Position: Consultancy for Gender Study (GRET)__Deadline:03-April

Location:  Phnom Penh
 
 1    - CONTEXT
Cambodian agriculture is central to the country’s economy, rural livelihoods, and food security. About 77% of rural households rely on agriculture, fisheries, and forestry, and the sector contributes 21.9% of GDP, making it a key pillar of the government’s development strategy. In Siem Reap Province, 3,444 hectares of market gardening produced 29,090 tonnes of vegetables in 2022, but 11,128 tonnes still had to be imported to meet local demand. The tourism sector in Siem Reap town accounts for nearly 20% of fresh produce demand1.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism collapsed, causing job losses and a drop in agricultural prices, which worsened household livelihoods and increased food insecurity in rural areas in 2021. Siem Reap was particularly affected due to its reliance on tourism. Additionally, ongoing tensions between Thailand and Cambodia have further reduced foreign tourist arrivals, compounding the economic impact.
Cambodian farmers face some major challenges. One of these is market access. Farmers have difficulty finding reliable markets to sell their produce in a context of competition with imported products.

Another major challenge is climate change, threatening crop yields, livestock, and fisheries. Nearly 90% of the population lives in high environmental risk areas, and 99% experienced at least one disaster in the past year, with 75% facing three or more. While both men and women are exposed to these hazards, women tend to experience greater impacts. Rural and displaced women face more barriers to accessing healthcare and hygiene products. They are also more likely than men to report crop damage (53% vs. 42%) and livestock losses (35% vs. 26%), and more women report increased unpaid childcare responsibilities due to disasters (26% vs. 22%).

Cambodia has made considerable progress in food security and nutrition in recent decades. However, malnutrition in all its forms remains a national concern: 22% of children under 5 suffer from stunted growth, while 4% are overweight, 47% of women aged 15-49 suffer from iron deficiency and 9.5% of adults are obese3. Poor food quality and inadequate access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene are responsible for persistent high levels of stunting, underweight and nutrient deficiency.

With low levels of education, the leaders of agricultural cooperatives face difficulties in carrying out their day-to-day tasks in terms of governance and management of their organization. Many cooperatives are also unable to fully comply with government regulations due to a lack of knowledge and training.
Saying that, it is important to note that the gap in adult literacy between men and women, 26.7, is larger than the gap of the East Asia & Pacific aggregate. Also, workers in vulnerable employment are the least likely to have formal work arrangements, social protection, and safety nets to guard against economic shocks; thus they are more likely to fall into poverty. Vulnerable employment among women is 58.1% and among men is 46.8% in Cambodia for 2025. The rate of vulnerable employment is higher for men and women in Cambodia compared to the average rate in East Asia & Pacific.4
It is in this context that the Territories Committed to Agroecological Transition, Resilience and Sustainable Food project (TETARD) has been developed by Gret and its local partner CIRD since 2010 in Siem Reap Province, to improve and secure the living conditions of family farmers through agroecological practices.

In parallel, Gret implements a multi-countries project called ASANAO, aiming to strengthen the capacity of GRET teams and its partners to promote sustainable and nutrition-friendly food systems and strengthening the influence of GRET and its partners for a food environment conducive to sustainable and nutrition-friendly food systems. This project will give the means to the TETARD project to carry out a gender study in order to improve the program towards more gender equity.

PROJECTS OVERVIEW
The TETARD project aims to contribute to:
Promoting agroecological intensification and diversification of agricultural production
Strengthening producer organizations and structuring local agricultural value chains to secure production and facilitate the sale of products on markets
Support provincial stakeholders in the construction and implementation of a development plan for efficient and sustainable territorial food systems
The project support directly over 2,300 farmers (1850 are women), members of 9 cooperatives, through the development of more efficient production and marketing systems for agricultural products, via support for agroecology, market access and the structuring of professional agricultural organizations. Until 2022, the project was working in 54 villages in the districts of Sotr Nikum and Prasat Bakong, in Siem Reap province. In 2023, the APICI project, building on its long experience, added 7 more cooperatives and expanded into the districts of Chi Kreng and Svay Leu. Today, the activities of the TETARD project have evolved to cover 122 villages, 16 communes and 4 districts: Sotr Nikum, Prasat Bakong, Svay Leu and Chikraeng district in Siem Reap province.

