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 as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
Through the General Assembly Resolutions 75/233 on the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR) and 72/279 on UN repositioning, the United Nations Development System (UNDS) is presented with a mandate to transform in order to respond to the ambition of the 2030 Agenda. Indeed, the 2020 QCPR places strong emphasis on the fundamental importance of promoting gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls, noting the multiplier effect for achieving sustained and inclusive economic growth, poverty eradication and sustainable development. It calls upon all entities of the UNDS to continue to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality by enhancing and accelerating gender mainstreaming through the full implementation of the UNCT performance indicators for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) (the “UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard”) and calls on UN entities to draw on gender expertise, including in UN Women, to assist with gender mainstreaming in the preparation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework. As also recognized by the UNSDG Guidance for the Cooperation Framework, gender equality and women’s empowerment should be mainstreamed through UN programming, and it is identified as a priority for the Decade of Action and as crucial to national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Against this backdrop, the imperative underscored by UN repositioning processes and the 2020 QCPR is for the UNDS to accelerate joint efforts to support the implementation and advancement of GEWE commitments across the SDGs, particularly at the country level where it matters the most, with the new Cooperation Frameworks providing a vehicle to drive collective UN support to achieving the 2030 Agenda.
In Burkina Faso, inequalities between men and women exist and persist despite the actions taken over the past decades for the advancement of women and the reduction of gender-related inequalities. Socio-cultural values are at the root of many forms of discrimination against women, which maintain the inequalities observed. The impact of conflict including climate change on women and girls is unprecedent in Burkina Faso, taking into consideration that more than the half of population of the country are women/girls. The population, composed of 51.3% women, is characterized by its extreme youth (50% of the population is under 16 years old, 30.4% of young people are between 15 and 35 years old) and by its high rural nature (77.3% live in rural areas)The Government of Burkina Faso has drawn up and adopted a National Development Policy (PNDES-II) 2021-2025 which is the basis for construction of the 2022-2025 Transition Action Plan (PAT) and then the Action Plan for Stabilization and Development (PA-SD)in the context of the Transition. The PNDES II is part of a development plan focused on peace, security, justice, human rights and the transformation of the structure of the economy. Burkina Faso’s gender strategy for the period 2020-2024 aims to promote the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and aims at two main impacts namely: (i) the protection of the rights of women and girls is guaranteed and (ii) social and gender inequalities are reduced and women are promoted as a dynamic actor in the development. Women’s organizations are severely affected by insecurity and political instability in Burkina Faso. However, they remain dynamic in the field, organizing events for the consolidation of peace and security, the fight against GBV and the economic empowerment of women and girls, among others. Burkina Faso is implementing its third National Action Plan of the Women-Peace-Security” Agenda, which is the national reference for taking into account the fundamental rights, specific needs and strategic interests of women and girls in peace and security processes. The implementation of this plan, drawn up over the period 2023-2025, will strengthen women’s participation in the process of maintaining peace, security and combating violence against women and girls, especially in this context of transition marked by violent extremism, radicalization and terrorism. UNWOMEN is committed to support the implementation of peacebuilding processes during the transition in a shared responsibilities between the Government, technical partners and civil society organizations.
In 2022, global gender gap index for Burkina Faso was 0.66 index.
As Gender Focal Point in the RCO and as part of the UNCT Gender Group, the Gender Equality Specialist will coordinate the inclusive resource mobilization efforts to ensure that gender interventions in the country are funded sufficiently. The Gender Equality Specialist will also lead efforts to ensure that government institutions, the UNCT, civil society, the private sector, the media and other relevant actors take gender concerns into due account, by coordinating the advocacy efforts of relevant organizations. This includes ensuring effective leadership and engagement of women’s Civil Society Organizations in the design, development and implementation of UNIDAP products to ensure that they are gender responsive and reflect the diverse priorities and needs of women and girls. The Gender Equality Specialist plays a catalytic role to support UN Women mandate of GEWE in the country. It specifies targeted priorities that will be based on the Common Country Analysis (CCA) and identified main gender inequality issues. The Gender Equality Specialist will play a key role to promote women’s leadership and effective implementation of the Women peace and security agenda in Burkina Faso.
With a dual/matrixed reporting to the Head of the Resident Coordinator Office and to the UN Women Regional Director, the Gender Equality Specialist will support the development and strengthening of a strategic vision for gender mainstreaming for UN joint programming and provide coordination and technical and policy advisory support on women’s rights and gender equality to the Resident Coordinator (RC) and the UNCT. The Gender Specialist works in close collaboration with UN staff and UN agencies, government officials, technical advisors and experts, multi- and bi-lateral donors and civil society. This function is part of UN Development Coordination Office’s (DCO) efforts, in collaboration with UN Women, to ensure senior level gender expertise and coordination support is available to the UNCT, in order to support coherent gender mainstreaming efforts and progress on gender equality across the SDGs and in alignment with national priorities nexus.
Provide guidance and coordinate with gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) as a guiding principle during the development and implementation of the Cooperation framework (including the development of the Roadmap, CCA and UNIDAP).
Coordinate the fostering coherent inter-agency planning, analysis and action for enhanced accountability to GEWE:
Lead the design of women, peace, and security programs and the development of relevant knowledge products:
Provide technical support to strategic partnerships building and resource mobilization:
Provide coordination support to GEWE intergovernmental and normative work with UNCT and national partners
Coordinate and advise the RC and UNCT in the analysis and monitoring of trends, opportunities and challenges around gender equality and women’s empowerment:
Coordinate interagency advocacy and facilitation of knowledge building and management:
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