UN WOMEN REPRESENTATIVE Port au Prince, HAITI
The 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 centre of all its efforts, the UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors. The scope of work of the UN Women Representative requires experience and in-depth understanding of gender equality and women’s empowerment issues, as well as management and pogramming expertise, to translate UN WOMEN's strategic plans into effective development initiatives and results. It also requires developing mutually reinforcing partnerships with relevant Government counterparts, UN organizations, CSOs, and with bilateral and non-traditional donors in order to promote inter-agency partnerships, support for UN reform, and mobilization of visibility and resources to advance gender equality and women's empowerment. UN WOMEN launched its programme in Haiti in 2004 following a series of consultations which enabled UN WOMEN to identify a number of sectors and issues as priority programmes for the next years. Given the political instability and limited state capacity, the programme focused on working with the UN system, governmental and non-governmental partners to strengthen the formulation and implementation of gender-responsive governance processes. The work of the programme focused on building a commitment and understanding of how gender equality contributes to building political stability; building capacities of the Haitian State and women’s organisations to lead and advance gender-responsive governance and developmental processes; increasing women’s participation in political processes at national and local levels; and strengthening the institutional capacity of government and civil society to combat violence against women. The earthquake of 2010 added significantly to the state challenges to ensure an enabling environment for gender equality as it did for civil society to build its developmental work. Post-earthquake, UN Women has necessarily had to re-orient its programme to immediate support to women and their families facing the security challenges especially in areas where the populations were displaced. UN Women’s programme has also been attempting to ensure that the reconstruction efforts and informed by an understanding of the differential gender impacts of the crisis and that resource flows meet the needs of women and their families. While there has been progress in building commitment to gender analysis and planning, the environment is challenged by chronic economic, social and political instability. UN Women’s role will continue to be to support gender-responsive coordination of the complex humanitarian and development processes, to ensure adequate resource flows for gender equality programming within the context of the reconstruction and the national programme priorities. Along with continued support to national commitments on MDGs/CEDAW/BPFA, UN WOMEN will promote national strategies on the implementation of SCRs 1325 and 1820. The underlying assumption of UN Women’s work in Haiti is that women’s economic autonomy, personal security and rights as well as their influence on the decision-making processes will advance where gender-sensitive state governance is accompanied by the elimination of non-egalitarian relationships within families and communities. The work addresses both women’s strategic needs for influencing state policies as well as responding to the practical needs of women for improved livelihoods, security and access to services. The UN WOMEN Representative for Haiti is responsible for ensuring effective execution of UN WOMEN's mandate and responsibility with respect to the advancement of women in Haiti. S/he is the first line of contact between UN WOMEN and its partners and clients, and will represent UN WOMEN in key events and meetings.
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Under the supervision of the Regional Programme Director, the Representative has the following key functions: Strategic Pogramme Development and Advocacy
Country Programme Management and Oversight
Representation and Partnership Building
Knowledge Management and Reporting
Impact of Results: The Representative impacts on success of the efforts to formulate and implement the UN Women Programme Strategy at the country level to promote and advance gender equality and women’s empowerment issues.
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Note: 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. All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment. | |
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UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. |
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