UN Women (UNW) 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. Placing women’s rights at the center of all of its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations systems efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
Over the past years, and in response to the need for increased accountability for implementation of gender equality commitments policies and financing decisions related to aid and domestic resources, UN Women played an active role with all its partners, to ensure that gender equality is mainstreamed in strategies, programmes and action plans. Moreover, UN Women is leading the global efforts related to women, peace and security (WPS) agenda.
One of the key areas of work for UN Women country office for Jordan is supporting Jordanian National Commission for Women (JNCW) and other government stakeholders in the security sector in the implementation of the Jordanian National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325 (JONAP), which was endorsed by the prime minister and the cabinet in December 2017 and formally launched it in a ceremony in March 2018. There were also extensive discussions during 2018 between UN Women, government and international partners on additional funding required for JONAP full implementation. As a result, a pooled fund mechanism was established in partnership between UN Women and the Government with support of Canada, Finland, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom[1].
The JONAP is based around four strategic goals, aiming to increase; (1) gender responsiveness and meaningful participation and leadership of women in the security sector and in peace operations, (2) participation of women in Prevention of Violent Extremism and in peacemaking, (3) gender sensitive services to refugee and Jordanian women, and (4) recognition of the benefits of gender equality and the role of women in Peace and Security.
As part of supporting JONAP’s implementation UN Women has been working with national Security Sector agencies to support gender mainstreaming in security sector reform. All four security sector agencies – Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF); General Directorate of Civil Defence (CDD), Public Security Directorate (PSD), and General Directorate of the Gendarmerie have finalized the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and are in the process of approving the Work Plans. MOUs will be signed with UN Women for setting the framework for partnership for JONAP implementation. This is significant step towards contributing to increase the number of women in peacekeeping police/military contingents through concrete support to JAF’s Directorate for Women and Military Affairs and Peacekeeping Operation Training Center, to Gendarmerie Women’s Unit, to Public Security Directorate Women’s Unit and Peacekeeping Operation Training Center. UN Women will continue to provide technical expertise and support to relevant departments of all security sector institutions in strengthening institutional capacity development on women, peace and security issues and gender responsive security sector reform; and support in implementation of JONAP Strategic Goal 1: Achieve gender-responsiveness and meaningful participation of women in the security sector and in peace operations. The further work will be focused to finalize the annual work plans and then implement their activities.
UN Women continues work with JNCW and security sector agencies in Jordan towards implementation of the JONAP on a national level and is recruiting an international consultant to provide further technical support and capacity building to all security sector agencies to enhance capacity for gender responsive security sector reform in line with JONAP.
Objective of this Assignment
The main objectives of this assignment are to support security sector agencies to strengthen their institutional capacity, and enhance skills, knowledge and attitudes to mainstream gender and to implement the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in security sector reform. The consultant has to work in close cooperation with the UN Women, its Institutional Capacity Building Specialist and all four security sector agencies in Jordan.
Duration
The duration of this assignment is estimated to be 200 working days within a period of 24 months between June 2019-July 2021. The contract will be managed in accordance to the UN Women applicable human resource procedures and general terms and conditions.
[1]Â The pooled fund mechanism was approved for the period of 2018-2021.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the overall guidance of UN Women’s Country Representative, and the direct supervision of the Programme Management Specialist, and the Institutional Capacity Building Specialist the Consultant will be responsible for the following duties and responsibilities:
Deliverables:
All monthly reports and final report should be submitted in English language.
The Consultant is expected to work from home and conduct at least 12 visits to Jordan as will be defined and approved in the work plan. He/she may access the UN Women office in Amman for printing of relevant documents.
The Consultant will be provided with UN Women’s programme related necessary materials and strategic guidance by UN Women during the implementation of the assignment.
Duration and duty station for the assignment
The duration of the assignment will be 24 months from June 2019-July 2021. This will be home based consultancy with 12 travels in Amman, Jordan. The contract will be managed in accordance to the UN Women applicable human resource procedures and general terms and conditions.
Competencies
Core values;
Functional Competencies:
Core Competencies:
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Required Skills and Experience
Education
A first level university degree or above in Law, Political Sciences, Governance, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Public Administration, International Relations, International Law, Public Policy, or related fields. A degree from a military staff/war college is strongly preferred
Experience:
Language Requirements:
Fees and Schedule of Payments
The position will be remunerated based on a daily rate.The successful candidate will receive his/her payment based on satisfactory services and deliverable in accordance with the ToR and a time sheet duly approved by the supervisor.
The candidate’s application must include:
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