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Mission and objectives
UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.
UNICEF is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and strives to establish children's rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behaviour towards children.
UNICEF insists that the survival, protection and development of children are universal development imperatives that are integral to human progress.
UNICEF mobilizes political will and material resources to help countries, particularly developing countries, ensure a "first call for children" and to build their capacity to form appropriate policies and deliver services for children and their families.
UNICEF is committed to ensuring special protection for the most disadvantaged children – victims of war, disasters, extreme poverty, all forms of violence and exploitation, and those with disabilities.
UNICEF responds in emergencies to protect the rights of children. In coordination with United Nations partners and humanitarian agencies, UNICEF makes its unique facilities for rapid response available to its partners to relieve the suffering of children and those who provide their care.
UNICEF is non-partisan and its cooperation is free of discrimination. In everything it does, the most disadvantaged children and the countries in greatest need have priority.
UNICEF aims, through its country programmes, to promote the equal rights of women and girls and to support their full participation in the political, social and economic development of their communities.
UNICEF works with all its partners towards the attainment of the sustainable human development goals adopted by the world community and the realization of the vision of peace and social progress enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations.
Context
For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, safe drinking water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
UNICEF’s commitment to gender quality and the empowerment of women and girls is central to many of its policy and programme documents and the results are realized in its implementation reports as well as organizational practices. UNICEF’s mission statement also expresses that the organization aims, through its country programmes, to promote the rights of children, women, and girls as well as to support their full participation in the political, social, and economic development of their communities.
In the same light, the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is fundamental to the mandate of UNICEF emanating from various global instruments such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action among others. To realize this, the UNICEF Gender Policy (2021-2030), and Gender Action Plan (GAP III 2022 - 2025) are key documents that elaborate the organizational mandate and commitment to gender equality and facilitate the strengthening of gender mainstreaming in all areas of UNICEF's work.
UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan (GAP) 2022–2025 considers gender equality as both an organizational priority and a cross-cutting core value that guides programmatic work across its five Goal Areas. The GAP 2022–2025 outlines the gender dimensions of programmatic results that apply to development, humanitarian, peacebuilding, and high-income contexts. The GAP also establishes benchmarks that promote and track gender equality within UNICEF’s institutional policies across the organization, to ensure accountability.
This UNV assignment is part of UNICEF Angola’s gender programming agenda, which has been recently redefined through the GPR review process in 2022. The Gender UNV will support the implementation of the Country Office-defined annual Gender Action Plan, and provide critical advice, guidance and capacity to gender-related activities within the work plan, including but not limited to qualitative and quantitative analysis and reporting, youth network events, communicating with a gender lens, advocacy and support to gender monitoring.
The Gender UNV will support the Gender Specialist Consultant in organizing and coordinating the Gender Working Group (GWG), including minuting the quarterly meetings, providing ad-hoc support to activities being led or monitored by the GWG, supporting gender monitoring of GWG activities, coordinating and providing support to Communications and Partnerships in regards to new partners, especially youth and women’s networks, and contribute to providing a gender-lens to CO writing pieces (reports, press releases, human-interest stories, etc.).
UNICEF’s commitment to gender quality and the empowerment of women and girls is central to many of its policy and programme documents and the results are realized in its implementation reports as well as organizational practices. UNICEF’s mission statement also expresses that the organization aims, through its country programmes, to promote the rights of children, women, and girls as well as to support their full participation in the political, social, and economic development of their communities.
In the same light, the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is fundamental to the mandate of UNICEF emanating from various global instruments such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action among others. To realize this, the UNICEF Gender Policy (2021-2030), and Gender Action Plan (GAP III 2022 - 2025) are key documents that elaborate the organizational mandate and commitment to gender equality and facilitate the strengthening of gender mainstreaming in all areas of UNICEF's work.
UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan (GAP) 2022–2025 considers gender equality as both an organizational priority and a cross-cutting core value that guides programmatic work across its five Goal Areas. The GAP 2022–2025 outlines the gender dimensions of programmatic results that apply to development, humanitarian, peacebuilding, and high-income contexts. The GAP also establishes benchmarks that promote and track gender equality within UNICEF’s institutional policies across the organization, to ensure accountability.
This UNV assignment is part of UNICEF Angola’s gender programming agenda, which has been recently redefined through the GPR review process in 2022. The Gender UNV will support the implementation of the Country Office-defined annual Gender Action Plan, and provide critical advice, guidance and capacity to gender-related activities within the work plan, including but not limited to qualitative and quantitative analysis and reporting, youth network events, communicating with a gender lens, advocacy and support to gender monitoring.
