirectly.
The effects can be positive or negative, long-lasting and even
irreversible. Therefore, respecting and supporting children’s rights
requires businesses to both prevent harm and actively safeguard
children’s interests. In promoting products and services, the business
sector employs rigorous and extensive marketing strategies through
advertisements using various media channels/platforms.
Recently, with the increase of visual media platforms, advertisement
plays a key role in cultivating perceptions and beliefs of customers.
The meaning of advertisements is created through their reception by
customers, which information is packaged in a specific context by using
commonly shared cultural knowledge. Cultural norms and values play very
important roles in the development and construction of stereotypical
gender roles, and these roles are transferred from the real world to the
world of advertisements. Thus, gender image is most widely used by
advertisers to capture the audience’s attention and to positively link
their products with the feelings of their targeted group. Advertisement
is increasingly pervasive, powerful, and frequently containing content
that effectively perpetuates gender stereotypes. For instance, an advert
on the nutritious food which shows that baby girls will grow up to be
famous dancers and baby boys engineers. Others can show a man with his
feet up while a woman cleans, cooks or setting a dining table. Most of
the times in countries with strong gender values and customs like
Tanzania, these adverts are significant conduit of harmful gender
stereotypes when promoting limiting gender norms. Gender stereotypes
affect people’s thoughts, actions, behaviors, life choices, and life
outcomes. For instance, gender stereotypes are all too often lead to
limiting children’s opportunities and consequently their right to
self-expression and the realization of their fullest potential. On the
other hand, marketing can be constructive when it creates and
disseminates empowering messages.
The TCO long term and well-established partnership with the business
and media sectors presents possible entry point to engage key
stakeholders in the business marketing and advertisement industry to
promote positive gender norms for instance political parties showing a
woman wining a political position and discourage the harmful ones. This
builds on the renewed focus of the midterm review of the current country
programme (2016-2021) which identified a priority of engaging a
business sector to support promotion and protection of children’s
rights. UNICEF would like to engage the business sector and ensure that
while strengthening their brand/reputation they should also play a
critical role to mitigate risks of harming children, give back to the
society, increase public profile/awards, obtain social licenses to
operate in society, improve business competitiveness as well as achieve
compliance of national and international agreements.
In order, to establish a stronger link between marketing, gender socialization and outcomes for girls and boys, UNICEF TCO needs to strengthen advocacy based on a moral imperative. Therefore, it is important to establish a wider range of tangible evidence with which to make the business case for addressing business marketing influence on gender socialization.
Thus, UNICEF TCO wishes to engage a consultant to conduct an assessment of which its findings will inform the integration of gender perspectives in business marketing and advertisements to deconstruct harmful gender norms and promote gender equal norms in partnership with business and media companies.
UNICEF Workshop Report on Promoting Positive Gender Norms through Effective Marketing
The selection process will follow the normal Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for individual consultancy
· The weight allocated between technical and financial proposal is 70/30 (technical/ financial).
· Minimum technical assessment points is 49 points (70% of 70 points).
· The following technical assessment criteria and points can be used for analysing the proposals.
9. General Conditions: Procedures and Logistics
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
Opening Date Thu Sep 26 2019 09:00:00 GMT+0300 (East Africa Time) E. Africa Standard Time
Closing Date Mon Oct 07 2019 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (East Africa Time)
In order, to establish a stronger link between marketing, gender socialization and outcomes for girls and boys, UNICEF TCO needs to strengthen advocacy based on a moral imperative. Therefore, it is important to establish a wider range of tangible evidence with which to make the business case for addressing business marketing influence on gender socialization.
Thus, UNICEF TCO wishes to engage a consultant to conduct an assessment of which its findings will inform the integration of gender perspectives in business marketing and advertisements to deconstruct harmful gender norms and promote gender equal norms in partnership with business and media companies.
UNICEF Workshop Report on Promoting Positive Gender Norms through Effective Marketing
1. Purposes and Objectives
The purpose of this review is to create a body of evidence and
narrative to inform the formulation of change strategies in business
marketing and advertisements to promote gender equality and impart
positive gender attitudes among boys and girls as well as male and
female.
The findings of the review will be used by the UNICEF Communication, Advocacy and Partnership section to develop advocacy agenda, communication and knowledge products for the integration of gender perspectives in the ongoing partnerships with the private sector.
