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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.
Afghanistan has emerged as one of the world’s most complex emergencies. The crisis dynamics in the country are multi-layered, and Afghanistan’s people are facing the devastating effects of successive decades of conflict, increasing poverty, economic decline and natural disasters, all of which are amplified by the ongoing Taliban restrictions on women and girls. As per the Humanitarian Response Plan 2024, 23.7 million Afghans – more than half of the country’s estimated population of 42 million – are projected to be in need of humanitarian assistance in 2024.
The UN Women Afghanistan Country Office is working actively to provide strategic leadership and technical support to ensure the humanitarian response fully responds to the specific needs and priorities of women and girls through gender-responsive humanitarian architecture as well as targeted programming. Within the worsening humanitarian context in Afghanistan and multiple restrictions on women’s rights and movement, including the bans on women humanitarian workers and women CSOs, additional emphasis is being placed on monitoring, mapping and mitigating operational impediments that challenge principled humanitarian access to women and girls. UN Women has been in Afghanistan for two decades. UN Women’s programming approach is informed by analysis of the political, economic and humanitarian situation, risks to and capacities of partner organizations, and needs of Afghan women and girls. UN Women Afghanistan currently has four key programme priorities: (1) Gender in Humanitarian Action, (2) Ending Violence Against Women, (3) Women’s Economic Empowerment, and (4) Women, Peace and Security. UN Women Afghanistan operates through its main office in Kabul and five sub-offices located in the provinces Balkh, Bamyan, Herat, Kandahar and Nangarhar.
Within the Gender in Humanitarian Action coordination mandate, UN Women is the permanent co-chair of the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group (GiHA WG) and works closely with its co-chair, CARE International, to provide technical, advisory and programmatic support to the HCT and the Inter-Cluster Coordination Team (ICCT). The GiHA WG is accountable to and reports to the HCT and provides close collaboration, communication and coordination across clusters and technical working groups, in Kabul and in the regions, to ensure gender analysis and advocacy are adequately coordinated, disseminated, and utilized, through the ICCT coordinated by OCHA, including for strategic planning purposes such as Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) and broad response strategies and humanitarian programming modalities.
Under the overall guidance of the Special Representative and working closely with the programme managers and heads of sub-offices, the GiHA Coordination and Access Specialist will lead the work of the GiHA working group, actively participate in the Humanitarian Access Working Group (HAWG) and provide UN Women programmes with emergency scale up and access support, including through engagement with de facto authorities. The role aims to provide capacity building to humanitarian actors, establish and strengthen partnerships with stakeholders, and develop data-driven relevant knowledge products on humanitarian action, including the development of gender analysis/alerts for the GiHA WG, as well as mapping gendered access issues and supporting ACO in navigating these, while increasing its contribution to the humanitarian response. The GiHA coordination and access specialist works closely with all programme teams as well as with interagency humanitarian groups and systems to ensure timely gender coordination support.
Provide leadership and secretariat support to the GiHA Working Group:
Provide capacity-building support to the Humanitarian Country Team, ICCT and clusters, technical working groups, and humanitarian partners:
Develop GiHA WG data-driven knowledge products and ensure knowledge management for a gender-responsive humanitarian response:
Manage advocacy efforts of the working group through inter-agency coordination:
Provide technical contribution and leadership to UN Women’s access and engagement strategies:
Establish and strengthen strategic partnerships with key stakeholders, the international community and humanitarian partners:
Provide technical contributions and leadership to the design of UN Women’s humanitarian interventions to ensure scale up when crises occur:
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.
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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.
Inclusion Statement:
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.
If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.
UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.)
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