The Gender UNV will support the Gender Specialist Consultant in organizing and coordinating the Gender Working Group (GWG), including minuting the quarterly meetings, providing ad-hoc support to activities being led or monitored by the GWG, supporting gender monitoring of GWG activities, coordinating and providing support to Communications and Partnerships in regards to new partners, especially youth and women’s networks, and contribute to providing a gender-lens to CO writing pieces (reports, press releases, human-interest stories, etc.).
Task description
Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Chief of Child Protection or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UNV Gender Officer will:
(I) Support the generation of evidence and scale-up of gender-responsive and gender-transformative programming across UNICEF’s Country Programme.
(ii) Strengthen the capacity of the Country Programme to effectively engage on Gender Equality, including through technical assistance, development of guidance documents, and training.
(iii) Organize and support inter-agency coordination and partnership with civil society organizations
(I) Support the generation of evidence and scale-up of gender-responsive and gender-transformative programming across UNICEF’s Country Programme
• Carry out project planning, data analysis and publication reviews with a gender lens.
• Contribute to research and analysis and ensure findings are widely known/ adopted and integrated within country programming.
• Support monitoring and evaluation of cross-sectoral programming increasing protection and agency of adolescent girls and young women and addressing gender discriminatory social norms.
• Ensure funding proposals and regional advocacy include intentional focus on gender equality.
(ii) Strengthen the capacity of the Country Programme to effectively engage on Gender Equality, including through technical assistance, development of guidance documents, and training
• Support knowledge sharing, communication, and networking of the Gender Focal Points.
• Participate in cross-sectoral collaboration and coordination on key programmatic results on gender, ensuring coherence, maximization of synergies and efficiency in utilization of resources and delivery of results on gender and girls’ empowerment. Notably, support the implementation of the CO gender action plan and the key activities to be implemented and monitored using the Gender Working Group (GWG), with particular attention to the multisectoral flagship activity.
• Support gender mainstreaming within capacity-building initiatives.
• Facilitate the effective implementation of the UNICEF GAP III, guidelines, and tools in on-going programmes, support the development of strategies, evidence-based arguments in the area of gender and inclusion to strengthen UNICEF’s work.
(iii) Organize and support inter-agency coordination and partnership with civil society organizations
• Collaborate with other UN agencies and partners to enhance robust gender results in sectoral programmes at the country level; participate in external meetings on gender integration into sectoral and cross-sectoral results.
• Strengthen and expand inter-agency meetings/ events on gender programming to collaborate with inter-agency partners on gender programmes/ projects. Identify and synthesize global and regional best practices and lessons learned for knowledge development, innovative methods to advance gender results.
• Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.
(I) Support the generation of evidence and scale-up of gender-responsive and gender-transformative programming across UNICEF’s Country Programme.
(ii) Strengthen the capacity of the Country Programme to effectively engage on Gender Equality, including through technical assistance, development of guidance documents, and training.
(iii) Organize and support inter-agency coordination and partnership with civil society organizations
(I) Support the generation of evidence and scale-up of gender-responsive and gender-transformative programming across UNICEF’s Country Programme
• Carry out project planning, data analysis and publication reviews with a gender lens.
• Contribute to research and analysis and ensure findings are widely known/ adopted and integrated within country programming.
• Support monitoring and evaluation of cross-sectoral programming increasing protection and agency of adolescent girls and young women and addressing gender discriminatory social norms.
• Ensure funding proposals and regional advocacy include intentional focus on gender equality.
(ii) Strengthen the capacity of the Country Programme to effectively engage on Gender Equality, including through technical assistance, development of guidance documents, and training
• Support knowledge sharing, communication, and networking of the Gender Focal Points.
• Participate in cross-sectoral collaboration and coordination on key programmatic results on gender, ensuring coherence, maximization of synergies and efficiency in utilization of resources and delivery of results on gender and girls’ empowerment. Notably, support the implementation of the CO gender action plan and the key activities to be implemented and monitored using the Gender Working Group (GWG), with particular attention to the multisectoral flagship activity.
• Support gender mainstreaming within capacity-building initiatives.
• Facilitate the effective implementation of the UNICEF GAP III, guidelines, and tools in on-going programmes, support the development of strategies, evidence-based arguments in the area of gender and inclusion to strengthen UNICEF’s work.
(iii) Organize and support inter-agency coordination and partnership with civil society organizations
• Collaborate with other UN agencies and partners to enhance robust gender results in sectoral programmes at the country level; participate in external meetings on gender integration into sectoral and cross-sectoral results.
• Strengthen and expand inter-agency meetings/ events on gender programming to collaborate with inter-agency partners on gender programmes/ projects. Identify and synthesize global and regional best practices and lessons learned for knowledge development, innovative methods to advance gender results.
• Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.
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