UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls, the empowerment of women, and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action, and peace and security. UN Women was established to accelerate progress in meeting their needs worldwide. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and work with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes, and services to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide.
In Indonesia, UN Women works with the government, civil society organizations (CSOs), academia, the media, youth activists, the private sector, and the public to address national gender equality priorities and women’s empowerment. Placing the advancement of women’s rights at the center of our work, UN Women Indonesia has three key programmes: 1) Ending Violence Against Women; 2) Women’s Economic Empowerment; and 3) Governance, Peace, and Resilience.
UN Women is mandated to eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against women, empower women and girls, and achieve gender equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development outcomes and the fulfilment of human rights. In June 2012, UN Women became the eleventh co-sponsor of UNAIDS, an essential step towards ensuring that gender equality is at the heart of global action on HIV. UNAIDS’ co-sponsors under the UNAIDS Unified Budget, Accountability and Result Framework (UBRAF) are an instrument to translate the UNAIDS Strategy into action, mobilizing the contributions of UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat to support the achievement of the Targets of the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (2011). Under this mechanism, UN Women in Indonesia supports several initiatives to integrate gender equality and human rights principles into the national HIV/AIDS response. The programmes engage key government institutions, UN agencies, and most at-risk populations, mainly focusing on girls & women, including Women Living with HIV (WLHIV).
The Ministry of Health’s quarterly report showed that the number of newly reported HIV cases in the women population consistently increased from year to year. One reason for the growth in the number of new HIV cases in women populations can be explained by the increased HIV testing in communities through the efforts of Indonesia’s HIV control. However, the Ministry of Health estimates that in 2022 32% of new HIV infections came from low-risk women. Women’s vulnerability to HIV can also be seen in the HIV projections for 2023 onwards. Among sub-populations, excluding key populations, women has the highest transmission rate.
Despite Indonesia’s progress in expanding access to HIV prevention services like HIV testing for pregnant women and PrEP for key populations, significant challenges persist. Misinformation surrounding HIV transmission and new infections among women, often linked to social norms and taboos, contributes to ongoing issues. Further, discrimination against people living with HIV and key populations still prevails in society. It occurs in various settings, whether in their daily lives, public areas, or health facilities.
To address the above issues, UN Women works with various key stakeholders, including CSOs. Since 2021, UN Women has been collaborating with Ikatan Perempuan Positif Indonesia (IPPI), a national network of women living with HIV, to improve WLHIV’s access to services. UN Women provides technical support to IPPI to serve as an intermediary organization that provide support services to WLHIV and their families. As an intermediary organisation, IPPI plays a role in bridging WLHIV who are subjected to violence to required essential services. It also documents violence against women living with HIV cases in 10 provinces and develop an online complaint reporting system called DELILA, stands for Dengar (Listen), Lindungi (Protect), and Laporkan (Report).
As a result, IPPI has capacity to regularly issue reports on VAW cases of women living with HIV. In 2023 and 2024, there were 73 cases and 54 cases respectively, documented and shared through IPPI’s annual reports. This has contributed to the Komnas Perempuan’s (National Commission on Violence against Women) annual report. In 2022, IPPI and other communities affected by HIV established Puan Lingkar HIV (Women in the HIV circle), a network of women living with HIV. This network engages women from various backgrounds, such as women living with HIV, women infected with tuberculosis, young and adolescent women, transgender women, female sex workers, women who use drugs, female workers, migrant women, and women and transwomen with disabilities.
Based on the position paper developed by Puan Lingkar HIV in 2023, there are quite a lot of cases of violence experienced by women in key populations and women who are vulnerable to HIV. However, these cases are not well documented, and if reported, referrals have not been adequately established. For example, several organizations that are part of Puan Lingkar HIV, such as Women Voice (Works on the issue of women and transwomen who use drugs), OPSI (Working for female sex workers), and Yayasan Rekat (Working on the issue of female TB survivors) provide support services to victims, but do not have guidelines for documenting and referral mechanisms for cases of violence against this group of women. Cases of violence against this group of women are not well documented and not reported to the government. The referral mechanism has not been established, so often, women victims of violence in these groups do not get the services they need, and case follow-up is not properly monitored.
In this regard, technical support will be given to expand the role of intermediary organization to the three organizations of Puan Lingkar HIV. This is critical to strengthening women-led organizations in HIV response in managing and documenting gender-based violence cases and referring victims to receive quality essential services. This will enhance community organizations’ capabilities in improving their reports on violence cases and incorporating data on women affected by HIV in national data and reports, by which the scientific evidence influences power and impact on the policy- and decision-making process of the Indonesian government, including to ensure the availability of the services and protection and women in HIV circles who conflict with the law or situations of violence.
Against this backdrop, UN Women is seeking an experienced national consultant to provide technical assistance in building capacities for three organizations, namely Women Voice, OPSI, and Yayasan Rekat, to serve as intermediary organisations.
Sub-population group is the women’s group affected by HIV outside the key populations (Female Sex Workers, Drug users, MSM, Transgender), namely women in the general population who are a couple of PLHIV or key populations, Migrant Women, TB survivors, young people etc.
The objective of the assignment is to produce the following deliverables:
Scope of Works/Tasks
Under the direct supervision of the Program Analyst EVAW and the HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Gender Officer at UN Women Indonesia, the consultant will be responsible for the following scope of work:
The consultant will be reporting to EVAW Program Analyst, and will be in a day to day coordination with the Program Officer HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Gender.
Deliverables
Deliverable | Expected completion time (due day) | Payment Schedule (optional) |
Deliverables 1:
The inception report of the consultation activities. Advertisement
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14 November 2024 | 11-2024 |
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25 November 2024 | 11-2024 |
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20 December 2024 | 12-2024 |
Deliverable 4:
Submission of the report on training activities:
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27 January 2025 | 01-2025 |
Deliverable 5:
Submission of the final report incorporating feedback.
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25 March 2025 | 03-2025 |
Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
This is a home-based consultancy.
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