3    - OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
As part of the TETARD project, with the support of ASANAO project, GRET plans to conduct a gender study with the contribution of a consultant. A gender diagnostic was done in 2016. However, the context and the project both evolved during the past decade, and it is necessary to assess if the approach of the project to ensure gender equity is still accurate.
By gender, GRET refers to the socially constructed nature of female and male identities and the social relationships that result from them. These social norms are at the root of gender inequalities and discrimination affecting those who deviate from them. GRET is committed to implement gender-sensitive projects and to contribute through its actions to reducing gender inequality and combating all forms of gender-based violence.
It is for this reason that GRET wishes to carry out this study, to assess the effects of the project in term of gender equity and ensure Gret is respecting a “Do Not Harm” approach that enables the project to take the most relevant actions possible from a gender perspective.
This study will meet the following objectives:
1.    Refine knowledge and understanding of the context in the project intervention area (humanitarian and socio-economic situation, conflict dynamics, actors, connectors and dividers, gender-based inequalities and violence);
2.    Assess the impacts of the project over its 16 years of implementation on gender equality and equity and to analyze how gender dynamics, roles, opportunities and outcomes have evolved since the previous gender diagnosis, in order to identify progress, persistent gaps, and areas requiring improvement for more gender-responsive programming;
3.    Formulate operational recommendations to strengthen the project's gender mainstreaming.
3.1.1    - Contextualization
The study will aims to identify the main gender-related issues in the context of the project, in the province of Siem Reap, by describing the relative situations of men and women and the major gender inequalities that exist within the population.
The research questions may be, but not only, as follows:
Is the context marked by specific gender-related situations: gender inequalities, obstacles and barriers to certain activities for women and girls?
What difficulties do women and girls face (health, hygiene, education, professional integration, married life, access to property, violence, employment, service etc.)? What difficulties do men and boys face?
Are some populations more vulnerable than others (young girls, people with disabilities, the elderly, single mothers, widows/widowers, ethnic minorities, sex workers, etc.)?
What is the differentiated impact of the recent crisis on women and men, girls and boys?
What gender dynamics and inequalities are at work in the project area (quantitative and qualitative data), particularly in relation to issues of access to food, basic maternal and child health services, and economic and productive opportunities? What are the main needs?
What gender roles, representations, and relationships contribute to perpetuating gender inequalities in health or to the prevalence of gender-based violence and the level of social acceptance of certain forms of gender-based violence, such as early marriage and domestic violence?
What direct or indirect gender impacts is the project likely to generate?
What are the constraints (barriers to participation, limitations in access to and control of resources, etc.) and specific vulnerabilities of women, that the project is likely to address within its scope of intervention?
Analysis of gender issues in the agricultural sector
Based on this general analysis of the context, the study should focus specifically on gender issues in the agricultural sector, in order to enable the project to design gender-sensitive agricultural advisory services.
The research questions could be, but not only, as follows:
a.    What are the rules governing land ownership?
b.    How can the gender division of labor in the agricultural sector be described?
c.    How do men and women benefit from agriculture? What share of resources do women receive from agricultural production?
d.    What is the role of women in managing the resources of the family farm?
e.    To what extent are women economically empowered? What needs do women express in terms of economic empowerment? How do men perceive women's economic empowerment?
f.    Is a certain category of the population more exposed to violence in this sector?
g.    Do the funded activities contribute to the inclusion of vulnerable people and to improving gender equity in this sector?
h.    Do the activities contribute to strengthen certain factors of resilience for women?
i.    Do they have an impact on women's autonomy and empowerment?
j.    What role does the migration play in family labor repartition and duties sharing?
k.    Who makes decisions about farming?
l.    Who makes decision about household expenditures?
m.    What are the barriers of men or women participation to agricultural activities?
n.    Does the climate change affect women and men differently?
3.1.3    - Analysis of gender issues in the nutrition sector
  • The study should also focus specifically on gender issues in nutrition practices, so that the project can design gender-sensitive actions to fight against malnutrition.
  • The research questions could be, but not only, as follows:
  • Who is responsible for supplying the household?
  • Who makes decisions about food purchases?
  • Who is responsible for cooking and feeding the children?
  • Who decides what type of food to give to children? And why?
  • Are baby girls and baby boys fed in the same way? Do girls and boys in schools eat in the same way?
  • What are the beliefs about feeding children, in relation to gender? And in general?
  • What role do friends and extended family play in feeding children?
  • What are the main nutrition difficulties mentioned by women? By men? By girls? By boys?
  • What barriers do women, men, girls and boys face in accessing food?

3.1.4    - Analysis of the impact of the project on gender equality and equity
The study should focus on the impacts of the project over 16 years of implementation and analyze how gender dynamics have evolved.
The research questions could be, but not only, as follows:
a.    Are there observable changes in community norms regarding women’s leadership, work and mobility?
b.    Have women and men benefited equally from project interventions?
c.    How has access to productive resources (land, credit training, employment) changed for women and men?
d.    Do women have greater control over income and assets compared to earlier phases of the project?
e.    Are women represented in leadership or decision-making positions within community groups or project-related institutions?
f.    Has the project improved women's economic opportunities and livelihoods?
g.    What changes have occurred in women's autonomy, mobility, and confidence?
h.    Have there been changes in household decision-making dynamics?
i.    Has the project unintentionally increased workloads for women or reinforced gender inequalities?
j.    Are there tensions or conflicts related to shifting gender roles?
k.    Have some groups of women or men been excluded from project benefits?

