Gender Specialist across Humanitarian Development Peace nexus

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.
Multiple, compounding crises are causing severe hardship to people residing in Lebanon, aggravating existing imbalances, inequalities, vulnerabilities, and risks, particularly for the most vulnerable. Lebanon continues to host the largest number of refugees per capita in the world, adding further pressures on already deteriorated basic services. In addition, military actions continue to escalate in the South of Lebanon since 8 October 2023, that has led to the killing and injuring of civilians in the south of Lebanon and the internal displacement of tens of thousands of people.
Despite commitments in Lebanon’s NAP 2019-2023, and despite a vibrant feminist movement and the fact that Lebanon historically was one of the first countries in the Arab region to grant women their right to vote in 1952, women in Lebanon continue to face structural discrimination manifested in the underrepresentation of women in political leadership position, violence against women and low labour force participation and access to decent jobs 1. Globally, Lebanon ranks 144 of 146 countries on women’s political empowerment in the 2023 Global Gender Gap Report (GGGR) of the World Economic Forum 2, and lags far behind its Arab peers, ranking 15 of 17 countries in the region in female parliamentarians 3. Furthermore, the law codifies gender inequalities across a range of issues, including those related to personal status, access to political offices, protection, and nationality, along with a myriad of other factors impacting women’s equal access to political leadership, such as the challenging electoral framework, patriarchal political parties, the sectarian system, high cost of election campaigning, media bias, and entrenched negative social norms and gender stereotypes 4. Lebanon’s National Action Plan on the UNSCR1325 (NAP 2019-2023) prioritizes the inclusion of women in all aspects of conflict-prevention and peacebuilding, women’s representation in governance, and in the security sector 5.
Reporting to the Country Representative and working in close collaboration with the Programme Management Specialist, the Gender Specialist across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) nexus is responsible for capacity development on gender mainstreaming in HDP frameworks. Specifically: a) to lead and support coordination, partnership building and resource mobilization strategies in support of mainstreaming gender in HDP nexus programmes; and b) to advocate and facilitate knowledge building and management and communication on gender mainstreaming in HDP nexus programmes.