UN Women is the global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to her full potential. We are trusted partners for advocates and decision-makers from all walks of life, and a leader in the effort to achieve gender equality.
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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.
Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates the 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’s triple mandate, along with its global network and deep policy and programming expertise, continues to endow the Entity with a unique capacity to: (i) support Member States to strengthen global norms and standards for gender equality and women’s empowerment, and mainstream gender perspectives in other thematic areas; (ii) promote coordination and coherence across the UN system to enhance accountability and results for gender equality and women’s empowerment; and (iii) undertake operational activities to support Member States, upon their request, in translating global norms and standards into legislation, policies and strategies at country level.
UN Women plays an innovative and catalytic role in the State of Palestine since its inception in 1997 (as UNIFEM). In line with the national priorities, the work of UN Women for the period 2023-2025 is aligned with three of the Palestine United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework’s (UNSDCF) outcomes:
Its three-year Strategic Note supports the efforts to achieve measurable results in country in terms of four UN Women global Strategic Plan impacts (2022-2025): (SP Impact 1). Governance and participation in public life; (SP Impact 2). Women’s Economic Empowerment; (SP Impact 3). Ending Violence Against Women and Girls and; SP Impact 4. Women peace and security, Humanitarian & Disaster Risk Reduction.
The UN Women sub-office in the Gaza Strip addresses the challenges of dealing with gender inequalities in a conflict-stricken area and a context of internal political instability where gender disparities and disadvantages have become considerably more pronounced over the past years. The UN Women programmes in Gaza have built on the experience of humanitarian and developmental actors in Palestine, as well as lessons learnt through research, programme implementation and evaluations. They were designed to respond to national priorities and international commitments towards the advancement of gender equality and women’s empowerment. They also align with the UN Women Strategic Plan, the UNSDCF for Palestine and the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). UN Women’s contributions at the NEXUS of peace, development, and humanitarian work is well on display in the WPS-HA work. The Gaza team is very well positioned to capitalize on UN Women’s coordination role, as so many peace, development, and humanitarian processes are focused on Gaza.
Under the overall guidance and direction of the UN Women Special Representative, the Head of the Sub-Office exercises overall responsibility for overseeing the management, development, implementation, monitoring and reporting of programmes for the Gaza Sub-Office as well for managing the human and financial resources of the team in Gaza. This includes providing technical support to the implementation of the interventions in Gaza, overseeing the monitoring of progress against mutually agreed results frameworks and performance indicators, monitoring the financial situation to ensure adherence to delivery rates and utilization of resources to meet agreed upon targets and results, reviewing and developing partnerships and resource mobilization strategies; and leading knowledge management efforts on WPSHA. She/he works in close collaboration with the Country Office team, UN Women RO and HQ staff, Government officials, multi and bi-lateral donors and civil society ensuring successful UN Women interventions’ implementation under her/his portfolio. At the same time, mandate, the Sub-Office Gaza Head will lead substantively of Humanitarian, Peace, Development Nexus portfolio.
The Head of the Sub-Office supervises and leads the Gaza team.
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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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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.
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