RFP - Virtual Study of Social Diversity in News Media with Focus on Gender & Gender Representation

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About the Organization:

UN Women is the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women is dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.

Rationale and Objective

Over the past year, they have seen a substantial increase in the number of women led media houses. UN Women would like to capture here the change that comes with a change in leadership. Additionally, this kind of a comparable study will help UN Women reach out to media and journalism schools. It will further help us institutionalize gender responsive journalism and media reporting within media houses and schools- an advocacy plan that we hope to implement soon after we have received the observations from the study. This is all in addition to the Covid-mapping component and assessing the pandemics impact.

UN Women plans to commission a virtual study to help understand gender diversity in newsrooms and its impact on the coverage of daily news developments across media platforms in print, electronic, digital and radio. The study will examine whether gender diverse newsrooms create more gender sensitive content.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The following duties and responsibilities are expected as part of this research:

• Analyse the composition/gender diversity of print, television, digital and radio news platforms.
• Study the year-on-year change (2019 to 2020) of composition/gender diversity of print, television, digital and radio news platforms – have things improved, remained the same, or gotten worse; have there been any pandemic- specific changes that have resulted in a shift to digital spaces due to the virus.
• Analyse the impact of gender diversity on the content produced in print, television, digital, and radio news platforms – whether gender diversity directly correlates with gender sensitive news content produced.
• Map year-on-year change (2019 to 2020) of gender responsiveness of the content produced in print, television, digital, and radio news platforms – the change in gender composition with gender sensitive news content produced.
• Provide recommendation on gender-empowering media policies and sustaining equality in the media

Eligibility Criteria

Organisations registered as for-profit private or public companies with following background and experience will be eligible.

Qualifications of the Organisation:

Companies involved in curating and executing conferences, research, and content on the news-media sector:

• Minimum of two research projects focusing on social diversity in the newsroom.
• Over 3 years of hosting large scale conference on media and gender and curating virtual sessions with news media industry professionals.
• A demonstrative network in India’s news media sector, think-tanks, and other civil society organisations is preferred.
• A partnership with a leading independent news media organization is preferred.
• It would be preferred if the organisation has prior experience of undertaking a similar research projects or can partner with an agency with the relevant experience.
• Prior experience of working with a UN agency is an added advantage.

Qualifications of team leader:

The Team Leader should have:

• Master’s degree in conflict, gender issues, economics, business administration, public policy, law, international relations or other related field.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience with a demonstrable ability to undertake research and analytical and policy reviews, and provide technical expertise in the areas of gender, economic empowerment, and multi-sector partnerships. Candidate who has undertaken a similar study in the past is preferred.
• Very good multi-stakeholder understanding with strong focus on governments and private sector
• Very good understanding of policy landscape
• Excellent English writing skills is a must

Qualifications of team members:

The Team members should have:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in management or related field
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in research and policy reviews in the gender space
• Knowledge of Women’s Economic Empowerment
• Proven experience in business planning and development and project management
• Strong English Writing Skills

Roles and Responsibilities of Parties:

UN Women’s Responsibilities:

UN Women will be responsible for the following:

• Communications Unit to provide supervision and guidance to the selected proponent in conduct of the research
• Provide a point of contact with the contractor during the implementation of this assignment
• The copyrights to the Report of this study will remain with UN Women.

Proponent’s Responsibilities:

• The Company will work directly with UN Women India MCO Communications Team, who will provide advice, guidance and information as appropriate.
• The Company is expected to provide several highly qualified consultants/experts for this specific assignment, with appropriate skills and expertise as outlined in the Eligibility Criteria section of the ToR stated above.
• The selected Company will follow the ethical code of conduct stated under Scope of Work above for conducting research according to ethical principles and standards established by the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG).

Duration of the Assignment: 01 September 2020 to 15 December 2020

Deadline: 20 Aug 2020

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