As well, the findings will be used by other stakeholders engaging with the business marketing and advertisements with the interest to safeguard children’s rights and promote positive gender socialization. This gender review will focus on the analysis of the content from the selected print and electronic advertisements for a span of 5 years and solicit stakeholders perspectives on the content of the business marketing and advertisements and gender socialization.
Specifically, the gender review will focus on
2. Methodology and technical approach
8. Assessment/selection process and methodsThe findings of the review will be used by the UNICEF Communication, Advocacy and Partnership section to develop advocacy agenda, communication and knowledge products for the integration of gender perspectives in the ongoing partnerships with the private sector.
As well, the findings will be used by other stakeholders engaging with the business marketing and advertisements with the interest to safeguard children’s rights and promote positive gender socialization. This gender review will focus on the analysis of the content from the selected print and electronic advertisements for a span of 5 years and solicit stakeholders perspectives on the content of the business marketing and advertisements and gender socialization.
Specifically, the gender review will focus on
- Analysing business marketing and advertisements content from the public and private televisions stations (TV), radios, newspapers and social media in order to understand how it portrays men and women and children (girls and boys).
- Assessing the roles assigned to men and women; boys and girls and why that role is assigned to either men or women; boys or girls.
- Assessing the perspective of the business stakeholders on the business marketing and advertisements and gender socialisation
- Proposing actionable recommendations for UNICEF’s entry point to address the identified gender stereotypical practices and perspectives in the business marketing and advertisements.
2. Methodology and technical approach
This gender review will employ qualitative methods in collecting both
secondary and primary data. The data collection will be done through:
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Conducting analysis of the content of business advertisements. The
content analysis will allow the systematic measure of advertising
content to make inferences to Tanzania social context and its influence
on gender socialization. The description data on the representation of
men and women in advertising, the category of product being advertised,
scene location, role, whether the situation in which the actor is
presented was more or less traditional, actor credibility (whether he or
she is construed as a product user), physical appearance of actor,
representation of relationships between main character and other
characters in the advertisement, representation of product benefits and
level of sexism.
- Conducting interviews with key informants (KIIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs) from business companies who are the content owners and the media houses (editors). The KIIs and FGDs will provide detailed information on the narrative that inform the development of advertisement content. Before the commencement of work, the consultant will undertake an in-depth desk review. UNICEF will provide the necessary documents to the consultant on the signing of the contract.
- The consultant shall develop a detailed methodology and technical approaches on selected qualitative methods on data collection and analysis in the proposal. The proposed approaches will be discussed and agreed by UNICEF during the finalization of the inception report.
- The consultant will liaise with UNICEF’s Private Sector Engagement Specialist and Gender Specialist in accomplishing the task.
The consultant is required to adhere to UNICEF Procedure for Ethical
Standards in Research, Evaluation and Data Collection and Analysis
(effective from 1st April, 2015). For this purpose, it is suggested that
the consultant complete the Agora course on Ethics in Evidence
Generation (https://agora.unicef.org/course/info.php?id=2173
3.Scope of work, tasks ,deliverables and timeframe
Scope of work:
Scope of work:
The focus of this gender review in business advertisement and
marketing, is expected to engage the business companies and media houses
in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar. This review will include
consultations with advertisement content producers, business and media
owners. Also, consultations will involve conducting KIIs with
government ministries, departments and agencies. The start date is
expected to be 25th August 2019. This assignment is expected
to take 20-working days which is expected to be completed within two
months from the date of signing the contract.
Tasks, Deliverables and Time frame
Guidance
The consultant is expected to accomplish the following tasks:
4. Management
The consultant will work under the general leadership of the Chief of Communication, Advocacy and Partnership (CAP) section with the technical support of the Gender Specialist and Private Sector Specialist; and administrative support from sector gender focal points in Dar es salaam and Zanzibar Field Office
5. Qualifications and experience required:
The selected candidate should possess the following background and experience:
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6. Estimated budget
The consultant shall provide an all-inclusive cost in the financial proposal including international and local travels during assignment in Dar es salaam and Zanzibar.
7. Payment schedule
Guidance
The consultant is expected to accomplish the following tasks:
- Desk review of legal and policies regulating business marketing and advertisements in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar.
