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Job-ID: V000056913 Location: Yaoundé Assignment period: 04/01/2024 - 09/30/2026 Field: Governance Type of employment: full-time Application deadline: 11/26/2023Promoting gender equality is an important goal of the German development cooperation, and gender mainstreaming is a standard in GIZ's work, including in Cameroon. The GIZ Regional Office's measure \"Promoting portfolio-wide feminist development cooperation in Cameroon through exchange and networking formats\" is intended to promote the strategic gender objectives and facilitate effective gender mainstreaming by GIZ projects and their partner organisations. It has three main objectives: 1) Advice and support in the development and implementation of a portfolio-wide gender analysis and gender strategy in cooperation with the embassy, the Reconstruction Loan Corporation and the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources in Cameroon; 2) Supporting the networking of different actors promoting gender equality through exchange formats to increase the effectiveness of their women's empowerment work; 3) Strengthening the gender-transformative work of GIZ projects and, if possible, for German development cooperation and its partner organisations by providing advice in the field of gender mainstreaming in the sense of a feminist development policy.
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