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. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations System efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
UN WOMEN West & Central Africa Regional Office has been supporting multi-initiatives through programming, global advocacy and building strategic partners with national governments, civil society, UN agencies and other bilateral and multi-lateral development organizations. EVAW Regional unit supports several initiatives at regional, at country levels and intends to document good or emerging practices which emerge from UNWomen’s interventions.
Under the direct supervision of the EVAW Regional policy specialist, the consultant will collaborate closely with the Regional, and Country Offices’ (RO/ /CO) colleagues to document good or emerging practices which emerge from UNWomen’s interventions.
The overall objective of the mission is to document good practices and lessons learned with a focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment approaches in the projects implemented under Ending violence against women and girl’s portfolio.
The consultant will be required to produce six (6) documents presenting successes and lessons learned/good practices, illustrated with achievements, including induced changes for women and girls. The good practices and lessons will focus beyond the results on:
Methodology
The Consultant will conduct the activities according to the methodology described below.
Deliverables
N° | Résultats attendus et livrables : Deliverable | Expected completion time (due day) | Payment Schedule (optional) |
1 | 6 capitalization documents that present successes and lessons learned/good practices, illustrated with achievements, including induced changes for women and girls : not exceeding 10 pages pages, including the cover page, reference pages (tables of contents/summaries, abbreviations), illustrated with photos of the achievements and stories/testimonies of the communities; Written and formatted in two (02) languages: French and English high-resolution photos of the achievements including the contributions of the various stakeholders (partners and local authorities); | 15 days per document (collection, analysis, writing, input integration, finalization, formatting, follow-up, online and hard version) |
Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
This is an office-based consultancy.
As part of this assignment, there will be a maximum of 10 trips out of the duty location.
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Application
Note
In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Diversity and inclusion
At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.
If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.
UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
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