- Desk review of relevant literature of previous studies conducted in Tanzania and other parts of the world on the subject matter.
- Conduct KIIs with government ministries, departments and agencies.
- Collect and analyze content of advertisements that will be collected from the print and electronic media houses. In collaboration with UNICEF and partners, the consultant will select media houses with adequate representation in terms of products diversity, audience, language and regional spread. Consultant will be required to sharpen the selections criteria as necessary.
- Conduct KII and FGDs with business and media owners and leaders in civil society organizations working on children rights
- Analyze the gender socialization dimensions of the business advertisement in Tanzania.
- Propose policy advocacy and programmatic responses and entry points that UNICEF will tap-on to address identified gender bottlenecks and barriers in promoting positive gender norms.
- Draft and submit draft and final reports to UNICEF Tanzania.
4. Management
The consultant will work under the general leadership of the Chief of Communication, Advocacy and Partnership (CAP) section with the technical support of the Gender Specialist and Private Sector Specialist; and administrative support from sector gender focal points in Dar es salaam and Zanzibar Field Office
5. Qualifications and experience required:
The selected candidate should possess the following background and experience:
- Advanced degree in the field of gender and development, journalism, marketing, development studies, sociology, economics, law, and or public administration and at least eight years of progressively responsible professional experience on gender and marketing and or media.
- Knowledge on the influence of media on gender socialization, marketing theories and advertisement techniques.
- Demonstrated capacity and proven experience of more than 5 years on designing and conducting gender analysis and producing quality reports
- Demonstrated strength in collaborative working arrangements.
- Should be available to travel to Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar.
- Fluency in English is required, and knowledge of Kiswahili language will be an asset.
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6. Estimated budget
The consultant shall provide an all-inclusive cost in the financial proposal including international and local travels during assignment in Dar es salaam and Zanzibar.
7. Payment schedule
| # | Deliverables | Expected date | Payment schedule |
| 1 | An inception report, outlining the key scope of the work and intended work plan of the assignment and tools for data collection and analysis methods | 25th August 2019 | 20% |
| 2 | Second Draft report detailing key findings and recommendations on addressing concerns of marketing and gender socialization | 25th Sept. 2019 | 40% |
| 3 | Final reports detailing key findings and recommendations on addressing concerns of marketing and gender socialization | 10th Oct. | 40% |
The selection process will follow the normal Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for individual consultancy
· The weight allocated between technical and financial proposal is 70/30 (technical/ financial).
· Minimum technical assessment points is 49 points (70% of 70 points).
· The following technical assessment criteria and points can be used for analysing the proposals.
| Technical Criteria | Technical Sub-criteria | Maximum Points |
| Overall Response | Completeness of response | 5 |
| Overall concord between RFP requirements and proposal | 5 | |
| Maximum Points for overall response | 10 | |
| Experience and qualifications of the consultant | Range and depth of experience with similar projects: | 15 |
| Relevant experience and qualifications of the consultant | 20 | |
| Maximum Points for Institution and Key Personnel | 35 | |
| Proposed Methodology and Approach | Relevance and rigor of the technical approach/ methodology | 15 |
| Innovation approach | 10 | |
| Maximum Points for Proposed Methodology and Approach | 25 | |
| TOTAL Maximum | 70 | |
- The selected candidate will sign an SSA for International Consultant. The consultant will work in both selected districts for primary data collection and in UNICEF offices/hotel when working in Dar es salaam.
- The consultant will be entitled to DSA according to UNICEF rules. The consultant shall have his/her own computer.
- Only when working and traveling with UNICEF staff, consultant can have access to UNICEF transport.
- Plan for schedule of payment. Note that final payment to a consultant is dependent on the completion of deliverables as well as hand-over notes and submission of a consultancy evaluation. Note: Consultants in practice are external and therefore do not have a direct right to access UNICEF resources. Therefore, the Consultants’ direct fee is higher than UN staff net salary partially due to this fact. As a consultant, they are paid either a lump sum, or on a daily or monthly basis; if the latter then they are not paid during days off and while on sick leave.
- State if flight costs would be covered and at what standard e.g. business or economy from where to where
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
Opening Date Thu Sep 26 2019 09:00:00 GMT+0300 (East Africa Time) E. Africa Standard Time
Closing Date Mon Oct 07 2019 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (East Africa Time)
