{"id":51832,"date":"2018-03-27T11:53:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T10:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/?p=51832"},"modified":"2018-03-27T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T10:53:57","slug":"un-women-new-job-opening-2-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/un-women-new-job-opening-2-positions.html","title":{"rendered":"UN Women New Job Opening [2 Positions]"},"content":{"rendered":"

UN Women \u2013 In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In doing so, UN Member States took an historic step in accelerating the Organization\u2019s goals on 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, which focused exclusively on gender equality and women\u2019s empowerment.<\/p>\n

We are recruiting to fill the position below:<\/p>\n

Job Title:\u00a0Program Associate
\nLocation<\/strong>: Maiduguri, Borno
\nAdditional Category:<\/strong> Gender Equality
\nType of Contract:<\/strong> Service Contract
\nPost Level:<\/strong> SB-3
\nStarting Date:<\/strong> 01-May-2018
\nDuration of Initial Contract:<\/strong> one Year
\nExpected Duration of Assignment:<\/strong> one Year<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong>
\nUN 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 as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.<\/p>\n

The conflict in the North-East poses the biggest humanitarian challenge in Nigeria. It has caused displacement, disruption of livelihoods, food insecurity, increasing rates of severe acute malnutrition, and severely weakened basic social services and protection mechanisms. The situation has been further aggravated by the involuntary return of IDPs from neighboring countries registered by the Nigerian Immigration Service in 2017. Amongst them, the most vulnerable are women, adolescents, older persons, child headed households who are exposed to high protection risks including gender based violence.<\/p>\n

UN Women, with the support of the Government of Japan, is implementing a project on Protection, Empowerment and Resilience Building in Borno and Yobe States. The project will empower communities and build resilience through promoting social and behavior change including women\u2019s empowerment to mitigate and address the root causes of GBV as well as promote access to information and services. It will support need-based and market driven income generating activities (IGAs) for vulnerable women with the necessary technical and financial support to empower women economically and reduce the risk of GBV. The project will also support male involvement and participation to promote positive behavior change to reduce GBV and put a strong focus on the collection of gender disaggregated data for evidence based planning.
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