UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men and the diverse gender as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
All human development and human rights issues involve gender dimensions. UN Women globally focuses on key priority areas fundamental to women’s equality and can unlock progress across the board. UN Women’s priority areas include increasing women’s leadership and participation in political spaces, ending violence against women, enhancing women’s economic empowerment, engaging in all aspects of women’s peace and security processes, making gender equality central to national planning and budgeting through Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) mechanisms and advancing gender in intergovernmental processes.
UN Women’s India Country Office (ICO) based in New Delhi, India, works towards ensuring that policies and programmes at the national and state level are gender responsive. In the state of Madhya Pradesh, UN Women works closely with the Government of Madhya Pradesh to enhance gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE). It works closely with the Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board and Police Department on women’s safety through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in the Tourism Sector. It supports the MPTB, Government of Madhya Pradesh in the design, strategy and implementation and monitoring of gender responsive interventions towards meeting the above goals. Specifically, under the Board’s project ‘Safe Tourism Destination for Women in Madhya Pradesh’ to be implemented in a phased manner at 50 tourist destinations in the state in three years, UN Women will support key project interventions to build women-friendly tourism destinations through community participation, public awareness, ensuring enabling environment and generation of livelihoods through upskilling women and girls at tourist places. This will also entail capacity building of various stakeholders, generation of information, education and communication resources, self-defence training and safety audit of tourist destinations. It also works with Women and Child Development Department on gender equality, women safety and gender responding budgeting and economic empowerment of women through an MOU on skilling and employment.
The technical expertise will focus on strengthening gender data and SDG monitoring, gender responsive planning and budgeting initiatives, prevention and response mechanisms for women’s safety, skilling and employment opportunities. Leveraging on the institutional capacity, past work and established networks and partnerships, the focus will be on creating an enabling environment by building capacities of key stakeholders to address gender issues and be instrumental in making the government plans and budgets gender responsive.
Within this context, UN Women seeks the service of a \"Policy Specialist – Gender\" to provide technical expertise and policy advisory support on gender responsive policy and governance to the nodal departments for gender equality and women’s empowerment in the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Deputy Representative, UN Women India Country Office and day to day reporting and guidance and supervision of the Director, Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board (MPTB) the Policy Specialist – Gender will have the following specific tasks:
Leadership, Management and Coordination:
Technical advisory to the State Government on advancing gender equality and SDGs:
Strengthening Coordination and Gender Based Violence (GBV) Efforts at the state level:
Facilitating Training and Capacity Development of relevant constituents on GBV:
Programme implementation, Documentation, Research and Analysis:
Facilitate training and capacity development of relevant constituents on gender mainstreaming:
Partnership Management and Networking:
Any other duties as assigned by supervisor.
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Application Information: Interested applicants should apply to this announcement through UNDP jobs site: jobs.undp.org.
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In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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