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Organizational Context
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.
Through the General Assembly Resolutions 75/233 on the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR) and 72/279 on UN repositioning, the United Nations Development System (UNDS) is presented with a mandate to transform in order to respond to the ambition of the 2030 Agenda. Indeed, the 2020 QCPR places strong emphasis on the fundamental importance of promoting gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls, noting the multiplier effect for achieving sustained and inclusive economic growth, poverty eradication and sustainable development. It calls upon all entities of the UNDS to continue to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality by enhancing and accelerating gender mainstreaming through the full implementation of the UNCT performance indicators for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) (the “UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard”) and calls on UN entities to draw on gender expertise, including in UN Women, to assist with gender mainstreaming in the preparation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework. As also recognized by the UNSDG Guidance for the Cooperation Framework, gender equality and women’s empowerment should be mainstreamed through UN programming, and it is identified as a priority for the Decade of Action and as crucial to national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Against this backdrop, the imperative underscored by UN repositioning processes and the 2020 QCPR is for the UNDS to accelerate joint efforts to support the implementation and advancement of GEWE commitments across the SDGs, particularly at the country level where it matters the most, with the new Cooperation Frameworks providing a vehicle to drive collective UN support to achieving the 2030 Agenda.
Chad ranks 157th out of 159 countries on the gender inequality index of the United Nations Development Programme and 141st place out of 144 in the World Economic Forum’s global gender gap index. Despite relative progress and differences from one region of the country to another, all Chadian women experience severe discrimination in every facet of their lives. According to official figures, 29 per cent of women aged from 15 to 49 years have been victims of physical violence at some point in their lives, 66% of girls are married before 18.
The country is in transition since April 2021. Efforts have been made to ensure women’s participation in different transition mechanisms. Chad has elaborated its first USCR1325 National Action Plan. It provides a framework for advancing women’s participation in peace and security including in the transition process. UNWOMEN is committed to support the implementation of peacebuilding processes during the transition in a shared responsibilities between the Government, technical partners and civil society organizations.
This function is part of UN Development Coordination Office’s (DCO) efforts, in collaboration with UN Women, to ensure senior level gender expertise and coordination support is available to the UNCT , in order to support coherent gender mainstreaming efforts and progress on gender equality across the SDGs and in alignment with national priorities nexus.
The Gender Equality Specialist will lead inclusive resource mobilization efforts to ensure that gender interventions in the country are funded sufficiently. The Gender Equality Specialist will also lead efforts to ensure that government institutions, the UNCT, civil society, the private sector, the media and other relevant actors take gender concerns into due account, by coordinating the advocacy efforts of relevant organizations. This includes ensuring effective leadership and engagement of women’s Civil Society Organizations in the design, development and implementation of UNSDCF products to ensure that they are gender responsive and reflect the diverse priorities and needs of women and girls. The Gender Equality Specialist plays a catalytic role to support UN Women mandate of GEWE in the country. It specifies targeted priorities that will be based on the Common Country Analysis (CCA) and identified main gender inequality issues. The Gender Equality Specialist will play a key role to promote women’s leadership and effective implementation of the Women peace and security agenda in Chad.
Reporting to the UN Women Regional Director and under the direct daily matrix supervision of the RC, the Gender Equality Specialist will support the development and strengthening of a strategic vision for gender mainstreaming for UN joint programming and provide coordination and technical and policy advisory support on women’s rights and gender equality to the Resident Coordinator (RC) and the UNCT . The Gender Specialist works in close collaboration with UN staff and UN agencies, government officials, technical advisors and experts, multi- and bi-lateral donors and civil society.
Functions
1- Provide guidance and coordinate with gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) as a guiding principle during the development and implementation of the Cooperation framework (including the development of the Roadmap, CCA and UNSDCF).
2- Coordinate the fostering coherent inter-agency planning, analysis and action for enhanced accountability to GEWE:
3- Lead the design of women, peace, and security programs and the development of relevant knowledge products:
4- Provide technical support to strategic partnerships building and resource mobilization:
5- Provide coordination support to GEWE intergovernmental and normative work with UNCT and national partners
6-Coordinate and advise the RC and UNCT in the analysis and monitoring of trends, opportunities and challenges around gender equality and women’s empowerment:
7- Coordinate interagency advocacy and facilitation of knowledge building and management:
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Core Competencies:
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FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:
Education and certification
Experience
Language Requirements
Application
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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.
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