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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.
UN Women South Sudan developed its Strategic Note in a context of conflict, humanitarian crisis and challenging economic downturn. The Strategic Note is designed to support the strengthening of normative environment, and women’ voices and agency, in the achievement of all the key national and UN indicators focusing on peace and security, ending violence against women/SGBV and through humanitarian action. The continuous cycle of political and communal violence has all bred a culture of violence and militarization that exacerbates women and girls’ already weakened status in the society and has led to further erosion of women and girls’ limited community protections. South Sudan has one of the highest rates of violence against women and girls, including conflict-related sexual violence, manifested at different levels – conflict-related sexual violence by armed groups, of both government and opposition, within communities during ethnic/communal violence, normalization of domestic violence (DV), almost 65% of women in various studies have admitted to facing intimate partner violence and through insecurity in Protection of Civilian (PoCs) sites. Displaced adolescent girls are further marginalized, often forced into child/early marriages as coping strategies, resulting in a lack of access to educational services, skills for job opportunities and decision making, and exposure to sexual exploitation and abuse. Accessing justice is virtually impossible in South Sudan, and worse for women and girls when perpetrators are security forces, who are either outside the ambit of law/judicial processes or protected from prosecution.
Organizational Context:
UN Women as a key partner of the government of the Republic of South Sudan, is grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the UN, and works specifically 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. To respond to the context and needs of the South Sudan, the UN Women South Sudan Country Programme focuses on the following priority areas- i) Increase women’s access to economic empowerment and opportunities; ii) Prevent VAWG and expand access to services; and iii) Increase women’s leadership in peace, security and humanitarian response.
UN Women seeks to recruit a National Officer to support the implementation of interventions under the Priority Area : Prevent VAWG and expand access to services.
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