Supporting the translation of key documents of the Gender Equality Seal for Development certification process from English to Arabic.

Details

Mission and objectives

The United Nations Development Programme, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. BPPS’s staff provides technical advice to Country Offices; advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government and civil society dialogues, South-South and Triangular cooperation initiatives, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. BPPS works closely with UNDP’s Crisis Response Unit (CRU) to support emergency and crisis response. BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP’s development programmes. BPPS assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. BPPS supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative, knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts.

Context

The Gender Equality Seal for UNDP Country Offices promotes an organizational culture of equality and incentivizes country offices to meet standards by integrating gender into all aspects of development work. It is UNDP’s flagship initiative to build capacities and support transformational gender equality results. The Seal serves as a learning platform to help Country Offices to establish baselines, fine-tune strategies, address gender gaps, document innovations and showcase the impacts of interventions for gender equality. Unlike the usual “gender audit” or “gender evaluation”, the Seal process creates an inclusive and open space for free thinking and stimulates out-of-the-box thinking. The Gender Equality Seal benchmarking exercise proposes three levels of certification: Gold, Silver and Bronze.

Task description

We are looking for Online Volunteers to translate some documents and tools related to the programme from English to Arabic. The main documents will be the Gender Seal Benchmarking Matrix and Comprehensive Benchmarking Matrix. The Online Volunteers will need to bear in mind that these tools will be used globally, so the English language must be as universal as possible. We will set together a work plan with specific timeframes according to your availability and our needs. We will keep tight contact to ensure you can consult as on any question you might have. We need volunteers that are committed and precise, and if possible, has some previous knowledge about development matters, and better if they have some experience on gender equality, though it is not compulsory.