Expression of Interest

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organizations working together and with more than 3000 partners and allies in
almost 100 countries around the world to bring about lasting change.  We work
directly with communities and we seek with our partners to influence the
powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and
have a say in decisions that affect them.  Oxfam has worked for over 50 years in
Indonesia and now focuses its efforts on empowering women, building the
resilience of those living in poverty to shocks and disasters (including
responding to emergencies), and improving the effectiveness and accountability
of governance for those living in poverty and especially women.

One of
the programmes in Papuan Women Empowerment project.
Currently we are looking for consultant for gender training to help the programme, Term of Reference
(TOR) as below.

If you are interested, please submit your expression of
interest and CV to   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it    not later than 23 July 2011.

Overall Project              : Consultancy for Gender Training
Location                       : Papua and West Papua province
Duration of assignment  : 9 months (August 2010 - April 2011)

I.       Background of the assignment
The PAWE Project’s goal
is to empower poor Papuan women by increasing their
participation in the implementation and decision-making processes in the
community driven development program (RESPEK), so that they are more able to
benefit from the program, and address their needs and priorities; through i)
strengthening existing women's organizations and networks to provide
leadership, training, and advocacy to women at village level; ii) building
capacity of individual women through demand driven capacity building and
training opportunities; iii) building awareness and capacity of the staffs of
the PNPM Mandiri-RESPEK-program and other key stakeholders such as village
leaders and government officials to promote greater gender equality. The
PAWE Project is supported by JSDF-Japan Social Development Fund.