Candidates who are interested in this consultancy work are invited to submit:

(1) Expression of Interest (no longer than 1 page);

(2) Curriculum Vitae (no longer than 2 pages);

(3) Sample of a similar publication or report authored by the candidate;

Deadline for submission: Monday, 27 February 2023 via email with the Subject Line: Expression of Interest to Author CJ FPAR Regional Report_(name of candidate) to Patricia Wattimena, Climate Justice Programme Officer at patricia@apwld.org – cc Sagarika Bhatta, Climate Justice Programme Associate at sagarika@apwld.org 

 

Background

Started in 2019, APWLD launched its Climate Justice Feminist Participatory Action Research (CJ FPAR) for National Determined Contributions (NDCs) monitoring. Seven (7) partner organisations worked together with their target communities to document the impact of the climate crisis to grassroots women in the region and how NDCs as one of the ways to tackle the climate crisis are not another false solutions and help in advancing the rights of grassroots women. Below are their selected topics: 

Programme Partners 
Organisation 

 

 Research Focus

 
Forests and Farmers Foundation (FFF), Thailand 

 

 Empowering the Lower Northern Region of Thailand (LNRT) Women and Their Voices in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) of Thailand

 
Kelompok Studi dan Pengembangan Prakarsa Masyarakat (KSPPM), Indonesia

 

 Impacts of climate change on women’s lives at the Pargamanan Bintang Maria indigenous community in Parlilitan, District-Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatera, Indonesia.

 
Sindh Community Foundation (SCF), Pakistan

 

 Ensure the safe working conditions of the women agriculture workers and the protection of their labor rights and health safety nets of women agriculture workers in response to the rising temperature in Matiari district

 
Women Network for Energy and Environment (WoNEE), Nepal

 

 Empowering women of Bhaise and Satkanya communities to influence a Gender Responsive Budgeting of their Local Government for the Adaptation of Climate Change

 
Kadamay – National Alliance of Filipino Urban Poor, Philippines

 

 Empowering urban poor women of Southville to collectively engage with the local government and influence a gender-responsive Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) plan of Barangay San Isidro and to demand compensation for their loss and damage.

 
Center for Regional Science and Development (CRSD), Kyrgyzstan

 

 Mobilization of the women from Bokonbaevo village to participate in decision-making in allocation of financial resources while addressing the impacts of climate change on women’s rights

 
Centre for Social Research and Development (CSRD), Vietnam 

 

 Impact of climate change and hydropower development on women in Quang Nam Province

 

In August 2021, most of the CJ FPAR partners managed to finalise their FPAR stories and entered the advocacy phase aiming to strengthen the feminist climate justice movements and demands of the region.  For this purpose, individual country briefs and one regional report providing analysis of the impact of the climate crisis and the engagement with NDCs shall be developed and published.

The country briefers will provide summaries of the issues and demands surrounding the impacts of climate crisis on grassroots women and their demands for climate justice in target communities and home countries of the seven (7) FPAR partner organisations. The country briefs are based on each partner’s FPAR stories. Partner organisations will utilise the briefers as a tool to lobby decision-makers at all levels especially at local and national levels. Furthermore, one regional report shall be developed and launched following the production of country briefers.

 

Objectives

  1. To present stories dissecting impacts of the climate crisis to grassroots women and their resistance and struggles for climate justice in support of their lobby and advocacy work; 
  2. To strengthen and promote Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) as an evidence-based documentation tool of grassroots women’s struggles against climate crisis and a tool of grassroots feminist movement building at local to global levels;
  3. To increase the body of evidence and resources for feminist movement building and advocacy towards achieving women’s human rights and feminist climate justice.

 

The author

The APWLD team prefers a woman from Asia and the Pacific with a strong feminist lens and analysis on climate justice to be the author of the CJ FPAR regional report. Skills should include:

  1. Knowledge and experience in working with feminists and grassroots women’s movements in Asia and the Pacific;
  2. Knowledge and experience in using feminist lens to analyse climate injustices and the impacts globally especially in the context of Asia and the Pacific; 
  3. Knowledge and experience in conducting desk research to strengthen the analysis provided in the country level reports and community women’s stories in order to shape regional analysis in the report; 
  4. High level report writing, desk research and data analysis;

 

The FPAR Regional Report

  1. The report is expected to consist of approximately 23,000 words (45 – 50 pages). Please see a sample of the previous report here.
  2. APWLD has developed a proposed outline for the report that can be accessed together with the selected author. 
  3. The report shall provide an overview  and analysis of grassroots women’s struggles for feminist climate justice in Asia and the Pacific. This will also include summaries of each country FPAR substantiating the regional analysis, as well as the FPAR journey and reflections from 2019-2021.
  4. The report has to use persuasive and compelling language that critiques the current climate injustices, neoliberal development model by using the Globalisation, Fundamentalisms, Militarism, and Patriarchy (GFMP) framework and connecting the struggles of grassroots women in different countries to assert their rights and to realise feminist climate justice.
  5. The report must be easy to read, using engaging headlines and subheadlines (avoid traditional research headlines like “executive summary” or “research result”).
  6. Key components to be highlighted in the report:
  • Each of the partners’ profiles;
  • Highlight of case study/stories from the ground (e.g. in text boxes);
  • Highlight of FPAR stories of changes from the community (e.g. in text boxes);
  • quotes from women in the communities, FPAR young researchers and mentors;

 

Main tasks

  1. Produce a regional report of the Climate Justice FPAR (2019-2021) derived from CJ FPAR stories and building on APWLD’s analysis on climate crises in Asia and the Pacific;  
  2. Collaborate with APWLD, particularly the Climate Justice team to finalise the outline, structure and content of the regional report;
  3. Conduct desk research to enrich the data analysis and strengthen the feminist climate justice lens in the regional report;
  4. Regularly coordinate with APWLD on the support needed as well as any potential change or shift of the proposed timeline/tasks within the scope of work for the regional report through regular meetings at least 2 times a month;

 

Timeline

The Climate Justice FPAR Regional Report writing aims to take place between March – May 2023. Final report must be provided by 12 May 2023.

 

Compensation

APWLD offers the author with a financial compensation of 4,000,- US Dollars for the report writing.