“Gender Analysis” – Consultancy

LIBERATE is a GAC funded multi-year project, designed as a comprehensive pushback against shrinking civic spaces in Lebanon through advancing inclusivity and human rights of disenfranchised population groups, and in particular women in all their diversities with focus on GBV survivors, individuals with marginalized SOGIESC, people with disabilities, and older individuals. The project plans to achieve its objective through work on enhancing the capacity of activists, experts, and media personnel to tackle inclusivity and human rights in Lebanon, improving quality service provision by human rights organizations, and increasing the sustainability and effectiveness of rights networks and movements at national and sub-national levels. Oxfam will work with specialized local partners and a multitude of stakeholders to push forward the goals of this project across all governates in Lebanon.

As part of the Project Implementation Planning (PIP) phase, Oxfam aims to recruit a gender expert to lead on a national gender analysis, specific to the interest of this project. The analysis will couple extensive desk review of Oxfam and national data and studies with Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) to reach practical recommendations to inform the PIP and Theory of Change (ToC) of the Liberate project.

The review and data collection aims to cover the following objectives:

Objective 1: Conduct a comprehensive intersectional gender and power analysis of the socio-political landscape affecting marginalized groups in Lebanon

Produce a rigorous, evidence-based analysis of the structural, social, and political inequalities experienced by the project's priority population groups — women in all their diversities, GBV survivors, LGBTQI+ individuals, persons with disabilities, older persons, refugees, Palestinians, and migrants. The analysis must apply a composite gender, power, and intersectionality lens to map the specific barriers, needs, and challenges each group faces in accessing rights, services, and civic participation. It should draw on a minimum of 10 national and Oxfam datasets and studies, and be grounded in the Lebanese context across all governorates, with attention to sub-national variation in needs and vulnerabilities.

Objective 2: Analyse the policy, legal, and advocacy environment as it pertains to the rights and inclusion of marginalized groups

Map and critically assess the existing legal and policy framework in Lebanon as it relates to each of the project's priority population groups, including the status of legislation on GBV, disability rights, LGBTQI+ rights, women's political participation, refugee protection, and SRHR. The analysis should identify key policy gaps, opportunities for advocacy, and the political economy of reform — including the actors, alliances, and dynamics that either advance or constrain rights-based policy change. Findings should directly inform the project's policy influencing strategy and Theory of Change outcomes at the national and sub-national levels.

Objective 3: Assess the service delivery landscape and identify gaps in access, quality, and inclusivity for priority population groups

Examine the current landscape of human rights and social services available to the project's priority groups, with particular focus on GBV referral pathways, helplines, and protection services; disability-accessible services; SRHR services; and legal aid and advocacy support. The analysis should assess both offline and online service delivery modalities, map critical gaps and barriers to access — including digital exclusion — and identify opportunities to strengthen gender-sensitive and inclusive service delivery. Findings should inform the project's service delivery strengthening component and contribute to the design of referral mechanisms under the LIBERATE framework.

Objective 4: Map the civil society and rights movement ecosystem to inform the project's capacity strengthening and network support strategy

Assess the current capacity, reach, and needs of the civil society organizations, informal networks, feminist movements, queer-led organizations, disability-led organizations, and rights networks that the project intends to engage and strengthen. The analysis should identify existing assets, gaps, and priorities in organizational capacity, advocacy effectiveness, coalition-building, and sustainability — including the specific barriers faced by organizations led by or serving LGBTQI+ individuals, PwDs, and refugee and migrant communities. Findings should directly inform the project's capacity-building and mentorship strategy, including prioritization of support modalities and identification of key network nodes across governorates.

Objective 5: Develop context-specific, actionable recommendations to inform the LIBERATE Project Implementation Plan, Theory of Change, and feminist MEAL framework

Synthesize the findings of the desk review and qualitative data collection into a set of clear, practical, and prioritized recommendations at the outcome and output level of the LIBERATE Theory of Change. Recommendations should address programmatic design, targeting, geographic prioritization, and partnership strategy. In addition, the consultant should provide specific guidance on how a feminist, rights-holder-led MEAL approach should be operationalized within the project — including how marginalized groups can meaningfully participate in monitoring, feedback, and adaptive management processes. The final recommendations should reflect the project's humanitarian-development nexus framing and account for the differentiated needs of groups spanning both acute vulnerability and longer-term structural exclusion.

