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Mission and objectives
UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.
Context
The UNSDCF 2021-2025 for China, signed between the Government of China and participating UN entities, represents the strategic and programmatic framework for the UN to support the Government in its implementation of national development priorities and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To ensure an integrated and coordinated UN response to UNSDCF implementation, the UN in China established an internal coordination architecture consisting of cross-cutting Theme Groups and Results Groups. Overall, the coordination architecture aims to facilitate joint planning and programming under the UNSDCF outcome areas, enable more effective results reporting, and provide a platform for information exchange and identification of synergies in key areas in which multiple UN agencies work.
Youth development and youth engagement are cross-cutting issues in the UNSDCF implementation and the SDGs. The UNTGY is established as an integral part of the UNSDCF implementation to ensure that all UN agencies and their youth stakeholders can advance their strengths in all contexts, so that the UN’s work on youth issues is pursued in a coordinated, coherent, and holistic manner while involving dynamic youth voices, thus delivering as one.
The UNTGY is also an accountable body at the country level to best apply the UN Youth Strategy, which was launched in 2018 as an umbrella framework to guide the UN as it steps up its work with and for young people.
As of March 2024, the UNTGY members include (in no particular order): United Nations Resident Coordinator Office (RCO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), International Labor Organization (ILO), UN-Habitat, UN Women, The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Volunteers (UNV), World Food Program (WFP), World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and United Nations University (UNU).
Specifically, the UNTGY aims to:
• Provide opportunities for strategic discussion and exchange of information on the UN’s work with youth in China;
• Ensure the operationalization of the UN Strategy on Youth through ongoing agency-led initiatives, as well as through the development of new joint knowledge management, advocacy and partnership initiatives;
• Facilitate meaningful youth involvement and participation in all outcome areas of the UNSDCF.
Youth development and youth engagement are cross-cutting issues in the UNSDCF implementation and the SDGs. The UNTGY is established as an integral part of the UNSDCF implementation to ensure that all UN agencies and their youth stakeholders can advance their strengths in all contexts, so that the UN’s work on youth issues is pursued in a coordinated, coherent, and holistic manner while involving dynamic youth voices, thus delivering as one.
The UNTGY is also an accountable body at the country level to best apply the UN Youth Strategy, which was launched in 2018 as an umbrella framework to guide the UN as it steps up its work with and for young people.
As of March 2024, the UNTGY members include (in no particular order): United Nations Resident Coordinator Office (RCO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), International Labor Organization (ILO), UN-Habitat, UN Women, The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Volunteers (UNV), World Food Program (WFP), World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and United Nations University (UNU).
Specifically, the UNTGY aims to:
• Provide opportunities for strategic discussion and exchange of information on the UN’s work with youth in China;
• Ensure the operationalization of the UN Strategy on Youth through ongoing agency-led initiatives, as well as through the development of new joint knowledge management, advocacy and partnership initiatives;
• Facilitate meaningful youth involvement and participation in all outcome areas of the UNSDCF.
Task description
Under the direct supervision of the UNFPA Youth Officer, the National UN Associate Volunteer will:
Programme Coordination:
• Provide coordination, communication and administrative support to the Chair, the Secretariat, and members of the UNTGY to jointly deliver the annual work plan for the adolescent and youth programme, including but not limited to online and offline event organisation, advocacy activities, knowledge products, and youth engagement, etc.
• Provide assistance with coordination, communication, liaison, and administration to regular and ad hoc UNTGY meetings and joint activities.
Cross-agencies programme management:
• Provide technical and administrative support on knowledge products management such as the development of a youth situation analysis in coordination with youth, various UN agencies and external experts.
• As part of the UNTGY team, work across UN thematic and results groups on certain topics and occasions.
• Provide translation support for meetings and relevant documents from Chinese to English and vice versa.
Partnership Management:
• Support the development and partnership building on the Joint UN Youth Programme, including but not limited to event organization, resource mobilization, liaison with partners in diverse backgrounds, and document drafting and reporting.
• Assist the operationalization of the UN Strategy on Youth through ongoing agency-led initiatives, as well as through the development of new joint knowledge management, advocacy, and partnership initiatives.
Others:
• Perform other duties as required by the UNTGY Secretariat and the Chair.
• Support Adolescent and Youth (A&Y) programmes at UNFPA as required by the UNFPA Programme Analyst on A&Y.
Programme Coordination:
• Provide coordination, communication and administrative support to the Chair, the Secretariat, and members of the UNTGY to jointly deliver the annual work plan for the adolescent and youth programme, including but not limited to online and offline event organisation, advocacy activities, knowledge products, and youth engagement, etc.
• Provide assistance with coordination, communication, liaison, and administration to regular and ad hoc UNTGY meetings and joint activities.
Cross-agencies programme management:
• Provide technical and administrative support on knowledge products management such as the development of a youth situation analysis in coordination with youth, various UN agencies and external experts.
• As part of the UNTGY team, work across UN thematic and results groups on certain topics and occasions.
• Provide translation support for meetings and relevant documents from Chinese to English and vice versa.
Partnership Management:
• Support the development and partnership building on the Joint UN Youth Programme, including but not limited to event organization, resource mobilization, liaison with partners in diverse backgrounds, and document drafting and reporting.
• Assist the operationalization of the UN Strategy on Youth through ongoing agency-led initiatives, as well as through the development of new joint knowledge management, advocacy, and partnership initiatives.
Others:
• Perform other duties as required by the UNTGY Secretariat and the Chair.
• Support Adolescent and Youth (A&Y) programmes at UNFPA as required by the UNFPA Programme Analyst on A&Y.
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