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Job-ID: V000057486 Location: Bertoua Assignment period: 04/01/2024 - 05/31/2026 Field: Strategy and Management advice Type of employment: full-time Application deadline: 01/14/2024The EU-co-funded project 'Promoting gender-transformative approaches to strengthen the resilience of Cameroon's civil society, with a special focus on the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon', is part of the cluster 'Decentralisation and Good Governance' and the EU's Multiannual Indicative Planning 2021-2027. It focuses on the organizational strengthening of the Cameroon's civil society and gender-transformative approaches, especially in the Anglophone Northwest and Southwest areas, where armed clashes between separatists and the government have been taking place since 2016 based on socio-political tensions in post-colonial Cameroon. Two of the three components of the project are being implemented in these regions and are intended to support local civil society in promoting social cohesion and livelihoods among the population and mitigating gender-based violence. In the first component, civil society will be supported across Cameroon, with a focus on national and regional network structures to strengthen organizational capacities at different levels of institutionalization, including the management of funding.
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An extension of this position until February 2027 is being sought.
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