 SPECIFICATION OF GOODS OR SERVICES OR WORK REQUIRED

The consultant/team will:

• Submit an inception report following an inception meeting with Oxfam team, outlining the finalized methodology, approach and steps for the gender analysis.
• Perform a desk-review of Oxfam and national data and studies (at least 10 studies and data-sets).
• Provide a report of the preliminary findings of the desk review and the main considerations and areas of focus to take into the FGDs.
• Co-design the FGD tools with the Oxfam team focusing on the specific barriers, needs and challenges of the main population groups.
• Lead on the qualitative data collection, in coordination with the Oxfam team, including the facilitation of at least 8 FGDs across all governorates.
• Document and analyze the findings based on the outcomes and focus areas of the LIBERATE project.
• Provide an analysis report that includes the desk review, the findings of qualitative data collection, a detailed power and gender analysis, and a clear overall and specific recommendations at outcome level as well as learning from the gender analysis process to inform future exercises.
• Respond to two rounds of review and feedback by Oxfam on the final report.
• Participate and provide insights in a full-day Theory of Change workshop with Oxfam and local partners.

If the supplier wishes to propose modifications to the specification (which may provide a better way to achieve Oxfam ´s objectives), these must be considered as an alternative offer. The Supplier must make alternative offers in a separate letter to accompany the offer. OXFAM is under no obligation to accept alternative offers. Logistics related to the FGDs and workshops are Oxfam responsibilities.

LIBERATE is a GAC
funded multi-year project, designed as a comprehensive pushback against
shrinking civic spaces in Lebanon through advancing inclusivity and human
rights of disenfranchised population groups, and in particular women in all
their diversities with focus on GBV survivors, individuals with marginalized
SOGIESC, people with disabilities, and older individuals. The project plans to
achieve its objective through work on enhancing the capacity of activists,
experts, and media personnel to tackle inclusivity and human rights in Lebanon,
improving quality service provision by human rights organizations, and
increasing the sustainability and effectiveness of rights networks and
movements at national and sub-national levels. Oxfam will work with specialized
local partners and a multitude of stakeholders to push forward the goals of
this project across all governates in Lebanon.

As part of the
Project Implementation Planning (PIP) phase, Oxfam aims to recruit a gender
expert to lead on a national gender analysis, specific to the interest of this
project. The analysis will couple extensive desk review of Oxfam and national
data and studies with Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) to reach practical
recommendations to inform the PIP and Theory of Change (ToC) of the Liberate
project.

The review and data collection aims to cover the following objectives:

Objective 1: Conduct a comprehensive intersectional gender and power
analysis of the socio-political landscape affecting marginalized groups in
Lebanon

Produce a
rigorous, evidence-based analysis of the structural, social, and political
inequalities experienced by the project's priority population groups — women in
all their diversities, GBV survivors, LGBTQI+ individuals, persons with
disabilities, older persons, refugees, Palestinians, and migrants. The analysis
must apply a composite gender, power, and intersectionality lens to map the
specific barriers, needs, and challenges each group faces in accessing rights,
services, and civic participation. It should draw on a minimum of 10 national
and Oxfam datasets and studies, and be grounded in the Lebanese context across
all governorates, with attention to sub-national variation in needs and
vulnerabilities.

Objective 2: Analyse the policy, legal, and advocacy environment as it
pertains to the rights and inclusion of marginalized groups

Map and
critically assess the existing legal and policy framework in Lebanon as it
relates to each of the project's priority population groups, including the
status of legislation on GBV, disability rights, LGBTQI+ rights, women's
political participation, refugee protection, and SRHR. The analysis should
identify key policy gaps, opportunities for advocacy, and the political economy
of reform — including the actors, alliances, and dynamics that either advance
or constrain rights-based policy change. Findings should directly inform the
project's policy influencing strategy and Theory of Change outcomes at the
national and sub-national levels.

