Research Consultant

Summary

Join Equality Now and Women Leading in AI's Alliance for Universal Digital Rights (AUDRi) as a Consultant to create a Toolkit for CSOs to monitor and report on national governments’ implementation of the GDC and other international and regional frameworks on digital governance and cooperation. The Consultant will research opportunities and avenues at international and regional levels, focusing on Africa, Latin America, and Europe. The Toolkit will be a practical guide for CSOs to engage with these mechanisms using an intersectional feminist lens. The Consultant will produce a Toolkit explaining international and regional frameworks, identify monitoring and reporting mechanisms, analyze successes and learnings in advocacy, outline steps for engagement at different levels, and detail processes for engagement based on gender equality and intersectional feminist analysis. The Consultant will also develop an interview questionnaire and conduct interviews with stakeholders. The position is remote and runs from July to August.

Requirements

• Experience in working at the intersection of technology, law and human rights
• Demonstrated understanding of international cooperation, internet governance and the UN eco-system
• Familiarity and knowledge of frameworks such as the Global Digital Compact
• Demonstrated ability to apply intersectional feminist thinking
• Demonstrated knowledge of international human rights law
• Strong research skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure

Responsibilities

• Produce a Toolkit that addresses the following areas
• A basic explainer of the different international and regional frameworks on digital rights, governance, and cooperation, including UN and regional treaties, the GDC, the Feminist Digital Principles, and others
• What international and regional monitoring, reporting, and advocacy mechanisms could be used to facilitate the implementation of the digital principles and relevant frameworks? What are the implementation, follow-up and review mechanisms for these frameworks? (e.g., UN and regional treaty bodies, UN and regional special mechanisms, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), and other digital governance processes and spaces such as the High Level Political Forum, WSIS, and the IGF.)
• What have been the successes and learnings in the process of advocating for greater implementation of key frameworks?
• What steps are needed to engage with these frameworks at national, regional and international levels?
• What are the processes for engaging with these mechanisms, ensuring that the engagement is based and grounded in gender equality and intersectional feminist analysis?
• Explore how the different mechanisms would ensure and/or promote feminist and intersectional approaches to implementation, follow up and review of the key frameworks. Are there particular mechanisms that are better suited for this approach?
• Employ both primary and secondary data sources, and also speak to a range of actors from geographically diverse regions across government, civil society (working on legal and policy advocacy), and the technology sector
• Include any relevant additional information
• Incorporate intersectional feminist analysis
• When referring to legal and official text, use official government, UN, or regional sources (e.g. refer to text of laws and policy documents rather than secondary sources) in the original language and official translation if possible, and explain methodology if not
• In the rare instance that there is no primary source available, acceptable secondary sources include the World Bank (see Women, Business and the Law reports/data) and other highly reputable independent or academic institutions
• The format shall be designed by the consultant and agreed upon with the AUDRi team
• Respond to any feedback from the AUDRi team, which will consist of requests for clarification and/or additional data
• A Toolkit
• Interview Questionnaire

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working on women’s rights issues is a plus