Web Scraping Specialist - International Consultant

  • Added Date: Monday, 20 May 2024
  • Deadline Date: Sunday, 02 June 2024
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Background:

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.

Under the UN-Women Regional Office for the Arab States (ROAS) regional Strategic Note (2022-2023) Outcome 7.1 - Arab States accelerate the implementation of global and regional gender norms and standards with quality comparable data particularly on the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Cairo Declaration for Arab women โ€“ UN-Women has established GenTrack a data visualization platform, which offers easily accessible data that facilitates analyses and informs policy decisions. The platform currently hosts 194 gender indicators from nine credible global datasets and indices, covering a variety of thematic areas, including insights into the links between gender equality and women's economic empowerment, gender and governance, and violence against women and girls.

UN Women also created the Gender Justice and Equity Before the Law initiative which delivers a regional monitoring tool on the quantitative status of gender responsive legislation across 17 Arab states. The initiative is a collaboration with member states, UNDP, UNFPA and UN-ESCWA. The first regional dashboard of 18 countries was produced in 2019 covering 27 indicators across multiple sectors and was further expanded to 74 indicators in 2022.

In bringing together these two tools, UN Women is now adding a qualitative trends analysis to selected indicators in the GenTRACK on (18) womenโ€™s economic and empowerment and (3) womenโ€™s political empowerment, including through the use of the Gender Justice and Equality Before the Law dashboard covering 17 countries from the 2022 dashboard. This qualitative trends analysis will be fed into the nascent GenTrack Phase II portal aligning to relevant womenโ€™s economic and political empowerment indicators in the GenTrack.ย 

In consolidating qualitative information on the socio-economic and political factors influencing selected indicators of GenTRACK, UN Women aims to collect and classify information systematically and extensively through data mining, and web scraping techniques to identify relevant factors influencing the selected laws. These factors can be political trends and socioeconomic events that can be used to inform programme design and gain a deeper understanding of the role of the environment in influencing progress against global indicators.

The consultant will be reporting to Regional Monitoring Specialist on Evidence for Programming, and will be supported by Programme Analyst, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues.

Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work

The web scraping specialist will be working closely together with a political economist, to identify major events and trends in the region to gain a deeper understanding of the role of the environment in influencing progress against global indicators. The web scraper will be responsible for performing rule-based scraping and data mining techniques for the classification, and identification of key events (which include which include political/diplomatic meetings, elections, statements, reforms, policy shifts, conflicts, protests, policy changes, leadership transitions, institutional restructuring, and other significant developments. The scraper can also provide a temporal analysis of the extracted events, to identify trends, periodic patterns, and potential correlations.ย 

Deliverables

Perform scraping techniques to produce metadata sheet with all the required key events, sources, and dates, and as guided by the political economist. The period under review is from 2000-2023. In specific, the scraper will be responsible:ย 

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