GBV Information Management Officer

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Mission and objectives

The United Nations Population Fund is the UN agency which leads global efforts to help ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.
UNFPA’s programmes work to ensure that women, adolescents, young people and marginalized populations, including Persons with Disabilities (PWD), are empowered to make decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive health and rights and able to live free of discrimination and violence.

Context

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments to accelerating progress towards realizing the International Conference of Population and Development ( ICPD) and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon the UN Member States, organizations, and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recovering lost gains, and realizing our goals.
Afghanistan faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with very real risk of systematic collapse and human catastrophe. The crisis is feared to rollback development gains of the last twenty years. In response to the humanitarian situation, UNFPA in Afghanistan works towards increasing the availability and use of integrated Sexual and Reproductive Health and Psychosocial Support (SRH/PSS) services (including family planning, maternal health and psychosocial support) that are gender- responsive and meet human rights standards for quality of care and equity in access.

Task description

Under the overall guidance of the UNFPA Afghanistan Country Representative, the Gender Base Violence GBV Sub Cluster Information Management Officer (GBVSC IMO) shall work under the supervision of the GBV Sub-Cluster Coordinator. The GBVSC IMO, will provide direct technical support to the GBV sub-cluster in mapping, analyzing, strategizing, sharing and using GBV-related data in collaboration with the regional GBV Information Manager. She/he/they will also provide training to partners on ethical and safe data collection and management to fulfil the reporting requirements of the GBV sub-cluster.
The GBVSC IMO is also responsible for leading the assessment for feasibility of Gender Based Violence Information Management System GBVIMS/GBVIMS+, as well as supporting the sub-cluster in identifying other appropriate, safe and ethical data management processes.
Scope of work:
The GBVSC IMO shall provide on- and off-site field support to the GBV sub-cluster coordination team and the interagency partners to meet their information management responsibilities. The specific responsibilities include:
● Identify, seek out and analyze different types and combinations of data sources (quantitative and qualitative) to improve understanding of the GBV needs and service delivery environment.
● Carry out the required analysis and calculations to produce the GBV sub-cluster humanitarian key figures for the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and the subsequent Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) including, needs severity analysis, People in Need (PiN), response targets and the financial requirements (activity based or projects based calculations as required by OCHA).
● Conduct regular progress and gaps analysis and formulate priorities based on analysis findings to support service delivery (such as geographic targeting, types of services required) to fill gaps and avoid duplication.
● Facilitate evidence-based appeals for funding, resource mobilization, visibility and advocacy.
● Develop regular information management products to visualize and report analysis findings on needs and services. (e.g., dashboards & service mappings etc.)
● Organizing and maintaining safe and accessible systems for exchange of information about GBV standards/guidelines, assessments, resource mobilization processes and coordination.
● Coordinating with other sector IMOs to maintain high standards of information management in line with humanitarian principles and guidelines.
● Using information management systems and technology to support development and maintain the key deliverables for the GBV sub-cluster to fulfil its core functions (e.g. 3/4/5Ws; assessments).
● Applying GBV guiding principles (safety, non-discrimination, confidentiality and informed consent) at all times as keystones of safe and ethical data management, including not seeking or disclosing unauthorized information that may be misperceived as prevalence of GBV.
● Train partners as needed on ethical and safe data management so that they are able to participate effectively in the information exchange and to ensure that the quality of information submitted by partners meets requirements for effective analysis.
● The GBVSC IMO will work closely with the global GBVIMS technical team on the delivery of rollout training and shall be responsible for delivering step-down training and ongoing coaching and mentoring to GBVIMS users where modules shall be rolled out.