Date of Issue: 2 April 2024
Closing Date: 13 April 2024
SSA Announcement No. UNWOMEN/ICO/2024/009
| Title | Consultant – Gender Based Advocacy with Parliamentarians (Local Post for Indian Nationals and Applicants with a Valid Work Permit) |
| Duty Station | New Delhi (Home based), India |
| Contact Type | SSA |
| Contact Duration | May to December 2024 (Deliverable Based) |
| No of Positions | 1 |
| Contract Supervision | Programme Lead- Intergovernmental Process |
II. CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT
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.
Collaboration with government stakeholders at global, national, and local levels, remains integral to UN Women’s efforts at advancing gender equality. Gender-sensitive parliaments and public administration institutions can be crucial for bringing about gender equality through a combination of legal, policy, and administrative reforms, along with social norm change. While women’s political representation has significantly increased over the past decade, achieving true gender parity within existing political institutions itself requires normative and structural changes that depend on a supportive political ecosystem. Engagement with political representatives and government policymakers is especially important at this time when countries are still grappling with the socioeconomic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and its particularly adverse effects on women and girls, when climate change is drastically transforming economic sectors and the world of work, and when substantial financial investments, policy innovations, and most importantly – political commitments – are required to bridge existing and emergent gender gaps.
UN Women’s Engagement with Intergovernmental Processes
UN WOMEN plays a central role to deliver on UN Women’s normative support functions and strengthens linkages between normative work and operational activities through its Unit for Intergovernmental Processes (IGP). It contributes to the UN Women’s support for the development and strengthening of a comprehensive set of global norms, policies and standards on gender equality and women’s empowerment that is dynamic, responds to new and emerging issues, challenges and opportunities and is applied through action by Governments and other stakeholders at all levels. The Unit also has special responsibility for the coordination of substantive servicing of intergovernmental and expert bodies as mandated in relevant legislative documents. The Unit focuses on three broad areas of work: (i) engage with and service intergovernmental bodies related to gender equality and women’s empowerment, as well as managing India’s participation in regional and international policy discourse on gender equality; (ii) support and coordinate interagency coordination and its smooth running and follow-up; (iii) plan, organize and support in building partnerships with the private sector and the civil society in the country.
Generation Equality is the world’s leading initiative convened by UN Women in 2021, to accelerate investment and implementation on gender equality. It has six “Action Coalitions(Gender Based Violence, Economic Justice and Rights, Bodily Autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights, Feminine Action for Climate Justice, Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality and Feminist Movement and Leadership)” . The five Rs of Care work fall under the Coalition on Economic Justice and Rights. For detailed information, please check the complete version of the advert attached below.