UN University Volunteer in Gender, Climate Change and DRR

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Mission and objectives

The Government of Nepal has adopted important normative frameworks for women’s human rights, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals, and UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820. These commitments are enshrined in the Constitution of Nepal and efforts are being taken to ensure that all laws and policies conform with the constitutional provisions on gender equality.
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.
Established by General Assembly resolution 64/289 of 2 July 2010 on system-wide coherence, with a mandate to assist the Member States and the United Nations system to progress more effectively and efficiently towards the goal of achieving gender equality, women’s empowerment, and upholding women’s rights, UN Women’s global programmatic priorities for the period 2018-2022 are: (a) a comprehensive and dynamic set of global norms, policies and standards on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is strengthened and implemented; (b) women lead, participate in and benefit equally from governance systems; (c) women have income security, decent work, and economic autonomy; (d) all women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence; and (e) women

Context

The Government of Nepal has adopted important normative frameworks for women’s human rights, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action, 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals, and UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820. These commitments are enshrined in the Constitution of Nepal and efforts are being taken to ensure that all laws and policies conform with the constitutional provisions on gender equality. 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. Established by General Assembly resolution 64/289 of 2 July 2010 on system-wide coherence, with a mandate to assist the Member States and the United Nations system to progress more effectively and efficiently towards the goal of achieving gender equality, women’s empowerment, and upholding women’s rights, UN Women’s global programmatic priorities for the period 2018-2022 are: (a) a comprehensive and dynamic set of global norms, policies and standards on gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is strengthened and implemented; (b) women lead, participate in and benefit equally from governance systems; (c) women have income security, decent work, and economic autonomy; (d) all women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence

Task description

Under the direct supervision of Programme Specialist (WPS, Humanitarian, DRR Programme),, the International University Volunteer will:
a. Support in build partnerships and developing resource mobilization strategies:
• Provide technical support to the development of partnerships and resource mobilization strategies
• Provide support in identifying potential programmatic areas of cooperation, based on strategic goals of UN Women Nepal, countries’ needs and donors’ priorities and develop the relevant partnerships
b. Support in advocating and facilitating knowledge building and management and communication
• Ensure documentation of the programme implementation process and products produced are following UN Women guidelines
• Support to contribute to the exchange of information and knowledge products internally and externally of the programme
• Support in organizing major advocacy campaigns, events, training, workshops and knowledge product
• Provide media advocacy support
• Support the organization with consultations, meetings, and training for the programme unit (including on virtual platforms).
• Support in developing background research for preparing thematic briefs, speaking points, periodic progress reports, meeting and events reports, etc.
• Support in developing in preparing case studies and human-interest stories
• Participation in partner meetings and stakeholder consultations
• Assist with documentation and record-keeping of project documents.
c. Provide technical support on Gender and DRR and climate change programme/portfolios:
• Support in developing different tools
• Support in analyzing and document climate risk trends in Nepal from a gender perspective
• Support to identify and advise on strategic entry points and emerging areas of work on UN Women’s climate change, DRR and humanitarian programme
• Support development of new areas of programming in the country related to gender responsive DRR and Climate change, including drafting of project proposals, TORs and documents, and providing support to UN Women country offices.
• Support country office with innovative approaches for developing women’s resilience to climate change by introducing new skills, technology, livelihood options, entrepreneurship.
• Provide support to monitoring, and reporting. This includes preparation of analytical reports, briefing notes, background papers, summaries, correspondence and talking points; preparation and finalization of knowledge resources, collection and analysis of data, and providing in-puts to quarterly reporting.
• Support coordination with UN System, Development Partners.
• Support coordination efforts with UN System, International Development Partners to support mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment, raise potential problems and provide solutions.
• Support to guide to establish performance indicators, and monitoring achievement of results in line with the workplan
• Support in identifying capacity building needs and support partners through technical assistance, mentoring, training, cross-partner learning, and capacity development initiatives • Provide coordination support and participate in meetings including with other UN Agencies, government and development partners
• Support in providing inputs to advocacy, knowledge building and communication efforts specific to all governance programme
• Support with background research for project briefs and presentations
• Support coordination and organization of advocacy activities and campaigns events, training, workshops, and knowledge products.
• Assist with inputs towards the development of knowledge management products
• Assist with documentation and collation of best practices and review of relevant literature (including laws and policies)
• Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.
Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:
• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day);
• Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country;
• Provide annual and end of assignment self- reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities.
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.;
• Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers;
• Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.