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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.
UN Women has entered into an Agreement with Global Affairs Canada (GAC) to implement a project on women’s economic empowerment in the Eastern Caribbean. The project, “Build Back Equal” (BBE), which is led by UN Women and jointly implemented with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is being implemented from 2022 – 2025, and will contribute to women’s economic resilience in the Eastern Caribbean by taking a comprehensive approach to addressing the barriers women face to economic empowerment and providing increased sustainable opportunities for women’s economic growth. Government and the private sector in four Eastern Caribbean countries will benefit from strengthened capacity and access to financing to sustainably alleviate women’s unpaid care work burden through subsidized quality childcare. Globally, women work 2.8 hours more than men on unpaid care and domestic work. This implies that women, and particularly the poorest and most disadvantaged, have the double burden of both paid and unpaid work, or in other words they are often more time poor than men. Women bear the multiple burdens of productive and reproductive responsibilities that severely limits their economic opportunities and remains a barrier to their engagement in paid work. Data on unpaid care work and specifically to measure SDG Indicator 5.4.1 (Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location) is sparse in CARICOM. However, the UN Women MCO-Caribbean is leading efforts to close this data gap in the region. Unpaid care and domestic work is usually invisible in policies and budgets because they are not part of the conventional definition and measurement of the economy (Sharp, 2003).
With support from the BBE project, women’s livelihoods will be made more resilient as most marginalized women, including VAW survivors and elderly women will have their livelihoods strengthened through increased access to comprehensive social protection packages (that will also have a focus on reducing unpaid care work), and reliable referral pathways which are shock responsive and include sexual and reproductive health services. Capacities will be strengthened across health care systems to ensure the availability of quality sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to women and youth.
The project’s overall theory of change is that if women in Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, especially the most marginalized, have increased access to subsidised childcare, reliable sexual and reproductive health services, to climate and shock-responsive social protection which includes gender-based violence services and opportunities for and access to innovative financing, digitization and climate-smart and environmentally-friendly practices to grow their businesses; then they will experience economic resilience and their countries will benefit from their increased productivity to Build Forward Equal.
Under the overall supervision of the Deputy Representative, and day-to-day supervision by the Senior Social Worker in the Public Assistance Programme in Dominica, two (2) Project Coordinators are being recruited. Project Coordinators will support the implementation of a 2-year pilot programme to provide priority access, on a strictly voluntary basis, for women beneficiaries with childcare responsibility to childcare, literacy, education support and job skills training and healthcare (including mental and sexual and reproductive health care services). They will also Collect primary data to support a baseline and endline study of women beneficiaries of public assistance access to childcare, housing and basic utilities such as water and electricity, ICTs; and level of educational attainment, employment status, skills training, and health status.
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UN Women Project Coordinator (2) (Homebased) Dominica UN Women Jobs 2024
UN Women looking for “Project Coordinator (2) (Homebased)”. Applicants with an Advanced degree may apply on or before 21-Jul-24.
The UN Women has published a job vacancy announcement on 11/07/2024 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of Project Coordinator (2) (Homebased) to be based in Roseau, Dominica. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org
Company Name: UN Women
Job Title: Project Coordinator (2) (Homebased)
Duty Station: Roseau, Dominica
Country: Dominica
Application Deadline: 21-Jul-24