Translate project related documents from English into Russian

Details

Mission and objectives

UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, works to: End unmet need for family planning End maternal death End violence and harmful practices against women and girls It does this by: Securing reproductive health care for women and young people in more than 150 countries. Providing life-saving help for pregnant women, especially the one million facing life-threatening complications each month. Ensuring reliable access to modern contraceptives for some 20 million women. Fighting to end gender-based violence, which affects 1 in 3 women. Campaigning for the 70 million girls who face marriage before 18 in the next five years. Advocating the end of female genital mutilation, which harms 3 million girls yearly. Delivering safe birth supplies, dignity kits and other life-saving products to survivors of conflicts and disasters. The USAID Partnering for Resilience Program is implemented jointly by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with four UN sub-partner agencies: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). Within the framework of the project, UNFPA aims to strengthen the cross-border referral system through establishment of effective mechanisms for timely detection of high-risk pregnant women and their proper referrals within and outside the Abkhaz territory.

Context

Georgia is a unique country, and Abkhazia region is a unique (humanitarian) operation. Sukhumi is the capital of the breakaway region of Abkhazia and is located on a wide bay of the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Around 67% of papulation consists of ethnic Abkhaz’s, with the population of some other ethnic groups like Russians, Armenians, Greeks and Georgians. Sukhumi hosts the presence of international community. The USAID Partnering for Resilience Program is implemented jointly by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with other four UN sub-partner agencies: FAO, UNICEF and UN Women. Within the framework of the project, UNFPA aims to strengthen the cross-border referral system through establishment of effective mechanisms for timely detection of high-risk pregnant women and their proper referrals within and outside the Abkhaz territory. Support provided by Online Volunteers through translating project-related documents will contribute to better understanding and acceptance of the documents by local stakeholders, strengthen communication among project partners, and thus facilitate the establishment of the cross-border referral mechanism.

Task description

We are seeking 1-2 Online Volunteers to support us by translating project related documents primarily from English into Russian. To this end the Online Volunteers are asked: - To translate the documents, maximum one page per week. Examples could be agendas/programmes for working group meetings, terms of reference, correspondence letters, standards operating procedures, etc. - Ensure the translation is concise, in line with our communications guidelines, and fits the audience - Support project manager in other administrative matters involving the two languages, for example proofreading and editing already translated documents. The selected Online Volunteers will be provided with the document in the original language and will receive guidance on the target audience and our communications guidelines as well as other guidance as needed. The Online Volunteers will have the opportunity to build connections with at UNFPA Georgia Partnership for Resilience Project in Abkhazia, Georgia and learn about the ways in which the translated product contributes to strengthen the health referral mechanism in the region.