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.
To fulfil its mandate, the organization and offices work on various aspects of development with the aim of either drawing attention by providing evidence on the existence of a gender gap or directly implementing interventions geared towards closing the gender gap.
UN Women Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) maintains a large presence in East and Southern Africa region, covering 13 countries with program presence in Somalia and Zambia. If the UN Statistics Divisons’ classification is used, the region has 28 countries. In accordance with the UN Women Strategic Note which is premised on the Africa Strategy, UN Women works to advance social, economic and political rights and the protection of women and girls from violence including harmful practices. The program also focusses on those from marginalized, excluded and under-represented groups, including rural women, women with disabilities, women living with or affected by HIV, women survivors of violence, women migrants, elderly women and others.
Knowledge Management and Research in East and Southern Africa
Knowledge Management has been identified as one of the functions of a regional office. Under this function the regional office plays the role of coordinating the development and implementation of a knowledge management strategy (2022-2025) in the East and Southern Africa region. The Junior Consultant-Knowledge Management supports the Knowledge Management in wide range of areas related to gender equality and empowerment of women. The knowledge agenda of the region follows demand driven research generating evidence and information that is used to inform programming, investment and policy on gender equality and women empowerment.
The consultant will be reporting to the Knowledge Management and Research Specialist who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues. The consultant will be based at the Regional Office in Nairobi, will lead the creation and coordination of the virtual knowledge spaces including the knowledge hub, strategic documents repository and the gender data repository for the region while supporting the implementation of the knowledge management agenda for the region. S/he works in close collaboration with programme teams in the Office and HQ to successfully deliver services.
According to UNSD SDG regional definitions East Africa include the following countries: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi, Mayotte, Mozambique, Réunion, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Southern Africa consist of Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa.
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