Gender Associate- Researcher

Details

Mission and objectives

Assisting 91.4 million people in 83 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. As the international community has committed to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030, one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance lie at the heart of the struggle to break the cycle of hunger and poverty. Lebanon currently hosts the largest per capital population of Syrian refugees in the region and worldwide, with 1.5 million registered Syrian refugees. In response to this large number of refugees, WFP works to support approximately 1 million Syrian refugees with regular food assistance using its e-card systems and other activities. Program implementation is supported by substantial analytical research, including annual vulnerability assessments of Syrian refugees, market and financial assessments, targeting and validation exercises, and monitoring and evaluation. WFP also supports Lebanon’s safety net program for the poorest Lebanese, the National Poverty Targeting Programme (NPTP), through the e-card system and a package of technical assistance to strengthen Government capacity to effectively implement the program. As the Syrian conflict persists, and due to the current economic crisis in Lebanon, efforts are ongoing to scale up this operation while strengthening the quality of the existing e-cards system to make it more adaptable and flexible to the needs of the population WFP serves, as well as scaling up emergency food assistance using food commodities. Strengthening partnerships with Government, local entities, and donors is also part of WFP Lebanon Country Office’s programme strategy.

Context

Within delegated authority and under the direct supervision of the gender officer, the incumbent will be responsible for supporting the gender team in WFP Lebanon Country Office in strengthening gender equality and social inclusion efforts, based on all relevant WFP policies and guidelines across the Lebanon Country Office activities. In addition, the UNV will focus on collecting, organising and analysing data including literature reviews, research design, tool design, data analysis and discussion, and generation of recommendations.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of the gender officer, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: • Support the team efforts to integrate gender and social inclusion into WFP Lebanon’s pro-grammes. • Assist in the design and the implementation of the Gender and Social Inclusion knowledge management products • Assist in research and analyses, including desk reviews, as well as compile good gender equality / transformative practices in humanitarian and development contexts. • Conduct qualitative and quantitative data collection and generate reports with the identi-fied gaps and recommendations • Assist in completing gender analysis and present comprehensive data on: gender norms, gender roles and responsibilities, decision making and leadership, access to services and in-formation, safety and protection, coping mechanisms, as well as needs, constraints and opportunities of girls, boys, young women and young men. • Assist in Developing a research framework for gender studies (objectives, methodologies, analysis framework…).