4    - METHODOLOGY
4.1.1    - Study area
The study will be conducted in the project implementation area. The sampling method will have to be defined by the consultant in the proposed methodology.
4.1.2    - Qualitative approach
The study will adopt a qualitative approach, based on documentary research, field observations, and qualitative interviews with relevant stakeholders.
For the qualitative interviews, the following resource persons could be contacted (none exhaustive):
Village chiefs, district and commune authorities
Village Health Support Group members
Commune Councils for Women and Children (CCWC)
Communes Health Centers
Provincial Department of Health and Provincial Department of Women Affair
Provincial Committee on Women and Children’s Affairs (PCWC) and some of its members, such as PDA, PDoEYS, PDRD….
School directors
Women and men beneficiaries of the following groups and activities : saving groups, seed kits, cooperatives, key farmers, provincial food system multi-stakeholders platform
Women's groups / Men’s groups
NGO and CSO working targeting women/gender
Participatory approach, giving a voice to those concerned
The study will also adopt a participatory approach as far as possible: the aim will be to give a voice to those concerned. Where possible, focus groups will be set up, particularly women's focus groups, to let them express their opinions, visions, constraints, and needs. Particular attention will be paid to intersectional issues that interact with gender: income, age, ethnicity, disability, etc.
Focus groups for men will also be conducted, as well as mixed focus groups (men and women).
4.1.4    - Consultation with GRET teams
  • According to a schedule to be set at the start of the study, the consultant and the GRET team will meet to discuss the progress of the study and to ensure that it remains as closely aligned as possible with GRET's expectations. During this/these meeting(s), the consultant will be able to share their research questions and any difficulties they may encounter.
  • The consultant will also ensure that the list of people to be interviewed and the interview guidelines are validated by the GRET teams.
  • GRET will ensure that the consultant is put in contact with anyone deemed relevant to the study.

5-    CONSULTANT PROFILE
a.    Have proven expertise in gender issues and the promotion of gender equality in the development sector: preferably 5 years of professional experience relevant to the needs of the study, particularly in services involving the implementation of in-depth gender assessments and gender action plans for projects;
b.    Hold a master's degree in sociology, anthropology or social science with a specialization in gender or a related field;
c.    Have in-depth knowledge of the socio-economic context of Cambodia;
d.    Have proven experience in conducting household surveys and a strong experience in conducting development project evaluations and qualitative studies;
e.    Have the ability to communicate with program partners, both institutional (departments, local authorities, etc.) and target populations (men, women, young people, elders, etc).
f.    Have experience in analysing and reviewing literature;
g.    Have writing and summarizing skills;
h.    Have proven experience in using tablets for data collection.

6    - DELIVERABLES
  • A kick-off report confirming the methodology to implement, the program and work schedule, including the types of data (quantitative and qualitative) to be collected, mapping of actors, and listing the available literature/documentation base. This report shall be submitted in Word format to GRET two (2) weeks after the effective start of the contract and shall not exceed 20 pages (excluding appendices, including interview grids).
  • A PowerPoint presentation summarizing the highlights of the analysis and the main recommendations of the study, which will serve as a basis for discussion at a workshop with project stakeholders.
  • Final study report. A draft version of this report shall be submitted in Word format to GRET two (2) weeks after the end of the mission, concluded by the workshop. GRET will review it and the consultant will update it for the final version not later than ten (10) days after receiving Gret comments.
7    - TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Activities

Managers

Deadline

Deadline for submission of proposals

GRET

03/04/2026

Review of applications (shortlisting of consultants)

GRET

17/04/2026

Interview and selection of the consultant

GRET

24/04/2026

Contract

Consultant/GRET

04/05/2026

Kick-off meeting

Consultant/GRET

13/05/2026

Kick-off report

Consultant

18/05/2026

Data collection on field

Consultant

10/06/2026

PowerPoint presentation and stakeholders workshop

Consultant

19/06/2026

1st draft of the report and sharing with headquarters

Consultant

26/06/2026

Feedback on the report

GRET team

03/07/2026

Final report

Consultant

13/07/2026


8 -BUDGET
  • The financial offer should not exceed 10,000 EUR including tax.

9 - APPLICATION
  • To respond to this offer, the consultant or team of consultants must provide:
  • A detailed financial and technical proposal including the proposed methodology;
  • A detailed, up-to-date CVs of the consultant leader, and sub-consultants if any, copies of diplomas and/or certificates/attestations for similar work carried out or key personnel in the firm;
  • Copies of at least three of their studies.
Please send CV and cover letter to
Email:      perniceni@gret.org , Nget.cambodia@gret.org 
Phone:    
Website: https://gret.org
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