Conduct a Gender Audit to Identify Current Barriers to Women’s Effective Participation in Union Structures and Make Unions More Responsive & Inclusive for Women
1. Background
Cotraf Rwanda (Congrès du Travail et de la Fraternité des Travailleurs au Rwanda) in Partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) is implementing EU funded 3 years Project to foster social protection, social dialogue, minimum wages, and the respect of national and international labour norms in Rwanda. The project targets three sectors: Mining, tea, and education.

The above-mentioned sectors are simultaneously facing enormous challenges in terms of gender imbalance, occupational safety, and low income. All three sectors are important for the Rwandan economy, and it is worthy reflecting about the relationships between men and women, their access to resources, their activities, and the constraints they face relative to each other in the above-mentioned sectors and especially in trade union structures.

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In trade unions working in Tea, Mining, and Education, women are significantly underrepresented, both in the workplace, TU committees, and at the top of the TU federation, including professional TU structures at the national level. It is, therefore, necessary to look for the causes to remedy this situation. The only way to ascertain whether trade unions benefit women and men equally is to perform a gender audit.

The gender audit will draw a baseline picture of the COTRAF`s trade unions on the participation of women and men in the structures and raise women's awareness of about barriers to meaningful and inclusive participation. Our assumption is that women are less involved than men in the leadership and governance of trade unions and even tend to avoid them. Therefore, the objective of the gender audit in COTRAF`s unions is to promote learning on how to implement gender mainstreaming effectively in their policies, programs, and structures as well as to assess the progress made in achieving gender equality and equity.
Please find full announcement and application procedures here : ( pdf )
The consultant will submit an expression of interest to COTRAF-RWANDA at (cotrafrwanda2003@gmail.com) and to FES at (info@fes-rwanda.org ) before 23/09/ 2022 at 5 PM.
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