Objective 3: Assess the service delivery landscape and identify gaps in
access, quality, and inclusivity for priority population groups

Examine the
current landscape of human rights and social services available to the
project's priority groups, with particular focus on GBV referral pathways,
helplines, and protection services; disability-accessible services; SRHR
services; and legal aid and advocacy support. The analysis should assess both
offline and online service delivery modalities, map critical gaps and barriers
to access — including digital exclusion — and identify opportunities to
strengthen gender-sensitive and inclusive service delivery. Findings should
inform the project's service delivery strengthening component and contribute to
the design of referral mechanisms under the LIBERATE framework.

Objective 4: Map the civil society and rights movement ecosystem to
inform the project's capacity strengthening and network support strategy

Assess the
current capacity, reach, and needs of the civil society organizations, informal
networks, feminist movements, queer-led organizations, disability-led
organizations, and rights networks that the project intends to engage and
strengthen. The analysis should identify existing assets, gaps, and priorities
in organizational capacity, advocacy effectiveness, coalition-building, and
sustainability — including the specific barriers faced by organizations led by
or serving LGBTQI+ individuals, PwDs, and refugee and migrant communities.
Findings should directly inform the project's capacity-building and mentorship
strategy, including prioritization of support modalities and identification of
key network nodes across governorates.

Objective 5: Develop context-specific, actionable recommendations to
inform the LIBERATE Project Implementation Plan, Theory of Change, and feminist
MEAL framework

Synthesize the
findings of the desk review and qualitative data collection into a set of
clear, practical, and prioritized recommendations at the outcome and output
level of the LIBERATE Theory of Change. Recommendations should address
programmatic design, targeting, geographic prioritization, and partnership
strategy. In addition, the consultant should provide specific guidance on how a
feminist, rights-holder-led MEAL approach should be operationalized within the
project — including how marginalized groups can meaningfully participate in
monitoring, feedback, and adaptive management processes. The final
recommendations should reflect the project's humanitarian-development nexus
framing and account for the differentiated needs of groups spanning both acute
vulnerability and longer-term structural exclusion.

 SPECIFICATION
OF GOODS OR SERVICES OR WORK REQUIRED

The consultant/team will:

·      
Submit an inception report following an inception
meeting with Oxfam team, outlining the finalized methodology, approach and
steps for the gender analysis.

·      
Perform a desk-review of Oxfam and national data and
studies (at least 10 studies and data-sets).

·      
Provide a report of the preliminary findings of the
desk review and the main considerations and areas of focus to take into the
FGDs.

·      
Co-design the FGD tools with the Oxfam team focusing
on the specific barriers, needs and challenges of the main population groups.

·      
Lead on the qualitative data collection, in
coordination with the Oxfam team, including the facilitation of at least 8 FGDs
across all governorates.

·      
Document and analyze the findings based on the
outcomes and focus areas of the LIBERATE project.

·      
Provide an analysis report that includes the desk
review, the findings of qualitative data collection, a detailed power and
gender analysis, and a clear overall and specific recommendations at outcome
level as well as learning from the gender analysis process to inform future
exercises.

·      
Respond to two rounds of review and feedback by Oxfam
on the final report.

·      
Participate and provide insights in a full-day Theory
of Change workshop with Oxfam and local partners.

If the supplier wishes to propose modifications to the specification (which may
provide a better way to achieve Oxfam ´s objectives), these must be considered
as an alternative offer. The Supplier must make alternative offers in a
separate letter to accompany the offer. OXFAM is under no obligation to accept
alternative offers. Logistics related to the FGDs and workshops are Oxfam
responsibilities.

The company/ individual(s) should have the following competencies:

Essential

• Extensive gender expertise
• Prior experience in gender analyses in Lebanon
• Prior experience in qualitative data collection
• Knowledge of feminist and Queer movements in Lebanon
• Knowledge of SRHR, GBV, and accessibility for PwDs.
• Availability to start immediately

Desired

• Women, Queer, and disabled consultants are highly encouraged to apply.

1. APPLICATION PROCESS

Submission instructions

Quotations and applications must reach Oxfam no later than Monday, June 15, 2026, midnight, Beirut Time.

Responses must be submitted in English, electronically or by hand to: lebanonprocurement@oxfam.org.uk

The subject of the mail should be: [ LIBERATE – Gender Analysis 2026 + [Name of bidder]

Any questions, remarks or requests for clarification can be sent up to 3 days before the submission deadline in writing. The (anonymised) questions will be answered to all applicants.